{"id":44641,"date":"2016-10-04T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44641"},"modified":"2016-10-04T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:21:21","slug":"shatner-they-never-had-faith-in-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/10\/shatner-they-never-had-faith-in-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: They Never Had Faith In Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to<strong> William Shatner<\/strong>, the studios never seemed to have faith in <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole experience with <em>Star Trek<\/em> has been a surprise for everybody, including the people in the studios,&#8221; he said. &#8220;During all the movies I made, they expected it to be the last one. Rather than storing them, they would destroy the sets, as they figured that would be the last iteration of it. Then a year later or so the demand would swell so they would have to build the sets again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody ever expected it, from the moment of inception, to the movies now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner had some advice for those creating <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>, set to debut next year. &#8220;The people behind <em>Star Trek<\/em> need to know that humanity is what great science fiction is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ride [and] these great effects on a large screen are a great part of this new sci-fi milieu, but deep beneath that is the essence of a great story, and sometimes it can get lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to William Shatner, the studios never seemed to have faith in Star Trek. &#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414],"class_list":["post-44641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641","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=44641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44643,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions\/44643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}