THE FINAL FRONTIERS WILLIAM SHATNER
OUR LIVES ARE consumed in mysteries,” says William Shatner, on the line to SFX from his home in California. He has career experience when it comes to the inexplicable. As James T Kirk in Star Trek his entire mission statement was to search out strange new worlds. The cold reaches of Kirk’s cosmos concealed such phenomena as salt vampires, incorporeal serial killers and the occasional Greek god. TJ Hooker’s beat, it’s fair to say, was considerably less freaky.
Now Shatner’s back fronting The UnXplained, a documentary series that explores the fringes of science and history, from murderous cults to miraculous meteorites, cursed islands to extraterrestrial contact. It’s a subject that clearly enthuses him. He may be in lockdown when he speaks to SFX but the Shatner brain rockets to the edges of reality as talk turns to all things unknown…
On a sliding scale between scepticism and a willingness to believe, where would you place yourself?
I’d like to join both ends of that choice. I don’t know the answer. But we seek the answer. Every so often we come across an answer, and we say, “Oh that’s the answer to that question…” but it only reveals another question.
