“I don’t like how I look and what I do,” says Shatner of the retrospective of his performance as Captain Kirk.
While William Shatner is definitely best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk in the constantly evolving “Star Trek” universe, it turns out that the actor has never seen an episode of the series. Shatner, who recently turned 90, revealed to People Magazine in a new interview because he did not watch “Star Trek”, which originally aired from 1966 to 1969.
“I never watched ‘Star Trek’,” he said. “There are many episodes that I don’t know, there are some films that I don’t know.”
Shatner said, however, that he watched the 1989 film “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”, but that’s mainly because he directed the film.
“I directed one of the films – No. 5 – I had to watch that one,” he said. Still, he said the experience of looking back on his performance in the long series is not a pleasant one. “But it’s all painful because I don’t like how I look and what I do.”
Shatner also pondered with People (via Entertainment Weekly) why the beloved series created by Gene Roddenberry has managed to endure over the years, generating many developments, including, most recently, “Star Trek: Picard”.
“We are on the verge of extinction,” said Shatner. “We are poisoning ourselves out of life, and the Earth will survive and this little cancer, humanity, which is growing around it will die in the same way that a body gets hot and kills germs. Mother Earth will get rid of us because we are a plague. But we don’t have to be. And we can join the rest of life that arrives here on Earth with equanimity. “
Shatner also said that the franchise offers a glimpse of hope for a broken world. “The fact that ‘Star Trek’ exists 400 years from now is a kind of promise that if we do these things, we will do it, your children, your grandchildren will continue to live and live in reasonably decent circumstances if you follow what we are you should follow” , he said. “’Star Trek’ says that we will be 400 years from now, so there is hope. This is what the public receives, it is hope. That’s the message of ‘Star Trek’, which is why I think ‘Star Trek’ is popular. “
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