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More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek
Tycoon Guy writes "Is that the sound of desperation I hear? TrekToday is reporting that, according to a trailer shown at CBS Television City, William Shatner will be appearing on Star Trek: Enterprise for a two-episode guest stint - as James T. Kirk! The most likely writers of his episodes are Trek novelists Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who already resurrected Kirk in their books, and were just hired as story editors for Enterprise's fourth season." We reported a rumor to this effect a couple of months back.
I guess all that dot com stock for that travel company didn't pay off huh? Have to get back to his day job. Which I dont mind.
KHAAAAAN!!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Let's just all hope that Kirk doesn't go back to old habits, rip his shirt off, and fight a guy in a rubber suit...*shudders*
------- "From bored to fanboy in 3.8 asian girls" ----------
Star Trek Enterprise: The Original Series
Where Kirk must defeat the Time Travel dudes to once again save the earth... FROM THEMSELVES!
Or something equally as peposterous.
Heh, I guess it's back to Star Trek after priceline kicked him out. Is Spock coming back as well?
and here's the link with the exclusive reason of why Shatner is returning for a guest appearance...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
I wonder if shatner got paramount a good priceline price on the time warp to send Kirk back into the past.
The sheer number of times he's suggested he'll never do any more Star Trek is starting to make me think he just says it to up the price he gets the next time he does it.
- Allen Pike
Altering time, one time at a time.
Now they just have to put McCoy on with him... "I'm dead, Jim."
Just so long as they also bring back the mini-skirted 1960s era women whose job was to have Kirk fall in love with them. And make sure that they have too much make-up on and for some reason get to hang around the bridge even though they don't work there.
John.
Make your voice known, as hopefully a return will prevent him releasing any more terrible cover versions of good songs.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Man, unless he's time-traveling back, it'll be damn hard to make him look like the feisty young thing of the '60s.
They'll have to slather him with makeup and airbrush half of him out of the frames.
The coolest voice ever.
Heh, geez, got any humorless mods here today? Oh yah, I see a couple right here. =P
Fact: Shatner is too old to play Kirk in the Enterprise timeline without some serious higgledy-piggledy with said timeline.
Probability: Yet Another Time Travel Adventure! YATTA!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Nuts to Kirk, bring back Welshie!
How can expect that poor old man to save Enterprise when he couldn't even float Iron Chef USA? "Today's theme ingredient is... TIME TRAVEL"
Because, to borrow and change a quote:
They've done far worse than kill you. They've hurt you and they wish to go on hurting you. They shall leave you as you left Voyager, as you left Deep Space Nine, marooned. for all eternity in the center of a dead science fiction universe: buried alive (with your television set).
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Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
First, he was more interesting and more fun on The Practice as Denny Craine. The Enterprise should go back and meet Denny. Second, they should use the animated Kirk from the cartoon series. That Kirk was a better actor.
It's been a long time since I've actually groaned aloud from reading a slashdot headline. Eh, thanks I guess.
funny munging
Dear Mr. Shatner,
How can we miss you if you won't go away?
Best regards,
Everybody
Captians Log: "Had trouble sleeping last night; my hiatal hernia is acting up. The ship is drafty and damp. I complain, but nobody listens."
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
This news just makes me wish there was another season of "Farscape" coming up. Or, hell, another season of ST:TNG.
Or another season of black filler between the commercials. Or another season of static. Or another season of being kicked in the groin by a large horse.
"Redundant?" Please. I feel like this a perfect example of how sloppy moderates are getting these days. The first quote was "Khan!" (note the spelling), referring to the enemy Kirk met in an episode of the original series, and later in Star Wars II: The Wrath of Khan. THIS post is in reference to "Kahn," who (I believe) is a villian who ran afoul of Catpain Krik in an esipode the original "Satr Terk" series.
Or something...
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He's got to be in his 60s, right? I wonder what they would do if they made all these big announcements and suddenly his health took a bad turn? How do series deal with signing really old actors, anyway?
And sign me up for CGI kirk with Shatner doing the voice-overs. I don't think I have the stomach (or maybe he has too much of one) to see Bill jumping around the stage with a ripped shirt fighting some rubber lizard over a great-looking woman.
Heck -- just get rid of all of them except the great-looking women. We could do a new show, sort of a cross between Baywatch and Trek. Something like "Nebula-Watch"
... his return will involve a wormhole, travelling back through time, the Borg, and a holodeck malfunction (er, after travelling *forward* through time first, of course).
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
All your favourite characters!
Kirk!
Data!
Quark's mother!
The guy in the red shirt that got eaten by the monster on that planet they were trapped on!
We even have a special appearance by a cartoon Kzinti!
And Captain Janeway!
All the best from every Star Trek series, movie and cartoon EVER produced!
See Captain Kirk battle the Obsidian Order to save Beverly Crusher!
