This is simply William Shatner's goodbye to Leonard Nimoy. One died on screen and the other died in real life. This is their love, admiration and friendship as actors for each other. They have been and always shall be our friends.
This short film is meant to take place immediately after Kirk's death in Generations. What he was seeing was his final frontier, into the afterlife, with Spock right there at the end with him. Its beautiful, and I only saw TNG.
My interpretation is this: At the end of Star Trek: Generations, Kirk appeared to have died but really didn't (and Picard buried Kirk, thinking he really was dead). Picard removed Kirk's Starfleet badge and placed it on the rock pile. Some time later, Spock visited Kirk's grave site and took Kirk's Starfleet badge (and at some point that alien guy got Kirk's badge). A little later on, Starfleet arrived and removed both Kirk's body and the Enterprise D saucer section from Veridian III. Kirk's body was taken to and stored at Daystrom Station (according to what we see in that Easter egg in Star Trek: Picard Season 3. Kirk's body, now in stasis, is now being monitored by some sort of medical stations showing different angles of his skeletal structure (we see one of these medical stations in Picard Season 3 and a few more of these medical stations in footage from other OTOY shorts). A fan also said that they were able to see some of the small text written on one of the medical stations monitoring Kirk's body on Daystrom Station and the text says something like "Captain James T. Kirk was CRITICALLY wounded on Veridian III helping Captain Jean-Luc Picard defeat Soran" (CRITICALLY wounded...not MORTALLY or FATALLY wounded). Also, the words "Project Phoenix" were also seen in the small text on that medical monitoring station in relation to Kirk being in stasis. At some point, Starfleet finds a way to resurrect Kirk using Project Phoenix (is Gary Mitchell involved in this somehow?) A newly resurrected Kirk is now seen walking toward a crowd of people that includes Saavik and the son she made with Spock. An alien dude gives Kirk BACK the badge that Picard had removed from Kirk's uniform when Picard was burying Kirk on Veridian III. Kirk goes to some mysterious place and encounters two versions of his younger self, after which he puts his Starfleet badge BACK ON and then is immediately sent to the Kelvin universe, where he visits a dying Spock before Spock passes away. None of this is the Nexus or the afterlife because if Kirk was in the afterlife, he would not be visiting a dying Spock because a dying Spock would not be in the afterlife, he would still be in the land of the living. Also, if this was the afterlife, that means Kirk was seeing Saavik and her son in the afterlife as well, which means by the time the short movie is over, there would be three dead Vulcans (Spock, Saavik and their son, which would royally suck). This is not Kirk's ghost from the afterlife visiting a dying Spock, because I doubt a spiritual form (a Kirk ghost) could physically interact with living flesh and bone (Kirk and Spock clasped hands in friendship in this OTOY short, just like they did in Star Trek: The Motion Picture). To me, this is a resurrected Kirk visiting Spock to say goodbye to him before Spock passes away...again.
Let me share my interpretation of this wonderful labor of love. We see Gary Mitchell who was a character in 'Where no man has gone before' where he was seemingly killed by Kirk, after gaining immense psychic powers which corrupted his mind. He is played by the original actor, Gary Lockwood, with superb de-aging AI CGI. We can see he is floating in front of a giant fireball, possibly either watching or creating the process of a new reality or universe. We can see his powers have evolved and has become god like now, possibly similar to the Q continuum. As he closes his eyes, we see what Gary sees, fragments through time and reality with a focus on Kirk's death and the ripple effects of his life & actions. He sees Kirk's grave on Veridian III with Spock taking Kirk's insignia before Spock lead to the Kelvin time line later in his life, thus taking the insignia with him. We see more flashes and images related with Vger and eventually we see Kirk's body displayed on the monitor which is stored in a Lab. Then Gary, with perhaps a moment of whatever remains of his humanity, shows compassion and uses his godlike power to capture Kirk's soul/consciousness at the moment of his Death on Viridian III, similar to what Q did to Picard in 'Tapestry'. Gary creates a temporary reality of the perfect garden of Eden and places Kirk there. Kirk meets a few familiar faces, specifically Savik and her son, which Kirk recognizes. Not sure if anyone outside of Kirk is either alive, real or perhaps also souls that meet here at the end of their own lives. I would think that Gary, like Q, is no longer