On last night's Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, William Shatner showed up to provide an interpretation of the opening of Sarah Palin's farewell speech, which (intentionally, I think) embraced a lot of Alaska-specific imagery that, if you're not from Alaska, sounded rather mystical. You could certainly give the same treatment to many — if not most — speeches delivered in grand settings, but here, the collision of the natural wonder of Alaska and William Shatner and bongos does make for an effective moment of poetry.