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    The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek

    Dashing Through The Snow, Rocket-Powered Style

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    Image of LeanneThriller LeanneThriller
    05/12/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of heystartrek heystartrek
    05/13/09

    @LeanneThriller: She recorded the computer voices! :)
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    Image of Communist Pope 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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    Image of Dillenger69 Dillenger69
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/11/09

    @Dillenger69: Precisely. Kirk isn't strictly speaking, dead.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of Gawd Gawd
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of KSChris 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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    Image of lightninglouie 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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    lightninglouie was starred lightninglouie was unstarred
    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    They should have had Old Kirk in the movie.


    Played by George Takei.

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    Image of Grey_Area 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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    Image of Troylis Troylis
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    "…Spock playing the Vulcan lute, and his mother…"


    Really? They thought they could get away with that?

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    Troylis was starred Troylis was unstarred
    Image of Sproing 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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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/11/09

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

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of lightninglouie 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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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    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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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. 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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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    Caption:


    "Ladies..."

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    Rasselas was starred Rasselas was unstarred
    Image of Gothamite88 Gothamite88
    05/11/09

    @Rasselas: That's the caption for every Shatner picture
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    Gothamite88 was starred Gothamite88 was unstarred
    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/11/09

    @Gothamite88: You say that like it's a bad thing.
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    Rasselas was starred Rasselas was unstarred
    Image of Quilt Quilt
    12/27/08

    In reply to Dashing Through The Snow, Rocket-Powered Style
    No youtube video?
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    Quilt was starred Quilt was unstarred
    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/27/08

    In reply to Dashing Through The Snow, Rocket-Powered Style
    Phh Clark Griswold was way ahead of this guy, and all it took was some experimental cooking spray.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
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