bound by time or linear timelines. The one person that does not really fit in that group is Universe warping/Time travelling alien from discovery. I think the Alien is either brought there by Gary or perhaps could simply be there to hand Kirk the insignia which the alien must have taken from Spock from the Kelvin time line. You can see the alien holding out the insignia for Kirk to take, but Kirk has to take it with both hands thus showing the insignia bears great importance. Now what Kirk hold the insignia, and thus has a connection to Spock in the Kelvin Timeline, the alien is able to send Kirk into the Kelvin Timeline to meet with Spock on his deathbed. When Kirk arrives we see him in a long dark corridor with a light at the end, this could be a kind of temporary purgatory, a space between life/death and Universes/Realities. As Kirk look around we end up seeing 3 different Kirks, I think at this moment Kirk is simply remember his key moments in life and how he looked when he was young (ToS), middle age (Khan era) and his oldest self. Eventually the oldest Kirk stays, perhaps a conscious decision by Kirk as he is probably more aware of what and where he is, standing at the edge of the final true unknown, death. As he emerges we see Spock on his deathbed and for 1 last time, without the need for any words, they get to show their life long unbroken friendship to each other and to us, the viewers, before they both meet their final sunset. Their final journey into the truly unknown, but together, as they have done countless times & adventures before. Passing into the the veil of death, into legend... Though these 2 characters are easily the greatest fictional characters ever created on the silver screen, I must remind myself not to be saddened by their departure. They basically carried the torch for their part of the journey and they both carried it extremely well. The torch being Roddenberry's vision of a bright future for humanity, being one of hope, one of positive changes and overcoming our fears and short comings, holding onto our better selves and the best versions of ourselves. The dream Kirk and Spock carried will stay alive as long as we all remember what Kirk and Spock represented, the best and bravest parts of ourselves and carrying forwards to a hopeful future. At least, that is my interpretation, yours may differ but in the end, we'll all eventually end up at the same destination.
The character that you kinda recognized was Saavik from the movies, at least the actress Robin Curtis' version of her from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The late Kirstie Alley played that character in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. As a life long Star Trek fan, this was the most emotional 7 minutes ever. This closes the chapter of the Prime Time Line Kirk and Spock. This was incredible... and it wasn't even made by the actual people who are currently producing current Star Trek now.
I loved it. Very beautiful and poingnient. Im glad I had tissues close by. What's basically going on in the film is that this is set after Kirk died in Generations. He walks by people from his past including Saavik (Robin Curtis) and Sorak (Spock and Saavik's son). This short film was actually our first introduction to Sorak! The alien Kirk encounters was introduced in Star Trek Discovery. He was an alien that travelled from the Kelvin-verse to the main timeline at one point. This time he's giving Kirk access to reunite with Spock in the Kelvin-verse as he dies.
I see it as Gary Mitchell directing Yeoman Colt to bring Kirk back to life secretly. Then Kirk meets Saavik again and she introduces her grown up son, which is a nod to the Star Trek novels. Then Kirk uses the help of Discovery's Yor to cross over into the Kelvin Universe to reunite with Spock before his passing in Into Darkness. Since he's in the Kelvin Universe, I hope Shatner's Kirk meets Chris Pine's Kirk.
No dialogue = everyone is dead, including Kirk until he accepts the insignia badge from the Betelgeusian time-traveler. Then he enters a crossroads of sorts, and decides to press forward to the Kelvin timeline. This means there's 2 Kirks in the JJ-verse now: "Kirk Prime" at Spock Prime's bedside and another younger Kirk commanding the Enterprise, which will be docking at Starbase Yorktown shortly after this moment. If you're wondering who those people are at the reception scene, he encounters Saavik & the son she has with Spock. I believe the others are the El-Aurians from the SS Lakul that Scotty couldn't save. There's one older guy in a dressy uniform. I think that's the Lakul's captain. Anyhow, that's my best guess. 😊
This is simply William Shatner's goodbye to Leonard Nimoy. One died on screen and the other died in real life. This is their love, admiration and friendship as actors for each other. They have been and always shall be our friends.
