Old Captain Kirk (William Shatner) battles it out with young Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) in Epix documentary THE CAPTAINS
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th St.
Saturday, July 30, free, gates at 7:30, film at 8:45
www.intrepidmuseum.org
www.epixhd.com
As far as we’re concerned, there is only one Star Trek captain, and his name is James T. Kirk, played by the ever-lovable William Shatner. Sure, we have a soft spot for the inimitable Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and we also got a kick out of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) of Star Trek: Voyager. We never got quite as involved with Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) of Star Trek: Enterprise. In the Epix HD original documentary The Captains, writer-director-producer Shatner goes in search of all the other starship captains — each of the aforementioned leaders, in addition to Chris Pine, who played the young Kirk in J. J. Abrams’s recent Star Trek big-screen reboot — and he’ll do whatever it takes to get them to talk about their part in the continuing adventures of the Starship Enterprise and beyond. The film will be screening for free on Saturday night, July 30, on board the Intrepid, where Shatner will be on hand to introduce the movie and give out prizes. The first one thousand people to show up in costume — the Intrepid strongly advises against bringing anything that even resembles a weapon — will receive a commemorative Captains poster. The best costumes will vie for T-shirts and the opportunity to take a photo with Shatner. Epix is in the midst of Shatnerpalooza, offering online HD screenings of the first six Star Trek films in addition to such other stellar Shatner fare as The Intruder, Big Bad Mama, Pioneer Woman, Broken Angel, The Outer Limits, Disaster on the Coastliner, and William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet. (What, no Kingdom of the Spiders or the Esperanto classic Incubus?)