TJ Hooker star William Shatner will once again play overweight promiscuous space maverick James T Kirk as a new videogame based on the Star Trek franchise is coughed up this October.

Fans of the dead horse have had little to cheer about since Paramount gave up flogging it by canning Star Trek: Enterprise - the one with the fella off Quantum Leap - last year.

Interest in Star Trek has waned, a fact not lost on Shatner. He told Reuters: "The interest in Star Trek has waned."