This short film is meant to take place immediately after Kirk's death in Generations. What he was seeing was his final frontier, into the afterlife, with Spock right there at the end with him. Its beautiful, and I only saw TNG.
My interpretation is this: At the end of Star Trek: Generations, Kirk appeared to have died but really didn't (and Picard buried Kirk, thinking he really was dead). Picard removed Kirk's Starfleet badge and placed it on the rock pile. Some time later, Spock visited Kirk's grave site and took Kirk's Starfleet badge (and at some point that alien guy got Kirk's badge).
A little later on, Starfleet arrived and removed both Kirk's body and the Enterprise D saucer section from Veridian III. Kirk's body was taken to and stored at Daystrom Station (according to what we see in that Easter egg in Star Trek: Picard Season 3. Kirk's body, now in stasis, is now being monitored by some sort of medical stations showing different angles of his skeletal structure (we see one of these medical stations in Picard Season 3 and a few more of these medical stations in footage from other OTOY shorts). A fan also said that they were able to see some of the small text written on one of the medical stations monitoring Kirk's body on Daystrom Station and the text says something like "Captain James T. Kirk was CRITICALLY wounded on Veridian III helping Captain Jean-Luc Picard defeat Soran" (CRITICALLY wounded...not MORTALLY or FATALLY wounded). Also, the words "Project Phoenix" were also seen in the small text on that medical monitoring station in relation to Kirk being in stasis.
At some point, Starfleet finds a way to resurrect Kirk using Project Phoenix (is Gary Mitchell involved in this somehow?) A newly resurrected Kirk is now seen walking toward a crowd of people that includes Saavik and the son she made with Spock. An alien dude gives Kirk BACK the badge that Picard had removed from Kirk's uniform when Picard was burying Kirk on Veridian III. Kirk goes to some mysterious place and encounters two versions of his younger self, after which he puts his Starfleet badge BACK ON and then is immediately sent to the Kelvin universe, where he visits a dying Spock before Spock passes away.
None of this is the Nexus or the afterlife because if Kirk was in the afterlife, he would not be visiting a dying Spock because a dying Spock would not be in the afterlife, he would still be in the land of the living. Also, if this was the afterlife, that means Kirk was seeing Saavik and her son in the afterlife as well, which means by the time the short movie is over, there would be three dead Vulcans (Spock, Saavik and their son, which would royally suck). This is not Kirk's ghost from the afterlife visiting a dying Spock, because I doubt a spiritual form (a Kirk ghost) could physically interact with living flesh and bone (Kirk and Spock clasped hands in friendship in this OTOY short, just like they did in Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
To me, this is a resurrected Kirk visiting Spock to say goodbye to him before Spock passes away...again.
Let me share my interpretation of this wonderful labor of love. We see Gary Mitchell who was a character in 'Where no man has gone before' where he was seemingly killed by Kirk, after gaining immense psychic powers which corrupted his mind. He is played by the original actor, Gary Lockwood, with superb de-aging AI CGI. We can see he is floating in front of a giant fireball, possibly either watching or creating the process of a new reality or universe. We can see his powers have evolved and has become god like now, possibly similar to the Q continuum. As he closes his eyes, we see what Gary sees, fragments through time and reality with a focus on Kirk's death and the ripple effects of his life & actions. He sees Kirk's grave on Veridian III with Spock taking Kirk's insignia before Spock lead to the Kelvin time line later in his life, thus taking the insignia with him. We see more flashes and images related with Vger and eventually we see Kirk's body displayed on the monitor which is stored in a Lab.
Then Gary, with perhaps a moment of whatever remains of his humanity, shows compassion and uses his godlike power to capture Kirk's soul/consciousness at the moment of his Death on Viridian III, similar to what Q did to Picard in 'Tapestry'. Gary creates a temporary reality of the perfect garden of Eden and places Kirk there. Kirk meets a few familiar faces, specifically Savik and her son, which Kirk recognizes. Not sure if anyone outside of Kirk is either alive, real or perhaps also souls that meet here at the end of their own lives. I would think that Gary, like Q, is no longer bound by time or linear timelines. The one person that does not really fit in that group is Universe warping/Time travelling alien from discovery. I think the Alien is either brought there by Gary or perhaps could simply be there to hand Kirk the insignia which the alien must have taken from Spock from the Kelvin time line. You can see the alien holding out the insignia for Kirk to take, but Kirk has to take it with both hands thus showing the insignia bears great importance.
