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Original message modified Jun 28, 2004 @ 10:54:
Topic: Lameness, and Beyond the Pathetic.....
Oh my, where to start?

Bringing back Shat as Kirk: reeks of desperation. Would require more lame-ass time travel crap. Would be just another one-episode ratings stunt (like the Borg), and then they'd go back to the embarrassing spectable of Trip and T'Pol's rub-down sessions. But the most compelling reason of all not to bring him back as Kirk? Because Shatner himself is no longer the same man who once played the iconic hero. He's old, he's fat, and he's cultivated a public persona in recent years as a bumbling buffoon, a sad and pathetic caricature of his already ridiculous real-life personality. Shatner is now impossible to take seriously as an actor or a hero.

Shatner as another character, either an ancestor of Kirk or completely unrelated: Utter stupidity. Shatner will forever be just one character in the minds of Trek zombies - Kirk. It would be like bringing Duchovney back to the X-Files as someone other than Mulder. Sure it's possible to bring Jeff Coombs back as multiple characters, but not Shatner.

Bringing back the other TOS actors: Frankly there aren't as many to choose from as there once was. Kelly is dead, Doohan is about to join him, Nichols had her swan song in Snow Dogs. The only viable options are Sumu and Check-Out. Sumu won't do it, he's still pissed that TPTB passed on the Excelsior series idea. That leaves Check-Out. Yeah, bring him back as the distant descendent of one of the Beatles or the Monkeys!

As for Enterprise itself: crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. Any and all credibility this lumbering, arthritic "franchise" once had went swirling down the bowl (leaving a prominent skid-mark on the way down) with the alien Nazi cliff-hanger. Hello! We've now entered Battlestar 1984 territory!
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