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William Shatner Confirms He is Not in New Star Trek Movie, Talks Young Kirk Story in The Academy Collision Course

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By GustavoLeao / 23:56, 9 September 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

National Ledger just posted an exclusive interview with Star Trek star William Shatner, in which he talks about J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek movie and also his prequel Trek novel The Academy Collision Course. Here are few excerpts from the article.

Asked if he will be joining the cast of the soon-to-shoot Abrams' film, Shatner said "I'm not. They haven't invited me to do it,". The actor figures the movie forces have solved the problem of dealing with the aging version of his iconic character, James T. Kirk, by having a "dead Kirk." As for who'll play young, alive Kirk, "It seems they're looking for an unknown, so I have no idea. I don't have a finger on that pulse. I've barely got a finger on my own pulse," Shatner said. "I feel sort of like a wallflower. I'll watch the dance from the wings."

Regarding The Academy Collision Course, Shatner's October-release Star Trek prequel book, he said "It's the story of young Kirk and Spock and the forces that molded them. I used the Darfur situation for what generates the excitement. A conflict in which there are child soldiers -- and Kirk and Spock are not much older than those child soldiers."

Shatner's take on young Kirk and Spock days at Starfleet Academy will get out to the public way ahead of the film, which starts production in November and have a similar premise. "It's a coincidence," he says. "In this book, the publisher is putting a fronticepiece saying that this is the artist's unique vision."

The full interview is here.



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By: Yesterday's Lemmiwinks (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:11:25 on Sep 11, 2007 | Edit History (2)

Shatner is a media whore?! Whatever! That is your opinion and if it is true so what? He is the only person in Hollywood to be a media whore? You know all the evils in Hollywood don't originate with Shatner. Who cares and who gives a shit. It means nothing!

Lady, you've got to calm the frak down. I never said Shatner being a media whore was a bad thing. All I was saying was that playing games with the fan-base through interviews and press releases is nothing new, and hardly beyond something that Bill Shatner would do.

He has given DIRECT answers to questions about the movie

I'm not disputing that. And it's just as likely as not that he's toying with us. Jeez... have a little fun and stop taking all of this so personally.

This is hardly a stunt because he answers the question directly and moves on to the next question. You don't see him going on an on about that one question.

One day you're going to have to show me your magic wand that lets you know everything.

So all these people saying that he is whinning is nothing more than an excuse to bash Shatner.

Miss Manners Lesson Fourteen: You'll find more people will want to converse with you when you refrain from making venomous assumptions about their thought processes. In other words: Stop putting words in other people's mouths.

As it stands right now Sept 10, 2007 Shatner is not in the movie and never was going to be despite what Abrams said about "trying to find a way, we want him in" etc. IF he wanted him, he would be in. It is that simple!

Not if you're trying to build a hype machine that leaves thousands of shrill fans screaming at the top of their internets.

So no I don't believe everything that Hollywood types say at face value. But it appears you do.

Au contraire. I have made absolutely zero presumtions about this movie. My mind is open. I've yet to see you post something that doesn't jump to some ass-hat conclusion based on interview responses from the Hollywood-types involved.

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