Sorry … didn’t see your hello until today.

I hope you’re well! Happy Holidays!

And why am I not surprised that Jameson was his favorite interview? ;)

http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2008/12/william-shatner-interview.php

“That’s absolutely hilarious. Where’s the check?
What’s it like being a Shatner groupie? I’m just trying to picture that in my mind.
As for being a Bad Robot spy, I’ve been accused of that before…never stops being funny.”

I did just see someone else accuse you on another thread and you said your checks were lost in the mail! Oh too funny!

As for the groupie thing….don’t want to cross any lines here (you get my drift), but I think my groupie days are long gone. Shatner got himself a wife my age who is gorgeous. In all seriousness, I have to say I’m more a “groupie” of the characters that Shatner and Niimoy play, rather than of the actors. Oh sure, I could really appreciate how atrractive they were (and still are imo) but I’ve always been about enjoying Kirk and Spock. I admire the careers of the actors and have followed them but never attained (or really understood) the whole groupie mentality.

“What is interesting to me is the prospect of hearing, later, what the scene was about and where it would have been in the film. Would it have been beneficial to the progression of the story, or would it have felt contrived and out of place?”

Me too! I really look forward to when Orci posts it for us. And whether it fits or not will no doubt start yet another “debate”.

“I have always felt that the only acceptable (to me) avenue for including Shatner in the film would have been a flashback scene (and the director and writers do not appear to agree on whether you could classify the scene written for him as that or not). I envisioned a scene, from the perspective of Nimoy’s Spock, depicting a conversation between Spock and Jim Kirk sometime before Kirk boarded the Enterprise-B. Of course, it would need to be relevant in some way to the story in Star Trek XI. ”

You know, as much as I wanted Shatner in the film, from the beginning I found it problematic. Even without his death in Generations, his character would still be too old to be alive. I didn’t want to see him like McCoy in TNG, thank you. However, now that Orci has gone all QM on us, I really am puzzled as to why he couldn’t have been squeezed in if we are getting New Canon. (I;ve taken to go all Coca-Cola with trek: Classic and New!)

“I look forward to “The Making Of Star Trek XI”, or whatever it will be called.”

Me too.

As Leonard McCoy once said to Khan … “Simply trying to avoid an argument.”

:-)