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Miracle Trek
By TRexx


TFF is mentioned in a new Shatner article by The Jewish Week...


"When Shatner was given the chance to direct the fifth Star Trek movie, The Final Frontier, he wanted the film to reflect a spiritual quest, the search for God, but it proved too controversial for the studio and the series' creator, Gene Roddenberry. Shatner wanted Kirk and Spock literally to go to hell to save a trapped Dr. McCoy, building up to encounters with God and the devil. But the film that was produced had the crew face a deluded Vulcan who believed he knew the path to the creator, and culminated in another clichéd science-fiction face-off with a god-complex alien. The film made money, but was the most poorly received in the series.

"With the death of Kirk in the seventh film in 1994, Shatner may have found closure with the role. But he has continued to pen Star Trek novels that take place in a non-apocryphal universe, and he knows that in sci-fi, no character is truly dead. Spock died in the third movie and returned in the fourth. Kirk may yet have a similar resurrection, but it's on no one's immediate radar. "I've lost some influence in that area because of the change in management," says Shatner, referring to the recent handoff of the franchise from Rick Berman to J.J. Abrams, who produced the forthcoming Star Trek prequel. That film, for the first time, features another actor as Kirk. Although he'd reprise the role if the right script came along, his preference, of course, would be to see one of his Trek novels made into a film."


Shatner tells the Telegraph UK, "I look back upon [Star Trek] as the miracle that changed my life."


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