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Aborted Star Trek movie had Captain Kirk fist-fighting Jesus

posted 6 years ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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Sound like a South Park episode.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/06/aborted-star-trek-movie-captain-kirk-fighting-jesus-new-book-gene-roddenberry

An early version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) would have culminated in Captain Kirk fighting an alien disguised as Jesus, according to a new unauthorised oral history of the series.

The Fifty Year Mission by Edward Gross and Mark A Altman revealed that the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, worked on a number of concepts, including a time-travel adventure in which the crew attempts to stop the Kennedy assassination. But the most offbeat idea featured a shapeshifting alien that could manifest as biblical figures.

“In the climactic scene, Kirk had a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ,” Star Trek author and screenwriter Michael Jan Friedman said. “So Kirk was slugging it out on the bridge. With Jesus.”

[–] wearsalan (5554) 6 years ago

...and four sequels on he fights God.

[–] Moonglum9 (11275) 6 years ago

Oh yeah, that's realistic. What fool could ever believe that something as crazy as "aliens" exist? If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you in San Francisco. And even if so-called aliens did exist, God would just make them disappear with a wave of his magic wand.

[–] bozo_500 (13119) 6 years ago

that sounds awesome.. shatner mustve swiped abit of that for the end of ST5

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14413) 6 years ago

Oh yeah, that would have made this film MUCH more popular, just like Star Trek V was super-popular. Shatner (and by extension, Gene Roddenberry) both seem to have real issues with Christianity.