He missed some great scenes. I quite enjoyed Thor in this movie, and when I first saw it, I was disappointed he was getting killed off. Going from his performance, I thought he would’ve made a great Kirk (and he’s actually a few years younger than cadet Chris Pine). He missed big-eyed doctor-lady, some great FX, young Kirk destroying Matt-the-mind-reader-from-Heroes’ classic car, Kirk macking on Uhura and a fun barfight, and the introduction of Karl Urban’s fantastic McCoy.
Fun movie!
It’s good to see that lingerie technology doesn’t change in the next 200 years.
Mature technologies can be very conservative.
Exactly.
Instead of clicking on the link, right-click and copy it, then paste it in a new tab. That worked for me.
The problem is that Sherlock Holmes is only allowed in Star Trek movies that involve Data and a holodeck.
Cumberbatch is not one of those actors who always plays the same character. He can change amazingly from project to project. (And I’m not just talking about his hair color.)
Ha! Probably trying to save enough to buy a magazine.
Mine had William Shatner playing James West and Robert Conrad playing Kirk. This made virtually no difference.
Martin Landau played Spock when he traded places with Leonard Nimoy. That also made virtually no difference.
However, Vincent Price, hearing about the part and thinking it a good way to pick up some easy money, decided he wanted to play McCoy. That resulted in the doctor’s part getting ridiculously padded and, as they said back then, it was one farout scene.
They made a pilot together for Alexander the Great back in 1964. I would so have loved for this to be picked up.
There were nods to the canon as I said in my last post. The apple, Captain/Admiral Archer. I think it’s meant to be the same guy, because he has a prized beagle. Of course not the same one, but a beagle nonetheless. And although Pike isn’t nearly as damaged, the wheelchair is clearly a nod. I have to agree on Pon Farr though. He can’t be having an affair if he married someone from Vulcan at age 7 unless he was bucking the tradition even from that age. We can’t do the Captain April stuff because I think that was just in a book and Roddenbury never considered them canon. (Although I like the nod to that Captain’s doctor always wearing a blue sweater by having Beverly wear one often in TNG. And Geordi being named after George LaForge, a fan who had a handicap; he was in a wheelchair.)
At any rate, Shatner approves of Pine in the role, as can be seen here.
“You keep getting me killed.” ~Shatner, playing the new video game which has the rebooted cast in it.
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One of the animated episodes, actually.
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Star Trek 2009 was a good movie. The next one looks amazing. I’d rather boycott the OP than this movie.
That would work:
“To whom to you leave the Empire?”
“To…the…strongest!”
Tragic, really, the way he was beaten out for the part by Peter Falk.
Peter Falk was the perfect Scotty. Great interplay between him and Robert Conrad. As Chief Engineer he always had “Just one more thing.” but Conrad was like “Scotty, I need those engines online now or there won’t be one more thing.” “Aye, Captain.”
Obviously, the characters were shaped by the actors who played them.
And it was a good thing.
Funny you mention V’ger and the Borg…
Just this evening some friends and i were speakign about the ST-verse and one of them suggested that a good idea for a ST movie/show/spinoff would be the introduction to the borg.. How they began with an ernest desire to help, and ultimatly became the assimilating beasts in cubes…
And that to make their start, it begins with the bald chick and the guy from 7th heaven merging at the end of ST:TMP… they get trans-warped/wormholed through space and time…
