Comments on: J.J. Abrams – 29th Smartest Person in Hollywood

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:22:32 +0000

Shatner in our time-line is a joke? Yeah, I guess you’re right! :)

By: I AM THX-1138

I AM THX-1138 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:12:32 +0000

Of course, since Jeffrey Hunter has been deceased for quite some time, we can also assume that there wouldn’t have been as successful a movie franchise and certainly no vitriolic threads about who should be Pike. Oh wait. We’re Star Trek fans. We have already had threads about who should be Pike.

I guess we’re stuck with Shatner in our time-line.

(Easy, that’s a joke)

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:37:08 +0000

“we would be stuck with SHATNER in our timeline…”?

Ooooh, boy…………I can live with that remark, but watch out for other “rabid” fans lurking here……………if I were you, I’d run and hide NOW!! :)

By: Comodore Redshirt

Comodore Redshirt — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:36:10 +0000

RE: 41. Harry Ballz – November 30, 2007
“…had Jeffrey Hunter at the helm of this particular show……………would it have CAPTURED your attention to this degree???”

YES!

I’ll never forget thinking as I watched The Menagerie parts 1 & 2 as a six year old how cool Pike was, the overall style of that show and how funny the green lady made me feel! You see, my Dad loved Trek and we watched every week. in 1968 my mom let me have a Spock haircut! I was the coolest nerd in the 3rd grade and I’ve got the class photo to prove it!!

Star Trek was Spock!!

…And even then the Nemoy vs Shatner thing was in TV Guide, Variety, and the talk of Hollywood. Back in the day it was a well known part of the inside story that the two of them were at odds. Just read the best book ever writen about TOS…”Inside Star Trek” by Herb Solow and Bob Justman. It’s the SHAT!
;-]

…anyway
Yes, if NBC had said “YES” in 1964, who knows what would have happened, but my money is on Trek having been GREAT even then. The mind power was there and if the money was there, who knows, it may have been even bigger than it became…

…maybe the evil Romulans went back in time and told NBC to make changes so Hunter would get out of the picture and we would be stuck with SHATNER in our timeline….
;-]

By: James Heaney

James Heaney — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:48:38 +0000

Oh… oh, yeah, I’ll give you that.

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:40:22 +0000

No, I’m not saying Shatner was the “end all and be all”………….he simply nudged us in the right direction!!!

With his “particular” style of acting, he embodied what “other life” could be………..

By: James Heaney

James Heaney — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:35:08 +0000

Shatner was one reason for Trek’s success. One reason… among many, many more. I don’t mean to attack the man’s legacy; he did tremendous things as Captain Kirk, and I love him for it. But Trek does not need Bill Shatner to be great. Never has. Never will.

If Trek really were reducible to one actor, it wouldn’t be worth the effort.

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:23:21 +0000

Y’know, Stanky……..after watching TOS for forty years, I tend to agree with you. If Shatner HADN”T starred in the friggin’ series, I sincerely doubt whether we would all be raving about the show to this day!

C’mon, HONESTLY……….if you washed it all away………and had Jeffrey Hunter at the helm of this particular show……………would it have CAPTURED your attention to this degree???

I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!

By: Stanky McFibberich

Stanky McFibberich — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:20:03 +0000

re: 37
“But Star Trek isn’t William Shatner”

The more I think about it….it really is.

By: Steve Hill

Steve Hill — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:09:48 +0000

#37 At first I thought the Future Guy was a Vulcan maybe it was just the Vulcan Leader that was telling the Humans where to go or not to go, from the future . But the last season of Star Trek: Enterprise now it has to be the Romulans in the future. I think with time travel in this movie maybe it will explain where the Romulans have been time traveling in Star Trek.