Space the Final Frontier

[jamesweld]

At the end of Star Trek X1, it's original Spock who says the reason for Star trek, Space the final frontier these are the voyages...
Why didn't William Shatner's voice get used for those immortal words or Pine's new Kirk? After all, it was Kirk who said it or at least the captain of whichever enterprise it was. Abram's pissed Shatner off but didn't see this coming? Old Spock was used just for the Purists who enjoyed Star Trek all there lives but this is a new direction for Star trek and Old Spock should not be too involved with it. Let the characters grow the way the original ones did
Having Leonard Nimoy have the last word was wrong but the movie, to me, is two thumbs up, can't wait for episode 2, I mean Star Trek X11

 

[KiraDax]

Using Shatner would have been ridiculous, considering that he had no other role in the movie and there are probably many new viewers who wouldn't have a clue who the voice was supposed to be. Remember, they're going after newbies with this too, not just those who are steeped in Trek and pop culture history.

And it just wouldn't have had the same pomp had Pine said it. He's filling the role nicely, but he's still fresh.

Since this was as much Spock's movie as Kirk's. I think it was an acceptable and endearing tribute to Nimoy.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Shatner had no place to give the speech in this movie since he wasn't in it.

I think Nimoy was the logical and best choice for this movie's speech.

 

[Kpnuts]

Would people please get the fuck over Shatner being/not being in this movie!!

Nimoy was PERFECT for the voiceover.

 

[flightmech73]

It was cool cool to here it but maybe use Quinto or possibly start with Nemoy and fining with Pine or Quinto. and I was almost expecting the 5 year mission thing.

 

[jamesweld]

I feel that Purists would be pleased with a nod to TOS and newbies would have accepted the uttering of STFF by an unknown as just a odd thing that was thrown in. The Captain of the enterprise should have said it not Old Spock. This was not Leonard Nimoy's Spock character film, it belongs to a new generation. Will leonard Nimoy be saying those words at the start of the next film or Tv show?

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

It's not that I don't like Shatner per se, but his acting skills were always slightly lagging behind his ego. So I don't mind it all that he's not in the new movie.

Even if he only got a few vocal lines, they way he speaks them the movie would be 20 minutes longer.
"These are... The... Voyages.. Of the... Starship... Enterprise... To... Boldly..."

 

[erebus]

I must confess that the best voiceover was Mr Nimoy at the end of TWOK. It fitted in so well with his 'questing spirit journeying on in the cosmos' and Mr Nimoy delivered it so poignantly (but of course he does make a subsequent return).

 

[jamesweld]

Some people are S....L....O.....W. Shatner's voicing of STFF is the start of each episode and even thou he....said..... each... word... as.... if..... it... was...it's.... own.... sentence.
Get Over It, that was his style. It's now a part of Star Trek lore. What if Bruce Greenwood spoke those words because he is older than Chris Pine. Captain Kirk became the captain of the Enterprise at the end of the movie so why didn't he say the words. He is in charge the enterprise or is there still ageism in the 23rd century?

 

[Messianni]

Some people are S....L....O.....W. Shatner's voicing of STFF is the start of each episode and even thou he....said..... each... word... as.... if..... it... was...it's.... own.... sentence.
Get Over It, that was his style. It's now a part of Star Trek lore. What if Bruce Greenwood spoke those words because he is older than Chris Pine. Captain Kirk became the captain of the Enterprise at the end of the movie so why didn't he say the words. He is in charge the enterprise or is there still ageism in the 23rd century?

Because this wasn't some log entry. This was a story device, a symbolic one. The final handing over of the torch.

Ageism? Now you're just making shit up.

 

[Corran Horn]

I thought that sequence was great...especially shutting up those who were bitching and moaning that we'd never hear the original Star Trek theme music.

 

[Similitude]

Loved the end sequence, using Nimoy was perfect.

 

[nx1701g]

I thought that Nimoy was the best choice because of what was going on. I assumed that Spock was watching the Enterprise leave on its mission.

 

[jamesweld]

That might cover Spock's voicing of the STFF, if he were watching the ship leave Space dock. Well done Admiral

 

[Newt]

Spock doing the voiceover in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan was the right choice, and it was the right choice in Star Trek (2009).

 

[Sky]

Loved the end sequence, using Nimoy was perfect.

Yeah. That was probably the most emotional moment in the whole film for me. (And not only for me, the geek behind me in the movie theater burst into tears. )

 

[Michael Chris]

I was weirded by the life forms part. I also figured they'd use man as opposed to one to show that it was a story focused on humanity as opposed to aliens, and be consistent with the original.

It was good though!

 

[Jon1701]

Should have let Pine do it.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I was mildly annoyed with the use of "seek out new life-forms" rather than "seek out new life" - my response to the first term is always that it's sci-fi jargon and takes the poetry out of the phrase - but I'm guessing that since Spock said it that way at the end of TWOK they thought there was some value in it.

The fact that he said "where no one" rather than "where no man" bothered me not a whit, though I'm sure that it will outrage someone.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm not sure if any of you have noticed, but this movie was masturbating TWOK. The Kobayashi Maru, elderly Spock telling Kirk "I have been and always shall be your friend," the Ceti eel, and so on. So of course Nimoy was going to do the Space the Final Frontier speech. After all, he did it in TWOK.