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Has Chris Pine Yet Earned the Right to Give "THE Monologue"?
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What precisely were you doing in the shower, that you felt those words would be a perfect accompaniment to it?!
What precisely were you doing in the shower, that you felt those words would be a perfect accompaniment to it?!
Am desperately trying to come up with some strange Patrick Duffy reference considering the recent return of Dallas and all.
Perhaps some reference to the Enterprise-E manual steering column.
Can't say I have. Taken a shower, that is.
^No wonder you have worms in your hole
What precisely were you doing in the shower, that you felt those words would be a perfect accompaniment to it?!
Engaging my warp drive. Too much information?
^ I thought you might have been checking your torpedo tube.
The launch malfunctioned?
^ It blew out his exhaust port
Checking Jefferie's tube?
Jefferie might object to that.
IMHO, that would've been a horrible idea. Paying boatloads of money to undermine the star of your Frachise's credibility? Nah, if Shatner had been in the movie (IE: Instead of Nimoy), it would've been fine, as a torch passing, but, to just have him in for the monologue, that would've been like cutting Pine's legs off deliberately.
Maybe you are right. I can understand the nostalgia angle, but I felt it was a wasted opportunity not having Pine doing it at the time. In any case, he should do it this time.
Nimoy was the nostalgic choice, to be sure. One last look back. But as I posted above, I agree with iguana tonanta, the timing was perfect for Pine to have delivered the line. In this coming movie, it won't have the same impact.
The SENTIMENTAL choice in ST09 would've been Shatner. Maybe he doesn't "do cameos," but maybe he could've been convinced of the emotional impact doing the lines would've had (with enough money to back it up). It may have kind of broken the fourth wall to have him do it (since Pine is now Kirk), but it would've been cool.
I'm inclined to agree. Nimoy's guest-appearance served to symbolically pass the torch to the new cast, but Shatner already had his curtain call in movies six and seven. I'm not sure he needed one more.
With Nimoy giving the monologue at the end of ST IX the circle is complete. Retire the words. Come up with something new for the new universe. We're going to have lots more re-imaginings in the sequels, why not the monologue? DS9 didn't do it. Neither did Voyager or Enterprise. No reason for the new crew to just because it's Kirk.
But Archer did it at the founding of the Federation or whatever it was called and in a holodeck program to boot. Picard and Kirk did it in the opening or closing credits and Spock did it at the end of two movies, none of which should be taken as their characters actually saying it within the shows. Also, the first time Spock did it, there was no Enterprise any more.
First Pine must:
1. Have lots of sex with lots of men and women.
2. Pause alot. "I...want...to...paywithmycreditcard!"
3. Sing. "Puff the Magic Dragon".
4. Do the Picard maneuver.
5. Hide bikes.
6. Wear a toupee.
Then he can to The Monologue tm.
Pine doing The Monologue tm will not Rape My Childhood tm.
1. Have lots of sex with lots of men and women.
2. Pause alot. "I...want...to...paywithmycreditcard!"
3. Sing. "Puff the Magic Dragon".
4. Do the Picard maneuver.
5. Hide bikes.
6. Wear a toupee.
Then he can to The Monologue tm.
Pine doing The Monologue tm will not Rape My Childhood tm.
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