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One last 50th anniversary "Hail Mary"

William Shatner voice acting. One last ride with Kirk. Make it so.

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  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    That might be a hard thing to do, though i and i think everyone on this game would love to have the shat do some VO work as kirk.

    Maybe a reunion of the remaining TOS cast? one last hurrah for the TOS crew? that would be the most epic mission ever imo :)
  • lazarus51166lazarus51166 Member Posts: 646 Arc User
    He would probably want too much money for it and he isn't exactly known for his love of the franchise to begin with

    Though I wouldn't be surprised if we get archer in the game. They already said there was going to be another actor brought in to do voice over work but didn't say who. Add the temporal cold war storyline and the fact that blogs are hinting at some sort of time travel involving the enterprise, it kind of narrows it down to three possible people
  • chompothal78chompothal78 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    I'd love to see any of them.
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,693 Arc User
    I'd love for it to happen, but sadly it won't :(
  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    correct me if I'm wrong but didn't something bad happen a long time ago between players of sto and him? that he said he wanted nothing to do with the game?
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  • twg042370twg042370 Member Posts: 2,312 Arc User
    Get George Takei so we can run around ESD asking where Sulu is like we should be.
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  • darakossdarakoss Member Posts: 850 Arc User
    [quote="jam3s1701;12851233"]correct me if I'm wrong but didn't something bad happen a long time ago between players of sto and him? that he said he wanted nothing to do with the game?[/quote]

    If I recall it was Shatner and Branflakes on twitter.
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  • thomaselkinsthomaselkins Member Posts: 575 Arc User
    Well it's 2410 and the Nexus energy ribbon should be in Federation space again. It would be neat if we were to meet the essence of Kirk, the same way Picard spoke with Guinan when he was there.
  • tousseautousseau Member Posts: 1,484 Arc User
    *Que Zachary Quinto taking up the mantle of voicing Spock...*
  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    tousseau wrote: »
    *Que Zachary Quinto taking up the mantle of voicing Spock...*

    no no no and NO!!!​​
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  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    darakoss wrote: »
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    correct me if I'm wrong but didn't something bad happen a long time ago between players of sto and him? that he said he wanted nothing to do with the game?

    If I recall it was Shatner and Branflakes on twitter.

    I knew it was something like that just couldn't remember who what when etc​​
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    tousseau wrote: »
    *Que Zachary Quinto taking up the mantle of voicing Spock...*

    Quinto is already a voice in the game.
    He is the Khitomer Emergency Medical Hologram in the Fed tutorial.
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  • trillbuffettrillbuffet Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    Actually this is the last one because some evil timelords punched a hole thru time and created a time loop so the anniversary event will run all year long and again and again and again. Every month you can grind your way back up and make billions of krenim time ships that won't get you anywhere except to a 98% restoration which will be missing the 2% which contains all the bug fixes over the past 6 years. So if you cannot login that is why.
  • waldotrekwaldotrek Member Posts: 319 Arc User
    I think it would be possible to get the whole crew of Ent. That would probably be the easiest route.
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  • lazarus51166lazarus51166 Member Posts: 646 Arc User
    darakoss wrote: »
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    correct me if I'm wrong but didn't something bad happen a long time ago between players of sto and him? that he said he wanted nothing to do with the game?

    If I recall it was Shatner and Branflakes on twitter.

    Uh....Did I miss something then?

    Or was shatner just upset that cryptic wasn't into his idea of endorsing the all branflakes challenge?
    Well it's 2410 and the Nexus energy ribbon should be in Federation space again. It would be neat if we were to meet the essence of Kirk, the same way Picard spoke with Guinan when he was there.

    That wasn't how it worked. That echo thing that was going on happened because of the whole trying to transport people out of the nexus when they were already there so it did some weird duplicate thing where they didn't entirely leave, or something like that
  • chompothal78chompothal78 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    The Branflakes thing isn't really an issue. To make a long story short, Branflakes tried to get Shatner to play the game and bugged him on Twitter too many times. Shatner basically views that as an unpaid endorsement (he's not a gamer) and got annoyed and ignored/blocked Branflakes. However....Shatner loves work, he has certainly come to terms that he will be remembered mainly as Kirk (he does the Creation conventions every year and is Flagshipping ALL of them this year in addition to the Star Trek cruise...thing) He would want to be paid (and the amount would be the biggest issue here), but has said he'd be open to playing Kirk again.
  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    tousseau wrote: »
    *Que Zachary Quinto taking up the mantle of voicing Spock...*

    no no no and NO!!!​​

    Why not? He's a fairly good Spock. It's not his fault the script he had to work with was utter tripe.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    shatner alone would cost a lot more than cryptic is willing to pay. that won't happen, especialy since i remember reading that they could hire some good actors from trek to do parts rather than 1 big name costing more than all the others put together and then some.
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    FCT topic.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,011 Arc User
    shatner alone would cost a lot more than cryptic is willing to pay. that won't happen, especialy since i remember reading that they could hire some good actors from trek to do parts rather than 1 big name costing more than all the others put together and then some.

    This is what I'm thinking. They try to get as many of the supporting cast as possible which seems (I have no idea about actor's contracts and rates) to work best with people who don't do anything "major" recently or currently. So we get Masterson, Russ and even Dorn but I'd say names like Shatner or Stewart are pretty much out of reach. You might get the guy who played the helmsman on Enterprise - his role (and no disrespect to the actor at all) was completely superflous in ENT so he might make an appearance in STO and it will be sold as the bestest thing ever happening pig-2.gif

    I personally would of course be thrilled to listen to the remaining TOS and TNG actors in their old roles once more, but actually I think Cryptic would do better saving the budget and improving the game with it instead of hiring guest actors, as I feel their roles are always hamfisted into the game and don't feel "organic" at all, plus we are more or less forced to rehash old plots in some way or the other. While it's a nice gimmick, it doesn'treally help STO at all, in my opinion.​​
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    They do apparently have rights to voice recordings from the shows. A "Trials and Tribble-ations" episode would be awesome in my book even if it's canned dialogue.
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    Even if they used dialogue from the shows/movies, they'd still need Shatner's permission to use his likeness.

    I just have to say, though:
    Gimme mah T6 Kirk!!!
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  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    How about they hire a talented voice actor?
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    How about they hire some comparive newbies, so I don't keep hearing the same 8 voices over and over again across 14 games?
  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    California has new laws forcing them to use local actors... you do the math.
  • mmps1mmps1 Member Posts: 381 Arc User
    I never have the sound on, makes no difference to me.
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