Any news on the upcoming Star Trek movie with J.J. Abrams?
I met with Mr. Abrams, and they have a really good plot going. [They’re] trying to fit in Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk — the elderly ones. How you get a dead captain to communicate with [his] younger [self]? That’s going to be very arduous plotting. I’m going to be interested to see how they solve it.
Do you have any favorite shows on television?
I love to watch sports. I love to watch the news. I love movies. I never watch our shows. I don’t believe I’ve seen more than one or two Boston Legals, and I probably won’t watch Show Me the Money. I’ll get some feedback from people like yourself who say, “Yes, the dancing was all right,” because there I was dancing, wondering, “Am I making a complete idiot of myself up there?”
You seem to have a major presence on the Internet with William Shatner DVD club, official site, etc. How has the use of this technology changed your interaction with fans and amongst the fans themselves?
I just read there is work afoot to make the Internet be able to create answers, visions like the human brain, based on existing technology. And it becomes more and more complex and more and more interactive. The Internet could, in theory, possibly become a brain, have the complexity of the human brain –- far-fetched, but not impossible.
So, being aware of that, I keep stumbling around on how to use the Internet as it grows. It’s so easy as you get older, to say, “Well, that’s not the way it used to be done. That’s not the way we did it when I was your age.” I want to be aware and knowledgeable of the forefront of knowledge and taste and style of the days.
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