Shatner talks about being left off the new Star Trek flick - VIDEO

Recently, I hepped you to news that Leonard Nimoy would be appearing in JJ Abrams' Star Trek XI, but that William "Captain kirk" Shatner would not.

The full cast will be announced at Comic Con, which kicks off later this month, so until then we can only speculate on what Nimoy's role will be, if indeed all this Web scuttlebutt is true.

Lending some credence to the the Nimoy rumor is Shatner himself, who, in the video below, talks about getting a phone call from Nimoy, who informed his old friend that he had landed a role in the movie and Shatner had not. Again, how much of this is just Shatner playing around and how much of it is actually true remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, Rotten Tomatoes has a round-up of recent Trek gossip, including the possibility of Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes) as a young Spock. The film comes out on December 25, 2008.