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I for one would have loved to hear his voice over the closing credits of the movie.
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if there is one thing i really dislike is those out there who state "The original timeline is still there it is not destroyed".
for all purposes this new trek is what you will get for more trek.you will never evr see the old timeline again.
thanks a lot for that one !!!!
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It would have been subtle (something alien to our beloved Shat, heh), but all the geeks would have gotten it, and loved it.
Still surprised they didn't do that, it seemed like such a no-brainer.
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So Pine Kirk may not die in Generations, but Shat Kirk did.
Now they could bring back Shatner to play the future version of Pine Kirk, but it seems kind of silly since it wouldn't be the same Kirk we know...
I'm getting a headache.
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Isn't Delta Vega on the edge of the galaxy, not right next to Vulcan? If the script can move Delta Vega from the edge of the galaxy to the heart of the Federation, it can move the El-Aurians around.
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OMG! They built a ship on the gound! MOM! Bring me more cheetos!
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Personally I hated the way they killed Kirk in Generations and anything they could do to make me believe that never happened would be a good thing.
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I'm glad Shatner wasn't in the film. In fact, it actually annoyed me that Nimoy got to say the whole "space, the final frontier" bit at the end. ...this wasn't Nimoy's film. It wasn't Shatner's. There was no need for a "passing of the torch". It was Chris Pine's Enterprise. It was his show, and he should have said that at the end [shrugs].
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New-Kirk on the other hand, well that's a different matter entirely.
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I may be halfway into this loverly bottle of Cabernet, but IF we accept that all canon events have changed since Nero fiddled with the timeline in New Trek, then doesn’t that mean that events like Captain Kirk dying on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations are no longer valid. That Kirk’s death at the hands of a script riddled with plot holes and a producer and a writing team whose disregard and disrespect for the character was palpable, that that moment . . . is no longer true. Just. Didn’t. Happen.
Therefore, ergo, and in conclusion, I submit that William Shatner is ALIVE AND WELL as Captain Kirk in the Trek 2.0 universe. Well, as the older Captain Kirk, Chris Pine when he grows up, clears up his acne, maybe gets a nose job, not to get personal. (We can also happily conclude that Picard got his ass handed to him by Dr. McDowell and that a planet of people we never get to see or sympathize with get blasted by a extremely fast-acting probe.)
In fact, that whole JayJay Abrams’ claim that it would be hard to shoehorn in Shatner now goes out the porthole, since the whole Wagon Train to the Stars trip has been begun again. So Shatner could have been in the movie, since there was time traveling out the ying yang, anyway. They might have been able to fast forward to the future, or even frame the movie with Kirk looking back on the (rebooted) story of his life.