William Shatner hosts new show on Russian state-run TV, lashes out at critics

William Shatner, the award-winning actor behind Captain Kirk in the “Star Trek” franchise, will now host a new show called “I Don’t Understand” — on a Russian state-run TV network.

The 90-year-old actor will host the new show later this month on RT America, whose parent network RT — formerly known as Russia Today — was in 2017 described by US intelligence agencies as part of “Russia’s state-run propaganda machine.” Since then, it has been registered as a “foreign agent” in the US. RT announced the show on Tuesday with a promo that said Shatner will seek to “answer fascinating and timely questions that pique the natural interest of everyone, but that the establishment media all too often hesitates to tackle.”