And Pine looks nothing like Shatner. Suspension of disbelief, and all that.
Ethan Peck cast as DSC's Spock
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Yes, because the Enterprise was within spitting distance of the Discovery for some reason other than the writers wanting the Enterprise to show up.
In all seriousness, I don’t object to Discovery’s fan service — All Access is being built on the wallets of Trek diehards, after all. But let’s not pretend Discovery’s not doled out more of it than the previous shows.
Like any other two ships in Star Trek since TOS, glad we settled that.
That’s right, it’s all the writers’ whim. Which is why we can criticize the writers’ choices when they choose to serve up fan service so often. (Or praise them, if that’s your bag.)
Indeed, only they've done it as much or more every time. DSC is not remotely new in that. Infact it predates both of us.
Yeah, this is something that's started to worry me too. Originally I thought Enterprise & Pike would be around for, say, the first few episodes, leading us forward from where the finale left us, then in would be business as usual for Disco, with perhaps a return of the Enterprise at the end of the season. But more and more it seems as though Pike & Co. are going to have a heavy presence throughout the whole season, and I'm not sure how much I like that.
Maybe CBS is using the Enterprise/Pike arc as kind of an extended backdoor pilot for a potential "Enterprise: Pike" series. They did say recently they'd like to see a bunch of new Trek shows running on All-Access, so who knows!
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The actor who will play Spock in Star Trek: Discovery is Ethan Peck. “Through fifty-two years of television and film, a parallel...
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The actor who will play Spock in Star Trek: Discovery is Ethan Peck. “Through fifty-two years of television and film, a parallel...
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This.
I still think they should focus more on producing good Trek, not merely more of it. Sigh.Maybe CBS is using the Enterprise/Pike arc as kind of an extended backdoor pilot for a potential "Enterprise: Pike" series. They did say recently they'd like to see a bunch of new Trek shows running on All-Access, so who knows!
Ethan Peck looks good for the part. Let‘s hope he can act.
Didn't stop a lot of the other previous actors, but yeah it would be a nice change.
And in ds9's first season, they transferred Miles O'Brien (and wanted Ensign Ro), brought in the enterprise and Picard, gave the hero a connection to Picard and showed Wolf 359, brought back Q and Vash (another Picard name-drop), and did a Lwaxana Troi episode. It isn't unusual for Trek to mine its own history early on, especially when the setting (contemporaneous and geographically close to another known setting) allows it with ease. Voyager (too far away) couldn't do it as much although even then when they did call home, of course its Troi and Barclay who are involved.
The Macumberbatch Affair
Only the USS Valiant
The Million Pound Vulcan (reboot of The Infinite Vulcan)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Alternate Tunic
Behold A Pale Spock
Marooned: The Monster Years
Billy Two Spocks (reboot of The Enemy Within)
The Blue and the Gray Alternate Tunic (sequel to the above)
Amazing Grayson and Spock (an Amanda and Spock story)
And, of course, the slash-fic favorite:
Captain Horatio Spockblower
Devil's advocate, but "more" does increase the chances that some of what they make will be "good," or at least to your/my/BillJ/Vger23/etc. particular tastes.
Why does the number of actors matter? Superman was invented in the 1930s. Spock was invented in the 1960s. Stands to reason that more actors have played Superman than Spock at this point.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that way more actors have played Oedipus than have played Spock. Doesn't mean that you can't recast Spock as many times as necessary.
Barclay was involved even before they could talk with home. He was literally a holographic hallucination of the Doctor. Plus, Voyager launched from DS9 with the requisite cameos and the entire premise was built on the concept of the Maquis.
Why not? You could say the same thing about, say, Jason Isaacs / Lorca.
Anyway, it could also be the case that they DID go through a lot of effort to cast Spock, along with the other major players on the Enterprise bridge, because following Discovery Season 2 will be a Pike/Spock/Number One Enterprise series.
Yeah, this is something that's started to worry me too. Originally I thought Enterprise & Pike would be around for, say, the first few episodes, leading us forward from where the finale left us, then in would be business as usual for Disco, with perhaps a return of the Enterprise at the end of the season. But more and more it seems as though Pike & Co. are going to have a heavy presence throughout the whole season, and I'm not sure how much I like that.
Maybe CBS is using the Enterprise/Pike arc as kind of an extended backdoor pilot for a potential "Enterprise: Pike" series. They did say recently they'd like to see a bunch of new Trek shows running on All-Access, so who knows!
Nonsense. What we saw in the trailer was from one, maybe two episodes. So, like you suggested, a few episodes. And for all we know, Spock will only show up in the last two episodes, since the hinting in the trailer is all about Spock being gone right now.
Really, you're overthinking this.
That‘s an interesting way to look at it, but I guess you are right. Just like a broken clock going right twice a day these producers are bound to produce something better than season one of Discovery eventually.