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Shatner wants to create a new TREK series
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Posted by: Dweller

short blurb here

quote:
The man who played Captain Kirk has an idea to boldly return to space.

With the future of the STAR TREK franchise in doubt and the premiere of the third season of ENTERPRISE in less than one month, William Shatner has told the press that he has an idea for a new direction to take TREK. "I'm trying to interest the powers -- and that has many levels to it -- for me to conceive another STAR TREK manifestation," Shatner told a reporter for The Sioux City Journal. "It would be a concept for a series."

Shatner didn't reveal any additional information about what his series would be or which timeframe his TREK would take place in.

Posted by: edc

Let's see. Could it be called:

Star Trek - GetShatneronscreenasmuchaspossible

Shatner knows Trek, but "his" novels have been fair to middling, and insisted on shoving Kirk in places he wasn't necessarily needed. I'd love for him to be an
executive, executive Producer, but no more than that (ie: general input and ideas, but as far away from the episode-to-episode creative side as possible).

Posted by: doom1701

I wouldn't mind seeing him on occasionally, but since they sucked him away to the future (and then killed him) in Generations, it wouldn't be in the timeframe that I like. I'd love to see an Enteprise A series, perhaps with Kirk showing up occasionally as a retired advisor.

Anything to bring back the cool ship.

Posted by: phone1

Fine, as long as he isn't allowed to sing in the new series.

Posted by: Graymalkin

As long as T.J. Hooker doesn't show up as Chief Security Officer. :D

OTOH, if they could bring in Heather Locklear to play Lt. Commander Stacy Sheridan, that might help the ratings. H'mm...

Posted by: IJustLikeTivo

He needs to take his own advice from SNL.

GET A LIFE!

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by phone1
Fine, as long as he isn't allowed to sing in the new series.

It's probably a musical.

Posted by: jmoak

Look at it this way,

It couldn't be worse that what we've got now, eh?

....unless it is a musical!;)

Posted by: Hoffer

When did Sioux City, Iowa become the entertainment capital of the world. ;)

Posted by: lornehosman

not much difference - both make bologna, don't they?

Posted by: DancnDude

If Shatner ends up on Enterprise or a new Trek, I won't be watching. He has got to be one of the most annoying and awful actors I know.

Posted by: Big_Daddy

quote:
Originally posted by DancnDude
If Shatner ends up on Enterprise or a new Trek, I won't be watching. He has got to be one of the most annoying and awful actors I know.

Even counting Scott Bakula?

Posted by: LooseWiring

HEY! Scott Bakula used to be The MAN on Quantum Leap.

Posted by: DancnDude

quote:
Originally posted by Big_Daddy
Even counting Scott Bakula?

Yep, I actually like Scott Bakula. I just can't stand Shatner.

Posted by: HTH

Scott Bakula can sing.

Posted by: NJChris

ANYTHING OR ANYONE is better than Bergman...

Posted by: retrodog

Shatner was ok.
Bakula is ok.
Stewart was very good.

I could stomach Shatner, I guess. I can't think of one good reason that I should though. He was so outclassed by Stewart in the one they were together in that it just made his limits all the more apparent. :(

But I'm still a TOS fan.

Posted by: DLiquid

Shatner was on Howard Stern this morning and said he wasn't doing any more Trek. He said he was done with it.

Posted by: HTH

As I travel in space and time
I want to stay, I want to go
You see my face, but it's not mine,
What you can't see you'll never know.

How can we meet, if I'm not there,
Our hearts may touch, our bodies close,
But time divides what we might share,
And sends us all where no one goes -

I'm just a traveller, upon the sea
Of time, of life, of fate's wide wheel,
Just a traveller in this mystery,
The me I am is all that's real to me.

We all begin this life alone,
We live, we love, all through the years,
Yet deep inside we long for home,
But it recedes, obscured by tears.

I cried a time, it falls past me,
The door of fate remains unseen,
But in my soul this hope burns free,
Oh please let there be one final leap!

I'm just a traveller upon the sea
Of time, of life, of fate's wide wheel,
Just a traveller in this mystery,
The me I am is all that's real to me.

The me I am is all that's real to me.

Posted by: Big_Daddy

quote:
Originally posted by retrodog
Shatner was ok.
Bakula is ok.
Stewart was very good.

I love Shatner (TOS, not movie Shatner) simply for nostalgia reasons. Stewart is clearly better. Bakula is, well.... wooden, to put it nicely. I never really watched Quantum Leap, so he doesn't even get a sentimental appreciation from me.

HOWEVER.... don't forget Avery Brooks, good ol' Captain Sisko from DS9. Although Stewart is arguably the better actor, Brooks really brought life to Sisko. He did a nice job of developing the character over time, something that Stewart didn't - probably because he wasn't given much of an opportunity to do so. DS9 was a much more dynamic Trek than ST:TNG.

Posted by: appleye1

I remember going to a 70s horror movie starring Shatner and losing all respect for the man's acting abilities. The movie was called Impulse and his rendition of an axe murderer type was SO over-the-top and exaggerated that every time he opened his mouth the audience would guffaw. And that was even as he was getting ready to chop someone up!

That same year he also made Big Bad Mama so I guess it was a red-letter year for Shatner.

Posted by: Mike20878

Tell these folks to get a life:

www.bringbackkirk.com

Posted by: DLL66

Stewart was too stiff in the beginning. He didn't loosen up until at the end. He really loosen up in the films.

Posted by: kiljoy

Since this is now battle of the captains...

Stewart was excellent. He acted like the captain! I didn't see DS9 after it got good, so I can't compare, but Stewart looked and felt like the guy in charge: kind of distant, definitely cerebral, who commanded respect and generated goodwill in his crew. I don't think I'd have minded being a security officer on Enterprise-D. I'm not sure I'd take the red shirt position on TOS Enterprise, though.

Tony

Posted by: HTH

I was wondering when Janeway was going to shave her head.