Daring to go where few actors have gone before, William Shatner headlined a paintball tournament to raise money for an annual show for disabled children.

"Well, why not paintball?" Shatner said at the contest in New Milford, Pa., that drew at least 2,000 participants. "This is fun, so people will come, and it's for charity."

Shatner, 72, who starred as Captain Kirk in the "Star Trek" TV series and films, said proceeds of Sunday's tournament will go toward his Hollywood Charity Horse Show, an annual event.

J.J. Brookshire, the organizer of the event and a longtime friend of Shatner's, said the actor was introduced to paintball before a similar event last year.

"He played a few times before the actual event," Brookshire said. "But once he started, we had to make him stop playing."

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