Why William Shatner Allegedly Blocked Kirstie Alley From Returning For 'Star Trek 3,' According To A Trek Documentarian
Space may be the final frontier in the "Star Trek" world, but apparently, earthbound grudges can still travel quite keenly through the vastness of space. "Icons Unearthed" director Brian Volk-Weiss knows that firsthand, as an interview he conducted for another project involving Gene Roddenberry’s “Wagon Train to the stars” saw "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’s" Kirstie Alley tell a story about how William Shatner allegedly blocked her from returning for the next film in the series that gave us some of the best sci-fi movies.
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00:00And then the other thing is it's and it's again, I've never looked at the movie again the same way.
00:06Wrath of Khan, other than Star Wars, is the most important movie of my entire life.
00:11Conservatively seen it two or three hundred times.
00:15So I'm interviewing Kirstie Alley and we're going back and forth, going back and forth.
00:21And she was like, yeah, you know.
00:25I the whole movie, if you watch the film carefully, you'll notice in the opening shot,
00:32I'm like, hair's back, you know, very, very serious, you know, Vulcan.
00:38And by, you know, the end of the movie, I'm like, where an eye shadow and my hair's down.
00:42And I'm like, you know, I got to be honest with you. I never noticed that before.
00:46She's like, yeah, I was this beautiful young girl. I had just gotten to L.A.
00:52I was like 20 years old and I was playing this character that like all you can see are her hands
00:59and from her neck up. And she was like, I had this great body and I was like a model.
01:04And I was just playing this character that so every day I was trying to push the line further.
01:10And I'm like, Kirstie, I am blown away. I never noticed that. She's like,
01:14you never noticed the scene where I'm in the bathroom, where I'm in a bathrobe in the elevator.
01:20And I'm like, I got to be honest with you, Kirstie, I've never thought of that before.
01:25That blows my mind. You're absolutely right. Why were you in a bathrobe? And she basically said
01:31she had been like charming hair and makeup, charming the wardrobe department, kind of
01:39implied there was something going on with Nicholas Myers, which I asked him about,
01:44and he denied completely. But basically, that's the reason why she's not in Star Trek three,
01:53because William Shatner was so mad about the whole thing, the bathrobe, everything that he
02:00made such a to do about hiring her again, that they gave her an absolutely ludicrous financial
02:08offer designed to get her to say no. So that's why she's not. So it's the first interview
02:14to the best of our knowledge, I always have to say,
02:16I believe it to be her first interview ever about Star Trek.