As a Star Trek Fan, or Trekkie if you will, I grew up on Star Trek The Next Gen. My father watched the original series, we both enjoyed the movies..... as bad as some of them were..... but it was one of just a few topics he and I both REALLY got into.
Over the years, I enjoyed all the Star Trek shows. My personal fav was DS9 even though at first, I thought it was a terrible concept. A Trek show that doesn't go trekking.
So a few years now without any Trek, I have been watching the shows on Netflix, and came across something I wasn't expecting. A documentary directed by William Shatner, is a look at Captain Kirk paying a visit to all the actors who have sat in that iconic chair.
With his unique interview style of listening mostly, then interrupting the speaker with a spot on piece of insight, he talks with Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, and even Chris Pine, the new Captain Kirk.
His interviews with Avery Brooks, aka Captain Sisko, are some of the strangest, yet hauntingly mesmerizing conversations I have ever witnessed. I ended up second guessing myself if I was watching a jazz enthusiast stoned of out his mind singing his answers from behind a piano, or if this was someone on pure-air gone off the deep end.
He also stops at a Star Trek Convention, and terrorizes a number of guests. With photos, signatures, and crowd speaking.
It is a very interesting, if not a slow paced interview piece that fits Shatner well.
Physical: There's not much to talk about the box art with all actors dressed in their Starfleet uniforms mid-beem-up on the cover.
Extras: Barely anything at all. A simple "Making of" special, but no shocker here. Documentary's rarely get much if any special features.
So how would I rate this DVD? If your a big Star Trek fan like me, it's worth spending the $10 on Amazon to get it. If your interested, but not such a huge Trekkie, it's a renter, or like I said earlier, Netflix it.
