Comments on: Shatner Says Abrams Wants Him and Nimoy In Star Trek XI

By: rollie wingo

rollie wingo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:09:19 +0000

as a die hard star trek fan id like to see a new crew new blood has to take over id like to see the kids of the first generation of star trek operating the new enterprise kirks grandson spocks son and scotty son and doctor mcoy son i would like the new enterprise to be able to cloak and go beyond warp id like it to go slipstream the borg are now are allies and piccards son on the new enterprise also i would like
commander data as the ships computer worf and tovak kids to a whole new generation of grandkids on the new enterprise

By: "Curious...with a raised eye brow"

"Curious...with a raised eye brow" — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:13:56 +0000

If they can find a creative way to put shat and nimoy in the movie… great. However, Kirk went out the way Kirk would… Fighting to the end in defense of the Enterprise…. You had to end one generation to make way for the next. It was well done.

Nimoy is already doing narration for the trailers and has been assigned a small part. However there has been no confirmation of Shat in the movie at all. I hope that they get it right if they can get him in.

The new cast looks good and I think that they will do a great job if Abrams follows true to TREK.

By: Movies » Shatner Says Abrams Wants Him and Nimoy In Star Trek XI

Movies » Shatner Says Abrams Wants Him and Nimoy In Star Trek XI — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:01:13 +0000

[...] For months now William Shatner has made no secret that he wants to be in Star Trek XI, and even Leonard Nimoy has said he would come out of retirement for something substantial. Now in a new interview with IGN, The Shat says that JJ Abrams is writing them into the script:read more | digg story [...]

By: Jeannie spock

Jeannie spock — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:24:04 +0000

I know exactly how to get around ALL these problems of ‘canon’.
Just let them create a CGI movie!
The CGI is so good these days that they can create realistice looking charactors. They can set it back to the first Enterprise, just as we remember it, with all the old cast. They could easily use motion capture from the original series from the real actor’s movements. Of course Nimoy and Shatner would do the voices – remember they were happy to do that for the animated series. There voices could be made to sound young with a few tweeks from the sound filters. Hell, they could both do another 20 years of these movies! When they finally both pass away it would not be too much of a jolt to the system to replace them with sound alikes.
Just think, we could still have that wonderful banter going between Spock, McCoy and Kirk looking just as we remember them. Just a pity that the lovely Deforest Kelley has passed on but we can’t do much about that except immortalise him forever in his CGI body. The possibilities of great stories and great special effects would be endless.
Capt Kirk and Mr Spock are not characters in the same sense as James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. They ARE Nimoy and Shatner – always and forever – let’s cling on (no pun intended) to those guys for as long as we can.

By: I like all the incarnations of ST

I like all the incarnations of ST — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:34:23 +0000

R U Ready?

Mirror Spock and Kirk go in to the past and end up in the “real universe” in the delta quadant. Hook up with the Borg Queen and with on the way to the Alpha quadrant to take over earth meets up with a broken hearted Neelix who join them. They pick up Cela on Romulus, Find Thomas Riker and Ro Laren in an excape pod and they joines in. save Dukat from the Pa raths, and they go back in time to meet the young kirk and Spock

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Various and Sundry » Blog Archive » Wednesday Link Dump — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:29:05 +0000

[...] Shatner and Nimoy returning to STAR TREK? J.J. Abrams is writing them in. [...]

By: Londo

Londo — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:47:37 +0000

Anybody seen X-Men 3? At the start of that movie is a scene set 20 years in the past with a middle-aged Xavier and Magneto – who were played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, de-aged on film. There was no CGI involved: they used a film technique where they take old photos (e.g. publicity shots) and “graft” them on to the actors’ faces. It looks totally convincing. They could easily do something similar with Shatner and Nimoy should they appear, using publicity photos from Star Trek VI for example.

I think the idea of momentarily bringing back Shatner and Nimoy is okay. Maybe they can have them appear in “flash-forward” scenes of the Enterprise-A finally coming back to Earth for decommissioning – this is a good reason for them to be reminiscing on how it all started, considering it’s all about to end. But there are three important things they need to do if that’s the route they take: all the younger main cast must have prior billing in the opening credits, the scenes with Shatner and Nimoy must not be any longer than 20 minutes total, and the movie must end with the younger cast rather than Shatner and Nimoy (so it’s clear that this is definitely the new cast’s movie).

By: Orbitalic

Orbitalic — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:10:41 +0000

#118 Jonboc,
I wasn’t suggesting a TNG movie, because I know it’s a TOS flick. I have no problem with the “old style” My point is… you don’t know what the director’s “style” will be, let alone WHO will be directing.

#123 Dr. Image.
Let me contribute this. I disagree with a few people on the posts, but I won’t stoop as low as you just did with that tirade. JON deserves an apology from you and frankly, you deserve a timeout because that was possibly the most juvenile sentence I have seen in the comments thus far.

By: Xai

Xai — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:48:00 +0000

Just watch the DirectTV commercial to get your Shatner fix.
Start fresh in the movie.

By: StephenMartin

StephenMartin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:42:12 +0000

Kirk and Spock will be reminiscing about the time Spock went through the Guardian, or the Nexus, and saved him just before he bought it. That is all that needs to be done.