Should play an alien robot with full animatronic head, that communicates exclusively with beeps.
What about just a big giant head?
softly Don’t.
Shatner is one of those people I can’t believe is still alive, I’m surprised every time I hear about him
I’m gonna come out in favour of this, despite the comments. One last outing, why not? A guest star spot I think is overdue for any remaining TOSers in SNW. Even if it isn’t the greatest episode, I can’t see any harm, and Shatner reprising the role would drive engagement pretty high (meaning more episodes!)
He stuck around this long and even though he’s Bill fucking Shatner, it’s hard to say he doesn’t deserve one last ride. I just wish he’d played it more gracefully these last 30 or so years.
I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction that Star Trek should be looking forward rather than backward, but I also love SNW so that’s obviously not a hard and fast rule. You’re right that this could be done well, but I’m very skeptical that it would be.
My biggest concern is that they would over aggrandise the character. Kirk was always a big personality, but he was also very flawed and human. I don’t want to watch every other character fawning over the legendary Captain Kirk, or see him battling the Borg at 95.
I also don’t want to see an uncanny valley digital mockery, I can’t stand those.
But if they came up with something like Relics was for Scotty - an intimate, meaningful story that put a button on the character’s life and didn’t feel the need to build it up as some galaxy-shattering event - I could be into that. But I doubt that’s what they’re considering.
I take it you’ve seen 765874 - Unification? The de-aging is still noticeably jarring, but a worthwhile little gut punch send off.
Yeah… I really wish I was able to appreciate that. The idea of Kirk being given a reprieve from his fate in Generations to have one final moment with his t’hy’la is very sweet if nothing else. But between the horrible CGI body replacements and the impenetrable story they built around it, I really couldn’t feel any of the emotion that scene should have.
That said, it’s at least focused on the human connections of Kirk’s life. The other approach that’s been hinted at lately, some kind of secret Section 31 scheme, sounds much less appealing.
I’m with you. It can’t be Picard, or Indiana Jones and The Cursed Walker. If he’s a guest, or secondary character, doing age-appropriate things… he’s not the last TOS bridge crew alive, but one of a shrinking few.
I can’t see a good way to do more than an episode, but I’d take it. Just don’t try to play the tearful farewell card and have him die again. Bring Takei and Koenig along. Maybe one of the many god-like species they ran across has formally requested them for some reason. Maybe Talos IV - that’d be a nice full circle, except that Takei and Koenig weren’t involved in that.
Imagine:
A one off episode of Strange New Worlds where the crew are all transformed into 90 year olds.
Guest staring William Shatner as old young Kirk.
This was already an episode of the original series and the next generation
A red shirt dying?! Again?!
He comes back in Star Trek, just not as Kirk but instead as Walter Bascom from TekWar.
General Mortars returns!
It’s amazing how an actor can have the majority of his career based on one role, spending decades interacting with fans at conventions and with new writers who watched Captain Kirk as a kid… could also so throughly misunderstand the appeal of his own show.
Bill grew up in the Flash Gordon era of sci-fi and has never left. I say we leave him there. Nothing good comes from his return.
I’m dying for that TJ Hooker rival
Oh no.
I’m still able to separate the work from the creator in his case. Don’t fuck that up, Bill.
Pass.
How will they write his rebirth? He died a few times on the show already.
The Nexus is pretty chill about that stuff, probably. It’s not great at inventory management, anyway.
the original James T. Kirk could bodly go once again
Uhhh…
