Mark A. Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett found their muse at Toys "R" Us - in the action-figure aisle. Free Enterprise, the Star Trek homage by these longtime Trekkers and first-time filmmakers, hits theaters this spring, almost two years after they wrote the screenplay, raised the money, and called William Shatner for the first time. "We called anyone who had ever met him," recalls Altman. "If we'd known his plumber we would have used that connection."
After the filmmakers rewrote Shatner's character as an over-the-hill, womanizing alcoholic, the star agreed. He also played with the script a bit, adding, for instance, the grand finale - a rap version of Julius Caesar.
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