I think small universes can be fun. Uhura meeting Spock for the first time, finding out how that relationship went/didn't in the Prime universe...
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Kurtzman is a Mass Effect fan. Like how JJ is a Star Wars fan. It will influence what is produced in Trek.
Plus, we haven’t seen hour long standalone episodes for a full Star Trek season from Kurtzman’s team yet. Everything has been either a season long arc (DIS, PIC), or lasts a half hour or less (ST, LD). And we've seen better season long arcs with ENT’s S3 and DS9’s lengthy Dominion War arc, even though I can think of numerous ways to make ENT's and DS9's arcs better. I look forwards to seeing what Kurtzman's team brings with SNW.
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I really don't want SNW to be TOS Babies. Spock is a major character, of course. But beyond that, I really don't have a burning desire to see the main characters from TOS be recast again.
That said, I wouldn't be mad to see Uhura as a major character. For all of her cultural significance, the character really didn't have a lot to do in TOS. Giving her some screen time and characterization could be nice.
That said, I wouldn't be mad to see Uhura as a major character. For all of her cultural significance, the character really didn't have a lot to do in TOS. Giving her some screen time and characterization could be nice.
I expect that SNW will be a touch less stand-alone than they're suggesting. There's likely to be some linkage in terms of character arcs and each week's assignments/discoveries impacting later stories to a great degree than we saw on TNG.
I'd like to see non-European and non-American actors playing non-European characters on a series - including especially Uhura and Sulu if they were ever to show up. It's rare to even to hear English spoken with any accent in Trek other than American or UK that's not a put-on.
I'd like to see non-European and non-American actors playing non-European characters on a series - including especially Uhura and Sulu if they were ever to show up. It's rare to even to hear English spoken with any accent in Trek other than American or UK that's not a put-on.
Whatever fan fiction you come up with here will be more fun than any on screen small universe shenanigans presented.
Only issue with Sulu is he was born and raised in San Francisco. Also I wonder if the actors they would hire would try and emulate their voice where they are doing a impression as much as a performance.
Sulu would have an American accent. Chekov was the closest we got to a character with a genuine-sounding foreign accent and even that was the interpretation of a Russian accent by a Lithuanian-American actor.
And as a kid I didn't even think Chekov's accent was over-the-top. To be fair some Soviets sounded like Koenig's portrayal of Chekov. I mean, not to be indelicate, but some Cold War Era accents could be pretty exaggerated.
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I didn't get into Trek until I was a teenager but I didn't notice either. Even today I still got the stereotype of Russians wearing thick fur coats, drinking vodka and calling everyone comrade still in my head. Not Russian but back then I even use to think British people still said, Stiff upper lip to each other.
Koenig actually spoke Russian in TSFS, something that wouldn't again happen in the franchise until Trek 2009. And no, I don't think the Rozhenkos in TNG ever spoke it.
Yep. But in 1990 the USSR still existed and Hollywood just generally lumped the Soviet nationalities together under the Russian cultural influence.
I think she was already graduated, and back at the Academy for Command "graduate school". Probably graduated as a Science Officer and decided to back to study Command.
I think the reason his entrance exam was so rigorous is because he was younger than is normally allowed. There's no way everyone goes through that to get in.
Statistically speaking, some of Kirk's crew were there before him, it's just a matter of deciding who else other than Spock.
More than five years before though?
It might work for Scotty. Scotty was 11 years older than Kirk. But the others besides Spock? No way.
I could see Sulu and Uhura being their before Kirk but maybe not senior officers. That itself might be a issue with how they use Uhura on this show. She could be straight out of the Academy. Granted Kim was straight out of the Academy and was senior staff from day 1
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