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More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek

Posted by simoniker on from the boldly-return dept.

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.

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  1. Shatner in new ST not all bad.... by MortisUmbra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To date my absolute favorite episode of Deep Space 9 was the Trials and Tribbleations episode, now, granted, they spliced them into an old TOS episode, but still. :)

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  2. Straight up... by Aerog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm looking forward to this. Why? Well, Enterprise isn't that bad. In fact, I quite enjoy watching it. Just take everything for face value and sit back. It can be pretty good when you give it a chance.

    Next, we have William Shatner; one of the people who is now simply famous for being/playing himself (Christopher Walken, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Ron Jeremy, etc.)

    I can see nothing bad coming from this. It could be really good and well written. Or, it could be cheesy, and I think I'd like it more in that case. Either way, between that and Corner Gas, I'm going to be quite entertained this season....

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  3. TrekToday and TrekBBS by falcon5768 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    are about as accurate as Aintitcoolnews... these ARE the same guys who reported on a fake news article someone posed saying Enterprise was canciled...

    Odds are he will be on, but as a ancestor much like Data will be on (playing his creators great great grandfather and one of the scientists who created Khan durring the eugenics war)

    But if the recent word on whats going to take place this year holds true (Vulcan war created by the still unseen romulans which explains the vulcans additude the previous three seasons, end of the TCW storyline and a wrap up of last season, the eugenics war storyline involving tracking down the escaped scientist. more andorian storylines.. to name a few) then Enterprise might have finally recreated it's self as a preqel and not a revision.

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  4. Last Chance to See Scotty by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Interesting
    James Doohan will make his last appearance at a Star Trek convention in Hollywood, Aug. 28-30. On the 31st He'll finally get a star on the walk of fame. Lovely, I'm sure he'll remember that... Some fans, couldn't get him a star for 30+ years, cripes.

    One of Doohan's sons, Chris Doohan, 45, said, "His longterm memory seems to be intact. If you ask him how he got his role on 'Star Trek' or about D-Day, he can talk for an hour about that. But if you ask him what he had for breakfast..."

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