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aravis3
11/23/09

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To me, it sounded like Majel Roddenberry only did a couple of responses in the computer voice...the other responses didn't even sound like her, but I could be wrong...Shatner totally should've been in this movie!
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dallindae
05/13/09

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I'm glad they didn't include the Shatner cameo, because I choose to believe that new, alternate universe Kirk stays hot while growing old, and in no way gets all puffy, red faced, bewigged and sort of freaky looking.

Yes it's shallow. I'm not ashamed.
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LandonAriadne
05/12/09

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i just realized how much i love all of you. I have finally found my.. people.
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LolitaNepos
05/12/09

I feel it would have been neat to have Shatner be in in some capacity, but i am not bothered he wasn't. There is still the fact that Shats Kirk is indeed dead, and the argument that "now its all changed, so he could still be alive" is invalid. THe Kirk from Spock Prime's time line is still dead. It is true that He may not die this time around, but that makes no difference, because it would have had to have been the original kirk sending a holoraphic message, noit the new future kirk from the new revised timeline. The Kirk and Spock we know will never be. The things that happened in this story have drastically and irreversably changed their characters forever.

anyways... i feel a paradoxical brain scramble coming on....

aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

as for cameos, most of the one liners had there time in the film. my fav was Scotty and the "I'm giving her all she's got!" I thought the guy that played McCoy was the most reminiscent of the original actor, he had the speech cadence and the paranoia down pat.
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LeanneThriller
05/12/09

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I don't know... I think that Shatner would've made some new fans feel like he was "forced" upon them, but at the end credits I know that they left a memorial credit to both Gene and Majel, and personally I'd have rather heard her voice, as a last tribute to the wonderful work she did over the years.
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heystartrek
05/13/09

@LeanneThriller: She recorded the computer voices! :)
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Communist Pope
10/13/09

@heystartrek: Yep. In fact, I'm pretty sure she's done all the Trek computer voices for awhile now. And as little as the computer has to say and with voice synthesizer technology continuing to improve (in case they decide they need some new lines from the computer), I'd be surprised if she doesn't continue to be that voice for at least this series of films.
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EuniceMoogle
05/12/09

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I don't know... I think that Shatner would've made some new fans feel like he was "forced" upon them, but at the end credits I know that they left a memorial credit to both Gene and Majel, and personally I'd have rather heard her voice, as a last tribute to the wonderful work she did over the years.
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mazigazi
05/12/09

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no shatner also made this a lot more free of the TOS baggage... spock was cool, but it would have been nice to have made this without any original cast. oh well, still a good film!
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Sally Lloyd
05/12/09

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I am glad that they didn't have Shatner in it, not because I have any problems with the guy or with Kirk as a character. Its just that I don't hink that it would have fitted some how.

Unlike Orici I was more than happy with the amount of Nimoy's Spock that we got. It was a nice part of the film for me. The young and the old Spock together was a nice way for that side of the movie to end.
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Dillenger69
05/11/09

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Technically, Kirk (and a few others) are in "the string" which is supposed to be outside time. Someone can go in there to pull them out as many times as we want to bring them back for whatever reason.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
05/11/09

@Dillenger69: Precisely. Kirk isn't strictly speaking, dead.
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lightninglouie
05/11/09

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It's worth pointing out that nobody actually remembers the plot of Generations, so Shatner-Kirk could easily be reintroduced in a future movie. Then again, most under 30s know him best as the excitable pudgy spokesperson for Priceline.com, so maybe T.J. Hooker: The Golden Years would be a better career avenue.
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Gawd
05/11/09

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TOS Kirk can still make a cameo in the next movie, and I'm sure they'll all come to an agreement by that time.

As for all those people who say Kirk is dead cuzza Generations... not anymore! The writers fiddled with time travel and history-changing events so anything is possible now... so Kirk may never get involved with Generations which averts his death... thus new timeline future-Kirk has the opportunity to visit his past self: new timeline Chris Pine Kirk... we just have to forget all about TOS.
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KSChris
05/11/09

@Gawd:

That's not how it works. Whatever happened in Spock Prime's "reality" happened the way we know it happened. The stuff that's been altered is in an "alternate reality"...

Sylar Spock will never grow up to become the same Spock that Nimoy played. They're two seperate realities. Somewhere out there, the old Star Trek continuity still exists, should someone ever want to do something with it in the future.
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lightninglouie
05/11/09

@KSChris: Somewhere out there, the old Star Trek continuity still exists, should someone ever want to do something with it in the future.

May God have mercy on their souls.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
05/11/09

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They should have had Old Kirk in the movie.

Played by George Takei.
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Grey_Area
05/11/09

@OW-Holmes:R.O.A.C.H reject: "Oh my! That's 'tah-kay', it rhymes with 'toupee'."
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Troylis
05/11/09

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"…Spock playing the Vulcan lute, and his mother…"

Really? They thought they could get away with that?
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Sproing
05/11/09

@Troylis: It's Winona Ryder. She'll throw herself at anything with a stringed instrument and a dick.
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lightninglouie
05/11/09

@Sproing: Good thing they decided not to cast Dave Pirner as Spock.
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Iamtehawesome
05/11/09

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Star Trek was great as is, but Shatner would have made it cooler.

Anything is cooler with Shatner.

He could make a Uwe Boll film great.
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lightninglouie
05/11/09

@Iamtehawesome: It would have to be Uwe Boll's remake of Incubus. And entirely in Esperanto, too.
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Daveinva
05/11/09

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As I said in an earlier thread, they missed a HUGE opportunity to have Shatner read the "Space, the Final Frontier. . . " lines instead of Nimoy.

THAT would have been the perfect ending.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
05/11/09

@Daveinva: Yeah that would've been cool, but honestly, as it was a reboot, it should've been Chris Pine who read it at the end.
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Rasselas
05/11/09

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Caption:

"Ladies..."
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Gothamite88
05/11/09

@Rasselas: That's the caption for every Shatner picture
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Rasselas
05/11/09

@Gothamite88: You say that like it's a bad thing.
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