{"id":5437,"date":"2009-02-27T02:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T01:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/shatner-always-a-sci-fi-fanatic\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:53","slug":"shatner-always-a-sci-fi-fanatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/02\/shatner-always-a-sci-fi-fanatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Always A Sci-Fi Fanatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may have played a captain from the twenty-third century, but <b>William Shatner<\/b> is frustrated that he&#8217;ll never know what the real future holds.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/dvd.ign.com\/\">IGN<\/a>, Shatner used to read science-fiction before his time on <i>Star Trek<\/i>. &#8220;I was always a sci-fi fanatic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was reading all those guys who came to write for us on <i>Star Trek<\/i> several years before <i>Star Trek<\/i> existed. Those great science-fiction writers of the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, they were brilliant storytelling minds, and the fascination, for me, is imagining a world that you&#8217;ll never see, you&#8217;ll never be a part of. In 2020, when the last bubble of methane comes out of the arctic lake, what&#8217;s going to happen? What&#8217;s going to happen in 100 years when what the planet has planned now goes through its many manifestations? It drives me crazy that I will not know what&#8217;s going to happen.&#8221;<!--more-->One of the things that Shatner fears when it comes to death is that lack of knowledge of what happens back on Earth after one has departed. &#8220;One of the fears of dying is that you won&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; he said, &#8220;not just the next minute after you die, but what&#8217;ll happen in 50 years when all your relatives are dead and a new set has come along. Who are they? Will there be a cure for cancer? Will there be interplanetary travel? Will we find answers to all these incredible questions that plague me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/dvd.ign.com\/articles\/957\/957670p1.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may have played a captain from the twenty-third century, but William Shatner is frustrated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2495,2414],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-science-fiction","tag-shatner"],"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":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","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=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}