What Would Shatner Have Done in the Near Future&#39;s Past?S
With Leonard Nimoy playing such an important role in J.J Abrams'
reboot of the Trek series, what happened to an appearance from
Kirk Prime? The noticeable absence of William Shatner is
discussed in the DVD special feature "The Shatner Conundrum."
While Star Trek bascially depended on Nimoy's involvement to
work, at least for the writers, Shatner was nowhere to be found
in the reimagining of the Trek lore.  Abrams explained to
reporters, at the Trek DVD junket last week, that one of the
hardest decisions for him was not to include William Shatner in
the film — however, it just wasn't logical in the big scope of
the story and where on the timeline they wanted to set the
movie.  The idea ... was a forgone conclusion, we wanted him in
the movie. The problem was his character dies onscreen in one of
the Trek films and because we decided very early on we wanted to
adhere to Trek canon as best we could. ... The required
mechanations to get Shatner into t