When asked how he liked his last trip to Las Vegas, Bill said that he goes to there for entertainment, for business, or for the theatre, but he doesn&#39;t go there to gamble. He might entertain himself for awhile playing the quarter slots, but&nbsp;"when I lose $100, don&#39;t speak to me all day!"&nbsp; He said that he likes&nbsp;"to play so that if I lose, I don&#39;t feel badly, I&#39;ve amused myself." And in a near exact quote from <em>Star Trek II</em>, he said with a hint of amusement, "I hate to lose!"

Bill spent some time talking about the environment and how we o&shy;nly have a window of about 25 years to make some positive changes or it&#39;s going to be too late. "Only o&shy;ne generation before the oceans are too polluted, before toxins fill the air." He talked about our need to become oil independent, rely more o&shy;n hybrid cars and build an infrastructure for hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

When asked how he felt about funding for space, Bill said he favors exploration of Mars rather than any attempts to shoot for the nearest star and said&nbsp;that&nbsp;when <em>Star Trek</em> was o&shy;n the air, "we were the poster boys for NASA. Every time NASA would send up a successful rocket, our ratings would go up. And as our ratings would go up, Congress would fund more for NASA." He recalled being invited to sit in a mockup of the Lunar Module (LEM) in the 1960&#39;s with an astronaut and being told to look out the window.&nbsp; When he did, he&nbsp;saw a model of the Starship&nbsp;Enterprise fly by.&nbsp; When&nbsp;he climbed out of the spacecraft, he found 1,000 engineers applauding and laughing.&nbsp;"These incredible people who were about to do the miracle of this century - to to put a man o&shy;n the moon - were all applauding."&nbsp;He said it was&nbsp;an extraordinary experience.&nbsp;

Someone asked Bill how he felt about Kirk dying in <em>Generations&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;he recalled an incident where he was injured a few years earlier when a horse fell o&shy;n him. He kept trying to get up...and kept falling back down.&nbsp; Bill&nbsp;said that he thought Kirk would look upon death in similar&nbsp;way, not really believe it at first, and he&nbsp;thought very long and hard about Kirk&#39;s final moments,&nbsp;wondering&nbsp;as most of us have at o&shy;ne time or another what it&#39;s like to die. He said he tried to play the scene&nbsp;as truthfully as he could and he was&nbsp;pleased with his performance when it was&nbsp;originally shot.&nbsp; But&nbsp;3-4 months later, the studio&nbsp;contacted him and said they wanted to reshoot the ending and he was ultimately&nbsp;disappointed with the final cut of the scene.&nbsp;&nbsp;

One of the most interesting questions came at the end of the first day when Bill was asked what he feels he has left to achieve as an actor. He reflected back to a new song that he wrote for the new album called&nbsp;"Has-Been." Bill mentioned that he has, o&shy;n occasion, seen himself referred to as a has-been. "It&#39;s the strangest term, &#39;has-been.&#39;" Reciting some of the lyrics, he said&nbsp;"has-been implies failure. <em>Not so</em>. Has-been is history. Has been o&shy;nce...has been - might again!"&nbsp; And nothing can be truer of Bill&#39;s career.&nbsp;

He&nbsp;went o&shy;n to list a number of projects o&shy;n the horizon for him in 2004:&nbsp; a&nbsp;scuba diving adventure in January, his new&nbsp;sci-fi movie and&nbsp;<em>Miss Congeniality 2</em>. Then of course there&#39;s the Hollywood Charity Horse Show in April, SPPLAT Attack o&shy;n Labor Day weekend and a dozen horse shows. So, as he concludes, "lots of stuff." We couldn&#39;t agree more. We just hope he gets some rest along the way.

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