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December 12, 2002

Via BBC News:
Special thanks to fdewaele for the tip!

The BBC's Breakfast Forum held a chat with William Shatner, who was in London to promote the Star Trek Adventure exhibit.. Click on this link to see a video of the event, and look below for an excerpt of the chat.

Newshost:
[...] "What was your feeling after your character Captain Kirk was killed on the movie Generations?"

William Shatner:
Well I felt very badly about it, I would love to have continued. The part of Star Trek - the part of Captain Kirk on Star Trek was well written most of the time, I enjoyed playing it but I recognise that Paramount Studios wanted to have something new happen, put the new cast of Star Trek in, so I went along with what the fates and Paramount Studios had decreed.

[...]

Newshost:
[...]Now Ian Dennis from Newcastle has e-mailed to say - he wants to know about a Director's Cut for Star Trek V - is that a possibility?

William Shatner:
There is a DVD out now about Star Trek V. Unfortunately Paramount wouldn't let me re-cut it or have any money to do additional special effects which I think it needed. But there are a lot of good things in the DVD of Star Trek V and I hope you'll avail yourself of them.

[...]

Newshost:
Okay, that's interesting. Now Janet has e-mailed us, while we've been on air, to say: "Will you be a guest on the new series?"

William Shatner:
No. There's a new movie coming out called Nemesis - I don't know anything about it, anymore than you or anybody else out there. And I've never seen the new series and I don't see how it's possible for me to make a guest appearance.

To read more of the chat, click on this link.

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