{"id":44310,"date":"2016-08-23T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44310"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:37:20","slug":"shatner-sorry-about-trek-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/08\/shatner-sorry-about-trek-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Sorry About Trek V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing press for his latest series, <em>Better Late Than Never<\/em>, <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> apologized for <em>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But Shatner didn&#8217;t take all the blame for the less-than-stellar ending to the movie. &#8220;I got the chance to direct a several-million-dollar movie, <em>Star Trek V<\/em>, and I did not get the help I needed in allocating my budget,&#8221; he said, &#8220;so when it came to shooting the ending, needing a good villain and lots of computer graphics, I had run out of money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry about that,&#8221; he said with a laugh. &#8220;I had to use footage that I had already shot, and spit on it a lot. I wanted to give [the audience] earth-breaking granite monsters spewing rocks and fire. Instead, I had a few pebbles in my hand that I threw at the camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner&#8217;s new series, <em>Better Late Than Never<\/em>, debuts tonight at 10 PM on<em> NBC.<\/em> The series stars Shatner, <strong>Henry Winkler, George Foreman<\/strong>, and <strong>Terry Bradshaw<\/strong>. Shatner described the new show. &#8220;Imagine four disparate and desperate guys stumbling through Asia in various degrees of consciousness,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then imagine all of us talking to each other, against each other, and over each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It made for a lot of fun, a lot of adventure, and a lot of laughs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing press for his latest series, Better Late Than Never, William Shatner apologized for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[8498,2414,9000],"class_list":["post-44310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-better-late-than-never","tag-shatner","tag-star-trek-v"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ShatnerSTV082316.jpg",580,225,false]},"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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310","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=44310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44312,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310\/revisions\/44312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}