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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.
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*
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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?
It's been a long time since I've actually groaned aloud from reading a slashdot headline. Eh, thanks I guess.
funny munging
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.
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).
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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...
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...
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*
Bermaaaaaaaaaaan!
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...
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?