It’s for the best that William Shatner didn’t appear as Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie. 15 years ago, J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot rejuvenated the Star Trek movie franchise after the poor performance of both Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis. Boldly deciding to recast the Star Trek: The Original Series characters and set the movie in an alternate timeline, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie was able to have the best of both worlds; 40-year-old cultural icons placed in a modern action-packed blockbuster.
