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How about William Shatner for a voice over?

It's Star Trek. Not Shat Trek. (Yeah, I know, it's dumb. But I couldn't resist.)
 
If it's not Star Trek without "the Shat", then how do you account for those hundreds of hours of Star Trek that I've enjoyed that don't have Shatner in it? :p

It's all crap! *

* Except for when Neelix's cheese jammed up the warp drive; when Janeway and Paris went past Warp 10 and turned into lizards; when Reed peed in his pants; and when Archer's dog pissed on a tree, causing an interplanetary incident.
 
If it's not Star Trek without "the Shat", then how do you account for those hundreds of hours of Star Trek that I've enjoyed that don't have Shatner in it? :p

It's all crap! *

* Except for when Neelix's cheese jammed up the warp drive; when Janeway and Paris went past Warp 10 and turned into lizards; when Reed peed in his pants; and when Archer's dog pissed on a tree, causing an interplanetary incident.

:lol: Right, excellent points, Sam! Of course, I'm sure you'll agree there's NO WAY those astounding moments of Modern Trek come close to approaching the amazing adventures of space hippies grooving in the break room, Spock being lobotomized and controlled by a remote, and evil menacing witch puppets! Oh and not to forget the thrilling adventure of the dueling Lazaruses (or is plural of the name Lazarus Lazarii? :p).
 
Of course, I'm sure you'll agree there's NO WAY those astounding moments of Modern Trek come close to approaching the amazing adventures of space hippies grooving in the break room, Spock being lobotomized and controlled by a remote, and evil menacing witch puppets! Oh and not to forget the thrilling adventure of the dueling Lazaruses (or is plural of the name Lazarus Lazarii? :p).

Pure gold!

And "Starring William Shatner," no less.

Coincidence?

I think not.
 
The only way I expect Shatner to be in this movie is as a framed picture of Kirk on Spock's nightstand... right next to the PET.
 
Here's a thought. I'm playing devils advocate here.

If Shatner was in the film, could it be kept a secret? Is it possible?

I'm 99.99 percent certain he won't be in it, mainly because everything we have been led to believe about the script seems to suggest otherwise, partly due to Shatner's protestations, but mainly because I think we would know about it. The internet spoils everything these days and I honestly believe that if Shatner was involved in this movie then we would know about it. Somebody would spill.

Having said that, the production generally seems to be pretty tight. We are still feeding on scraps, we don't really know the plot (although we assume) and we've only really seen some long distance shots of some red tracksuits, a few Imperial officers and a space car.

Truthfully, I don't think it will affect the film's success either way - but does anyone think it would be possible to keep any cameo from The Shat a secret?

They've done fairly well keeping everything else under wraps so far. Could they keep it secret if they wanted to?

i feel for you but what did you people think of my plot or device to get shatner in the film?

remember he does not need to do any action scenes,just sit at a huge table sourrounded by heavy weight starfleet personnel waiting for him to lead...waiting for him to command...waiting for him say the word.

the word is:-

"Execute"
 
I can't wait for folks to get to the last stage of grief.
This is getting silly seeing this pop-up at least once a week.

William Shatner : I'M NOT IN THE NEW STAR TREK MOVIE !

I don't think he was lying to the reporters when he said that.
Unless you think he's getting forgetful in his old age or it's a joke.
Personnaly I think he's getting tired of being asked if he's in it.

- W -
* Are we to the last stage of grief yet ? *
 
Please be gentle as this is my second post, but if they have the spoken intro "Space the final frontier" etc, why not get Shatner to do it, I think that would be a nice way to get him involved some how.
Why wouldn't they use Pine instead? Having Shatner do it makes no sense at all when there is another actor already playing Kirk. None at all.

I agree, it's not ST without the Shat.

If it's not Star Trek without "the Shat", then how do you account for those hundreds of hours of Star Trek that I've enjoyed that don't have Shatner in it? :p
Amen! Shatner did some nice work BACK IN THE DAY! He's done with Trek and if he wasn't ready to quit it, he never should've agreed to kill off Kirk in GEN. If you need to blame anyone for the death of Kirk, go straight to Big Bill!
 
Bargaining stage?
How true. Pathetic really. If by some miracle, The Shat appeared in this film, it would automatically lose 4 out of a possible 5 stars on my rating scale. That would mean it would have to be Oscar-bait for it to even be considered poor. I'm hoping for a 4 star movie and if that happens, it plummets down to zero making it unwatchable by any standard.
 
Oh and not to forget the thrilling adventure of the dueling Lazaruses (or is plural of the name Lazarus Lazarii? :p).
Nearly spit my Earl Grey all over the keyboard.:lol:

Sharr
 
I agree, it's not ST without the Shat.

If it's not Star Trek without "the Shat", then how do you account for those hundreds of hours of Star Trek that I've enjoyed that don't have Shatner in it? :p


Ok, let me rephrase it - it's not TOS without the Shat; and STXI will be a TOS-based film with old Spock/Nimoy and ALL TOS characters in it - so, it won't be TOS without old Kirk/Shatner. :)
 
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