{"id":4684,"date":"2014-03-11T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2014-03-11T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T02:12:14","slug":"the-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-captains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The deep strains of love &#8212; it&#8217;s the only mystery that is infinitely important.&#8221; &#8212; Kate Mulgrew<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Captains<\/strong> was released in 2011. It&#8217;s a documentary about the captains from the various <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n<p>William Shatner had previously worked with Patrick Stewart in <strong>Star Trek: Generations<\/strong> but he didn&#8217;t know much about the other captains. Since he&#8217;s interested in all things <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>, he decided to have a chat with them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the captains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Stewart &#8212; Captain Picard from <strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Avery Brooks &#8212; Captain Sisko from <strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kate Mulgrew &#8212; Captain Janeway from <strong>Star Trek: Voyager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scott Bakula &#8212; Captain Archer from <strong>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chris Pine &#8212; Captain Kirk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek\/\"><strong>Star Trek<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shatner asks each of them about how they got started acting. You&#8217;ll see some things you haven&#8217;t seen before &#8212; Avery Brooks singing and playing piano, Shatner and Pine arm wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner is often whimsical but he does tackle some serious subjects like actors getting divorced partially because of working long hours.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks with other cast members including Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Robert Picardo (the Doctor), and Christopher Plummer (General Chang) &#8212; and people he meets on his travels. Shatner visits a convention and shows footage of him meeting the fans.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> fan, you&#8217;ll like this movie. You won&#8217;t find out a lot about one particular person, but you&#8217;ll find out some interesting things about everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by William Shatner (<strong>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The deep strains of love &#8212; it&#8217;s the only mystery that is infinitely important.&#8221; &#8212; Kate Mulgrew The Captains was released in 2011. It&#8217;s a documentary about the captains from the various Star Trek series. William Shatner had previously worked with Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: Generations but he didn&#8217;t know much about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,6,5,59],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-documentaries","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}