Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details

An anonymous reader writes "The rumors that the next Star Trek movie would revolve around the earliest missions of Kirk and Spock have been confirmed by William Shatner in a Sci Fi Wire interview. J.J. Abrahms (creator of 'Lost') will direct, and has confirmed that a draft script is completed. So, the question is, will Shatner appear as a reminiscing older Kirk in the beginning, setting up the rest of the movie as a flash-back, or will geriatric-Kirk and young-Kirk meet?"

Re:Shatner as Boothby

[Short Circuit]

In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty [memory-alpha.org]. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh [memory-alpha.org] and The Fight [memory-alpha.org].

The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.

Oh, and here's a pic of him. [memory-alpha.org]

Re:Plot element you can count on.

[Short Circuit]

The eugenics wars took place in the 1990s, years before the Vulcans encountered humans, and around 100 years before the founding of the Federation.

Unless you were thinking of a 24-style series in reverse, where each episode represents a year instead of an hour, it would be hard to cover the whole span.

Re:huh?

[Buddy_DoQ]

In X-Men 3, they developed a computer effects algorithm that made Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart look very young. In fact, it was so well done that I reckoned them able to go in and make a new original cast Star Trek film. (With the surviving members anyway, may the fallen RIP.) I also reckoned they could make Ian McKellen (Glandolf) and Ian Holm (Bilbo) look younger in The Hobbit with this technique. (Has anyone seen Sam Lowry?)

Here's a site with side-by-side pictures from x3: http://www.fxguide.com/article357.html [fxguide.com]

Re:huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you read that article that you linked to, you will realize that they didn't use computer algorithms to perform the de-aging, but they used compositing and touch up programs and did much of the work by hand.

Re:Against the spirit of Trek

[FromellaSlob]

Deep Space Nine is widely considered the best Trek series

You gotta be kidding me.

Re:Against the spirit of Trek

[MagusSlurpy]

TNG told us that the initial run of Galaxy-class ships was limited to 9, and DS9 shows us a whole lot more than that, all of them heavily armed and doubtless assembled on an accelerated total-war production regimen.

I hate people who do this, but I have to correct you, or my lack-of-girlfriend-ness will be a complete waste. Roddenberry told us that six were built, not nine. Bbut you are right about DS9 showing us more, though I've always been skeptical about the Galaxy frame being used as a warship (in a practical sense, not that Trek was ever practical). That would be like mounting a 50mm cannon on a Plymouth Voyager and calling it a tank.