Appearing to settle the question of whether director JJ Abrams wanted William Shatner to appear in last year's Star Trek movie, the website TrekMovie.com on Tuesday claimed that two "alternate" scenes in which Shatner would have appeared as Captain Kirk were written for the movie. It posted one of them, which it said it had received "from one of our trusted sources and it has been verified to be the scene written for Shatner (but never shown to Shatner)." Kirk would have appeared as a hologram recording made before his death and retained in a pendant worn by the older Spock, who presents it to his younger self near the end of the film. It's a birthday message in which Kirk reminisces about his younger years with Spock. "Wasn't it only yesterday we stepped onto the Enterprise as boys?" he says at one point. However, the website questioned whether Shatner would have agreed to film the scene. "He had stated he 'does not do cameos' and the above scene appears to fall into the cameo category," it observed.
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