More Trek Movie News (From Scifi.com)

[Cmmdr JT Wayland]

That would explain we I couldn't recognise him at all Thanks, Tomcat

Now Eomer I can actualy see in that face

I can live with the most of the actors they have cast. From what little I have seen of Chris Pine, I don't know if he has the age or maturity to play Kirk. Karl Urban as McCoy is a surprise, his resume so far has had him playing action hero roles (apart from playing Cupid on Xena) but I guess he wants to stretch himself.

I still have great reservations about the casting of Simon Pegg as Scotty, I just don't think he is capable of doing justice to the role.

[Scarecrow]

It's official!

TrekMovie.Com

Chris Pine and Karl Urban are signed to play Kirk and McCoy respectively.

So the pic I posted on the previous page is officially our new crew. Surak bless them and all who sail in them!

Now we wait for the first serruptitiously taken set and costume pics and the all important first glimpse of the 're-imagined' TOS Enterprise...

I'm excited about a Trek film again! YAY!

[Cmmdr JT Wayland]

The Galaxy is doomed.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

the all important first glimpse of the 're-imagined' TOS Enterprise...

They're willing to be retro enough to redo TOS, but they aren't willing to let the design well enough alone?

[Jem'hadar]

Urban Is Trek's New Bones
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=44797

[Jem'hadar]

Trek Score Will Keep Theme
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=45151

Lucas Up For Trek's Pike?
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=45071

[Jem'hadar]

Ryder Is Spock's Trek Mom
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=45431

[PGoodman13]

Hmmmm...begs the question, then, who they'll get to play Sarek (if anyone; the character might not be in the script...).

[tonyg]

They're willing to be retro enough to redo TOS, but they aren't willing to let the design well enough alone?

It's Hollywood. They say "Boy, this is such a great show! It's got everything, drama, romance, action. It's Perfect! Now we're gonna IMPROVE it!"

[Scarecrow]

I take it we've all seen Zack Quinto in the ears?

Image gacked from JFXOnline

There's been some net consternation regarding a comment made by New Voyages bigwig, James Cawley. He has seen the design drawings for the new movie TOS Enterprise and as a TOS purist, he doesn't like it one bit. Fair enough, I doubt many old fans of the show will be any happier with the new redesign than they were with the old redesign in the Motion Picture. What's got everyone hot under the collar is the fact that he apparently described it as having wings. THIS IS NOT TRUE It was a mistake. The quote, I believe is actually referring to Star Trek and it's longevity.

tee hee.

Crow

[jkp1187]

Very disappointed in the news I've heard about this so far. Yet another flamin' prequel that (given Nimoy's participation) implies an attempt to adhere to some archaic 'canon'? I don't care about re-casting the old cast, but if you're going to do that, then throw out the whole playbook and start from scratch by coming up with a good, believable story, not just another game of trying to fit a story into a box whose very dimensions were laid out by some writers in 1967 who never imagined that they were setting down a continuity that would still be maintained forty years later.

More importantly, our conceptions of what exists out there and what is possible have changed. Would Star Trek be Star Trek without transporter beams? Without a dozen flavor-of-the-month aliens that all mysteriously look like Humans wearing make-up, instead of being truly alien? Without an all-encompassing neo-socialist bureaucracy? Without starships that look like modified flying saucers? Without writers trying to make sure that their story line doesn't contradict a throwaway line uttered by Jonathan Frakes fifteen years ago?

I don't know. But it would've been nice to see something taking the spirit of Star Trek (Humans exploring the local area of space, encountering strange new worlds, with a spirit of cooperation among the nations of Earth) while challenging or otherwise discarding at least one or two of the things mentioned in my previous paragraph.

As it is now, I'm disinclined to watch the thing.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

It's Hollywood. They say "Boy, this is such a great show! It's got everything, drama, romance, action. It's Perfect! Now we're gonna IMPROVE it!"

"Let's make it look like all that other stuff that made us money."

[Scarecrow]

Me, I'm really looking forward to it. I don't know why. I agree with everything jkp1187 said and I should be dreading it but I can't wait to see the new uniforms and the new Enterprise.

The story apparently involves

 

Time travel and the Guardian of Forever and Romulans

which bodes really, really ill before we even start, but I'm still excited about it. I haven't been this excited about a Trek movie, well... ever!

I just wonder if my enthusiasm will extend beyond the first publicity shots of the new Enterprise and the new uniforms

Crow

[Cut]

I think that the shots of the new Enterprise will either bring in the old timers or send them running away. It'll be interesting to see, if they are going for the old timers or if they want to get some new blood with an all new design!

I hope they stick to what they have...

[C5]

Isn't that the case with every change brought to the Trekverse since the first movie ? Some like it and others loathe it, this is the fun of Trekdom...
At least that movie will get support from the Bermann&Braga-haters, if only because they have nothing to do with it.

As for me, I just keep hoping my only interest in the movie won't be the opportunity to utter "tick toc, tick toc" every time Zachary Quinto as Spock is on screen...