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This foreign born permanent A list mostly movie actor is old.

Super old.

He is working his cranky tail off though because he thinks there is a role for him in a franchise of which he has been a part of the past decade or more.

He is going to be crushed if they tell him no, which is the way things are leaning.

William Shatner (86)

Interview: William Shatner On Why ‘Star Trek II’ Worked, If He Would Appear In ‘Discovery,’ And More

Switching to more current news, have you been keeping up with information and previews of the new show, Star Trek: Discovery?
No, not at all. I am so bereft of information. I have no idea of what is going on. Anybody who has any knowledge I find informative, because I know nothing.

All I know is that it is streaming. I have been playing in front of some large audiences recently and asking them what they thought and will they pay money for it and about half the audience doesn’t want to pay each month to get it. It looks like what they are doing is making it a beacon for joining [CBS All Access]. So, in the same way Paramount used [Star Trek:] The Next Generation to promote their syndication organization, they are doing the same thing with the streaming of Star Trek, which is an interesting ploy.

Obviously whenever there is a new Star Trek project the same question arises, specifically about you. It happened with Enterprise and of course with the J.J. Abrams movies. If they reached out, would you be interested in any participation with Discovery?

Well it would depend on what the participation was. I wouldn’t want to do something that was a throwaway sort of gratuitous place in the plotline. They would really have to exercise their imaginations to have a fifty years older captain in there – if it was the character. They would have to do something remarkable. – Source


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