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Shatner is making some good jokes, riffing off both his Priceline commercials, and also Star Trek. He is doing a good job of working his stories and anectdotes into the collaboration story, which is better than another Star Trek captain we've had onstage before, Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart). Stewart did a generic speech with a minimal amount of tie-in to our story at the end; Shatner is doing a much better job of working that story in along the way.

He tells a story of wanting to do a Star Trek movie about going in search of god; Roddenberry fought back, wondering who's god they were going to search for. They settled on going after an alien who thought he was god. He told some great jokes (and of course I can't remember any of them). He's even tying in James Cameron's "Avatar".

I have to say, Shatner is very smooth. He's really good at appearing that he's not reading from teleprompters (the only thing that gives him away is where his eyes are looking most of the time). He's even working in themes such as group collaboration, working with people for a greater success, learning from others from within and outside your organization, creating a collaborative endeavour, and so on. He also points out that collaborationa is different from cooperation. Pretty good.

Wow, pretty short message. He's off stage, Bob is coming back.

Rock