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Welcome to the Hall of the Universe!

I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And tonight, we celebrate the enduring power of science fiction.

Because we're featuring my interview with Captain Kirk himself,

the actor, the American icon William Schatner.

So let's do this!

My co-host Chuck Knice!

Hey, Neil!

And Charles Luke, my friend and colleague, professor of astrophysics at CUNY,

the City University of New York on Staten Island.

So we've got my interview.

William Schatner came through town, sat in NABDOM,

and stuck him in my office, and grabbed that interview with the original captain of the SS Enterprise.

And so I asked him, how did he find his path to that iconic role?

Let's check it out.

I was born in Montreal.

Montreal, okay?

I was in the theater and I was in radio and I was in movies and film in Canada before I came to the United States.

Did you have any early sort of geeky experiences or were you sort of pure artist actor?

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