{"id":13117,"date":"2011-10-17T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:56:33","slug":"shatner-to-appear-on-yes-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/10\/shatner-to-appear-on-yes-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner To Appear On Yes Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> will be a guest on Yes Network&#8217;s CenterStage show this Tuesday where he will speak about his time on <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>CenterStage is an hour-long one-on-one interview show taped in front of a live studio audience.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Kirk0307111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13119\" title=\"Kirk030711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Kirk0307111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>While some of the discussion will cover topics familiar to fans of Shatner, others will include stories such as how preparing for <em>Alexander the Great<\/em> in 1968 helped Shatner play Captain Kirk on <em>Star Trek<\/em>. &#8220;So I played the part of <em>Alexander the Great<\/em>,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;I had to ride bareback, half naked. Historically, I did some, some research on him and\u2026he had been offered the saddle and he said, &#8216;No, that\u2019s too, uh, well, weak. That&#8217;s too namby-pamby,&#8217; or however you say that in Greek&#8230;I believe the Greek for &#8216;namby pamby&#8217; is &#8216;Greek stoss.&#8217; Ultimately, he met his fate at the Kush Mountains with other horsemen who did ride with a saddle. They were able to stand up in the stirrups, fire arrows and defeated him for the first time. It was going to be sold as a series as well. It didn\u2019t sell as a series, resulting in my being able to do <em>Star Trek<\/em>. That whole idea of Alexander and&#8230;the soldier philosopher\u2014or the best educated man of his time and all that\u2014informed me about how to play Captain Kirk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner will also talk about his youth, including &#8220;catching the acting bug&#8221; and why he had to be tough in high school.<\/p>\n<p>CenterStage premieres on the YES Network on Tuesday, October 18, at 8 PM ET. The YES network is available throughout New York, Connecticut, and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania on cable systems, DirecTV, Verizon FiOs, AT&amp;T and U-verse. 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