Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

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

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.