(... the ... longest ... pregnant ... pause ... in ... history ...)
back.
MORTAR COMBAT!
http://www.khaaan.com/
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
Yeah, but Spock has replaced Kirk on all the commercials. So have to find someplace for an actor that made Reagan look good.
Ya' know, everytime I sit down and watch this, I think "Well, it can't be worse than the last one I watched." And everytime, without fail, I am pleasantly surprised.
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rofl! Warn us before you have our computers shouting KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN out at work ;)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
His mission to return Shatner to Trek finally complete, Dr. Sam Beckett leaps out of Captain Archer's body...
The irony is that his stilted speech patterns probably make it much easier to digitally reconstruct dialog.
KHAAAAAN!!
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Easy. He probably knocked up some chick in the 80s when they went back to get that whale. It'll be his illigitimate son.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
This ...BUFFERING... can't be ...BUFFERING... the entire Away Team ...BUFFERING... gone ...BUFFERING... in a flash ...BUFFERING...
You've punished us enough, Q!
Enterprise has hmm... not sure yet.
Hoshi!
They should just call it "Hoshi in Space" and have the camera follow her around for 45 mins...
Tribbles take over the Enterprise! Again!
The vulcan chick's breasts start expanding for no apparent reason, and the Enterprise is helpless to stop them!
Watch as Gene Roddenbury spins over and over in his grave and is then resurrected like in Star Trek IV!
Watch as Berman tries to save a hopelessly bad space opera which has lost all continuity and has turned into an ugly parody of science fiction!
Personally, I'd rather watch Star Trek: Borg, where you watch as the Borg take over the rest of the planets. I can see it now. "These are the voyages of Borg Cube #200345. It's mission: To explore strange new worlds...to seek out new life, and new civilizations...to annihilate them and steal their technology...to boldly destroy what no man has destroyed before. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." *Cue music*
When they have guest appearances from a character who hasn't been born yet, and which would require yet-another-time-loop in the plot:
"The franchise is dead, Jim!"
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Bermaaaaaaaaaaan!
I don't know if special effects are good enough to do that, after all the camera adds 10 pounds...how do they explain the other 100 pounds?
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
I remember the first time I wne to the site. My co-worker was on a speaker phone conference. Everyone on the line went quiet and one guy said "What the hell was that?" and someone else answered "Star Trek II".
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
To boldly go where no man that old should dare to go...
I'm hungry... Is there something to eat?
...
HOW can you talk about FOOD, at a time like THIS?
First order of business: Survival...
Mother, we can't just STAND here.
Oh, yes we can...
David, why don't you show our friends the Genesis Cave (meaning, take our new friends for a walk...)
Jim, let me show you something that will make you feel young, as when the world was new...
(Hmm, I wonder how many re-takes they had at THAT line...
("**ssay!" was yelled out in a theater when I watching ST2TWOK. I was shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Someon yelling such as that expletive in a Star Trek movie (In retrospect, tho, I could see it hollered out for Bond and P. Galore, heheh)
David Syes
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
10) Drop rumors here and there that N'Sync will guest star as plasma-sword wielding space knights.
9) Show more science officer cleavage.
8) Invert the bullshition particle field and modulate it to 5.69 isohertz!
7) Wait until Paramount is 5 minutes plus a commercial break suspense builder away from canceling the show, and present a contrived and not so suprising solution.
6) Start selling pieces of Deforest Kelly's mummified flesh as souvenirs to the faithful.
5) Show more science officer cleavage!
4) Wait for JMS to pitch another scifi show concept, and then blatantly steal it after the lawyers have lawsuit-proofed the theft.
3) Hide Riker's razor!
2) Holodeck brothels.
And the number one way to save the Star Trek franchise is....
(drum roll)
Buy the new 6th edition Formula TV Plots for Dummies!
Television needs more shows where the villians are the focus.
You mean like Simple Life 2?
Another ten cameras?
The shark has officially been jumped on that show.
Actually, the shark traveled back in time to jump over its younger self. Ironically, the two sharks saw eachother, and the Enterprise universe spontaneously cancelled itself.
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
yeah, but Laverne and Shirley was a spinoff of Happy Days.
Oh, wait . . .
Someone you trust is one of us.
You misspelled "badly"
Not that I think the ST writers would do any better at, say, a legal drama ... "Your honour, I object on the grounds that my client just disappeared into a polaron-induced wormhole." "Bailiff, rotate phase by 90 degrees and fire on that mysterious entity! Bench to sickbay, medical emergency ... and somebody get the courtroom engineer up here immediately!" "Judge, I move for an immediate mistrial - the DA is distracting the jury by decontaminating herself with with body gel again!"
The real Captain Avatar is a fictional character, so I suppose he doesn't mind if I impersonate him.