John Orquiola is the head of Screen Rant's Star Trek Movies & TV coverage, a Senior Features staff writer, and Interviewer.
Star Trek wanted Chris Pine's Captain James T. Kirk to make two different comebacks but, unfortunately, neither could happen. Pine and the cast of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek proved the iconic crew of Star Trek: The Original Series' USS Enterprise could be successfully recast with younger actors. Pine became the first actor to play Captain Kirk other than William Shatner, embodying the Captain of the Enterprise in three movies produced by J.J.
✕ Remove Ads As Mike McMahan explained, Star Trek: Lower Decks is a "Rosetta stone" that contains enough references and Easter eggs that a layman can grasp the wider Star Trek universe. Captain Kirk is arguably the most iconic Star Trek Captain and the most well-known alongside Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Before Paul Wesley became Lt. James T. Kirk on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Kirk was conspicuously missing from Star Trek on Paramount+.
✕ Remove Ads Star Trek: Prodigy's discarded idea for Chris Pine's Captain Kirk sounds even more expansive than what Star Trek: Lower Decks' might have been. Having Chris Pine's Kirk help the USS Prodigy's young heroes for "a couple of episodes" would have been the most significant time Pine spent as Kirk since Star Trek Beyond, even if it's just a voice role. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 did reference J.J.
✕ Remove Ads From Mike McMahan and Aaron J. Waltke's explanations, it sounds like bringing back Chris Pine as Captain Kirk never got past the idea stage. Legal issues from Paramount Pictures, the motion picture division that handles Star Trek theatrical movies, would likely have impeded Pine from returning as Kirk in Star Trek on Paramount+. Still, Chris Pine remains popular as Captain Kirk, both with audiences and with the writer-producers of Star Trek's current TV series.
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