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The article states that the crew meets at SF Academy, and embarks on their first voyage.
I presume everyone will be at the Original Series ranks?
Up to now, I had ASSuMEd that the cast would be portrayed as officer cadets, and they established their relationships long before meeting up on the “Big E”, and that this was what we were going to see…
Has Abrams ever explained why he has McCoy at all, since he wasn’t in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”? Or is there a fanwank that I don’t know about?
By fanwank, do you mean a screwing over of the fans?
I’m guessing they are not worring too much about continuity.
Yeah, it takes a tough guy to fight giant rabbits or sit at a table and be Wyatt Earp’s bro.
Wiki’s no help: Leonard McCoy - Wikipedia
No indication there that McCoy knew Kirk before becoming CMO.
Paramount has changed canon when it suites them, if necessary.
Forget continuity. I think the should cast a woman as Bones. Perhaps one of the Deschanel sisters…
In the absence of canon from Star Trek, there is room for speculation, of course. In the novel Crisis on Centaurus, Brad Ferguson gives Kirk and McCoy’s backstory. When Kirk was a young lieutenant on the U.S.S. Farragut, he was injured on an away mission, which necessitated a few months of therapy before he could return to active duty. Dr. McCoy was placed in charge of Kirk’s rehab. Later, when he assumed command of the Enterprise, a grateful Kirk offered Bones the position of CMO. A backstory like this would make more sense to me than having Kirk and McCoy meet at the Academy. Although, according to the character biographies at startrek.com , Bones had just finished medical training a year before Kirk graduated from the Academy in 2254. It seems to me that Bones would have had to undergo some officer training in order to be granted the rank of lieutenant commander, even though he wasn’t on track to be a regular Starfleet officer. So it seems plausible that McCoy and Kirk would have crossed paths sometime during Kirk’s senior year.
Having them all embark on their first mission together straight out of Starfleet Academy is ludicrous, though. Spock was (will be?) posted to the Enterprise as a cadet under Chris Pike in 2253. Kirk graduates from the Academy in 2254 and takes 10 years to reach captain rank with his commission aboard the Enterprise in 2264.
A fanwank is when fans of a series come up with possible, although often convoluted, explanations as to why what appears to be a continuity error isn’t.
Oh I know. I’m still bitter that TAS was declared non-canon almost in toto.
No Clue Boy , where are you? Here is a Trek thread, and by the way, I don’t think I have the email addresses you had asked me for a week ago.
Walloon, looking back over your posts, I see quite a few admonishments from you concerning other people’s language. Thing is, we don’t have any language police here, and I doubt the best interests of the board would be served by placing that burden on your shoulders. Making an appearance just to wag a schoolmarm’s finger at those whom you feel are violating some unwritten social rule doesn’t contribute to the thread and unnecessarily distracts from the conversation.
If you come across a post you feel violates our rules, please report it. Otherwise, if you’re coming into a thread just to make a comment similar to the one above, please resist.
This is going to be one excruciatingly hot Star Trek remake. I hope a subplot involves most of the male cast to be shirtless and oiled.
Uh… I don’t. I really, really don’t.
Sigh… well as a long time fan I have never retroconned or fan wanked (Is that the right usage???) anything.
When asked to explain Klingon’s and the changed looks I stare at the smirking questioner and say “Better make effects, stupid”
How Did Kirk’s name go from James R Kirk to james T Kirk? “The writers didn’t bother to look over the pilot, stupid”
Why does Spock Grin and shout in the first few episodes then claim to be emotionless later. Nimoy, the directors, and writers hadn’t figured out what tehy wanted to do with the charcater early on, stupid"
After a while they get sick of being called stupid and walk away angry (If they don’t take a swing first). Seriously I love Trek, but I never try to explain away errors, I rather enjoy them… stupid (the errors, not you dear reader.)
I have no idea who Chris Pine is, but for perspective, frickin’ William Shatner pulled it off. How much worse can this Pine guy be? Unless he has Keanu Reeves levels of suck, he should be fine.
Those aren’t admonishments, Skip. I’m praising his nice language.
Dr. McCoy was not a hunk.
“Dammit, Jim, I’m a drunk, not a hunk!”
With Karl Urban, it’s going to be…
Hack, slash, stab
“He’s dead, Jim”
Turn, lunge, thrust
“He’s dead Jim”
Spin, parry, thrust
“He’s dead Jim”
Kick, punch, twist
“He’s fucking dead Jim”
Damnit Jim, I’m an action star, not a Doctor!
The “fanwank” explanation for why McCoy was not aboard the Big E during the events of “Where No Man Has Gone Before” is that he was on temporary duty on Capella studying the natives (as revealed in the episode “Friday’s Child”), and was temporarily replaced by Dr. Piper (Paul Fix).
Seriously. . .
Sir Rhosis