Though he turns 80 next year, is not slowing down.

In fact, his 2011 calendar looks even busier than his crammed 2010 one. In addition to his sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, he has TV hosting gigs (Aftermath, Raw Nerve and Weird or What?), he's working on an album and a book, and he's producing an as-yet unannounced game show.

Over the phone from his L.A. office, immediately following a rehearsal for TV show $#*! My Dad Says, the actor and Montreal native talks about starring on the popular CBS sitcom.

"As superb actors and as wonderful people as they are, the joy I have is the people producing," Shatner says. "They've gathered a team of very funny people, and striving to make it funnier is a real kick. Everyone's interested in making the show better and funnier and giving it some meaning and discovering as we go along."

While the sitcom will continue to be a focus in the new year, Shatner is also in the midst of a personal project.

Captains, a documentary he directed about his life, which includes interviews with Star Trek TV captains Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks, will be released in 2011.

"Captains is being edited as we speak," he says. "We've got a great film, there's a lot of it and we're passionately putting it together. We'll have it ready in the near future. There are extensive interviews and there will be a lot of clips involving actors who played the captain on Star Trek and what elements unify us and what things are divergent about us.

"There's a great deal that is common among the actors, their experience, their temperaments."

As to which Star Trek captain Shatner would have liked to have played other than his own infamous character, "I'm not going to go there," he says. "I'm happy with Captain Kirk."

Despite starring in a TV series based on a massively popular Twitter feed, Shatner himself is technologically ignorant -- beyond reading scripts on his iPad. He therefore uses younger folks to operate his own Twitter account, for example.

"The electronic age has bitten me," he admits. "I need people under 25 to tell me what to do. Not the content, though; just the technology. I can't seem to dial a number with these weird phones that have so many functions. The one thing you want them to do is hard to find."

In addition to remaining out of the technological loop, Shatner, despite being a pop-culture icon himself, is completely out of touch with pop culture, citing his busy schedule.

"I know nothing. I'm totally unaware," he says when asked about contemporary music and films. "I am work-bound. I don't have time to connect with modern culture or pop culture. There are really popular names out there and I don't know who they are. Frequently, on 'Bleep', they have to explain a joke to me."