Beacuse "fuck me ! " never goes over at an audition as well as you think it will ?
I like the idea and I am very much old-school S.T. Went to cons in the early 1970’s when they were really taking off, etc. Why not give it a shot? They ARE great characters.
Terrific hijack- who do we want as the secondary characters?
Chekov:
Uhura:
Yeo(w)man Rand:
The Computer Voice:
Cartooniverse
Why not Majel Barrett for the computer voice? She did do the comp voice in all 5 ST series. It would be a nice tribute to Roddenberry and TOS and wouldn’t necessitate any screen time.
great as Kirk, sure, but isn’t he a little long in the tooth for this cast?
Okay, my bad - I mis-understood that Daniel Dae Kim had been picked to play Sulu; Jim says it is actually just speculation still at this point, that he got from the Memory Alpha website.
why is everyone so set on the Big 3 being together with the Enterprise crew? maybe the rest of the cast is entirely new characters.
Yeah, Spock spent 11 years with Pike and Co. on Enterprise (NCC-1701) while Jimmy Boy was busy dissing Finney on the Republic (NCC-1371). Iirc, both were ‘interning’ (more or less, at least at first) on their respective assignments while still ‘at’ Academy.
Okay, I’m nitpicking, phaser me with a phaser cutting phaser.
I understand the film is set in the early years of Kirk’s captaincy of the Enterprise. Scotty and Sulu at least were in the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” I can’t speak for other fans, but I think a film set early in Kirk’s five-year mission should have the familiar crew that served with him throughout his captaincy of both the Enterprise NCC-1701 and the 1701-A.
The [roblem with “How would you cast this?” questions - and it’s fun and all, I’m just pointing something out - is that they always end up being a case of “Who do I think LOOKS the part among actors who’ve recently been successful?”
When they cast “X-Men,” two people were actually cast in the roles a lot of people had theoretically placed them in - Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, and Halle Berry as Storm. The former worked out; the latter is generally not considered to be a great fit, although the part’s been underwritten. (A lot of folks would have picked Kelsey Grammer for the Beast, too, I guess.)
But who would EVER have thought of Hugh Jackman to play Wolverine? Nobody, that’s who. Jackman was essentially unknown outside of Australia and wouldn’t have been a common pick there, either. But he is, by far, the best-cast role in the X-Men series, because the casting people knew what they were doing. I also doubt too many people would have thought “Famke Janssen” when casting Jean Grey, but that was a great choice, as it turned out.
Similarly, nobody knew Christopher Reeve before “Superman,” but he was perfect. Few would have picked Tobey Maguire as Spider-man, but that was some brilliant casting.
If a new Star Trek movie is to work they’ve got to take some chances. I actually like Gary Sinise as Bones, and I like Matt Damon in anything, but they’d be better off NOT making this a star-studded epic. Get back to basics and reinvent the universe along lines of (a) continuity with the original series and (b) a logical but creative take on the Star Trek universe.
The thread title, really, is a mistake in itself. Even if you hate the casting choices, you can’t stick a fork in the Star Trek series and say it’s done now. The Star Trek series has been dead for years. They haven’t made a movie that was worth watching since “First Contact,” and really, out of ten movies only three were any good at all. (I know I’m in a small minority but I think #6 was a terrible, terrible movie.) The last two television serieses were not generally well regarded. This franchise is at a nadir. If they’re going to resurrect it it needs to be a very fresh take… just as “Wrath of Khan” completely rethought the direction of the first movie, and came out with a hell of a picture.
Younger attempt at a cast:
Jensen Ackles as Kirk (okay, I love Jensen Ackles, okay? And Dean Winchester is very Kirky)
Zach Quinto as Spock
Kiefer Sutherland as McCoy (it’s insane, I know. But imagine him saying, "I’m a doctor, not a federal agent! It’s perfect!)
then shamelessly stealing from featherlou above:
Rosario Dawson for Uhura
James Kyson Lee for Sulu
Shia LaBeouf for Chekov
Ewan MacGregor for Scotty
No, by G-d, he should be a Red Shirt. 
…or maybe he should be Kirk…“Get off my ship, or billions of people will die!”