Saturday, October 27, 2007
The denouement of William Shatner
William Shatner is in a twist because he has not been invited to appear in the next "Star Trek" movie. Shatner is resolute in his irritation notwithstanding James T. Kirk's death in "Generations," perhaps because resurrection is one of Star Trek's stock plot elements.
I think that Shatner, who is 76 and has had a damn fine career in show business, should let it go. His outstanding character on "Boston Legal," Denny Crane, did something for Shatner that T.J. Hooker never did -- it rescued him from being Captain Kirk to the public. That's a blessing, not a curse.
And then there's this: I have always loved Star Trek, including "original Trek," and I do not want to see it sullied by that pervert Denny Crane. Much as I love both characters, Shatner the actor does not sufficiently suspend disbelief to separate the two in the public's mind. I suspect "Trek"'s new producers understand that.
8 Comments:
By 
antithaca, at
Sat Oct 27, 12:15:00 PM:
Funny how few people, apparently, have seen Shatner in "Judgement at Nuremberg".
By 
, at
Sat Oct 27, 12:19:00 PM:
"Shatner is resolute in his irritation notwithstanding James T. Kirk's death in "Generations," " - Tigerhawk
You're dead, Jim. And so am I.
-Dr. Leonard McCoy
By , at
Sat Oct 27, 12:20:00 PM:
"Shatner is resolute in his irritation notwithstanding James T. Kirk's death in "Generations," " - Tigerhawk
You're dead, Jim. And so am I.
-Dr. Leonard McCoy
By , at
Sat Oct 27, 01:34:00 PM:
Damn double posts!
I'm a Doctor, not a blogger!
-Dr. Leonard McCoy, still dead
By , at
Sat Oct 27, 03:37:00 PM:
CAPTIAN CHRISTOPHER PIKE was the first captian of the USS ENTERPRISE then CAPTIAN JAMES T. KIRK was and before kirk was a helmsman on the US FARIGUT
By Promethea, at
Sat Oct 27, 03:41:00 PM:
Trekkies are everywhere! Sort of like Tribbles.
:-)
By Christopher Chambers, at
Sat Oct 27, 11:43:00 PM:
With able and passionate writing--and a pledge from Shatner not to ham it up--a role could have gelled with Shatner as an elderly Kirk, certainly. Sure he's now associated with camp (the way George Reeves was in From Here To Eternity), but that could have been eliminated through flashbacks fixed to a younger actor. In essence, you remake the role. Hell it's been done in James Bond where Timothy Dalton reinvented therole after Roger's Moore's sad and campy end. It could have been done here, but hey, that's Hollywood.
By , at
Sun Oct 28, 01:04:00 AM:
In the classic STAR TREK episode MIRROR MIRROR it was that the mirror universe kird murdered the miror universe pike and in the episode THE ENTERPRISE INCEDENT they made him to look like a romulan and the USS ENTERPRISE became a cloaked ship
