Long-time Star Trek followers will enjoy a couple familiar sights when the latest installment of this franchise comes out in May.
Director J.J. Abrams recently explained as much in an interview with MTV:
MTV: Having Leonard Nimoy back as Spock and Majel-Barrett Roddenberry return as the ship's computer are both major bridges between the "old" universe and your new one. Are there others we should look for?
Abrams: I think what you'll see is there are — both story-wise and performance-wise, visually and aurally — many connections to what is familiar and what has come before. Which for the new fans of "Star Trek," the newcomers to the world, will be irrelevant. But for those people who are fans and who hope for or expect certain familiar nods, they will undoubtedly get those.
MTV: We've seen Nimoy delivering his classic "Live long and prosper" line in the trailer. Is he fundamental to the story line, or is it more or less a glorified cameo?
Abrams: No, it's no cameo. He's in the movie, and his role is critical. I always think "cameo" feels like a role that the movie could exist without. This is critical, emotional and also a story element.
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May 11th, 2009 8:39 PM
Personally I thought it was grate, although I would have liked to see William shatner in it. More like a memory or something from the past. A small part that would not take up the hole movie. Apparently in one of the 4th trailers on youtube, they show right when Eric Bana, playing as Nero Says " Captain Kirk was a grate man but that was another life. Through him saying that as a narrator they show the old Kirk played by William coming through the shadows and behind him is a light. You do not see the face but sure enough William Shatner comes through by his body development it is not Chris pine. Chris dose not have a pot belly or curly hair.
Live long and prosper.
Catherine
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May 13th, 2009 1:44 AM
i loved the movie, im only 17. but i remember watching the shows with my father when i was little. i have always been obsessed, and when i watched the movie i will say i was confused.
but they chose the perfect spock. i dont think anyone could have resebled the real spock better.
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-mariah