LOL, every time we see these photos of Zachary Quinto as Spock and Eric Bana as a Romulan (pictured above), we can’t help, but laugh our heads off. Did everyone really have to play a younger version of the classic cast. Really? So we’re basically getting new actors doing their caricature takes on Scotty, Sulu, Kirk, etc.?
Man, that sounds like a horrible idea. Couldn’t they have set it around that era? Do the same people in the military ever really serve on the same vessel for like 40-years of their lives? So their careers are frozen in time and they never get promoted or shift around? (Ok, we think they started to around Star Trek 12, it’s hard to keep track when you don’t give a flying fuck). It’s like the Star Wars universe which includes thousands of galaxies, planets and people, but it’s always the same 6 people connected to one another (did it really need to be Chewbacca that was the Wookie that met Yoda, couldn’t have been any other fucking member of that race? SHEESH).
The film stars… oh, who are we kidding, we don’t give a fuck, but note that Winona Ryder is in this thing somewhere too, but it’s currently unknown who she hooks up with in lieu of no lead singer.
When has Star Trek not been laughable and retarded?
True enough.
If the kid playing Kirk speaks in that same stutter start talking blabber as Shatner I’m gonna take a knife to the screen.
Incidentally, are Adam West (OG TV Batman) and William Shatner long lost brothers? they have the same fucked up speech pattern.
Good point about the Chewbacca/Yoda/same characters argument, but the flip side is that it’s so unappealing when those sci-fi universes unfold exponentially with even-more-bizzarely-named characters that are there just as filler.
As much as Star Trek could’ve/should’ve been about anyone, recognizable characters (in theory) make it appealing to Trekkies and casual fans alike. It may not be pretty, but it’s truthful.
I think it will be good. My friend is working for Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead director. Wright was invited to watch a private screening by Abrams. Wright said it was good.
Too many haters on this site. Probably should hold judgment til after checking it out.