Q: What can you tell us about TREK NATION?

-we started back in 2001 and I was indirectly inspired by the Trekkies documentary and by that I mean that documentary went out and showed the extreme sides of fandom and kind of poked fun at fans and it really didn't sit well with me when they did that. My experience with people who like STAR TREK had been nothing but positive. I really loved the fans because they embraced STAR TREK not because it was a science fiction show that was cool but they embraced the philosophy of a better tomorrow, of us all working together.

I wanted to do a documentary to show the diverse kinds of people who all have this common vision of the future, they all agreed on "wouldn't it be great if we all got along?" I met another gentleman, Scott Colthorp, and he wanted to bring in the father-son thing. To me, I'd been learning about my father but I never thought about necessarily doing a documentary on him. A son searching to understand his father was awkward at first, for me, but then it resonated and that's the direction we went.

Over the last ten years we did about four years of filming on and off, interviews and conventions, we'd get together and do some filming and then we did editing for a number of years. It's taken so long, people have been hearing about it for at least five years and it was a situation of not being able to see the forest for the trees. I say that all the time but that's exactly what it was, we would cut a piece together, we'd see something else and we'd want to change it. I really wanted it to be perfect but I didn't want it to be another A&E biography on Gene Roddenberry. There was so much material that we just found ourselves finding new stuff and wanting to put it in and then cut out old stuff and it was really sort of a rocky road for a while.

We met up with Discovery Science and they fell in love with the project too, they saw its potential, they understood what we wanted to do and we thought it would be a great partnership to have them give it the finishing touches and put it out on their channel.

Q: What should fans anticipate about your film?

-you're definitely going to see home videos that no one's ever seen, photos that no one's ever seen. Going through the stuff brought tears to my eyes. There's video of me as a baby, there's video of my mother and father getting married in Japan, there's just some amazing stuff. My father used to go out on his boat, my father had a boat called Star Trek, and he would go out with my mother and he would take James Doohan and his wife out and they would go sailing together and there's some footage of all that. There's some very unique stuff that people haven't seen and some stories that people haven't heard.

The uniqueness of it is that it's from my point of view, trying to figure out this guy, going and meeting my father's old writing buddy and saying "what was this guy like?" and those were interviews that really haven't been done before. We did the ones where we talked to the actors too but we wanted to focus on "who do people not know about?" Who knew my father? There's an amazing story that Chris Knopf, one of my father's old writing buddies, tells where my father went to a baseball game with him and said "hey, I got this idea" and it was a pre-concept of what STAR TREK was; everyone watching the film will be very surprised at what he suggested.

Q: iPhone, BlackBerry or Droid?

-I'm an Apple person, I love Apple, I don't know if I'm a fanatic about it but I do love everything Apple. I like all the features the Droid has and how many options there are and I know people get into open versus closed and all that stuff but the iPhone just works. It doesn't have the best camera, it's not necessarily the best of what's available now but hopefully iPhone 5 will be better. I'm definitely an Apple/iPhone guy, I'll never go back.