Paul Wesley's incarnation of James T. Kirk

I think the reason some people are "meh" on Paul Wesley is because many have very high expectations on the James Kirk character. Young , alternate timline , or otherwise. He and Spock is as big as you can get for legacy characters. I realize SNW showrunners may not intend for this Kirk to be the focus. . But Personally for such iconic character, I think you should make an exception and cast the best possible actor for the role . Will reserve my final judgment until I see season 2.

 

All the more reason to not have Kirk. Expectations will never be met.

 

The alternative timeline thing is dumb.

 

Better than most time travel stories.

 

Wesley comes across very well in his five or six seconds of the new trailer.

 

I agree. What he says about their job being always close to death (or something close to that!) sounds very Kirk-like.

 

Wesley strikes me as much closer to TOS Season one Kirk in this clip.

 

He can work a little pausing intonation in there without going over the topic with it like Shatner.

 

Agreed.

However, the "Our job puts up against death..." line feels like it could have been plucked right out of the Picard trailer, which taps into a lingering fear.

As Pine did when he was at his best.

 

As long as he is James R. Kirk.

 

It also, to me, puts it in line with what Kirk would face in later years about cheating death and "patting himself on the back for his ingenuity". I like that he says it in this series, since it makes it something he always knows is just around every corner of space and he has every intention of cheating it.

 

Our young Captain Kirk could be a pretty grim fellow in the first year of TOS.

 

Yep. "Recognizable" Captain Kirk is more of a product of Seasons 2 and 3 than anything else.

 

I know it's not a hard contradiction, but Space Seed's just going to seem so strange now with Kirk and Spock learning Khan's identity and not once mentioning La'an among themselves.

 

Yeah, like Khan suddenly knowing Chekov twenty years later.

I've seen, I think, four Hollywood movies about the Earps and the Clantons at the O.K. Corral. More have no doubt been made; Wyatt Earp was his own best press agent to the entertainment industry.

The films I've seen are deeply contradictory, while sharing certain broad characteristics and similar versions of some incidents.

And that's shit that really happened. More or less.

 

We still don't know if La'an mentions her Augment ancestry to Kirk. She could just be La'an. Noonien and Singh aren't exactly totally uncommon surnames in Trek's time. Hell, there's a South Asian-looking officer aboard Kirk's Enterprise in TOS named Singh and he was serving on the ship at roughly the same time Khan and his followers were rescued.

Spock? Sure. But that guy kept the identities of his father and mother unrevealed and didn't even once mention his older half-brother, at least until he had to.

 

And his doctor didn't serve drinks.

 

It was in the beans.

 

To others.

 

You really love that!