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

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

A series is filled with compromises.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

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.