William Shatner Is Ready to Return to 'Star Trek' as an Aged Captain Kirk

[Josh7797445]

Rumors about William Shatner returning to the 23rd Century in this summer’s Star Trek Beyond but the actor is more than willing to reprise his role as the captain of the USS Enterprise in a future incarnation of the franchise if the story is worthwhile, he’s revealed.

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Although he met with Star Trek executive producer J.J. Abrams to discuss an appearance in 2009’s franchise reboot, it ended up not happening. Shatner asked, “How would they handle it, in science-fiction terms? I’m older, I’m heavier, I’m — all the problems of age. So what did Captain Kirk do? Die and age? Doesn’t sound science-fictiony enough. Or maybe you make him really old. I don’t know. It seems to have beggared Abrams’ imagination.”

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Shatner talks about his experience making the original Trek — which debuted 50 years ago this September — and more during the podcast, including attempting to settle a long-term fan argument. “Is Star Wars better than Star Trek... ?"

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[M'Sharak]

Josh, when you copy material from a published article, it's customary to indicate that you're making use of someone else's text by placing it in QUOTE tags and providing a link to the source of the quoted material. In this instance, the source would appear to have been this article in The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/william-shatner-is-ready-return-862167

Having thus quoted and cited your source, it's customary, as thread-starter, to offer some comment of your own to set the topic of discussion and to give it some direction.

For example: you might offer your thoughts on why you believe this latest to be any different from all the other instances of Shatner giving this response when asked, by a reporter with some column space to fill, whether he would be ready to play Kirk again.