The Wisdom & Worries of William Shatner

William Shatner

William Shatner—the actor best-known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek television series—joins the podcast with his co-author Robert Sharenow, Emmy-winning television writer and producer, to discuss his new book Wisdom & Worries: Reflections on Life, Death, and Everything in Between. Part memoir, part philosophy, the book pairs personal reflections with verse on the subjects that have occupied Shatner’s extraordinary life: faith and identity, love and memory, space and mortality, and “not going quietly into that good night.”

INTERVIEWED ON: June 23rd, 2026

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