I'd heard that Shatner was apparently going to be brought in if Abrams was directing again. Maybe with a change in leadership, that won't happen. Apparently it's exponentially harder to get Shatner into a Star Trek movie than it is to get Nimoy, from what some of the news articles mention.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.