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George Takei Talks About William Shatner Not Being in the New Star Trek Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 00:25, 30 January 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

The latest issue of Starburst Magazine, out in the UK, features an extensive interview with TOS actor George Takei and claims that he will cameo in the new Star Trek movie, a rumor denied by Takei's business manager and partner (story). Here are few more excerpts of the article.

Regarding the fact that William Shatner will not appear in the new prequel movie, Takei said "He's expressed his disappointment, because he's a very competitive guy."

"Kirk's death was visibly seen on film" Takei said "Science fiction is wonderful, but to be credible, there has to be some verities. With Spock, he's got a lot of special Science fiction things. We did one movie, The Wrath of Khan - where Spock dies - but we followed it up with a movie titled The Search for Spock. You can't finish a movie like that saying "Well, we didnt find him !" So Spock is a very special character, Kirk is a humanoid and Bill Shatner has to accept that."

To read the full article, get the new issue of Starburst Magazine at your local newsstand.



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RE: Uh ohhhhh! here it comes | Report this post to moderator
By: DIGINON (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:35:20 on Jan 30, 2008

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Makes sense given that we're seeing Kirk at various stages in his life

We are also seeing Spock at various stages in his life, including a kid-Spock. Why would we see him as a kid if the big bad Romulan is after Kirk? Old Spock isn't suddenly gonna get all nostalgic and revisit his own childhood.
You know: this movie might just feature some kind of origin story for our beloved characters.
Granted, this doesn't explain why Nimoy-Spock would interact with the younger crew. All I'm saying is: Some people act like they know exactly what's gonna happen in this movie. Well, unless you've seen the super-secret script which even the actors didn't get it's all just conjecture.
Which makes any suggestions on how to make the story "better" rather moot.

I'll grant you that they didn't want to center their story around Shatner-Kirk. So much seems certain. But beyond that, there's absolutely nothing that "proves" they didn't want Shatner in the movie, at all. Actually, all that is known is that both Shatner himself and the producers have said in interviews that Bill didn't want to do a cameo. Apparently, Bill wanted a bigger part than just "Hey Spock, thanx for warning me about the Nexus and that Soran guy who would've killed me" (which some of the Shatner-fanatics claim would be enough to make them happy).

But since some people seem to have made up their mind and stay with their opinion no matter what, this discussion is just as moot so I'll just stop here.

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RE: Uh ohhhhh! here it comes by StillKirok @ 10:16:06 on Jan 30
    RE: Uh ohhhhh! here it comes by DIGINON @ 13:57:09 on Jan 30

RE: Uh ohhhhh! here it comes | Report this post to moderator
By: falcon (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:21:28 on Jan 30, 2008

It could always be a plot hatched by Nero and somehow stopped by Old Spock, whilst he remembers his early days and the first time he met Kirk. It doesn't have to be time-travel - in fact, someone said on this very website that JJAbrams is good at flashbacks (see "Lost" for confirmation).

Although flashbacks are time-travel of a sort...

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