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Fairly clear
By psp1

It seems fairly clear why it is much harder to bring Shatner back as Kirk than Nimoy back as Spock. Nimoy has aged quite gracefully, and anyone can recognize him as the young Spock growing older. Alas, that is not true with Shatner, as pretty well everyone knows.
So if you present them both together, Spock's first question could be: My God Jim, what happened? How did you let yourself go this way?
That plus what time frame you can use pretty well kills the notion. If you go back pre-Generations, there is no way you can convince the audience that Shatner is Kirk. He has deteriorated visibly in the last 15 years. Same problem with Nexus- take a look at Shatner in Generations and him now. The Nexus is supposed to freeze time and you are not going to convince anyone time is frozen by throwing the current Shatner up there.
So that leaves an extremely aged and deteriorated Captain Kirk. The only possibility I can think of is that you do a kind of Kirk does not fit in the Nexus story- his spirit is too vital for that sort of idyllic and mundane existence. So his body reacts by aging - the 'powers that be' in the Nexus are really puzzled, and they decide the best thing to do is to advise him to eject back into the real universe to the right time period. Even this seems a little gimmicky and unnatural.
Or maybe we can say Kirk's body was whisked off the planet by the Talosians and they did their best to repair him, but all they could do was the current version.

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