They need ellipsis experts to study the linguistic style of William Shatner.
Those are pauses. Example of ellipsis:
"Did you go to the store?"
"Yes I did [go to the store]"
You can delete all the words in the brackets even though that is technically what you're saying.
Another example:
"I did my homework and studied for the test, but he didn't."
You can fill in what comes after 'didn't'