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Which Kirk is more badass?

Which Kirk is more badass?

  • William Shatner

    Votes: 53 71.6%
  • Chris Pine

    Votes: 21 28.4%

  • Total voters
    74
Who had help ? He actually did fight some Klingons and run around for a minute. That will usually wear a person out. Even Kirk.
 
William Shatner has forgotten more about being Kirk than Chris Pine has learned yet.
 
Shatner is


until STID, Chris Pine wasn't even playing Kirk, he was just in "young troubled punk" mode.
 
Shatner. His Kirk took on V'Ger -- a formidable adversary that had his ship in a bind and was threatening to wipe out Earth -- without blinking.

In real life, too. I can't imagine Chris Pine asserting himself quite as Shatner does in this terrific clip of His Imperial Majesty turning the tables on a naive, hopelessly-out-of-his-depth director:

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[2020 EDIT: In retrospect, Shatner sounds like an egomaniacal ass here, even if he manages to stand his ground -- while walking all over the poor producer -- in an entertaining, if still obnoxious, way.]
 
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Kirk vs Khan mano- a-mano.

Shatner Kirk kicked Khan's ass. Pine had trouble there...
 
The Klingon Empire refused to make peace while Shatner Kirk lived. Pine Kirk doesn't have whole empires out to see him dead.
 
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