William Shatner blacklisted for being anti-woke

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ecD2OReCdg&t=47s

[Icosa!]

Wow!! who is this guy anyways and why should i care?

[Out Of Bubblegum]

LOL. People believing these videos on YouTube.

[GloriousZote]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

LOL. People believing these videos on YouTube.

Provide a counterargument, then.

[Electric Cupcake]

I hate pears.

[Fake]

Oh my.

[Sixtyfivekills]

You could've used his last name as a part of the joke for a proper title.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by Fake:

Oh my.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYA4cj6MiE

:)

[De Hollandse Ezel]

regardless if thos is true..

I blacklist everything that is woke.

being woke = you are fired, I no longer buy /watch his product

being openly anti woke = I support that attitude wiith extra purchaases

being against woke is the RIGHT attitude.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by De Hollandse Ezel:

regardless if thos is true..

I blacklist everything that is woke.

being woke = you are fired, I no longer buy /watch his product

being openly anti woke = I support that attitude wiith extra purchaases

being against woke is the RIGHT attitude.

LOL. Soon you will have to stay under your bed all day.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Icosa!:

Wow!! who is this guy anyways and why should i care?

captain kirk, you dont need to care, he is from 60s to 80s

[Magma Dragoon]

What's the point of blacklisting a retired actor?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Shatner was cool before there was woke. And nobody wants to see a movie about the woke. (Come back to Hollywood. Reclaim your rightful role as Kirk!)

[Tonepoet]

So much for the "Star Trek has always been woke" crowd. :-P

More seriously though, I thought Shatner retired from Trek anyway. His version of Kirk got the bridge dropped on him so they could have a replacement cast for the J.J. Abrams films, and it does not really make sense to use the original actors when over half of that cast is dead. Nichols died in 2022. Nimoy died in 2015. Doohan died in 2005. DeForest died in 1999.

Putting Shatner in the show is going to lead to an other Darrin moment if you try to replace his crew mates with the new actors, and even if we rolled with Nicki Minaj as Uhura, he is too old to portray the role in the current iterations of the show. Could you pull something off with just Kirk, Sulu and Checkov? Possibly, but they are not focusing on an era of the show where it would make sense to use a 92 year old man to reprise the role anyway.

Its been a long time since I have actually watched trek, but some basic cursory checking shows they are not writing Kirk out of the continuity. They just have other people playing that role now. The Abhrams movies used Christopher Pine of course, and more recently Strange New Worlds used some dude named Paul Wesley to play the role. Star Trek Origins is also going to take place prior to the J.J. Abrams films, so it does not make much sense to have Kirk at all in those, no matter who the actor.

Maybe if they need a 92+ year old James Tiberius Kirk who believes the Admiral's chair isn't so bad after-all or some futuristic mirror universe villain they can give William Shatner a call again, but until then he's just not the right man for the job anymore, and as such if I were in charge, I think I might be wanting to distance Trek from him a bit as well since he could drop dead at any moment and drag the brand name down with him.

Not entirely of course. Shatner's inexorably linked to the series as that young, daring and devilishly handsome man people fell in love with during the 1960s. Dude's a legend in that respect. However, I wouldn't be setting up any hopes that he'd be playing the role again, only to have him actually die on set, leading to a production and marketing disaster.

Dude has passed on the torch already anyway. I would tell him to live long and prosper, but let us face the facts here: William Shatner did both of those things already. XP

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

So much for the "Star Trek has always been woke" crowd. :-P

More seriously though, I thought Shatner retired from Trek anyway. His version of Kirk got the bridge dropped on him so they could have a replacement cast for the J.J. Abrams films, and it does not really make sense to use the original actors when over half of that cast is dead. Nichols died in 2022. Nimoy died in 2015. Doohan died in 2005. DeForest died in 1999.

Putting Shatner in the show is going to lead to an other Darrin moment if you try to replace his crew mates with the new actors, and even if we rolled with Nicki Minaj as Uhura, he is too old to portray the role in the current iterations of the show. Could you pull something off with just Kirk, Sulu and Checkov? Possibly, but they are not focusing on an era of the show where it would make sense to use a 92 year old man to reprise the role anyway.

Its been a long time since I have actually watched trek, but some basic cursory checking shows they are not writing Kirk out of the continuity. They just have other people playing that role now. The Abhrams movies used Christopher Pine of course, and more recently Strange New Worlds used some dude named Paul Wesley to play the role. Star Trek Origins is also going to take place prior to the J.J. Abrams films, so it does not make much sense to have Kirk at all in those, no matter who the actor.

Maybe if they need a 92+ year old James Tiberius Kirk who believes the Admiral's chair isn't so bad after-all or some futuristic mirror universe villain they can give William Shatner a call again, but until then he's just not the right man for the job anymore, and as such if I were in charge, I think I might be wanting to distance Trek from him a bit as well since he could drop dead at any moment and drag the brand name down with him.

Not entirely of course. Shatner's inexorably linked to the series as that young, daring and devilishly handsome man people fell in love with during the 1960s. Dude's a legend in that respect. However, I wouldn't be setting up any hopes that he'd be playing the role again, only to have him actually die on set, leading to a production and marketing disaster.

Dude has passed on the torch already anyway. I would tell him to live long and prosper, but let us face the facts here: William Shatner did both of those things already. XP

i saw a link of fb I cannpt find anymore sadly.

it stated that star trek has not always been woke.
it has always been progressive
thats avastly deep thing.

star trek used to be based on the idea of martin luther king.

but todays trek is based on (3 names I sadly dont rememvee but all 3 are writers/professors )

these two ideaologies are vastly different.. one is tied in faith, modernist and seeks to connrlect.

the other is atheist, nihilist and seeks to devide and destroy.

its a shame I did not preserve the link with those names..

but the statement was the best way to describe the difference between classical progresism and this toxic woke stuff.
woke tries to claim its just the same progresvism as always. it is not

[Ulfrinn]

Originally posted by Magma Dragoon:

What's the point of blacklisting a retired actor?

It's about them purging any reference or images of the character from all events and marketing while they clearly show the original depictions of other characters from the original series. Kirk is intentionally absent from all of it. He's been white washed.