Huge thanks to Lynae for letting me post her scans. 🙂 I’ve also included the written up interview posted by Lynae herself on CPN’s Livejournal community, which you can read under the cut.

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10.) His first acting job was on “E.R.” He played a drunk patient named Levine, whose only lines were “I got drunk at a Valentine’s Day party. It was a blow-out. It was icky.” (Don’t believe us, check it out for yourself.)

— Compiled by Denise Martin

09.) Pine is third-generation show biz. His father, Robert Pine, played Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the 1970s cop show “CHiPS,” and his mother, Gwynne Gilford, starred in the sci-fi film “Masters of the Universe.” His grandparents on his mother’s side, Max M. Gilford and Anne Gwynne, were an entertainment lawyer and “leading lady” who starred in more than 60 films, respectively.

08.) Lindsay Lohan, his costar in the 2006 romantic-comedy flop “Just My Luck,” once said “Chris was a good kisser. But he tried to bite me once!” Pine returned the compliment, saying Lohan had “big, soft lips. … Big lips are the key,” but he denied the biting in Parade Magazine.

07.) In 2007, Pine starred opposite Scott Wolf in the L.A. production of “Fat Pig,” Neil LaBute’s provocative play about the romance between a good-looking guy (Wolf) and an overweight girl. Pine won raves for his portrayal of Carter, Tom’s competitive, alpha-male friend.

06.) Pine has a degree in English from UC Berkeley and later studied acting at the University of Leeds in England and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

To read the full list of facts go here @LA Times

Chris Pine’s career is poised to take off at warp speed as he assumes the iconic role of Capt. James T. Kirk in the re-launch of Star Trek. Pine, 29, filed a captain’s log with PEOPLE, revealing five things you may not know about the Enterprise‘s rising star:

His father, actor Robert Pine, played Sgt. Getraer – Erik Estrada’s boss on CHiPs: “I learned that life is not always wine and roses. As a working actor, there are the fouler times. Then there are those times that are really great. It’s just a matter of keeping a head on your shoulders, keeping a sense of humor, and looking ahead.”

He discovered hooking up with green alien girls isn’t as sexy as it may seem: “That poor girl, Rachel Nichols, was in the makeup chair for two hours getting painted, so there was a lot of green paint on my nose after many a take. It wasn’t as fun as it looked. It was a long day and, yes, the makeup proved to kill any buzz that I might have gotten otherwise.”

His grandmother is a big William Shatner fan: “She watched T.J. Hooker every time she babysat me. Inevitably there would be some old rerun of Star Trek, but I was not a fan by any means – just via my grandmother by proxy. I was more of a Star Wars kid.” Dad recently worked with the original Captain Kirk. “He actually did a Priceline commercial with him. Shatner was a chauffer and my dad was the rich guy in the back.”

He met Shatner for the first time at his charity horse show on April 25: “I did not want to make it about any kind of big meeting between the two Kirks. I wanted to support him and shake hands with him finally. I hope to get a chance to really sit down with him sometime, one-on-one. It would be a lot of fun … In my mind, Capt. Kirk will always be William Shatner, and William Shatner will always be Capt. Kirk.”

He learned stuntmen have a way of dealing with actors who miss their marks: “On my first day of shooting I ended up breaking a stunt guy’s nose on the second take. A word of caution to any young actor out there: Do NOT hurt stuntmen because they will pay you back in kind. The next take after that, this big stunt guy kicked me in the stomach. He said it wasn’t on purpose, but I don’t know.”

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2. Name one thing we’d be surprised to learn you find sexy.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who’s good at crossword puzzles.

3. Fantasy time: You have just been named captain of the U. S. S. Enterprise. What famous people do you want on your crew?
Miles Davis, Sean Penn, Mark Twain, and Gandhi

4. Have any quirks?

I talk to myself, especially in the car. I do it to work through ideas, or if I’m pissed off. I use the interior of the car like it’s a [therapist’s office].

5. What’s the most romantic gesture a woman can make?
Giving me space and recognizing that we can be together while still being apart. “Me” time us just as important as “us” time.

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It’s precisely that mix of fighter-pilot cockiness and surfer-dude Zen that you would expect from an actor who, as the leading man in “Star Trek,” has taken on the biggest challenge of any popcorn-movie star this summer: How to play James T. Kirk without imitating the role’s originator, William Shatner?

“That’s it right there, that’s the challenge,” Pine said on that November afternoon after a screening of early footage from the film, which opens Friday. “If I can do that, then we’re good.”

The L.A. native has apparently done just that, at least according to early reviews and a uniformly positive industry buzz that seems to frame “Star Trek” as this year’s “Iron Man,” a sleek summer movie with intense action, wit and surprising buoyancy considering all the heavy equipment taking flight.

The film begins on the day Kirk is born — the same day his father dies just 12 minutes into his first command as a starship captain. It follows Kirk through his daredevil youth and his Starfleet Academy career as a rakish Romeo with a need for speed and no love of regulations. Then it’s off into space, where he and the rest of thecrew must tangle with an angry Romulan named Nero.

Paramount, expecting big things, has already announced a sequel for 2011. Still, there are no sure bets in Hollywood, and while the crew of the USS Enterprise may live in the future, they may seem like ancient history to young moviegoers.

An historic first meeting occurred last night in Los Angeles.  The original captain of the starship Enterprise, William Shatner, and the second man to play the iconic role of James T. Kirk, Chris Pine, met face-to-face only a few weeks before the opening of J.J. Abrams stellar reboot of “Star Trek.”

“I saw Bill last night actually for the first time at his charity show in Burbank,” Pine revealed today. “He was very kind and it was a very short meeting.  He had a lot of people to see. It was big event that had been taking place all day, but my interaction with him has only been really wonderful.”

Pine, a 28-year-old star in the making, also described how he first reached out to Shatner before shooting began.

“I sent him a letter very early on in the process and explained to him who I was and who  this punk kid was taking over for him, for the time being, the role and he was very kind and wished me all the luck in the world,” Pine says. “I know Leonard [Nimoy] was the same way [with Zachary Quinto], there was a wonderful feeling of handing over the mantle to us  and wishes for luck and all that.  But it was more about allowing us the freedom to make these characters our own without having the feelings of weight and expectation and responsibility.”

It’s not surprising the in-person meeting took so long.  Shatner has voiced his displeasure for some time about not being a larger part of the new “Trek” film.  The “Boston Legal star’s long time friend, Leonard Nimoy, returns to the franchise in the iconic role of Ambassador Spock.  It’s clear director and producer J.J. Abrams wanted to make Shatner a part of the new series latest incarnation, but what he could offer wasn’t enough for the Emmy winning legend.  Making matters even more difficult was the fact that Shatner’s Kirk met an unsatisfactory end in 1992’s “Star Trek Generations.”