{"id":50954,"date":"2019-06-14T10:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50954"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:34:22","slug":"shatner-supports-tarantinos-r-rated-trek-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/06\/shatner-supports-tarantinos-r-rated-trek-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Supports Tarantino&#8217;s R-Rated Trek Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week,<strong> Quentin Tarantino<\/strong> spoke about his potential <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> movie, saying that if he directs the movie, it won&#8217;t be for the kiddies. &#8220;It&#8217;s an R-rated movie,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If I do it, it&#8217;ll be R-rated. There&#8217;s a script that exists for it now. I need to weigh in on it, but I haven&#8217;t been able to do that yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, this has displeased some fans, and <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> took to <em>Twitter<\/em> to defend Tarantino. &#8220;Why are people plotzing about this? It&#8217;s my understanding that<em> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> has used expletives in some episodes. Why aren&#8217;t people melting down over that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swearing in Trek was pretty tame in the series and original series movies, with most cussing limited to &#8220;damn it&#8221; or &#8220;hell&#8221; or the like. Shatner as Kirk used &#8220;dumbass&#8221; while trying to navigate his way around San Francisco in <em>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>, where the &#8220;f-bomb&#8221; was dropped on the show for the first time, courtesy of Ensign Sylvia Tilly.<\/p>\n<p>So there is precedent for swearing in Trek. Whether the R-rating would come from the language or the action, or both, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Quentin Tarantino spoke about his potential Star Trek movie, saying that if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414,9419],"class_list":["post-50954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner","tag-tarantino"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TarantinoVultureShatnerCBS061419.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50956,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954\/revisions\/50956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}