The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.