TV Guide Online: A lot of people may not realize it, but you are uniquely qualified to introduce Fright Night's low-budget thrillers — you did, after all, star in the 1977 cult classic Kingdom of the Spiders. What was the hardest part about making that movie — being pelted with tarantulas or keeping a straight face?
William Shatner: The tarantulas. Tarantula hair is used as itching powder, and they would dump tarantulas on me daily. So it wasn't [a question of] keeping a straight face, it was [all about] keeping my skin from breaking out. Everybody tried to make a good movie.

TVGO: Speaking of terrifying things... Your commercials for Priceline reminded the world of your, uh, gift for singing. Since you've returned to the music biz as host of VH1's One-Hit Wonders (airing Mondays at 10 pm/ET), are you tempted to record a follow-up to 1973's The Transformed Man?
Shatner: Not really, although Priceline and I are getting together, and we'll start another TV campaign in September.

TVGO: Suppose Captains Kirk, Picard, Janeway and Archer were to get into a rumble. Who'd come out on top?
Shatner: I think Janeway would come out on top, being a woman. But on top of what, we're not going to get into.

TVGO: Tell the truth — do you have some tribbles locked away in a safe-deposit box in case you ever need to raise some dough fast?
Shatner: I did, and they multiplied in the safe, broke the safe, and somebody took them. So they were more trouble than they were worth.

TVGO: Everybody knows that the T in James T. Kirk stands for Tiberius. But what the heck was T.J. Hooker's full name?
Shatner: T.J. Hooker and James Tiberius Kirk shared that legendary name that is represented by a T.

TVGO: TV Guide recently named your 1968 pilot Alexander the Great one of the 50 worst shows of all time. What were we thinking?
Shatner: At the time, it was designed to be Combat! in drag. How can you name a series that has that kind of costuming the worst?