Star Trek: First Contact
Summary
agree to theStar Trekoral history " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , William Shatner tried to convert Paramount Pictures to conform his Kirk resurrection storyas the conform to - up photographic film toStar Trek Generations . However , executive manufacturer Rick Berman opt to leave Kirk idle anddedicate the subsequence solely to theStar Trek : The Next Generationcast , which becameStar Trek : First Contact . Read Berman ’s inverted comma below :
Rick Berman : Bill talk to me a mountain about taking reward of what come about in the last movie and reviving Captain Kirk , but we did vote out him doubly in generation , if you think about it , so we had to leave him all in for a picayune while . The overall belief was that although it was an interesting idea , it was not really the direction we wanted to go at that point . We want to do a celluloid that was pretty much isolated to the Next Generation characters .
Brannon Braga , who conscientious objector - wroteStar Trek GenerationsandStar Trek : First Contactwith Ronald D. Moore , plunk for Berman that bringing Captain Kirk back to aliveness would be a error . Read his inverted comma below :
Brannon Braga : It would have been calamitous to kill Kirk in the first movie , and then bring him back in the s . It would have just been chintzy and would have taken off any kind of credibleness we ’d try on to build . I do n’t opine that cinema would have done very well .
Star Trek : First Contact is not only one of the most beloved big screen entries in the franchise , it also bring a pivotal role in Star Trek : Picard .
Star Trek Never Resurrected William Shatner’s Captain Kirk
Chris Pine and Paul Wesley play younger versions of Kirk instead.
Star Trekhas not resurrected William Shatner ’s Captain James T. Kirk afterStar Trek Generations , which is a remarkable display of restraint by the franchise , considering Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) , Data ( Brent Spiner ) , and Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) were all vote down off and brought back to spirit . Shatner’sStar Treknovel , " The Return , " and its follow - up novel , tell a non - sanctioned floor of Kirk ’s resurrection and subsequent sacrifice to stop the Borg . Incredibly , Shatner has n’t played Captain Kirk since 1994 , and it ’s likely he will never put on Kirk ’s uniform again .
Star Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 ’s plan for William Shatner to guest star as the Mirror Universe ’s evil Tiberius Kirk was shoot down by the UPN connection .
Instead of revive Kirk , Star Trekhas gone the prequel route and rebooted the Captain with younger incarnations . First , Chris Pine play the young Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovie trilogy set in the substitute Kelvin Timeline . Star Trek : Strange New Worldsthen introduce Paul Wesley as Lt . James T. Kirk , the untried version of William Shatner ’s Jim several years before Kirk becomes Captain of the Enterprise . Star Trek : Picardseason 3 also implant the seed thatWilliam Shatner ’s Captain Kirk could be resurrectedin the time to come . UltimatelyStar Trek : First Contact ’s monolithic success proved theStar Trek : The Next Generationmovies were right to move past Captain Kirk .
Star Trek : First Contactis uncommitted to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : germ : " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 year : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The everlasting , Uncensored , and Unauthorized unwritten History of Star Trek " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
