Spoilers About that one vault on Daystrom Station..

[Racefuel]

TM was on Inglorious Treksperts podcast and specified about Kirk on Daystrom.

TL;DR: Kirk not coming back on Picard but the stage is set if someone comes up with a compelling story for Kirk to return.

Kirk is dead. We figured, “Is his body really just under a pile of rocks on that planet?” We’re not committed. We’re not saying he is resurrected.

We just leave it open that someday some brilliant writer could do something. Could be an animated thing. That could be anything.

So there it is. He did say this was a tip-of-the-hat to the Shatnerverse story "The Return".

Now this could be just a massive misdirection or a bamboozle, but for now we do have an official answer.

 

[Sketcher]

Well yeah, the whole sequence came off as a Marvel-style tease for later stories that may or may not happen.

 

[HotRod]

At what point does fan service become fanwank?

 

[Racefuel]

At what point does fan service become fanwank?

I'm not so sure as this would be considered fanservice, more so bedrock for future stories if needed/wanted/utilized.

The Genesis device was more fanwank

 

[HotRod]

I'm not so sure as this would be considered fanservice, more so bedrock for future stories if needed/wanted/utilized.

The Genesis device was more fanwank

Kirk's been dead for almost 30 years. Let it be. I say this as a fan who named his kid James because of Captain Kirk.

 

[Racefuel]

Kirk's been dead for almost 30 years. Let it be. I say this as a fan who named his kid James because of Captain Kirk.

I get the point you're making, I'm just saying that setting up something for a future story isn't what I could call fanservice or fanwanking, that is all.

 

[HotRod]

I get the point you're making, I'm just saying that setting up something for a future story isn't what I could call fanservice or fanwanking, that is all.

Fair enough.

 

[BBC 2 6pm]

At what point does fan service become fanwank?

I think fanwanking is done by the fans themselves.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Kirk's been dead for almost 30 years. Let it be. I say this as a fan who named his kid James because of Captain Kirk.

Shatner's Kirk was a thing from September '66 to November '94, 28 years 2 months.

28 years 2 months later was January 2023. He's been dead longer than he was alive.

 

[Sketcher]

Shat's gonna hit the fan anyway when this storyline IS picked up, with a resurrected Kirk played by Paul Wesley.

 

[BBC 2 6pm]

Shatner's Kirk was a thing from September '66 to November '94, 28 years 2 months.

28 years 2 months later was January 2023. He's been dead longer than he was alive.

This is one of those "that 70s show today would be that 2000s show" scary facts!

 

[TRON JA307020]

This is one of those "that 70s show today would be that 2000s show" scary facts!

What's so scary about that?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

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All the potential storylines that can be "Re-Visited".

 

[Tuskin38]

This is one of those "that 70s show today would be that 2000s show" scary facts!

It would be the 90s show.. which is a thing.

 

[Grizzlor]

Shatner is not returning at age 92, so why have a return of Kirk story? It was simply a corny in-joke.

 

[Tuskin38]

It was simply a corny in-joke.

It wasn't a joke, but it wasn't anything confirmed to be followed up. It's there if someone does want to follow up.

 

[Sketcher]

Shatner is not returning at age 92, so why have a return of Kirk story? It was simply a corny in-joke.

That's what we got Paul Wesley for.

 

[The Wormhole]

What's so scary about that?

It's a reminder of the passage of time. Time, the fire in which we burn, the predator which stalks us all.

 

[somebuddyX]

They could just bury him on Earth in Iowa perhaps.

 

[TRON JA307020]

It's a reminder of the passage of time. Time, the fire in which we burn, the predator which stalks us all.

I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.