Transcript
By Captain Salad

CM: What about killing Captain Kirk? How did that happen?
 
BB: I'm sorry?
 
CM: Killing Captain Kirk? How did the idea come about?
 
BB: Captain……who? Kirk? (scratches head)
 
CM: The captain of the first Star Trek series?
 
BB: Oh you mean, that bald fellow right? What Captain Picard? No no no we didn’t kill him. For the NEXT next gen film we did concive a creative plot that involved time travel.. and would see the death of Picard, but after Nemisis franchise fatigue had already set in and it never got made.
 
CM: Sorry we seem to be having a misunderstanding, I am talking about William Shatner, Captain Kirk, the very first captain of the star ship enterprise, not Captain Picard from the Next generation.
 
BB:……..the first captain of the enterprise……….,oh….ummm, you mean Captain Archer. No we didn’t kill him either….but since you brought it up, if franchise fatigue hadn't of set in, and we had been given another series, a creative decision had already been made to kill him using time travellers from the future………..
 
CM: I AM TALKING ABOUT Captain James T Kirk, from the original series in the 70s, WILLIAM SHATNER, remember?
 
BB: Original Star trek series? Errrr (looks around the room)……………..Ummm….next genera……………….. Could you hold on for one just one moment please?
 
CM: Sure……
 
(BB pulls mobile phone from pocket and dials…)
 
BB: Hello, Hi Rick its me Braga………………I’m in the middle of an interview with a guy  whose asking me about a Captain Kirk? Something about an original TV series?
 
RB: Captain Kirk?
 
BB: Yeah, played by William Shatner, he was like the original Enterprise Captain or something?
 
RB: Oh, they mean Archer.
 
BB: Err…… no, apparently not, they are talking about some series from the 70s?
 
RB: ………………I think I remember…………oh yeah, that was a show that was cancelled after a couple of seasons,……… yeah it was cancelled because it wasn’t very popular , what do they want to know about that for?
 
BB: They want to know why we killed off the Captain in one of our films or something?
 
RB: Oh crap…………….Okay, now remember that talk we had about difficult questions? Either blame it on franchise fatigue, blame the fans or tell them it was a creative decision.....
 
BB: Okay Rick, I’ll do that, and while I am on the phone with you, I need to talk to you later about threshold, I have this great idea that involves time travel……………I don’t want to go into in to much detail over the phone so I'll catch up with you later.
 
RB: Wow that sounds like a great idea, talk to you later.
 
  (phone hangs up BB turns back)
 
CM: So ummm Captain Kirk? Killing him, how did that happen?
 
BB: That was a creative decision on the part of Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, me, and William Shatner. We all -- and, of course, Paramount -- but...

CM: And Shatner, really, was involved in it?

 CM: And Shatner also?

BB: Oh yeah.

CM: Okay.

BB: Yeah, I mean, Shatner was involved all along the way -- in developing the script, and the character work, and his death, and...

CM: Okay.

BB: Um, yeah, he was... he had, you know, obviously, a strong opinion about it. But, it was really a group decision. And it was, uh, thematically, a passing of the baton from one generation to the other. And, uh...

CM: Right. And, I guess, Shatner would want anything that where he gets to have more drama. I mean, you know, death is certainly drama.

BB: Yeah, well, absolutely. You know, again, in retrospect, um, you wonder if it was exactly the way... was it done right, was it as effective as it could have been? Captain Kirk died on a bridge, should he have died on the bridge of his starship? There was a lot of stuff that I personally -- I can't speak for the other gentlemen involved -- but I personally would love to go back in time, like a Star Trek episode, and redo some stuff.

CM: Well, we all wish we could, about all of our work, constantly. I mean, that's the danger of TV and film, versus live work.

BB: Yeah. It felt like a dramatic thing to do. Um, and we were all very happy with it at the time.

CM: Got it. Okay. I'm just... Hey, listen, I'm just moderating, basically, today...

BB: Yeah, leave me alone, Chase! [chuckle]

CM: Huuuhh, these questions are coming from the fans!

BB: I'm kidding. I welcome controversial questions. It makes it more interesting.
 
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