I will grant Chris Pine over young Will Shatner, but I have a soft spot in my heart for vainglory that the older Shatner seems to embody, own, and truly dig.

If I think about it, that may be where I stand. Chris Pine is playing a role rather than a captain-shaped space in the plot and it's one I find interesting, where I never felt much of anything about Shatner's Kirk, but I can't imagine him screaming at Ricardo Montalbán or telling a taxi driver, "Well, double dumbass on you!"