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While’s he’s speaking you do a montage scene of archival footage that is appropriate to the words – showing Spock and Kirk on the TOS ship…the films, their WoK scene etc. But a message that essentially says ‘look how far we’ve come’. Whether it be Spock going to Vulcan, Spock’s birthday or a message Shatner recorded when he retired, doesnt really matter.
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Spock turns on a holoemitter and you have Shatner’s Kirk recording a new message. I agree, the Orci scene with Shatner would have worked perfectly here. Well the photo scene was emotional and cool, a part of me felt like it was a snub. It’s the worst ST film, but that’s a great pic of the crew). The picture at the end worked well (and I recognized that it was from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier right off the bat.
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I didn’t know how they were going to get an emotional punch out of that without any scenes from Nimoy or even a recording of his voice (was that even possible with how ill he was at the time? Yeah, the movie was probably still being written but perhaps Pegg and Jung could have come up with some possible lines that would fit into what they thought they were going to do? I don’t know and I’m not blaming anyone, I’m just sad that Nimoy wasn’t in this one). I knew they were going to acknowledge Spock’s passage in the film from the reviews I read. He passed away four months before filming began), having an appearance by Shatner might have been pretty powerful and had a lot of resonance. He knew he wouldn’t be in any shape to film. On the other hand, after Nimoy’s very sad demise (I read this weekend that he wanted to be in Beyond and the filmmakers wanted him in as well, but he had to turn them down because of his illness. The only problem with that, thematically, was that it would only have Kirk, not the rest of the crew. It was a good place to put in Orci’s Shatner scene.
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It was a perfect opening for the Shatner cameo that was reportedly considered for the first movie - the holographic greeting card to Spock recorded before Kirks death.” “It was a moving scene, but perhaps a missed opportunity.