Much to the dismay of mostly just him, William Shatner will apparently play the same role in Star Trek 2 that he played in K.D. Lang’s J.J. Abrams’ first installment – nobody. At a question and answer panel at the Calgary Entertainment Expo on Saturday, the original Captain James T. Kirk told his legion of adoring nerds fans that he will not play a role in Abrams’ second Trek film.
As he signed autographs for more than 600 people in the span of a few hours, Shatner, seen above accepting a cowboy hat from Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi and R2D2, reassured his Trekkies and Sci-Fi fans that he wasn’t pulling their legs, either.
Shatner. who was a little peeved about not getting a cameo in the first ‘Star Trek,’ announced his non-involvement at the Calgary Comic Expo during a Q+A session: “I have become an acquaintance of J.J. as of late but I’m afraid no…I will not be in Star Trek 2.”
Former Trek star Leonard Nimoy (who played a huge role in the first film) will also not be returning for the franchise’s next film. Last year, Nimoy stated that he was ready to retire from acting and that his cameo on the show ‘Fringe’ would be his final role. (Via Popeater)
Shatner could be full of it and keeping a nice secret from us for the sake of nostalgic surprise, but I really hope not. It’s nice to see that he’s taking this in stride and not acting dickish about it. I mean, Ricardo Montalbán won’t be in it either, but you don’t hear him complaining.
And since we are talking about an entertainment convention and I did read “slave girls” in another article about this weekend’s festivities, I thought maybe I’d try to find some photos of the movie-relevant costumes (Read: Hot Chicks). What I found was… well, maybe have a six-pack handy as you view this gallery.
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Summer Glau stopped by to chat. I had to Google her to find out who she was, but I accept this.
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Oh right, Slave Girls.
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Hold on, I need to do something real quick…
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OK, that’s better.
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That’s Uhura on the left and Mystique on the right, in case you were, uh, wondering.
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I just included this for our resident cartoon fetishists. Like me.
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The years have been decent to Tia Carrere, I suppose.
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And Jonathan Frakes is in groupie poon heaven.
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