The next morning, Shatner was on an airplane and a flight attendant surprised him when she said, “I hear you’re doing the next (Trek) movie.”

“How did you know that?” Shatner asked.

“It’s all on Twitter,” the flight attendant said.

Shatner wasn’t the leak.

The director leaked the news during an interview, according to Shatner. Abrams sent Shatner a playful email which said “let’s fire the director.” Shatner said that was followed by tweets that he wanted to fire the director. (Not true.) Welcome to the age of social media.

Maybe others know more about Shatner’s role in the next Trek movie than he does. He said he was interviewed by a journalist who, citing a Paramount source, claimed to know what Shatner’s scene would be in the film. The scene? The actors who currently portray Captain Kirk and Spock will sit at a table and talk to the actors who represent “who they are going to be.”

Said Shatner, “I’m not sure Chris Pine wants to look like me.”