One of the key ingredients that made Star Trek: The Original Series a success when it launched in 1966 was Captain James Tiberius Kirk, the heroic commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise played with such charisma by William Shatner. However, all good things come to an end and Kirk was killed off in 1994’s Star Trek: Generations, nearly 30 years after he first made his way into fans’ hearts.
It wasn’t Shatner’s own decision to put the role of Kirk behind him, though. Instead, the producers thought that marketing the film as the last adventure of Kirk, appearing in a fan-baiting move alongside The Next Generation‘s Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, would be enough to boost its box office performance. Or at least, that’s according to the actor himself, who said the following while attending Ic Collectors Convention in Nashville on Saturday:
“So the Producer said, ‘We...
It wasn’t Shatner’s own decision to put the role of Kirk behind him, though. Instead, the producers thought that marketing the film as the last adventure of Kirk, appearing in a fan-baiting move alongside The Next Generation‘s Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, would be enough to boost its box office performance. Or at least, that’s according to the actor himself, who said the following while attending Ic Collectors Convention in Nashville on Saturday:
“So the Producer said, ‘We...
- 9/16/2018
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
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