Comments on: William Shatner’s Excluded Star Trek Scene

By: sarge

sarge — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:27:24 +0000

I liked the movie alot…Missed seeing the fat old Kirk

By: paul

paul — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:55:37 +0000

according to Shatner he was never contacted for the new trek movie, and dissapointed. lil shame

By: Mr Boom

Mr Boom — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:40:37 +0000

Yeah. They could just slap a goatee on him and have him play evil Mirror Universe Kirk.

By: Con Air

Con Air — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:39 +0000

An early draught for a scene with William Shatner, that was never filmed

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:11:42 +0000

I NEED SHATNER IN THE FILE!!!

By: Greg Peters

Greg Peters — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:15:21 +0000

Huge fan of the original Series – but loved the new movie and honestly didn't miss Shatner at all. Nimoy was great and his presence seemed integral to the plot. Throwing the bloated Shatner into the mix (much as i love him) would have really just seemed like an unnecessary gesture and would have messed up the suspension of disbelief. I will say that Generations was a lame movie and that it's a shame that Shatner's Kirk met such a anticlimactic end. But hey – Bill signed on for it. Looking forward to much more from J.J. and the new cast.
LL&P

By: erdmando1

erdmando1 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:03:45 +0000

I am confused about the timeline of this film. From all appearances, the film's timeline is at *least* 10 years prior to the timeline of the original television series (certainly long before Capt. Pike is catastrophically injured and ends up all scarred in that chair). In this film, however, Spock's human mother is killed off, yet she appears many times throughout the TV series. What's up with that?!? I'm totally lost!

By: Medic

Medic — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:14:07 +0000

You "think" he was pissed? Now why would you say this? If you were a friend of his then why report this on this silly thread and not somewhere, anywhere else? That is about the dumbest statement I've read in any internet post. Hence, the response.

By: Amin

Amin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:20 +0000

For the older Trek fans the inclusion of Shatner would have been wonderful. With time travel, Nexus remnants from Generations and all the twists the Trek universe has had, it would have been possible to fit him in.

Does he need to be in every ST movie? Of course not.

Should he have been in this one? Absolutely. The onscreen chemistry between him and Spock would have been fantastic and could have been very integral to the whole premise of the film.

Missed opportunity – what a shame.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:29:17 +0000

With Vulcan destroyed, the Star Trek history, as we know it, has drastically changed. This is essentially the perfect "reboot" of franchise. A fork the timeline cleans the slate so that a new events can be written.

So, Khan may never be found. I hope they don't have to resort to rehashing plots from the series, because I would be severely disappointed.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:42 +0000

I wish ppl would get over their Shatner guy crush and stop acting like the original series is some kind of religious mecca that has to be visited every year. A ST story with Kirk and without Shatner is REFRESHING. Stop trying to ruin it for everyone.

By: ArchTangent

ArchTangent — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:11:43 +0000

William has discussed this in a video available on his website. You can probably google for it and find it on youtube. He was never approached to do the part at all. He doesn't hold any animosity at all to JJ Abrams and he thought the new Star Trek movie was fantastic. But he was simply never asked by anyone in JJ's camp to do the part at all.