>be William Shatner>93 years old>decide to make an unofficial Star Trek short>use industry connections to get Michael Giacchino, Kevin Feige, and Skywalker Sound involved>it's better than anything Alex Kuntzman made in the last seven yearsHow did he do it?
Hi, Bill.Please outlive Takei.
kino
its not difficult to outdo kertzman, but yes it was good.
what did it mean bros?was he just a ghost coming to take Spock to the afterlife? Was he reborn from the Nexus as a real flesh and blood man? How did he get to the fake and gay Kelvin timeline?
>>206065096By being the based captain we love.
>>206065096where
>>206067196https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50
It also references Disco and Picard. I'm so confused by all the little snippets on the youtube channel.
>>206065096How is he 93? He looks like he could be in his 60s at most.
>>206067538They deaged him.
>>206067538There's some AI deepfakery in the short, Shat looks like this these days
>>206065096>how'd he do it?He's Bill Shatner, that's how
>>206067648thats amazing for 93
>>206067648Better than Gene Hackman
it's Sam Witwer doing the acting with Shatner prosthetics and then CGI to smooth it out
>>206067775it's confusing though because some places say he was only young Kirk, others say he was both young and older Kirk, but then Shatner said it was him too with prosthetics and AI
>>206067648He'd probably look even better if he slimmed down, but it's dangerous at his age.
>>206067856nah the fat is what's making him appear so much younger
>>206067738Gene Hackman looking like that unironically signals to me that my time is over.
>>206067727I heard somewhere he partakes in one of those aging prevention regimens where he takes like $60,000 supplements every yearhe obviously doesnt buy into all the plastic surgery crap, so you're left with a 93 year old guy who looks like he could be 73
>>206067912Shat is probably on that same drug that made Wilford Brimley live so long despite having diabetes
>>206067856actually at that age its healthier to be fat than thin
Is Bill with us?
>>206068038and? the point he was making is that his fatness is stretching his skin out making him appear younger
>>206067096It's a retarded mix of mostly non-canon concepts bringing all eras of Trek together to justify the kino end result and show off the new 'digital prosthetic' tech (ie real-time deep-fake tracking).The woman with the ponytail is Ensign Colt from the TOS pilot, who in expanded non-canon fiction becomes a time-traveller by going into the vagina pool.The lizard cunt is a DISCO / STD character called Yor who is also a time-traveller.For reasons Yor and Colt can travel to different timelines.It becomes apparent to them that Kirk must live again to stave off a big threat. So Colt and Yor recruit Saavik and her and Spock's son and steal Kirk's body from Daystrom Station and take it to the future where there is tech to bring him back to life.They then send him through a time portal (where he sees TOS and Wrath him) that takes him to the Kelvin timeline to sit with Spock on his deathbed.
>>206068136
Did RLM ever recover from the Shatner BTFOing them?
>>206068852I remember when Shatner got so butthurt they killed of Kirk that he (ghost) wrote an entire series of novels bringing him back, and defeating the Borg after they team up with the Romulans for some reason.
>>206068970Still better than NuTrek.
>>206068970Shatnerverse is kino
Doomcock actually got emotionalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjSy5lWHsOc
so far ive watched in its entirety chronologically:tostastngds9voypic s3movies 1-10did i miss anything
>>206067832It's physically always Witwer.They're being cagey about how they did it as it's new tech. They're calling it "digital prosthetics", it's a fancy tracking setup for deep-fakes.It seems to combine the Marvel de-aging stuff and the camera tracking thing from the volume (or similar) with deep-fake algos, but runs live.Apparently Sam Witwer had to make his face contort to get the expressions they wanted the Shat mask to make, so it's not one-to-one, because the bone structure is different. So if Witwer were to smile, Kirk might look constipated.Stick a wig on him to where the forehead is tracked and pad him up and get him to study Shatner's body language and there you go.With the Spock actor they used some actual prosthetics as they tried it out first on him in an earlier short, and laid the digital deep-fake stuff on top.This is basically a test-bed for new tech in a vanity project short, it's why it has real funding, Feige is involved and it uses canon licensed stuff from Paramount.The channel has other shorts which combine with this one to tell the (somewhat obtuse) overall story. The number title is Colt's Starfleet serial number as her time-travelling is what causes all this.
>>206065096I'm not a Star Trek fan really, but this is the first thing I've watched in awhile and I really like those old-style uniforms
>>206068970peace is inevitable, one way or the other.
>>206067096I've been struggling to understand it myself, honestly just seems like an asspull to let Spock and Kirk meet one more time.
>>206068888Holy digits
>>206065096Can someone please explain what this is? Is it AI shit? What is going on?
>>206072680ai deaging and a couple of face swaps on similar looking actors.
>>206072809No I mean, what am I watching? What is this video? Who made it and why? I understand now that it's not AI but I'm confused by what it's supposed to depict
>>206072902>what it's supposed to depictKirk and Spock meeting for the last time.
