William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old (thedirect.com)
from neme@lemm.ee to startrek@startrek.website on 23 Feb 2025 16:47
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MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website on 23 Feb 2025 17:46 next collapse

If Kirk is going to come back, it has to mean something. It has to be the show. But I was so impressed by this writer, so I said let’s talk after I’m done in Vancouver.

He had me in the first half, but thankfully this doesn’t sound like another vanity project ala Picard S1/S2 🤞

ghostface@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 18:50 next collapse

I don’t see Picard as a vanity project. It did try to resolve some of the the next gen story lines that was left open.

This?!? What story lines would this resolve?

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website on 24 Feb 2025 15:56 next collapse

It’s a matter of opinion of course, but to me Picard 1/2 suffers the same malady as S31: “all we need is a big star to sell our franchise”

Season 3 felt to me like the owners of the franchise desperately trying to salvage the final season from Patrick Stewart’s meddling.

As for Kirk’s stories you’re right he’s done if not already overdone, at least as a main character. Who knows how he may work as a supporting character 🤷‍♀️

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 03:09 collapse

Even though some don’t like the Kelvin timeline, Spock giving his last goodbye there was poignant and fitting to the story. I think Kirk said goodbye when he handed things over to Picard

ghostface@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 13:13 collapse

Very fair point

MurrayL@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 18:57 next collapse

Knowing Shatner’s ego, this project will never see the light of day unless it’s a vanity project.

scarabic@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 01:03 collapse

“It has to mean something” to him, he means

data1701d@startrek.website on 23 Feb 2025 20:36 next collapse

Honestly, I kind of want Kirk to stay dead regardless of how they do it.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 22:15 collapse

What if they bring back Mirror-Kirk?

data1701d@startrek.website on 25 Feb 2025 08:24 next collapse

By Beta canon or otherwise, it’s heavily implied he doesn’t live that long in most timelines.

gwilikers@lemmy.ml on 26 Feb 2025 14:50 collapse

Omg, bring back mirror Kirk and get Shatner to just play himself. Like he’s not a fascist, just make him really snarky with his trademark humour.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 23 Feb 2025 21:25 next collapse

FFS.

Maultasche@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 17:22 next collapse

Star Trek Nexus

Steve@startrek.website on 27 Feb 2025 23:37 collapse

Young kirk is played by AI

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 02:01 next collapse

Please no. Look…I am glad you played Kirk, man…but your story is DONE. Picard’s story didn’t need its own show either.

Stop making rehashes FFS. Stop leveraging nostalgia and then disappointing us.

Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds: Do more of that (I know SNW is a prequel, but it explores characters that barely saw the light of day).

Fucking Orville did Star Trek better than modern Star Trek.

Corgana@startrek.website on 24 Feb 2025 17:30 next collapse
scarabic@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 01:01 collapse

I was hoping maybe it was a Shatner return but not a Kirk return. But no. Of course it’s Kirk.

If he could just return as a ferneghi or something that would be amazing and actually take some air out of the big fat overheated James T. Kirk legacy.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 01:01 next collapse

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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 02:31 collapse

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LtCmdr@startrek.website on 25 Feb 2025 18:31 collapse

Thanks Obama?

Steve@startrek.website on 27 Feb 2025 23:36 collapse

Thanks Obama.

kreskin@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2025 18:58 collapse

If they want to bring him back for a few seconds and then instantly eliminate him in some painful way, I’d pay for that. But lets keep the Shatner acting to an absolute minimum, please. Maybe he can be in a shuttle with Van Damme and Steven Segal that gets depressurized and ripped apart by some alien creature in the first few seconds of the movie.