Captain Kirk Says "Sabotage"

Not the Beastie Boys, but William Shatner's rather unique method of pronunciation. This is the source of that joke in "Mystery Men" when Ben Stiller says "Don't correct me. It sickens me." Check Google for the whole story.

Pay particular attention to how Leonard Nimoy seems to stress the word in question... almost as if he had to endure it being mangled time and time again.

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[shitbox99]

Captain Kirk can say sabotage any way he damn well pleases

[shoufalcon]

sir! they are trying to board our wessel

[knottooworry]

in this reality, kirk never listened to the beastie boys

[kushteh88]

3 then 6 then 3 then 6, repeat for endless fun

[airwolfman]

IT'S SSAAABOTAAAAJHHHH *Beastie Boys scream*

[talkindurinthemovie]

SUFFERING SUKATASH!

[Dracopol]

It's a running joke about Kirk's quirk with the word "sabotage". In STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Lieutenant Valeris suggests indirectly that Uhura ignore an order radioed from Starfleet. She refers to the origin of the word, where workers whose livelihood was threatened by machines threw their wooden shoes, or "sabots", into the gears of the machine, thus causing sabotage. SHE pronounced it correctly. Uhuru decided that communications were inoperative.

[Dracopol]

It's explainable because Shatner grew up in Montreal, Quebec. In French, the second a in "sabotage" is pronounced the same as the first! If he heard the word only in French, or more often in French than in English, it might have influenced him.

[aqdrobert]

At a Phoenix, AZ Trek convention, George Takei said the voice actors for the animated series read the scripts cold, and alone on a sound stage, without the other actors to react to. It made it difficult to know how to inflect the dialogue correctly.

[Renegade30]

oh my god i just realized i had watched every star trek episode except for TAS

[Labzo441]

Pork chops, and apple shaaawsh.