JJ Abrams was successful with the direction he took the new imagined Star Trek franchise in. Leonard Nimoy was in the first installment and now it looks like Mr. Abrahms is looking for ways to get William Shatner in the second installment of the brand new Star Trek franchise."It was a foregone conclusion that we wanted Shatner in the [first] movie. The problem was that his character died on screen in one of the 'Trek' films. And because we decided very early on that we wanted to adhere to 'Trek' canon as best we could, the required machinations to get Shatner into the movie would have been very difficult to do given the story we wanted to tell and also to give him the kind of part that he would be happy with.In terms of moving forward, I am open to anything. I would love to figure out something. There's going to be more opportunity to work with him again. I would love to work with him. We speak. We actually have a lunch date planned. I'm a fan. I'm a friend of his. Or, he's at least a friend of mine. He may say otherwise on his blog today. I have no idea. But, I really couldn't like him more and would love to work with him."I trust JJ, he did a great job with the first movie and will continue to do so in the second Star Trek film, regardless if they figure out a way to bring Kirk back or not. So, lay it all out there ComicBookMovie fans, do you want to see the Shat back as Captain Kirk in Star Trek 2?Many thanks to SirPrize for providing the pic.