The Captains
My name is William Shatner
and I was a starship captain,
but I wasn't the only one,
So were Patrick Stewart,
Avery Brooks,
Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula,
and most recently,
Chris Pine,
That's a lot of captains,
In fact, that's a lot of
''Star Trek,''
Lasers, fire, point blank!
The original series,
spawned perhaps
the most durable
and profitable franchise in
the history of entertainment,
At the center of each
incarnation of ''Star Trek''
is what has become the truly
iconic character...
the captain,
Engage!
These dynamic and unique actors
have inhabited this role,
interpretation and personality,
Warp six,
Engage,
The captains,
Who are they?
What were they before
they got the role,
why did they get the role,
what have they done afterwards?
It's a journey of discovery...
by me, you,
and, ultimately, them,
Woo!
Wow!
Hey!
- Spock!
- How are you?
Spock?
I'm not Spock,
That guy called me Spock,
Oh!
We began our voyage,
taking the jet to Toronto
to pick up our
Canadian crew,
Woo!
And surprise,
The president of biz
for Bombardier,
Steve Ridolfi,
met the plane to
say hello to me,
and what do you know?
He tells me he got into
the airplane business
because of ''Star Trek,''
He became an aeronautical
engineer because of me,
first ''Star Trek'' episode
on a little black-and-white
television, 'cause that's
- all we had in those days,
- Right,
Wow,
As we flew across the ocean
and as I prepared to
meet the actors...
I had a lot of
unanswered questions,
Not only for them...
but for myself,
Oh, my God,
Patrick, what are you
doing here?
Bill, you called me,
I'm waiting for you,
You said you had something
you wanted to say to me,
I do,
- Hello,
- Hi,
Patrick Stewart,
or as he is now known,
Sir Patrick Stewart,
was Captain Jean-Luc Picard of
''Star Trek:
The Next Generation,''
Patrick is a member of
the Royal Shakespeare Company
and brought a tremendous
dignity to the role,
Being born at
the beginning of the war,
I suppose I was used to
the idea of war
and if something has
always been that particular way,
it doesn't seem extraordinary,
So We Were Very poor,
we didn't have much...
We had nothing, really,
Ieftover
at the end of the week...
but it didn't...
create problems for me
because all my
friends were the same,
There was... there was nothing
you could compare your life to,
being excluded in society
or being without,
because that
was how it was,
and everybody was the same,
I remember a play I did
in a camp that
my mother's sister ran
about something about
the Holocaust,
- Really?
- Yeah,
- And I played this boy...
- How old were you?
Uh, six, five, six,
And one of the kids
played a dog,
and I was saying
goodbye to my dog,
'cause the Germans were
taking me,
that was the... that was
the little drama that we were,
When the play was over,
I looked out there
and the audience was crying
because the subject matter was
so embedded in the people,
And so I took my bow
and my father came
and held me and praised me,
and I'm convinced that
that was the moment
that I thought,
hey, this is fantastic,
This has got me places with my
father and the audience
and I'm convinced
that that's what...
that's what started me on
my acting thing,
What about you?
I was 12 when I was first put
into a play with adults and...
Well, how did that happen?
I mean, why would they put you
in a play with adults?
I had an English teacher,
He was the man who first put a
copy of Shakespeare into my hand
and said, ''Read it out loud,
this is...''
Why would he do that?
He was an English teacher
who loved drama,
and he was
an actor and director...
amateur actor and director,
and he wanted...
I went to a...
It was not an academic school,
but he wanted us to have some
experience of our dramatists,
and so he would give us...
The first play was
''The Merchant of Venice,''
And he gave me Shylock
to read,
I don't know why,
Patrick, let's examine
that a second,
He must have seen
something, something you did,
Let's pause a moment, maybe you
won't remember what it is,
but maybe if we
Iook at it more carefully,
something will suggest itself
that you haven't
thought of in a while,
You see, here's the other
strange thing,
I never had any
difficulty with Shakespeare,
or strange,
I mean, this was
a 400-year-old text,
I found I enjoyed
the Shakespeare,
In those days, there was a lot
of Shakespeare on the radio
and our leading actors
would be playing the parts...
John Gielgud, Alec Guiness,
- I listened to them,
- Yes,
- And I copied what I heard,
- Yes,
And just, the mere
act of copying...
- Even at 12?
- Yeah,
Wow,
You don't have
the emotional experience,
but there is something
in the brain
and in the body that can
make that child connect
to the instrument,
to the bow,
- or to the text on the page...
- The word,
intuitively,
You know, the valley
in the back, as we see it,
that's the beauty
of the thing,
That's how
I see the world,
- As a road to somewhere,
- Like a road to...
Yeah,
Yeah, but where
does that road go to?
The horizon is
ever-changing,
- Right,
- You with me?
I am so with you,
Ever-changing,
but can you ever get to it?
- No, that's the point,
- The point is?
And I'll stay as long as
I can see the horizon moving,
- Oh, wait a minute,
- Yeah, okay,
12 miles away, the horizon sort
of disappeared,
they used to see
- Sure,
- Right?
Sure,
I mean, that's
the limit of the...
So here comes a ship
12 miles away,
they think it's
the end of the world,
- Yeah,
- That was the way it was,
- Well...
- What's it like now?
Well, that was a way of
perceiving ,
and what we know
is that that's not...
That wasn't sufficient,
was it?
- Correct,
- No,
Not only that, but the sea...
the first seafarers
in the world were Africans,
like that,
What'd they think?
No, they saw
the ever-changing horizon,
- It's true,
- So wait a minute,
Are you telling me that
you're tuned in...
Avery Brooks was
''Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine,''Avery, in addition to his
impressive work
on the stage and screen
theater at Rutgers University,
and if that isn't
impressive enough,
he's an accomplished jazz singer
and pianist,
Hey
Girl
What you
doing in here?
You're.
In my heart
Without
Consent
You asked me here
You asked
to come in .
and
I said I would
You said come in
And I came
And found you here
Down the stairs...
Yeah, that's funny, too,
Into your head
I went
Into my head
I thought you'd
never be
I went to Oberlin College,
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