Now what Kirk hold the insignia, and thus has a connection to Spock in the Kelvin Timeline, the alien is able to send Kirk into the Kelvin Timeline to meet with Spock on his deathbed. When Kirk arrives we see him in a long dark corridor with a light at the end, this could be a kind of temporary purgatory, a space between life/death and Universes/Realities. As Kirk look around we end up seeing 3 different Kirks, I think at this moment Kirk is simply remember his key moments in life and how he looked when he was young (ToS), middle age (Khan era) and his oldest self. Eventually the oldest Kirk stays, perhaps a conscious decision by Kirk as he is probably more aware of what and where he is, standing at the edge of the final true unknown, death. As he emerges we see Spock on his deathbed and for 1 last time, without the need for any words, they get to show their life long unbroken friendship to each other and to us, the viewers, before they both meet their final sunset. Their final journey into the truly unknown, but together, as they have done countless times & adventures before. Passing into the the veil of death, into legend...
Though these 2 characters are easily the greatest fictional characters ever created on the silver screen, I must remind myself not to be saddened by their departure. They basically carried the torch for their part of the journey and they both carried it extremely well. The torch being Roddenberry's vision of a bright future for humanity, being one of hope, one of positive changes and overcoming our fears and short comings, holding onto our better selves and the best versions of ourselves.
The dream Kirk and Spock carried will stay alive as long as we all remember what Kirk and Spock represented, the best and bravest parts of ourselves and carrying forwards to a hopeful future.
At least, that is my interpretation, yours may differ but in the end, we'll all eventually end up at the same destination.
The character that you kinda recognized was Saavik from the movies, at least the actress Robin Curtis' version of her from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The late Kirstie Alley played that character in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
As a life long Star Trek fan, this was the most emotional 7 minutes ever. This closes the chapter of the Prime Time Line Kirk and Spock. This was incredible... and it wasn't even made by the actual people who are currently producing current Star Trek now.
I loved it. Very beautiful and poingnient. Im glad I had tissues close by.
What's basically going on in the film is that this is set after Kirk died in Generations. He walks by people from his past including Saavik (Robin Curtis) and Sorak (Spock and Saavik's son). This short film was actually our first introduction to Sorak! The alien Kirk encounters was introduced in Star Trek Discovery. He was an alien that travelled from the Kelvin-verse to the main timeline at one point. This time he's giving Kirk access to reunite with Spock in the Kelvin-verse as he dies.
Shatner physically played himself, minus the TOS version which was performed by Sam Witwer.
The dream like sequence gave me 2001 vibes. The whole thing is like this.
It’s wild they got Michael Giacchino for this.
I see it as Gary Mitchell directing Yeoman Colt to bring Kirk back to life secretly. Then Kirk meets Saavik again and she introduces her grown up son, which is a nod to the Star Trek novels. Then Kirk uses the help of Discovery's Yor to cross over into the Kelvin Universe to reunite with Spock before his passing in Into Darkness. Since he's in the Kelvin Universe, I hope Shatner's Kirk meets Chris Pine's Kirk.
Spock’s passing happened/is referred to in ‘Star Trek: Beyond’, not ‘Into Darkness’
@@G0d_Ginrai Sorry my mistake on that one.
''I think I recongnise her!'' = It's Savik
No dialogue = everyone is dead, including Kirk until he accepts the insignia badge from the Betelgeusian time-traveler. Then he enters a crossroads of sorts, and decides to press forward to the Kelvin timeline.
This means there's 2 Kirks in the JJ-verse now: "Kirk Prime" at Spock Prime's bedside and another younger Kirk commanding the Enterprise, which will be docking at Starbase Yorktown shortly after this moment.
If you're wondering who those people are at the reception scene, he encounters Saavik & the son she has with Spock. I believe the others are the El-Aurians from the SS Lakul that Scotty couldn't save. There's one older guy in a dressy uniform. I think that's the Lakul's captain. Anyhow, that's my best guess. 😊