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UniBrier
2007-10-28, 08:33 PM
Just read (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3781544)that William Shatner will not appear as Captain Kirk in the forthcoming Star Trek movie, but Leonard Nimoy will play Spock again:

The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won't get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new "Star Trek" movie. While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role as the pointy-eared Vulcan in next year's science-fiction flick, William Shatner is not on board as Kirk.

"I couldn't believe it. I'm not in the movie at all. Leonard, God bless his heart, is in, but not me," Shatner, 76, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I thought, what a decision to make, since it obviously is a decision not to make use of the popularity I have to ensure the movie has good box office. It didn't seem to be a wise business decision."

Of course, there are some complications:

Past "Trek" films presented an obstacle to the revival of Shatner's Kirk, who died at the end of 1994's "Star Trek: Generations."
To tell you the truth, I must have missed that one because I didn't even remember he was sick.

Could have been his negotiation style: "I need to be in the movie; I...neeeeeeeeed...to...be...in...the...movie." Looks like Scottie can't get him more power this time.
harper
2007-10-28, 08:47 PM
Shouldn't this be in RSU?
Into the blue
2007-10-28, 08:48 PM
We should have a poll to see whether Shatner should appear.
harper
2007-10-28, 08:54 PM
We should have a poll to see whether Shatner should appear.

With emoticons.
Into the blue
2007-10-28, 08:56 PM
With emoticons.

I was about to add that with an edit and you beat me to it.

Curse your green Klingon blood!
uni57
2007-10-28, 09:04 PM
Curse your green Klingon blood!Um, Dr. McCoy, don't you mean Vulcan blood?
UniBrier
2007-10-28, 09:08 PM
Shouldn't this be in RSU?I did intent to post it there until I saw there were still two unicycle related threads on the "first page" of JC. Misery loves company.


I also just found out the real deal breaker: "Capt. Kirk" was insisting on a reprise of one of his fights in an alien gauntlet, shirtless. Come on, you're over 70 now! Hollywood does have standards even if they are real low.
unisteve
2007-10-28, 09:14 PM
I also just found out the real deal breaker: "Capt. Kirk" was insisting on a reprise of one of his fights in an alien gauntlet, shirtless. Come on, you're over 70 now! Hollywood does have standards even if they are real low.
If we don't battle to the death, they will kill us both. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g82yZXXpxY8)
Into the blue
2007-10-28, 09:19 PM
Um, Dr. McCoy, don't you mean Vulcan blood?

Of course I did.
I was testing you.

Well done, you passed.
UniBrier
2007-10-28, 09:22 PM
If we don't battle to the death, they will kill us both. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g82yZXXpxY8)He would need a man bra today... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhhFzE5O5U)


Is posting without emoticons a Vulcan trait?
Into the blue
2007-10-28, 09:31 PM
He would need a man bra today... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhhFzE5O5U)


Is posting without emoticons a Vulcan trait?

I posted that very clip in MR yesterday!

Co-inky-dink.
uni57
2007-10-28, 10:00 PM
Is posting without emoticons a Vulcan trait?(LOL! I must be really nerdy because I find that very funny. It's not logical.)

Yes, unless you come down with a bad case of Bendii Syndrome (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bendii_Syndrome), like Ambassador Sarek.