Shatner Star Trek Cameo Possible?

By Ryan 'The Rican with the Irish name' McLelland on December 19, 2007

We all know that the powers-that-be who wrote the Star Trek script put a cameo in for original Spock star Leonard Nimoy but didn't do it for original James T. Kirk star William Shatner.

Why?  Um....I'm not sure.  Let's go to Roberto Orci who talked to Sci-Fi Wire.  And he gives us...hope???

"One, from our point of view, we are still hoping to find a way. Secondly, one of the difficulties that was brought up and discussed with Shatner when we all met him and pitched him ideas is that Trek fans are sticklers for their canon. [And,] unfortunately, Shatner's Capt. Kirk was killed in Star Trek VII [1994's Generations]."

"The difficulty there is not just ignoring that or explaining it in an unsatisfactory way merely to get him back in," Orci said. "So that is the struggle: the rigors of canon and not phoning it in just to have a cameo." Still, it could happen, he said. "From my point of view, it's a very long shoot, and things change. It's just whether we can figure it out." Another possible problem: The ongoing writers' strike prohibits members of the Writers Guild of America--which includes Orci, Kurtzman and Abrams--from making any changes to the script until the strike is settled.

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Source:Sci-Fi Wire

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