10 Ways William Shatner Can Play Kirk Again In Star Trek 3

7. Temporal Anomaly

If you want to fix anything that seems unfixable in Star Trek, you can always resort to some sort of time or spacial anomaly. It's been used many times as a plot device and even though it might seem like an unimaginative way of inserting Shatner-Kirk into the new movie, no one seemed to have a problem with the equally vague ''Red Matter'' being used to move the story along in Star Trek 2009. Something will have to trigger the anomaly, it's usually an imbalance in the warp core that creates it and would you believe it, it only brings back Shatner-Kirk. If the rumor happens to be true about new Kirk and Spock meeting their older selves, something has to facilitate that and perhaps it will be some sort of an anomaly that brings the foursome together. Bob Orci has never been shy to use an eye-rolling plot device to make something happen in his script, take Khan's death curing magic blood as an example and it wouldn't surprise us if an unexplained anomaly was used to bring Shatner into the movie. It might be the easiest way of doing it but it's also the cheapest and most unimaginative way. But if done right like in the fantastic Next Generation finale ''All Good Things'' the cheapness of the plot device can be overlooked if there is a reason for it.