Cast the Characters of Trek Literature

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by Haval_Runa, Apr 10, 2006.

  1. Mr. Laser Beam

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    He was pretty good on Law & Order: LA.
     
  2. Christopher

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    I didn't think so. Not actively bad, perhaps, just kind of meh. IMHO.
     
  3. WarsTrek1993

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    I kept imagining Howard as Sam Bowers in Destiny for some reason.
     
  4. JD

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    I like Roger Cross for Bowers myself, but I could see Terrence Howard as a pretty good runner up. I liked him in the first Iron Man.
    What do you guys think of Tzi Ma for Admr. Nogura?
     
  5. Christopher

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    Hmm, maybe, except he's Chinese instead of Japanese. And in the Vanguard novels, the authors have definitely written Nogura as though he were being played by the late Mako -- particularly in Storming Heaven, where there are repeated, colorful references to his gravelly voice.
     
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    Too bad Mako died. :( He would've made quite a good Nogura.
     
  7. Rush Limborg

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    Well, FWIW, Sulu's supposed to be Japanese--and yet JJ cast a Korean to play him.
     
  8. Skywalker

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    Sulu's not solely Japanese, he's of mixed Asian descent.
     
  9. Christopher

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    Quite right. "Sulu" isn't even a Japanese name; it's the name of a sea in the Philippines. Sulu was meant to represent a "pan-Asian" heritage. (The name "Sulu" is so un-Japanese, in fact, that in the Japanese dub they renamed him Kato.)
     
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    ^^ Besides, he also had an Englishman play a Frenchman. And use the worst French accent, to boot. ;)
     
  11. captcalhoun

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    not to mention a canadian playing an american, another canadian playing a scot, an american playing a russian and an American playing someone from Luna.
     
  12. Captaindemotion

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    As if the whole Pink Panther/ Green Hornet two Katos thing didn't already have me confused enough...
     
  13. Christopher

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    ^Well, in Japanese, Kato would be pronounced "kah-to" rather than "kay-to."
     
  14. Mr. Laser Beam

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    In the DTI novels: how about Faran Tahir as Ranjea?
     
  15. Christopher

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    Maybe, though I had Sendhil Ramamurthy in mind.
     
  16. WarsTrek1993

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    Anyone else think Michael Ironside would do good in Star Trek?

    I can't decide who he'd play, maybe a Romulan?
     
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    I knew about Mako for Nogura, but I was trying to go with someone who's still alive. I know this is fantasy casting, so we don't have to stick with living people, but I was trying to treat this like I was actually casting this as a TV show that would be possible to make now.
    And there have been plenty of situations where people of one nationality were played a character who was another.
     
  19. tafkats

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    Too young. I picture someone more grandfatherly, maybe a little paunchy.
     
  20. Mr. Laser Beam

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