More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek

Tycoon Guy writes "Is that the sound of desperation I hear? TrekToday is reporting that, according to a trailer shown at CBS Television City, William Shatner will be appearing on Star Trek: Enterprise for a two-episode guest stint - as James T. Kirk! The most likely writers of his episodes are Trek novelists Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who already resurrected Kirk in their books, and were just hired as story editors for Enterprise's fourth season." We reported a rumor to this effect a couple of months back.

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[ackthpt]

They should open with the Star Trekkin theme by The Firm.

More entertaining Trek stuff can be found here [stonetrek.com], though they have some bandwidth limitations and it requiresflash. You may check for StoneTrek here, too. [campchaos.com]

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Re:When you can't write a decent story...

[eddy]

"Brent Spiner Will Reportedly Appear On Enterprise. Marina Sirtis spilled the beans at a convention in Dallas that Spiner will appear in three episodes playing the grandfather of Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong." -- TVTome [tvtome.com]

Re:Here's the reason...

[Emugamer]

Shatner is actually associated with the marketing turn around of priceline (after Jan 2001 all time low)... so he's still doing fine there

Re:Who's Next?

[scowling]

Doohan. He's got Alzheimer's and has been in and out of hospital constantly ove the last couple of years.

Re:goodby priceline, hello star trek.

[rokzy]

>I heard about an interview where they asked him why he would talk so slow. He answered that he did it for more on-camera time... kinda funny.

Adam West said that about playing Batman. Robin was pissed off.

Re:Here's the reason...

[Saeger]

I very much doubt that Shatner's hard up for money. What he craves is a return to his glory days... of painted-green alien women in his dressing room, and a full head of hair.

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Re:Sigh. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

"Firefly" is good because of the same reason the TNG was good. There arn't crazy special effects, or crazy intense computer generated graphics, just good story and good actors. Firefly in my opinion has the best un-noticed cast I've ever seen. I was really skeptical on the series, but after watching the pilot and one episode, I was hooked. I now own the whole series on dvd.

Re:Shatner in new ST not all bad....

[Anonymous Coward]

The Deep Space Nine episode guide goes into quite a bit of detail on how they made that episode, including the fact that they recreated several sets like Space Station K-7 (think that's the right number) and the Enterprise bridge.

Re:Sigh. . .

[Vaevictis666]

Trust us, download the first episode and give it a go.

I like it because it doesn't take itself _too_ seriously, and uses the sci-fi setting more as a means than an end. Sure, they're on a space ship, but that's just a "home" that moves.

It also focuses more on the characters than the tech (which Trek does a lot)

Re:Here's the reason...

[UnknowingFool]

Actually, I don't think Shatner needs to work any time soon. He took Priceline stock as payment for the first round of endorsements instead of money. I found this link that he sold 35,000 shares back in 2000 for around $3.5 million. I remember another story where he eventually sold half of his stock for $14 million. Of course his other half isn't nearly worth that today, but I would say Shatner does not need the money.

Re:Make your voice known

[adagioforstrings]

Uh...haven't you seen this [shoutfactory.com]?
I'm actually a huge Ben Folds fan, so I'm very curious to see how it's going to turn out.

Re:Last Chance to See Scotty

[Anonymous Coward]

That's the way it usually is, first problems with short term recall, then the inability to form any new memories, later progressing on to problems with long term memory or confusing the past with the present.

I've seen someone progress through the symptoms, to me at least it is one of the worst degerative conditions imaginable. Usually suffers retain the ability to reason, but without a reliable memory it robs them of context. Even in the late stages most suffers know something is wrong with them, but the world is increasingly unfamiliar to them.

Imagine for a second being surrounded by strangers (some which claim to be relatives or friends) or people you recognize but are decades older than you think they should be. Also if you believe what they tell you, things are only going to get worse. That is how it is during the late stages. How's that for a choice slice of Hell?

Re:Wouldn't do that much for the franchise

[dirtyboot]

Bones (what kind of nickname is that anyway?)

It's from sawbones [reference.com], old slang for a doctor. I think it dates back to the Civil War when doctors tended to amputate a lot.

Re:How old is Shatner now, anyway?

[BoneFlower]

William Shatner is 73.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0000638/

Re:I'm... getting too... old for THIS.... ... shit

[linzeal]

There has been a website devoted to bringing back Kirk [bringbackkirk.com] for awhile, and looking back over his acting and writing [amazon.com] work it would be a good call when enterprise [startrek.com] is the only game in town.

Synchronicity on teh intarweb

[TheTick]

From memepool: Bring Back Kirk! [bringbackkirk.com]

Between what's happened to Star Trek and Star Wars over the last decade or so, my childhood lies in tattered ruins...