All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

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.

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