William Shatner himself responds back to JJ Abrams on why Captain Kirk isn’t in the new Star Trek movie in a videoblog made by Bill and his daughter Liz. 

Bill says he didn’t know Kirk was written a cameo and Bill said JJ never asked him to be in it. Bill also explains how he already brought Captain Kirk to life in one of his novels (“The Return” pictured above, that’s the book Bill is referring to, the book is a sequel to “Star Trek: Generations” movie). Bill explains that it was easy to bring Captain Kirk back to life while JJ said it was difficult to do. Bill has nothing against JJ Abrams as he likes JJ as a director and respects him as a person. Bill just feels dissapointed that he isn’t in the new film.

So there you have it. See the video below. Bill’s daughter Liz is very cute looking, she definitely looks like she’s in a legal age, I would say Liz is around her late 20’s, early 30’s, definitely a little around my age I would say. I could date someone like her.

Kev

The “Star Trek” XI helmer JJ Abrams finally opens up on the real reason why William Shatner will not appear in the new upcoming Star Trek film to reprise his role as the adult James T. Kirk. The young James T. Kirk is played by Chris Pine.

JJ said he and the film makers has written a short cameo for Shatner in a quick flashback scene, but Shatner did not want a cameo. He wanted to be in throughout the entire film and be the leading role, he also wanted the film to be about the adult Captain Kirk. The film makers had already planned that they wanted the cast focused on the younger generation of Trek.

Plus, Captain James T. Kirk died at the end of “Star Trek: Generations” and they couldn’t come up with any possible way to bring the character back to life, so they just moved on without the adult Kirk. The adult Spock will be in the new Trek movie, but not Kirk.

More on it here:

http://www.joblo.com/jj-explains-no-shatner

While I’m sure everyone wants to see William Shatner back in the new Star Trek movie, I would agree that it’s a good idea to keep Kirk out. I want to see the adult Spock played by Leonard Nimoy be the star here without William Shatner hogging the spotlight. The movie will do fine in box office without William Shatner. Spock still being played by Nimoy is all we need.

I mean, it wasn’t easy for the writers to figure out how to bring Spock back to life to make the character return in “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock”, the same it would be for Captain Kirk. There’s no sense of wasting years and years of hard work trying to figure out ways to bring Kirk back. So the writers of the new Trek movie had no choice but to move on without the adult Kirk and just focus on the young one.

Kev