William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared the screen one last time for a Volkswagen commercial

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared collectively in quite a few commercials over time, selling all types of merchandise as they riffed on their real-life friendship and the bond between their most well-known characters, Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk and Spock. One spot particularly stands out as not essentially the very best, although it is terrific, however probably the most fascinating. And that’s a German advert created for Volkswagen and launched within the fall of 2014, only a few months earlier than Nimoy’s demise on February 27, 2015.

The business begins with a younger boy taking part in outside, in entrance of his home, with a mannequin of the united statesS. Enterprise. He glimpses William Shatner throughout the road, overseeing movers carrying furnishings and bins towards what seems to be his new house. Excited, the boy runs right into a room in his own residence — the room is brimming with Star Trek and Shatner memorabilia and posters — and emerges sporting a yellow command uniform and wielding a phaser. Then, because the boy stands in entrance of Shatner’s house, the storage door opens, revealing Shatner on the wheel of a then-new VW electrical automotive. Reduce to the boy sitting within the automotive, interacting with Shatner. After which comes the tag: Shatner and the boy are within the automotive driving away on the road when a automotive approaches from the wrong way. Its driver is Leonard Nimoy, who says “Fascinating” in German and, in pure Spock trend, raises an eyebrow, eliciting bemused appears from Shatner and the boy.

It is 45 seconds of Star Trek bliss, from the acquainted Trek theme music to the boy’s room stuffed with ships, posters, motion figures, and even Tribbles, to the presence of each Shatner and Nimoy. It was the final business Shatner and Nimoy made as a tandem, and it’s, effectively, fascinating that it even occurred. Shatner has stated and written in a memoir that he and Nimoy hadn’t been in contact in about 5 years earlier than Nimoy died, and Shatner didn’t attend Nimoy’s funeral, making a charity look as a substitute, and stating that he felt uninvited to the funeral. So, all which means is that, whereas taking pictures the Volkswagen business, the lads put apart their variations lengthy sufficient to conjure their acquainted chemistry briefly and provides followers yet another memorable enterprise.