The actor who brought the young James T. Kirk to life says the upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release will include deleted scenes that will help some things make a bit more sense.
“The kid that I waved to when I was driving was actually my brother, and I wish that they would have [included] that scene. Because people were like, ‘Who was that kid that you were waving to?'” actor Jimmy Bennett told SciFi Wire.
Fans of the classic series would have been happy to see the acknowledgment of Kirk’s brother, George Samuel Kirk. The character was featured in the original series episode “Operation: Annihilate!”
Bennett said that Abrams also shot a scene that involved Kirk’s uncle Frank, played by Brad William Henke, which leads up to the sequence with the stolen car in the film and the character’s momentary on-screen acknowledgment of his brother. “They ended up cutting out a scene where my brother runs away and I get in a fight with my uncle,” Bennett said.
“I end up taking his car,” Bennett continued. “Because I was washing it or whatever, and I find the keys in the mirror, and I put it in the ignition, and I just take off. Then that’s how my uncle calls my mom, so that’s kind of how that worked.”
By the time the final cut of the film hit theaters, “Uncle Frank” had transformed into a stepdad voiced (on a car speakerphone) by Greg Grunberg. At least that’s how we think it played out.
Fans will get to see the DVD and Blu-Ray deleted scenes with “Star Trek” hits stores in November.
Warning — Possible Spoiler:
According to the book adaptation, the man he stole the car from was his step father, who he found out was selling the car. The car was his fathers, (not stepfathers) and was upset that it would just be sold off. I am not saying that he is wrong, but that was the story according to the book. The book explains much more than the movie could. So far, the books are better than the movies.
They probably filmed some stuff, thought it overly complicated things, and then got rid of it. And then when they wrote the book they found a better way of working with it (uncle vs step dad). I never had a lot of trouble with either the movie or the book. People complained about the “plot hole” of the brother when the film came back but I just figured he was off ship and at school since the original Enterprise wasn’t a family ship. I didn’t need to see the brother, but it is nice some of that might be made more apparent to everyone else when it comes out on DVD.