{"id":980666,"date":"2025-10-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980666"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:50:50","slug":"evil-kirk-star-trek-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/evil-kirk-star-trek-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"We Almost Got Evil Kirk on Star Trek: Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Given that it\u2019s been on the air for almost 60 years at this point, it\u2019s not a surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek\/\">Star Trek<\/a> has a large amount of behind-the-scenes lore surrounding it. Whether it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/ghostbusters-star-almost-star-trek-captain\/\">original casting decisions that might have been<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-first-spinoff-assignment-earth\/\">potential spinoffs that never happened<\/a>, Trekkies have plenty of options to consider when it comes to the roads not taken. But one of the most famous involves one of the franchise\u2019s most beloved performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a decade after his last appearance as James T. Kirk in the film <em>Star Trek Generations<\/em>, William Shatner <em>almost<\/em> ended up on the spinoff <em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em>. But since <em>Enterprise<\/em> technically takes place well before Kirk\u2019s<em> <\/em>era, he wouldn\u2019t have been playing the famous starship captain, but rather his dark Mirror Universe counterpart: Tiberius Kirk. And his return would have not only been a fun bit of fan service, but it also would have answered some lingering questions about the <em>Star Trek: The Original Series <\/em>episode \u201cMirror, Mirror\u201d along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>While the fact that the late showrunner Manny Coto wanted to bring Shatner aboard to help boost the series\u2019 flagging season 4 ratings is fairly known among fans, we now have a few more details about what his return would have involved, thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2025\/10\/05\/upn-focus-grouped-shatner-return-on-star-trek-enterprise-before-rejecting-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TrekMovie.com<\/a> podcast interview with former <em>Enterprise <\/em>writer\/producer Mike Sussman.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cManny, one of the ideas he put on the board at the beginning of season 4 was that he wanted to do a Mirror Universe episode, preferably a two-parter,\u201d Sussman told <em>Trek Movie\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2025\/09\/26\/podcast-mike-sussman-joins-all-access-to-talk-voyager-enterprise-and-his-star-trek-united-pitch\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All Access <em>Star Trek <\/em>podcast<\/a>. \u201cThere was a long discussion [about] getting Bill Shatner on the show \u2014we were trying [for months] to make it happen, but ultimately the network or the studio wouldn\u2019t meet his quote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a shame for many reasons, not the least of which being that the story proposed by Shatner and by writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens actually sounded kind of great. The episodes would have seen Shatner play Kirk\u2019s evil doppelganger again, in a story that both introduced him to <em>Enterprise\u2019s<\/em> Captain Archer and tied into the mysterious Mirror Universe weapon from <em>The Original Series<\/em> known as the Tantalus Device. Its larger purpose was never explained, but this idea would have rewritten it as a sort of time travel grenade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey cooked up a story about Tiberius, whom Shatner would have played. We\u2019d find out he went back in time after being zapped by the Tantalus Device by Mirror Spock,\u201d Sussman said. \u201dAnd now he and Archer \u2014 who start off initially as adversaries \u2014 end up having to work together in order to somehow create the Mirror Universe. I\u2019m sure that would have been a super fun show, but like I said, we couldn\u2019t make the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not just a timey wimey plot worthy of any episode of <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, it also sounds heaps better than what we got instead, which was the widely criticized \u201cIn a Mirror, Darkly\u201d two-parter, which (messily) served as both a prequel to \u201cMirror, Mirror\u201d and a sequel to <em>The Original Series <\/em>installment \u201cThe Tholian Web\u201d. And while it\u2019s certainly unlikely that a Shatner guest appearance could have gotten <em>Enterprise <\/em>a fifth season \u2014 Sussman speculates that the decision to cancel the show had already been made by that point \u2014 it\u2019s yet another interesting entry in an intriguingly long list of what-ifs. At any rate, it certainly would have been entertaining to watch evil Kirk and Archer face off \u2014 and maybe even become friends (frenemies?). 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