Posted:
11:34:14 on February 02 2002
By: Alexander Chase
Dept: General Star Trek
Star Trek UK has posted an interview with William Shatner in which he talks about DeForest Kelley, plans for future "Mind Melds" with Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan, and the death of his hallmark character, Captain James T. Kirk, in GENERATIONS.
On DeForest Kelley: "Well, DeForest was a very proper southern gentleman, and as such he was very reluctant to reveal any other than the gentleman beside him. So, I think doing a 'Mind Meld' with De on a very honest dropping your guard type interview would have been more difficult, so I would have had to have been very careful and very gentle and lead him into areas that he would normally be reluctant to talk about. Maybe if he was ill and was looking at the end of his life, to talk about his fear of death and what he thought might happen after he died. Whether he fulfilled all of his ambitions, and were there things he would have liked to have done, and what were they? Why did he have them? All those kinds of things."
On Kirk's end in GENERATIONS: "I was consulted but in retrospect maybe it should have been more spectacular."
And on Star Trek itself: "I think it touches a universal nerve, there's something in 'Star Trek' that a lot of people respond to. Whether it's a need for a hero, a need to see a family of people responding to eachother, the adventures in outer space, seeking man. It`s hard to tell what it is or perhaps it`s a combination."
For the rest of the interview, check out this page.
