William Shatner to Appear in STAR TREK 3?

The original Captain Kirk may be making a special appearance in an upcoming STAR TREK film.

According to ComingSoon.net, STAR TREK's William Shatner has said that producer J.J. Abrams (helming the new generation of STAR TREK fims) approached Shatner about returning to the Sci-Fi series.

Abrams said, "I'm calling because the director of STAR TREK, the next movie, has had an idea where you might be involved, so I'm calling to find out whether you would be interested."

Shatner responded, saying, "It depends on what you do with the character, but I would be delighted."

Though he was sworn to secrecy, the story still came out, at which point he was able to speak a bit on the matter.

"So the news is out that they have an idea that...they might want Leonard and myself in it," Shatner said. "But I would love to do it. But how do you get me fifty years later into the movie? I mean how do you rationalize it. I know it's science fiction, but even I couldn't come up with an idea. So that's the news on that."

The script, by screenwriter Roberto Orci, has completed the script for the unnamed STAR TREK 3. Thusfar, no release date has been set, but there is speculation that it will be released in 2016- STAR TREK's 50th anniversary.

Check out this video of Shatner himself telling part of the story below!

Statner gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, commander of the Federation starship USS Enterprise, in the Science fiction television series Star Trek, from 1966 to 1969; Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also written a series of Science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.

Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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