I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west we can say the same lines.