The Star Telegram posted a short interview with Shatner who talks about his documentary The Captains now on sale on DVD. Here is an excerpt.

1 What compelled you to make an interview-driven film focusing on the various captains?

I surprised myself when I started doing a talk show [ Shatner's Raw Nerve on Biography channel]. I discovered that I'm good at connecting with the people I'm interviewing. I'm good at getting them to talk about substantial things. I don't ask the same tired questions. 'What was it like to kiss so-and-so on-screen?' I hated being asked that stuff and I hate asking it. I aim for something more. So I embraced the opportunity to talk to these actors about this one notable thing we have in common.

2 What are your favorite moments from the film?

There are many. When Patrick Stewart [Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation] admitted he loves acting more than his own family -- that was a beautiful, honest, courageous thing to say. When Kate Mulgrew [Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager], our only female captain, discussed how the demands of the job took priority over her role as a single mother and how her children resent it to this day. But the most entertaining and daring moment was with Avery Brooks [Benjamin Sisko of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine] in what was essentially a singing interview.

3 Are you surprised when people such as airline pilots, astronauts and NASA scientists tell you they were inspired by Star Trek?

It's unbelievable. But it never gets old. And it's not just pilots and engineers. Jason Alexander, who everyone knows as George from Seinfeld, told me I inspired him to become an actor. But my god, that's a responsibility. Once enough people say, 'You've affected my life,' you realize that you've got to be an exemplary person, because there are people looking to you for direction.




The Morton Report posted a new interview with Star Trek Deep Space Nine actor Armin Shimerman and here is an excerpt.



“Because we stayed in one place we really went from being an episodic program to something more like a serial,” says Shimerman. “With an episodic show you can tune in any week having never watched before and know what’s going on as well as understand what’s going on with the characters because it’s all new every week. With Deep Space Nine we had more than 40 recurring characters and ongoing story lines, so our show was closer to being a serial. If you tuned in for the first time and, let’s say, saw the relationship between Worf [Michael Dorn] and Dax [Terry Farrell] you were going to be a little bit 'lost at sea' because you weren’t aware of what had come before.

“Another change that took place with our show had to do with its characters. When we first started out, the flaws everyone had were minor, but as the series continued these imperfections expanded and all of our characters became much more three-dimensional because of it. Quark’s flaw was that he’d become a little too human and moral. Kira was much more of a jingoist; anything that wasn’t good for Bajor wasn’t good for her, either. Sisko struggled between being a captain for the Federation and also respecting his position as the Bajoran emissary. So every now and then he was caught up in a moral dilemma as far as which path he had to follow. All of this, hopefully, is what made the show interesting to watch and the audience tune in week after week.”

sweet, got a link to it?

I found what I pasted at http://www.trekweb.com/
Look for the topics and in there the links to the original.

I watched the Captains a few days ago and it was quite fun indeed. There were three things that really amazed me: (spoilers ahead)

I quite enjoyed The Captains. But to see the heroes of a show such as trek out of star trek is a surprising and surreal experience.

Well, remarkably the only one who behaved more or less the same as when in character was Mr Stewart. At times his mannerisms were *exactly* the same as Picard's on screen