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Which book brought back Jim Kirk again? I read the one Bill Shatner wrote called "The Return" with the Borg and the Romulans joining forces. Is there another one I haven't read, maybe the aformentioned "ST: TNG Ship of the Line?"
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If that Leo Moron is gonna be in Episode II, I'll boycott it.
------------------ "I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know." --Picard to Data, "In Theory"
quote:During my hiatus from Solar Flare, I jump around to a few other places. One question that came up was, would you like to see James T. Kirk return for another movie. My answer was no. Even though I still prefer Star Trek to it's successors, I think their time is past. There are a lot of things they could conceiveably do with the cast members who are already in the right time frame, and I could even buy Sulu and his crew coming through time, but Kirk is dead, and bringing Spock back to life was, well one dead guy coming back is enough for me.
Why not cast someone as Kirk's offspring many generations past...and make him have that old-school Starship Captian mentallity?
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William Shatner has written three books following "The Return", both of which feature Captain Kirk, as chance might have it. "Avenger", "Spectre", and the new one, the name of which eludes me.
And my mom is the one who likes them. Honest!
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Somms: First, Welcome. I don't think a Kirk decendent would work. For one thing, the only offspring we know of died. And I'm afraid it would be cheesey. I wouldn't mind seeing the Enterprise-B crew once in a movie.
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In the Role-Playing game I run, I play a never-mentioned-on-screen other nephew of Kirk, who happens to be a security officer / intelligence operative, and who is cursed with a variation of J.T.K.'s famous "luck" (in this universe, "luck" is a viable factor, that has actual influence: some people are lucky, others are not. AFAIK, nobody has negative luck, but I might be wrong about that.),
This Kirk is constantly having disasters occur around him (of rather, he "happens" to be where they happen. Anybody he's physically with, however, stands an excellent chance of survival. People he becomes emotionally attatched to, on the other hand... tend to drop like flies. He's a championship-level player at poker and virtually all games of chance. He knows he's lucky, somehow, but not why or what it means.
I came up with this character almost immediately after listening to Sting's "Shape of My Heart" off the Ten Summoner's Tales album. Good song.
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I am reviveing this thread, because I was pokeing around Trekbbs and happened into a Bring Back Kirk thread. These people have totally lost it. They not only want Kirk back, they believe it will happen. If you disagree with them, you get toasted. I did some toasting of my own, "Get A Life", "Kirk is Dead, live with it", that type of thing. While it was good to get some of that off my chest, I painted myself into a corner, telling them I would stay out of the TOS forum there, which is the reason I went there anyway.
Just Ranting!!
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Yes, they're over the deep end in there. I told them. They paid no attention.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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Their toasting you, when you were being reasonable, even almost agreeing , was one of the things that got me started, then I went into full power mode. I didn't say anything to get me kicked off the board, but I've had enough of the BBKers.
Nice quote Nimmy!
------------------ "One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor". George Carlin
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