Comments on: Rumor Control: No Current Planning For Shatner In Star Trek Trek Sequel

By: Vulcan Ears

Vulcan Ears — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:43:10 +0000

well, it WOULD be cool if Shatner could come back…. but really, TWO characters coming back from a future that doesn’t exist anymore? It would be a bit of a rip-off… I’m glad they brought Spock back, and I hope Leonard Nimoy is going to be in the sequel, but bringing Kirk Prime back would be a bit too much. Especially considering that he’s dead. (*sobs*) I think they should focus more on the young versions of Kirk and Spock, with maybe Spock Prime stepping in now and then.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:06:31 +0000

i want more tng films based on star trek countdown and at the end of star trek 2011 i want picard to travel through time to save th old enterprise and bring spock prime back and fix the timeline back to what it was.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:36:20 +0000

At no point in any of the original star trek show/movie did Shatner end up in any time vortex’s or anything like that prior to the nexus in generations. And, in that movie HE DIED!!!!!! and i quote kirk “if history records me as dead,…..then who am i to argue with history” end quote. then he dies. and bekard then stops sorren from launching the rocket into the amigosa star. thus not altering the path of the nexus ribbon!

so there is no way shatner can be in this posible sequel.

i am sorry about any speeling erros.

By: ACM

ACM — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:50:59 +0000

I am sure I am repeating what others have said, here, but I couldn’t get through all 195 previous posts to check. So if I am repeating, so be it. Kirk’s death in “Generations” was way too poorly done to be allowed to stand as the definitive end to the character’s life. The “Trek” films and TV shows have toyed enough with time travel and Genesis devices to be able to find a plausible way for Kirk to be “reborn”, and I think it would be more of a fitting send off for the original Kirk and Spock to fly off into the sunset together, perhaps in search of Scotty (who set out for the great unknown in some old TNG episode 20 some years ago.) Bring Kirk back and invalidate the garbage that was “Generations” once and for all.

By: Greg A Otto

Greg A Otto — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:13:21 +0000

Star Trek 2 2011

By: Wulvaine

Wulvaine — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:44:29 +0000

No Shatner. Ever again. Seriously. He was HORRIBLE as Kirk and anyone who says otherwise is delusional. This is coming from a serious Trekkie who loves the franchise. He made a laughingstock of what another actor could have made a great sci-fi hero of. Which it certainly looks like Pine is doing.

It’s a reboot. Let the new cast have their roles and stop trying to shoehorn your washed-up old mascot into this. Let him keep doing his Priceline commercials and whatever.

It’s a NEW frontier, and for all Shatner has done (which I can’t deny even though I disliked his portrayal of Kirk) for the franchise as a whole, he has no place in it now.

By: Vexx801

Vexx801 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:18:39 +0000

so i havent rlly read much of the above comments, but imo i think it would be cool if they found a frozen Captain Archer or in the start of the Star Trek 12 had like T’Pol dying, Spock meeting her, etc.

yes, its kinda dumb, but i think it would be cool if we started off with spock in st12 saying goodbye to t’pol even tho he never rlly met her… idk… ideas anyone? buller?

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:29:38 +0000

I feel like I have to defend myself here … nothing new I admit.

William Shatner knows this already by my private conversations with him, but I have long felt that Star Trek was not his best gig. It was by far his most commercially successful gig, give or take an opinion or two about how Parkay Butter or Priceline have treated him in the long term, but I have long felt that the best movie he has ever starred in was not anything with Star Trek on it, but rather Judgment at Nuremberg, a 1961 film when Shatner joined a cast of true peers and contemporaries all as great as he was to make what has been far better than any Star Trek movie – including the next one out of Paramount’s assembly line. As a matter of fact, Shatner’s best gig to date on TV wasn’t Star Trek, either, but in my humble opinion Boston Legal. In my opinion, if the powers that be “TPTB” want to come up with a new Star Trek and bring on someone from the old school way of doing things, such as bringing DeForrest Kelly on to Encounter at Farpoint or Doohan later or even Nimoy as he was trying to “sell” what is by far the best Star Trek film to date this side of Galaxy Quest .. then okay. Let’s bring on the gimmic. But William Shatner and I have had this conversation before, and I THANK GOD that he finally turned his own personal webpage into something more than Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek … by bringing onboard Boston Legal tie-in’s to GREAT success both for David E Kelly and William Shatner … but the bottom line is this. Star Trek doesn’t need William Shatner, and William Shatner doesn’t need Star Trek. Bringing Shatner onto the project won’t make Chris Pine any more legitimate as Kirk as Zazk Q is made more legitimate as Spock by Nimoy’s desparate journey In Search Of a paycheck. If the stars of this new movie stand on their own – and I really think they will, then they’ll be their own legitmate (altererd) Star Trek universe.

now so when I say “the rumors will stop only when Shatner is dead – we hope” please don’t call my comments inappropriate, because it’s up to Paramount and the writers to bring us Star Trek, and actors are just horsemen (shatner) or painters (Nimoy) brought in to play someone else in a future space ship that may or may not ever become reality.

Will these writers come thought? I don’t know, because I have to say every time I watch “LOST” I’m truly lost. After all of these years I still don’t have a clue what this show is about but for Gilligan’s Island via an airliner and not the S.S. Minow. I don’t watch it, because the few times I dared to visit an episode or two I don’t like it. Does this mean that JJ Abrahms will suck as a Star Trek producer? I don’t know. Everyone I know in the business who used to work on the other Star Trek movies and series – whether they have a job or role in the new movie or not – most do not – all say this is really a great movie. Even people involved in making the movie have assured me that this will be a great movie – Despite the temptation to call it “Lost – in Space.”

I was really in a financial bind when my Dad died last summer, and who came through to pick up the COMPLETE tab of my travel expenses via Continental Airlines so that I could fly from Tampa to Tulsa and back – for free? William Shatner. He is greater than Kirk ever was. Star Trek doesn’t need him, if the insiders are correct … and if Shatner is playing the audience for the undertow of mounting pressure believing that somehow his worth is connected to his involvement with Star Trek, then I would humbly say to Mr. Shatner “get a life – go out and make the next Judgment at Nuremberg.”

By: Shatner_Fan_Prime

Shatner_Fan_Prime — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:45:52 +0000

Closet … so can I assume your wife clipped your balls on the Austin trip? I think I might be goin’! :-) Unfortunately, there is still no guarantee I’ll get in.

e-mail me at vinb_ktrh@yahoo.com, and I’ll give you more details.

By: Mindless Boob (aka CT)

Mindless Boob (aka CT) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:01:45 +0000

#185—”Some of us disagree with this assessment…”

I don’t think life would be much fun if everyone agreed with me!

#187—”…you are wrong about Closettrekker. That boob definitely has a mind.”

I love it when you get ‘all sentimental’.

#189—”And Closet is really a poor excuse for a boob.”

Yeah. Boobs.