William Shatner’s Captain Kirk Returns In “Unification” Short Film From Roddenberry Archive

Watched this a couple of days ago, via a social media post. Sorry, but I found it barfworthy. We'd been so encouraged to watch that I should have been suspicious!
 
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Shatner played Kirk for a video game intro in 1996 too.

The technology is incredible--that they can do a pretty decent facial recreation of someone without it triggering a fakeness response.
 
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Orcadian said:
Schmaltzy! Actually I don't think you could improve on Kirk's original farewell to Spock.
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It is a little schmaltzy. But this is a tribute to a deceased beloved actor and an onscreen partnership, not an episode of Picard. We can let it pass, no?

The technology / prosthetics is pretty remarkable.
 
I'm kind of tempted to try and deep fake a minute or so of an episode of Star Trek continues to see how close you can get the voice / look of TOS. Even for a minute it'd be an awful lot of work.
 
It would be really hard. Even if you had a perfect rendering of the person--matching the performance traits would be so difficult without it coming across as somehow artificial in some way. The gestures, the pauses, the voice characteristics, emotional qualities in the performance. With this silent approach, it is so limited--they can't have him turning his head much--especially the 1966 Kirk. But it is still a really good effect.
There's no doubt they will keep exploring it--and eventually attempt a more ambitious TOS recreation.
 
paranoid marvin said:
Spock should have been with Kirk when he died.
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I'm sure I remember an episode where Spock has gone into an intense radiation field (possibly the drive core?) knowing it will kill him, and Kirk is there with him. IIRC he actually does bid Spock farewell (possibly not in those exact words).
 
Orcadian said:
I'm sure I remember an episode where Spock has gone into an intense radiation field (possibly the drive core?) knowing it will kill him, and Kirk is there with him. IIRC he actually does bid Spock farewell (possibly not in those exact words).
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Ah, but that was Spock doing the dying.

Kirk says at one point that he won't die (Final Frontier?) without his friends with him. Now I know that he and Picard get on okay, but I'm sure he was referring to Bones and/or Spock.
 
paranoid marvin said:
Ah, but that was Spock doing the dying.

Kirk says at one point that he won't die (Final Frontier?) without his friends with him. Now I know that he and Picard get on okay, but I'm sure he was referring to Bones and/or Spock.
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But isn't the latest little film about Spock dying? Kirk goes to say goodbye...
 
Sorry, just to be clear, my comments were purely about Kirk's death in 'Genrrations'. An awful movie that Nimoy did well to avoid - and so should Shatner. He should never have left his character tl end in such a fashion.
 
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