{"id":7617,"date":"2009-10-27T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2009-10-27T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T21:33:33","slug":"vintage-roddenberry-shatner-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/10\/vintage-roddenberry-shatner-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Roddenberry-Shatner Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-minute interview taken from the 1976 <em>Inside Star Trek<\/em> LP is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genesjournalcomic.com\/\">Roddenberry.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1976, <em>Inside Star Trek<\/em> was released, which was a look at the development of <em>Star Trek<\/em> as well as the story of <strong>Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>. One of the tracks on the album, &#8220;William Shatner meets Captain Kirk,&#8221; can be heard at Roddenberry.com and has Roddenberry and <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> asking each other questions and answering the questions posed by each other.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To access the interview, go to www.genesjournalcomic.com, and enter the following &#8220;Konami Code&#8221; (classic gamer&#8217;s code) on your keyboard: up arrow, up arrow, down arrow, down arrow, left arrow, right arrow, left arrow, right arrow, &#8220;B,&#8221; &#8220;A&#8221; and then hit &#8220;enter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the questions asked by Roddenberry were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much of Bill Shatner is Captain Kirk?<\/li>\n<li>How did Captain Kirk the character, the strong, the usually wise commander of the vessel, how much did that influence you and your personality?<\/li>\n<li>If we went back and did <em>Star Trek<\/em> on television over again, what things would you like to see changed?<\/li>\n<li>How come Captain Kirk gets a new girl every week?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Roddenberry also asked about the rumors of trouble on the set of the original series, specifically trouble between Shatner and co-star <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner had questions of his own:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What were the differences between the first, second and third seasons?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you leave before the third season?<\/li>\n<li>What would you do if you had to do it over? How would you fight the fatigue?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LP is hard to find, but the <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> Soundtrack audio CD box set is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00000FC5P?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thescifannetw-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00000FC5P\">here.<\/a> The first disc of this set is the soundtrack to S<em>tar Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>, and the second disc is <em>Inside Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-minute interview taken from the 1976 Inside Star Trek LP is available at Roddenberry.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2446,2414],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-roddenberry","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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}