't funny.
-That doesn't hurt.
-Right, right, right.
-Being young and beautiful.
-Right.
-Certainly.
Young and beautiful and money
would get all our attention.
-Male, female, doesn't matter?
-Well, I don't know about these guys.
There was a bathroom break,
and everybody went off to the bathroom.
-Not us.
-Not us.
All right. We know where we're at.
Come on, Johnny,
what would appeal to you?
I'm pretty easy.
I don't know that I'm the right...
-Do you want to rephrase that?
-I don't like to be disturbed
while I'm eating...
I'm honoured.
I feel the way that Leonard does,
that it's a great deal.
It's a great privilege that these people
respond to our show.
Or in my case, make absolutely
certain that I'm not Ben Kingsley.
That's always a really big help for me.
Yeah, but how about
if you haven't slept well last night?
You're a little irritable.
I mean, even your wife is gonna get it.
Here's the one...
I've had this more than once.
"Hey, hey, aren't you the guy...
"You were Dr Kirk from Star Wars."
-How many wrongs are there in that?
-I had a unique experience, recently.
You know, I've been doing
a lot of photography work.
-What, modelling?
-No, no, no.
-Nude modelling?
-Yes, yes.
And the work is in galleries
and museums,
and I was at an event with my wife
recently in Los Angeles,
and we were walking to the parking lot
after the event,
found ourselves
walking with Tom Hanks,
-chatting on the way to the car.
-"Yes, Tom and I."
Tom and I. Yeah.
And some young fellow with a camera
comes running up,
"Mr Hanks, Mr Hanks,
can I have my picture taken with you?"
And Mr Hanks said,
"Sure, who's gonna take the picture?"
Then he recognised me, this young guy,
and he said, "Mr Nimoy,
you're a wonderful photographer.
"Will you take the picture?"
-And I did. And I did.
-Good.
And now that kid has a picture
of himself with Tom Hanks
-taken by Leonard Nimoy.
-That's funny.
You know, this may not be
generally known,
as we're talking about Mr Hanks,
-but Mr Hanks is a big fan of the show.
-Yeah.
Mr Hanks actually knows
the names of the episodes.
I hear he's actually seen
an episode of Next Gen.
-Really?
-That's what I've been told.
Well, thank God
there's one person who has seen it.
'Cause there are a lot of people
that haven't seen any.
Or maybe a part of one.
'Cause I've seen
The Brothers Karamazov.
-Several times. It was just on.
-Is that an episode of Star Trek?
You were languishing
somewhere, I'm sure.
You've done a lot of TV, as well.
You knew what it was to do...
See, we had all gone into this thing,
because the...
What you had created
laid an entire weight on us
that we had to overcome.
Because you had created a fan base
that was very loyal to you.
That was very hard to overcome.
You had created this...
You were part of popular culture,
as I said earlier,
and that was something we didn't...
And I don't think you and I
particularly understood what
we were getting ourselves into.
Dorn was a Trekkie, he knew.
Wil Wheaton knew.
LeVar was already a star.
-I had no idea.
-So we had no idea how big this was.
I was being asked to go to conventions
during that first season.
I turned them all down.
I didn't know what they were.
Besides, I needed to be
learning my lines at weekends.
I couldn't go
travelling around the country.
I was so frightened that
Monday morning would come around,
and I wouldn't be ready.
Or Tuesday or Wednesday.
Anyway, finally
when the season was over,
I accepted an invitation to go to Denver.
They took me. I got out of the plane.
They picked me up in a car.
They took me to this place.
I went in the back door,
and they said, "Okay,
you're gonna be on in 10 minutes."
I said, "That's great.
Is there anybody out there?"
This was a serious question.
-Four thousand, 5,000 people.
-I walked on this stage.
I knew what it was like to have been
a Beatle in Shea Stadium.
And I had no idea through