Star Trek: Enterprise producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have told Starburst magazine that they're interested in having William Shatner guest-star during the next season of the sci-fi series.

Shatner played the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series and went on to appear in seven feature films from that franchise.

Berman told the magazine: "Bill luckily has landed a wonderful role on the new David Kelley spinoff of The Practice but Brannon and I have plans within the next few weeks of sitting down with Bill and discussing some possible ways of his being involved in this season of Enterprise."

However, the New York Post reported today that Shatner's contract with Kelley's show could prevent him from appearing on Enterprise. The paper quotes a "studio insider" as saying that "I don't think he would contractually be allowed to do so."