After “Star Trek” ended a low-rated three-year run, William Shatner says, he was so broke that he couldn’t cash a $15 check. In the early 1970s he was just another actor looking for work.

William Shatner’s legacy as Captain Kirk has lived ... His legacy continued in the early 1970s when Shatner voiced Captain Kirk on Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974.