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By John D. Thomas
Talk about boldly going where no man has gone before.
On Playboy.com's previous Celebrity Guest Photographer shoots, most sessions went down the same way: An anxious celeb walked into the studio, tentatively gripped the professional camera he was handed and then haltingly took nudes of a Playmate.
No such trepidation existed when the world's most beloved Starship Captain, William Shatner, swaggered into Playboy's hallowed Santa Monica studio. Taking a break from his insane schedule -- in addition to his acclaimed gig on Boston Legal, he just released an album, Has Been, that was produced by pop superstar Ben Folds -- Shatner knew what he wanted and he knew how to get it. Too bad we didn't. The well-equipped Playboy studio didn't have the exotic fisheye lens he needed, so a call was made to find one.
"I have been fascinated with photography most of my life," Shatner explained while waiting for his lens to arrive. "I came here with the intention of not just shooting a beautiful girl, but photographing those parts of her that say something to me -- the texture of her skin, the curve of her body and the femininity that we men like to look at."
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