Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39438

Also, SyFyPortal's Michael Hinman thinks we're headed straight for reboot country.

Interesting...

The Academy Years.

Could Shatner not just play JTK's father? Working in more bloody time-travel just for the sake of it could ruin the whole thing.

Alternative idea 1: have the plot revolve around an "aging device" and "fountain of youth" type thingy. That way Kirk could be very old for part of the movie, before changing back.

Alternative idea 2: Young Kirk goes to see a health specialist who tells him: "Using the latest stochastic tests, I can predict exactly how you will look, if you don't change your lifestyle"...

I was thinking about bookends...

the first scene and last scene of the movie being kirk and spock in a lounge in the mist of a 3-d chess game talking about past experences while on the way to a mission...

I don't think it's an 'Academy Years' story (i.e., Star Trek 90210), but the signs are that the characters will be considerably younger than we're used to in the original. Mr. Midshipman Kirk, perhaps?

And I think Shatner should not be in the project in any form. He's too old to play Kirk now--Kirk died 13 years ago, fer cryin' out loud--and any plot gymnastics they'd do to bring him back would detract from the main story. Also, they'd have to hire an actor for young Kirk based primarily on his resemblence to William Shatner, a constraint I think they'd be well-advised to forgo.

Don't see why it's gotta be time travel, or post-Gen Kirk.

If Jonathan Frakes can be allowed to play TNG season 7 Riker, Shat can just as easily be pre-Gen Kirk flashing back.

anyone read the captains table books?

Auuugh.

I don't know. I just don't know. What are they gonna do, hack their script to pieces in an attempt to shoehorn the Shat into the pic? If you want to sell a newer, younger actor as Kirk, putting the Shat in there is NOT helping your cause, IMO.

There are so many good ideas floating around out there, so many good Trek authors, and yet the studios seem to be cursed to repeat the same mistakes over and over and over and over and all we get are these big bowls of suckitude.

I'm afraid. Very afraid, for this project.

And, of course, we know how well that worked out...

I really don't think that would work. Shatner has aged tremendously in the intervening years.

Perhaps if they used that de-aging VFX from X-Men 3 they could get away with it for a few seconds...

But we're not really even dealing with the same studio heads (I don't think Grey and co. were in charge of Paramount around the time of Nemesis' production), and we're dealing with an entirely different creative and executive staff. If anything, it's not going to resemble Berman-made Trek.

"Good points. We'll just have to go the 'Endgame' route . . ." [/People in charge]

What's this nonsense about Kirk being dead? I mean, sure, TNG takes place almost a century after Kirk, but we don't ever actually see him die, right? I mean, he just pretty much sails off into the figurative sunset with "second star on the right...and straight on 'til morning."

This is just MHO, but I think trying to recast Kirk AND have the Shat in the same picture is just asking for trouble.

I don't like this Academy bullshit, either. The earliest I want to see Kirk on the big screen is at the rank of lieutenant.

Oh, you wish!

That's assuming we just HAVE to do this, which I'm not in favor of anyway.

I'm just not excited for this.

It could intro with Kirk and Spock sitting around the camp fire telling old man stories to one and other that begin with "Remember the time..." and then one of they could sort of narrate the movie. I think they should be totally left out so we could have a BSG like reboot.

I vote reboot too.

Its... SHATRAGEOUS!

The Shat just can't let it go, can he

Mixing franchises?...I dunno...

Do you mean actually in TNG Season 7, or the ridiculousness of him playing TNG Season 7 Riker 11 years later, during ENT Season 4?

Yeah, that one.

Shatner playing an older Kirk in a reboot movie, hell no. But Shatner playing a different character? I could live with that. Look how cool any scene where the new Apollo interacts with Richard Hatch in BSG is.

Well, to be sure, Sirtis pulled it off even less convincingly than Frakes did. You could ski down one of her wrinkles

Yeah, but in the case of the Shat, Trekkies won't care.

Oh sure, the critics will squeal like pigs, but they've more or less panned or given faint conditional praise to all the Trek films.

Riker appeared in Enterprise?


Glad I stopped watching that retarded show

If you adhere to strict canon, Kirk and Spock didn't even meet until Kirk took command of the 1701.

Didn't Spock go straight from the Vulcan Science Academy to being a commissioned Starfleet officer?

I don't think they ever attended Starfleet Academy together...