More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek 481
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.
Uhm?? (Score:2, Interesting)
Shatner in new ST not all bad.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Would be simpler to use a digitally produced Kirk (Score:4, Interesting)
The flexibility and dynamic range that this affords the director will make for a better movie.
Now all we need is for someone to take hit Al Pacino over the head, steal his copy of Simpone and adapt :)
Straight up... (Score:5, Interesting)
Next, we have William Shatner; one of the people who is now simply famous for being/playing himself (Christopher Walken, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Ron Jeremy, etc.)
I can see nothing bad coming from this. It could be really good and well written. Or, it could be cheesy, and I think I'd like it more in that case. Either way, between that and Corner Gas, I'm going to be quite entertained this season....
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Time line... (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh, shit, you can fill in the blanks with your own imagination...
This in addition to his relaunched singing career (Score:2, Interesting)
They should CGI in a more youthful Shatner.... (Score:5, Interesting)
They'll have to slather him with makeup and airbrush half of him out of the frames.
Maybe they can do the same thing they did for the guy in Lord of the Rings who played Gollum. Have Shatner on the set acting with all the other characters and then CGI an image of how he looked back in the 60's on top. Like a virtual face lift.
Come on (Score:1, Interesting)
The Temporal Prime Directive (Score:3, Interesting)
Let it die! (Score:2, Interesting)
What they need to do is let it stay dead for a few years ( read: 5-10 ), then come up with a new spin on the universe that makes it completely different. Like, the borg ( or something worse ) take over the federation, and the series is about the last few ships and captains and their struggles.
Something dramatically different that would provide even the most BORING writer with material enough to go for at least a few seasons.
And damn it, I don't care how cool you think it is, NO MORE FUCKING TIME TRAVEL. Jesus, talk about taking an interesting plot element and wearing it out.
Time Travel explots (Score:5, Interesting)
Better yet, how about we get Fred Savage to play a father reading the book out loud to his son... the series can then alternate between Enterprise clips, and the son interrupting him with things like, "Eww... not that kissing stuff again", ala Princess Bride.
I hate to quote a Microsoft VP, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Star Trek is a classic example of something that was good, but has been rehashed so many times that it's all tapped out. The mine is spent. The well is dry. Star Trek has died on the vine.
I can't think of any more rediculous ways of saying it. Star Trek must die, for the good of Star Trek. Let it die. Let someone new pick it up again in a decade. End the madness now!
Last Chance to See Scotty (Score:5, Interesting)
Its official... (Score:3, Interesting)
Some stupid time-travel thing? (Score:3, Interesting)
The only reason I want to watch is to find out if they can manage some really clever way to make it not suck.
Re:Enterpise: Greatest Hits Vol II: Wrath of Berma (Score:3, Interesting)
Television needs more shows where the villians are the focus. For a change, it'd be fun to root for the Borg, Goa'uld, Overseers, Visitors, Cylons, or even Microsoft.
Kirk could easily come out of The Nexus... (Score:3, Interesting)
Nice. Intergalactic, soul-duplicating Xerox machine for resurrecting characters at will. Oh, look! Somehow, Khan got in the Nexus too! ROUND 3: FIGHT!
Re:Enterpise: Greatest Hits Vol II: Wrath of Berma (Score:5, Interesting)
Jesus, even I can be more original than some of their "writers".
Plus, what is Kirk going to do? Come back in time as an old man (as he is now) and tell the first enterprise to do this and that? Or will they have him play Kirk's great great grandfather?
Last words not so stupid... (Score:3, Interesting)
'Hate to encourage them.... (Score:4, Interesting)
> without some serious higgledy-piggledy with said timeline.
> Probability: Yet Another Time Travel Adventure! YATTA!
But there *IS* a nice in-continuity answer. And, yes, it does involve time-travel.
Remember the episode of DS9 where they go back in time to "The Trouble With Tribbles"? When Sisko was explaining themselves to those "temporal investigation" guys, remember the recoil when Sisko mentioned Kirk's name? Kirk apparently held the record for the number of "temporal incursions". I remember seeing a website, once, where somebody went through all the episodes and movies, counted the time travel incidents, and came up well short of the figure in DS9. So there's PLENTY of opportunity for Shatner, and the 1701 to pay a visit to Dr. Beckett.
And Shatner has long since hit the point where old people don't get older, they just get fatter instead. He looks, now, like a kind of chunky version of Kirk, circa ST5 or ST6.
cya,
john