>>206065096>>decide to make an unofficial Star Trek shortThe website for this film says "Star Trek intellectual property is used under a license with Paramount." It's not a fan film. It's an official Paramount production. Under the terms Paramount struck regarding fan films years ago, no one who worked on official Star Trek productions can work on fan films... and "Unification" was executive produced by William Shatner.
>>206072809Didn't they partly use Shatner for the close ups so they could get the microexpressions, then de-aged his performance, putting the result on the other actor's face?
>>206065096>>206067405Well it was a little pretentious, but it's a better sendoff than either of those characters were given, so that's nice.>Spock dies offscreen in the shitty Kelvin movies>Kirk gets taken out of heaven then dies from falling off of a bridge (yes I get it, he died on the bridge, it's pottery)
>>206073040>The website for this film says "Star Trek intellectual property is used under a license with Paramount." It's not a fan film. It's an official Paramount production.Okay, so it's an official Paramount production then?>Under the terms Paramount struck regarding fan films years ago, no one who worked on official Star Trek productions can work on fan films... and "Unification" was executive produced by William Shatner.So....it's an unofficial Paramount production then? What are you trying to say here
>>206073040>no one who worked on official Star Trek productions can work on fan filmsI don't know about the rest of your post, but TOS extras / sidecharacters have appeared in what feels like dozens of fan films, even recently.
>>206067096>>206070291In this short, Kirk was revived in the Prime Timeline after the events of Generations. The character in the Starfleet uniform with Saavik is Lt. Commander Yor, a character from Star Trek Discovery who can cross over dimensions. He transported Kirk to The Kelvin Timeline shortly before Spock Prime's death, as mentioned at the beginning of Star Trek Beyond.
>>206073123>I don't know about the rest of your post, but TOS extras / sidecharacters have appeared in what feels like dozens of fan films, even recently.So people who have zero chance of appearing in an official Star Trek project ever again.
>>206073040>>206073119>It's an official Paramount productionMade under their permission but not by them. Paramount is in an exclusivity contract with Secret Hideout. You can see in the credits that this was licensed under "vidya and emerging media," so Paramount didn't even treat this like a short film.
>>206068888You're a big get
>>206069441>this is the first thing I've watched in awhile and I really like those old-style uniformsThe Original Crew movie uniforms are beyond kino, the uniforms on The Next Generation onward were a huge downgrade.
>>206068888>it's realhttps://x.com/WilliamShatner/status/931683992239161345
whether takei or shatner goes first i hope whichever remains doesn't last too much longer because either one of them will take every opportunity possible to brag about being the last remaining cast member of the original star trekcan you imagine if shatner died tomorrow and takei lived another five years, or vice versamy god, the horror
>>206073927are you forgetting about walter koenig?
>>206067856being fat stretches out his skin and makes him look youngerthis is why actresses who insist on staying skinny start to look terrible in their 40s and using botox only worsens the situation
>>206073999>didn't appear until Season 2not a real TOS cast member
>>206073709yea he's been here for years
>>206068888>>206073709>>206074185Sorry to burst your bubble, Shatner doesn't actually use his Twitter account.https://youtu.be/LRCN9Toi-Ck?si=kLHmASelU5n9ERlP&t=79
>3 minutes of credit for an unofficial shortNo wonder everything is going to AI now.
>>206075001Bathtub brain.
>>206068852and why was Gary Mitchell at the beginning?
>>206075783iykyk
>>206067405>>206067405What is time soldier Yor doing there?
>>206075797so you don't know, got it
AI slop is going to make Star Trek great again.
>>206076130>Using a censored on-line generators.At least it isn´t the usual chinese kissing crap spam.
>>206074293>brent spiner talking shit in other news water is wet
I'm waiting for Mike and Rich's 4 hour deep dive before I form an opinion.
>>206076130AI is going to make everything great again.
>>206067648actually looks like hes in his 60s
>>206065096He big Bill made any tweets about this?
>>206067648Sean Astin could play a good match for the way Shatner looked during Generations
>>206068852>STD characterOh, ok so I don't need to watch it since i's not Star Trek
>>206067405Why can't I search this in youtube?
>>206073153
>>206065096Absolutely based.Pisses on all the prequel/reboot faggot shit that has come out in the past 23 years.Such a disappointment that PIC squandered most of their opportunity.STO, even with it's problems, has been a worthier continuation into the 25th century.
so the whole point was that Kirk is brought back just to watch Spock die? wtf
>>206077947I think it was so that spock could see his best friend one last time
>>206067405Shameless weepybait that omits Uhura, Scotty, Bones, Chekhov, Sulu… started out thinking ‘right in the feels’ and ended up thinking ‘so this is what it’s like to watch a geriatric masturbating with a dead body’. I guess I expected too much when when I hoped Shatner would put aside his massive ego and realise Star Trek was more than him and Nimoy (not that they ever really got long that well IRL).
>>206067856Being a bit chubby is probably helping him look a bit younger desu, so many people who are up there in age are skin and bones
