He could also be an ancestor/descendant/hologram/android/Nexus echo.
Emergency Fizzbin/Kobayashi Maru Hologram?
Emergency Fizzbin/Kobayashi Maru Hologram?
William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old
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They could do an episode set in 2025 where Shatner plays himself and there's no mention of Kirk made whatsoever.
An unpopular opinion maybe but I dont think Shatner could ever return as Kirk and have it feel sincere. He died twice in Generations saving two Enterprises that is fine for that to be the end. And SNW is finally giving Kirk a proper personality and much needed context.
I don't think Shatner Kirk returning could be told well enough and not seem like really bad fanfiction. I'm not a writer so it's only a feeling and I have had initial gut feelings be proved very very wrong before.
Shatner returning in some other capacity however is not outside of the realm of possibility if his ego could let him not be the star of the show. After all Rene Auberjonois popped in for an episode of ENT.
I don't think Shatner Kirk returning could be told well enough and not seem like really bad fanfiction. I'm not a writer so it's only a feeling and I have had initial gut feelings be proved very very wrong before.
Shatner returning in some other capacity however is not outside of the realm of possibility if his ego could let him not be the star of the show. After all Rene Auberjonois popped in for an episode of ENT.
Looking forward to seeing how it works out.
Shatner has been similar similar things for thirty years now, until it’s announced officially I wouldn’t hold my breath.
That said, if it ever happens at this point at his age it will be just a cameo.
That said, if it ever happens at this point at his age it will be just a cameo.
His return via his digitally-deaged likeness overlaid upon Sam Witwer feels sincere to me; I think 765874 - "Unification" is a heartfelt and enigmatic glimpse into tantalizing narrative and technological futures.
Shatner has also thrice reprised Kirk onscreen himself since Generations, although the first is in a story set before Generations and the last two are comedic cameos.
He also cowrote (or ghostwrote?) the "Shatnerverse" ennealogy, of course.
It would be great if they managed to achieve "something" involving William Shatner one last time for the 60th Anniversary.
I assume it would be scenes done like the recent Roddenberry Archive short, interacting with multiple series Legacy cast members. Like that BringBackKirk trailer from all those years ago, finally coming true...
Star Trek does the equivalent of one of those big Doctor Who specials that bring all the decades together.
Show it in theaters/cinemas next September 8th and televised/streamed on major channels shortly after.
I assume it would be scenes done like the recent Roddenberry Archive short, interacting with multiple series Legacy cast members. Like that BringBackKirk trailer from all those years ago, finally coming true...
Star Trek does the equivalent of one of those big Doctor Who specials that bring all the decades together.
Show it in theaters/cinemas next September 8th and televised/streamed on major channels shortly after.
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I submit to you that Kirk is a very underdeveloped character like almost the entire of the TOS cast. He was just a swashbuckling STI magnet which was fine for a 1960s adventuring protagonist but he certainly doesn't seem smart enough to be a scientist or disciplined enough to be a military leader. Sure he gets a bit more growth in the movies despite spending half of TWoK complaining about old age despite being younger than Pike is currently in SNW.
But despite the abundence of screentime I think the character could do with being explored properly and given much needed context. The 60s was a time of 'tune in for the next adventure' but that doesn't age all that well, sacrilegious as it may be to say, SNW helps TOS make a bit more sense and makes its characters more like people.
We get hints of Professor Kirk in Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Mirrir Kirk taunting the kids of SFA? "This is a Starfleet legend"
Part of me is skeptical as Shatner didn't do Enterprise in the end and there was speculation for years wether he'd be in a JJ film.
It would make sense this happening now since we are heading towards the 60th Anniversary, plus the recent Unification film may have triggered something, more official?
Pike and Kirk were pretty different characters even if you only consider the pilots.
Upon reflection, I was not so much considering the actors, as much as the roles...you are right; and no one does Kirk like Shatner!!!
How about as Geordie Kirk? After all, only the Abramsverse Geordie Kirk died (and as I recall, Spock-Prime says in so many words that his Prime counterpart lived to see his son in Starfleet)
You mean George? Man, those are some rough space years if he goes from looking like Chris Hemsworth in his 20s in 2233, to looking like soon to be 94 year old Bill Shatner in the 2260s.
In Diane Carey's "Captain April" novels, "Geordie" is the nickname used by Francis Drake Reed, the elder Kirk's sidekick. And given the timing (it came out only a few months after "Encounter at Farpoint" aired), it's entirely possible that Carey came up with this nickname entirely independently of Geordi LaForge.
Just a reminder: Geordi LaForge was named after a prominent handicapped fan from the seventies, George LaForge.
