{"id":26180,"date":"2013-05-13T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=26180"},"modified":"2013-05-13T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:28:29","slug":"the-captains-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/05\/the-captains-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captains Close-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26183\" title=\"TheCaptains051313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TheCaptains051313.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On May 16 at 8 PM, <em>EPIX<\/em> will allow viewers to &#8220;get up close and personal with all of your favorite <em>Star Trek<\/em> captains&#8221; in a new exclusive series, and <em>TrekToday<\/em> U.S. readers can enter to win a poster!<\/p>\n<p>The series, <em>The Captains Close-Up<\/em>, features interviews conducted by <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>, and includes former <em>Star Trek<\/em> captains <strong>Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, and <strong>Scott Bakula<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The special series begins May 16 with a special close-up interview with Shatner himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The_Captains_posters_47435.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26186\" title=\"The_Captains_posters_47435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The_Captains_posters_47435-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The_Captains_posters_47435-75x75@2x.gif 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The_Captains_posters_47435-75x75.gif 75w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The_Captains_posters_47435-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>To celebrate the debut of <em>The Captains Close-Up<\/em>, <em>EPIX<\/em> is offering U.S. TrekToday readers &#8220;the opportunity to win a limited-edition poster with a hologram effect (seen to the left; click thumbnail to enlarge) for the <em>EPIX<\/em> original documentary <em>The Captains<\/em>, which is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains\/\">EPIX<\/a>, and is the precursor to<em> The Captains Close-Up<\/em>. Readers can dive into the world of <em>The Captains<\/em> and go even deeper with EPIX&#8217;s series of close-up interviews, which are listed below. All of the films are available on <a href=\"http:\/\/EpixHD.com\">EPIX<\/a> and can be watched via a free trial if the reader does not already have a subscription to EPIX through their cable provider. To access the free trial, readers can visit the: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/freetrial\/\">EPIX Free Trial<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the limited-edition poster, ten regular The Captains posters will also be given away to lucky U.S. TrekToday readers. Simply comment after the article, making sure that you include a valid email address. Winners will be notified by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of interviews to be showcased on EPIX starting at 8pm ET on May 16, 2013.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains-close-up-william-shatner\/\">The Captains Close Up: William Shatner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains-close-up-avery-brooks\">The Captains Close Up: Avery Brooks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains-close-up-kate-mulgrew\">The Captains Close Up: Kate Mulgrew<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains-close-up-patrick-stewart\">The Captains Close Up: Patrick Stewart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains-close-up-scott-bakula\">The Captains Close Up: Scott Bakula<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To watch the EPIX Original Documentary &#8220;The Captains,&#8221; produced and directed by William Shatner, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epixhd.com\/the-captains\/\">here<\/a>. It is available at any time on EPIXHD.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16 at 8 PM, EPIX will allow viewers to &#8220;get up close and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2599,2995,3716,2403,2414,2440,5687],"class_list":["post-26180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-bakula","tag-brooks","tag-epix","tag-mulgrew","tag-shatner","tag-stewart","tag-the-captains-close-up"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26195,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions\/26195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}