William Shatner Could Make Cameo In STAR TREK 3

William Shatner Could Make Cameo In STAR TREK 3

Leonard Nimoy has made cameos in 2009's Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, and now there is a chance that he and William Shatner will be reunited in Roberto Orci's Star Trek 3.

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By nailbiter111 - Sep 22, 2014 04:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
Source: badassdigest.com
When Star Trek was rebooted by J.J. Abrams in 2009 they brought back Leonard Nimoy to have pivotal cameo. Nimoy wasn't the only original cast member to be offered a cameo, as William Shatner was originally included but they nixed that idea before filming. According to Badass Digest, it sounds like the original James T. Kirk will finally be included in the rebooted universe.
I have learned that the script for Star Trek 3 includes a scene that reteams Shatner and Nimoy onscreen as Kirk and Spock for the first time in canon since 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. It would be a pretty huge moment for fans of the franchise, and likely the last time we'll ever see Shatner as James T. Kirk in official continuity.

Is this just to appease the fans who haven't quite embraced the new universe? Probably, but Badass Digest says the role is "plot-driven." Thus, it has a good shot of retaining the script after it has gone through a polish or two.
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS was directed by J.J. Abrams ("Super 8"), from a screenplay written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Returning for the sequel are Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Zoë Saldana, and Anton Yelchin. Joined by new cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.
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blitzkreg
blitzkreg - 9/22/2014, 4:11 PM
I seriously doubt this. William Shatner doesn't do cameos. Besides...how do they explain his return ? Did prime spock happen to pull Kirk's "Copy" out of the Nexus ( Star Trek Generations plot device )
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 9/22/2014, 4:17 PM
I really hope this won't happen. Also it can't happen either because future Kirk didn't come to the new universe.
NightWatcher
NightWatcher - 9/22/2014, 4:18 PM
You gotta explain that banner man...smh
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 9/22/2014, 4:18 PM
LOL the whole point of this new Star Trek is to avoid stupid shit like this. Orci doesn't know what an original idea is.
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 9/22/2014, 4:19 PM
It would be pretty cool to see them together one last time. Maybe Kirk Prime found a way to travel to this new universe to search for Spock Prime. If they do the mirror universe thing, then it wouldn't even be that much of a stretch.
Jenkins
Jenkins - 9/22/2014, 4:20 PM
I'm sure they could easily have Shatner come back as Kirk, it's Sci-Fi.
pintoman
pintoman - 9/22/2014, 4:25 PM
Having both of them back, in a scenario where Spock save's Kirk's life from the nexus...and/or somehow the alternate universe ends and we see the "real" enterprise...is the only thing that would make me see the new Trek. But I would have to know for sure that these things happen before I give them my money.
BlackBolt72
BlackBolt72 - 9/22/2014, 4:25 PM
Wasn't the Nexus enough kill all the gimmicks and get some Romulans and Klingons going go where no man has gone before. Don't need another long episode.
Gunslinger
Gunslinger - 9/22/2014, 4:28 PM
Richard Nimoy?
grif
grif - 9/22/2014, 4:37 PM
screw the cameo. let him direct it.
and yes i like trek 5. a very underrated movie.
Hulksta
Hulksta - 9/22/2014, 4:37 PM
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 9/22/2014, 4:37 PM
I they can work it in a good way, then why the hell not? :P
Dingbat
Dingbat - 9/22/2014, 4:44 PM
Why hasn't he already?
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 9/22/2014, 4:47 PM
Dumb. Nimoy coming back for the 2009 Star Trek was perfectly fine. It fit the plot, it was character-driven...and even though the circumstances was ridiculously convenient (of ALL the planets Kirk was banished to, of ALL the continents to land on, of ALL the caves he could've been chased into, he managed to find the one place Spock Prime was. Right), it was nice to see.

Star Trek Into Darkness, on the other hand, managed to just make it a pointless cameo that easily made no logical sense whatsoever. "Hey Spock Prime, remember that ethnic-looking super-human you faced in the original timeline? Can you give us any ideas on how to deal with this super-white, completely different super-human in our timeline?" "You know I can't divulge any information about what happened in my past and your future...but sure!"

Ugh. A Shatner cameo in the hands of Roberto Orci is just asking for trouble.
RobertLiefeld
RobertLiefeld - 9/22/2014, 4:51 PM
I absolutely love these films. I can't wait for the third one.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 9/22/2014, 4:53 PM
If he can appear in Mike Slocumb commercials, he can make a cameo.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 9/22/2014, 5:21 PM
Not to pile on, but Into Darkness is the poster boy for "All style, no substance" type of storytelling. It looks nice and pretty, the performances are absolutely solid, the musical score is top-notch (seriously, the orchestra version of the classic Star Trek theme will NEVER get old)....but nothing else about the movie is all that impressive.

The plot completely collapses under its own weight when you put just a little thought into it, Kirk basically redoes his entire character arc from the first film (how none of the writers managed to catch that is utterly beyond me), the "homage" to Wrath of Khan was just so wrong-headed on so many levels, the Kirk death fake-out was a painful cliche' and it lacked ALL of the actual substance that the original movies had to make that moment effective/emotionally resonant, they cured death and threw that away with little to no acknowledgment, they turned Spock into someone who solves problems by punching people, ...just, ugh.
ScionStorm
ScionStorm - 9/22/2014, 5:26 PM
I thought original continuity Kirk was dead. In the first movie I remember them saying they wanted Shatner to cameo as a holo-message card for Spock, the last message from before he died, but Shatner wanted a bigger, living role so they passed on including him completely.
bladeshad
bladeshad - 9/22/2014, 5:33 PM
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Nick56
Nick56 - 9/22/2014, 6:21 PM
I would love for this to happen.
jaysin420
jaysin420 - 9/22/2014, 6:37 PM
I wasn't a fan of the old movies, I thought the reboot was good but I didn't like Into Darkness too much.

This would be cool though.
ScottMontgomery
ScottMontgomery - 9/22/2014, 7:08 PM
This is something I'd like to be surprised about...
Orehrepus
Orehrepus - 9/22/2014, 8:38 PM
And they should! It's going to be epic!

For people who wondered how they're going to bring him back, it's sci-FI, for crying out loud, the FI is for FICTION. Orci can write any gazillion number of reasons to bring old Kirk back to life, as long as it's based on scientific concept (or even sounds like one.)

As a matter of fact, it has been done. There's a series of novels, though non canon, written by William Shatner, where they revived Kirk back to life.
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