J.J. Abrams Wants Shatner For Star Trek 2!!!

[KiraDax]

Get Garret Wang. He's starving for jobs.

I'd be more inclined to go see a film because Garrett Wang was in it than because Shatner was in it. You can't miss someone if they're everywhere, all the time...

That aside, I don't really have a problem with Shatner being in the next film. He certainly can't make it any more campy than it's already bound to be, and I'm interested in seeing his 'Kirk' after so long.

 

[Meredith]

I like the Idea of a "Holographic Kirk" Based off of Old Spock's memory of Mind Melding with him. Spock created him for helping him with making tough decisions and to toss ideas off of (offshoot of EMH and the processed used to create Denara Pel in Voyager).

They could encounter Khan and Spock uses the device to consult with and of course the device is destroyed in the film Heroically, it would be cool to use.

Maybe Have Khan kidnap Kirk and he Dares Spock to open fire at him with Kirk on his vessel and Kirk turns into "Shatner Kirk" who then says "Surprise!" (it was the Hologram they swapped Kirk out with). And they blow Khan's ship to kingdom come along with the Hologram....

Something along those lines.

 

[startrekrcks]

Shatner could advise his younger self and him and Pine could work together to save the universe. They could also throw in Khan in as well what do you think of that idea

 

[skep155]

If he's in it should either be in flashback or hologram.

 

[darkshadow0001]

If he's in it should either be in flashback or hologram.

Why not as the real Captain Kirk... after all, these films are set in the 23rd century...

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

Gene Roddenberry once said that he didn't do everything the fans wanted him to do because that would have been prostitution, just because Shatner and some fans want it doesn't mean it could work or should be done, it could easily take a person out of the film and ruin the experience for eveyone save for the few fans who wanted him there.

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

From some of the news I posted in my Star Trek XII news thread it seems that JJ really does want Bill in the new movie, fascinating!

 

[QuasarVM]

^ Showing old McCoy and old Scotty is going to be hard.

CGI...and audio samples...

 

[jmnorville]

Ugg, I'm suffering from Trek prequel death. Lets get out of the quicksand and into some new creative material... PLEASE! Lets boldly go where no one has gone before, not stumble back where everyone has gone before!!!!

 

[USS Excelsior]

Maybe Shatner could be the chef.

 

[jmnorville]

lol, ya, thats good, I can picture him behind a grill with a dirty aprin on with food smeared all over his face...

 

[startrekrcks]

I think Shatner should be given a role in the sequel, what do you think of that?

 

[Amasov]

Shatner is so far-removed from Kirk and has become such a comedic personality that I don't think I (or even him) could take it very seriously.

And forgive me, but let's face it, LOOK at Shatner.

 

[Freman]

Honestly, I'd rather ST2 didn't bring back Shatner or Nimoy. Nimoy's seen them off, now this crew should stand on their own.

This.

TOTALLY!!!

 

[Mrs_Whatsit]

Honestly, I'd rather ST2 didn't bring back Shatner or Nimoy. Nimoy's seen them off, now this crew should stand on their own.

This.

TOTALLY!!!

And amen from this quarter. No Shatner, no Nimoy, no ANYONE from another ST incarnation.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Shatner could advise his younger self and him and Pine could work together to save the universe. They could also throw in Khan in as well what do you think of that idea

Bloody hell, anything but that. Really, anything.

Even I wouldn't go see that crap, and I watch everything ST or JJ-related. No offense though.

 

[Vance]

Actually, I would love it if Shatner played either a court-martial attorney, or a alien leader (preferably one with a big head)..

But, no, if this NuTrek is to survive past this flick, it needs to 'boldly go' , not 'whimper back'.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

that is brilliant news how will they make Shatner come back.

Nexus 2.0 will pass through the Nexus: Orginal and rebuild Kirk as a super Kirk, will hair three times as thick and tighter clothes.

If Shatner-Kirk come back, I hope he drops a few pounds for his uniform. Priceline-Kirk dosen't look very space-worthy.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Since spock likes to say stuff like 'when ever i mind meld with anyone, piece remains'..well..Perhaps the clue to something they need to do to beat the 'bad guy' in the next movie resides in spocks brain..and pine mind-melds, via young spock, into old spocks mind, and shatner Kirk's 'essense' is keeping old spock alive....

ITS SCIFI dammit..give me a break

 

[The Castellan]

Mirror Kirk, or Emperor Tiberius the 1st, would be neat. Plus the older mirror Kirk would be a challenge to the newer, younger, less experience Kirk.