{"id":748,"date":"2011-11-18T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-11-18T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:11:51","slug":"shatners-the-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/shatners-the-captains\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner&#8217;s &#8220;The Captains&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamshatner.com\/\">William Shatner<\/a>&#8216;s documentary <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1946421\/\">The Captains<\/a><\/em> the other night. The concept is simple: Shatner, the actor who played the captain in the original <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek\">Star Trek<\/a><\/em> series, goes around interviewing the actors who played captains in the later series. Here&#8217;s the trailer:<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBrFAJUPVeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a whole lot to the movie, but I thought two things were interesting. First, each of the captains agrees that the star of a television series is overworked. Well-compensated, yes, but also subject to 40 weeks of endless 14, 16, or 18-hour days. I did not know that. It was for each of them a source of great difficulty in their family relationships, and several said it was a major contributor to a divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I was interested to see Shatner asking the other captains about life after death. Of course, he is in his 80s now, and he knows he will eventually follow <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Doohan\">Scotty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DeForest_Kelley\">Bones<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Roddenberry\">Great Bird of the Galaxy<\/a> to wherever it is people go when they aren&#8217;t here any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched William Shatner&#8216;s documentary The Captains the other night. The concept is simple: Shatner, the actor who played the captain in the original Star Trek series, goes around interviewing the actors who played captains in the later series. Here&#8217;s the trailer: There&#8217;s not a whole lot to the movie, but I thought two things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[436,435,77,434,433],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-captains","tag-kirk","tag-movies-2","tag-shatner","tag-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-c4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}