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   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: pavsnerp@bellsouth.net   
      
   Let's say Spock is older than Kirk by even a couple of years: assuming the   
   Academy is a four year institution, they could conceivably be there at the   
   same time at one point. Although I don't think they're the same age, I think   
   they're closer than a decade apart.   
   "Mirror Spock"  wrote in message   
   news:pbncq2pmle6annm26rpa20oilbit7ve623@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:44:52 -0500, Stan Jensen    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details   
   >>   
   >>William Shatner revealed to SCI FI Wire that the upcoming 11th Star   
   >>Trek movie will indeed, as rumored, deal with the early years of Capt.   
   >>James T. Kirk and Spock - and that he will definitely appear in the   
   >>movie if director J.J. Abrams can find a place to use him. Shatner,   
   >>who originated the role of Kirk in the original Trek series and   
   >>several subsequent films, said in an interview that he was invited to   
   >>meet with Abrams (Mission: Impossible III), who is also co-writing the   
   >>movie.   
   >>   
   >>"I met with J.J., and they told me they would like me to be part of   
   >>their film, but they have to write the role," Shatner said in an   
   >>interview promoting his new SCI FI Channel film, Alien Fire.   
   >>   
   >>As for the many rumors concerning the sequel's story, Shatner said   
   >>that Abrams will explore Kirk and Spock during their Starfleet Academy   
   >>years. "Yes, we know the story is based on young Kirk," Shatner said.   
   >>Up until now, everyone connected with the film has maintained strict   
   >>silence about the storyline, though rumors have run rampant that they   
   >>concern Kirk and Spock's first missions.   
   >>   
   >>As for Shatner's place in that storyline? "They need to figure out how   
   >>to put the dead captain in with the young captain," he said. "It's a   
   >>very complex, technical problem of how to write the character in, and   
   >>I'm not sure how they will solve it." It sounds like Shatner may play   
   >>an older version of Kirk.   
   >>   
   >>Coincidentally, the Starfleet storyline is one Shatner is already   
   >>working on for his latest Trek-based novels. "I'm writing with Gar and   
   >>Judy Reeves-Stevens two books on the academy, with the young Kirk and   
   >>the young Spock," Shatner revealed. "We've submitted the first book to   
   >>the publishers, and I think it will be out in the beginning of 2008.   
   >>It's got a working title of The Academy, but I don't think that will   
   >>stick."   
   >>   
   >>Meanwhile, Abrams told Entertainment Weekly that a draft of the Trek   
   >>XI script is done and will be trimmed sometime soon. The sequel will   
   >>be targeted, "on the one hand, for people who love Star Trek, the fix   
   >>that they will get will be really satisfying," Abrams told the   
   >>magazine. "For people who've never seen it or know it vaguely, I think   
   >>they will enjoy it equally, because the movie does not require you to   
   >>know anything about Star Trek. I would actually prefer [that] people   
   >>don't know the series, because I feel like they will come to it with   
   >>an open mind."   
   >   
   >   
   > You've got to be kidding.  I hope this is someone pulling a leg. Isn't   
   > Spock older than Kirk by at least a decade?  How could they be in the   
   > Academy together?   
   >   
   > * Robinson (sick of Hollywood's "reboot, revise and remake" fever)   
      
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