William Shatner has appeared in nearly 100 episodes of "Star Trek" but has never watched one single episode of the iconic show. It may be hard to believe but the veteran actor admitted in an interview with People on Tuesday that he avoided watching the series because it was too "painful" to see.
"I have never watched Star Trek," he said. "There are many episodes I don't know, there are some movies I don't know."
The only film Shatner watched was "Star-Trek V: The Final Frontier" and he did not like what he saw.
"I directed one of the movies — No. 5 — I had to watch that one," he said. "But it's all painful because I don't like the way I look and what I do."
Shatner celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday but instead of party hats and birthday cake, he chose to create an AI-powered interactive conversational video for his friends and family, Entertainment Weekly reported.
"This is for all my children and all my children's children and all my children's loved ones and all the loved ones of the loved ones. That's my gift to you down through time," he said of the initiative, which is a collaboration with an upcoming interactive storytelling app StoryFile.
"William Shatner is going where no one has gone before," said StoryFile Co-Founder and CEO Heather Maio-Smith. "Generations in the future will be able to have a conversation with him. Not an avatar, not a deep fake, but with the real William Shatner answering their questions about his life and work. This changes the trajectory of the future — of how we experience life today, and how we share those lessons and stories for generations to come."
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