“I’ve been very blessed,” he related to Collider.com in regards to his post-Star Trek career. “It’s such a shock to me that people seem very interested in who I am and what I do, and that I get to work with people that I’ve watched since I was a kid. Star Trek has really afforded me the luxury of choice and being able to cherry pick — for I don’t know how long. I’m in a time rightnow where I can at least say yes and no to certain things. I think the guiding principal for me is working with people who I want to work with. Because I don’t know how long it’s going to last; I want to seize the moment.”
His opinion on whether or not William Shatner should reprise the role of Kirk in the next Star Trek film came up as well, to which he responds, “It just isn’t, quite honestly, my decision to make. I think Mr. Shatner will forever be Captain Kirk. I think it would be, certainly, an interesting thing to bring him back. I don’t know if he necessarily wants to at this point or not. But it’s not my decision.”
Most intriguing for fans is what sort of evolution Kirk will go through in the second film. “I look forward to his development and bringing to light all his idiosyncrasies and thinking up new ways to surprise people with the character,” says Pine to the official Star Trek website. “I just trust Damon Lindelof and Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman and JJ Abrams and everybody behind it to create another good story, because they’ve already done it. I appreciate Kirk’s humor and I think that’s a legacy from Shatner’s Kirk, from the original and only Kirk, which I would love to bring into the future incarnation.”
Star Trek 2 (or whatever it ends up being called) will reach theatres in June 2012.
