Did anyone else see this quote?

[Stag]

What if the heresy is they change the voice over words for ..."Space...the final frontier..." and they were just throwing out a red herring to lather up the hard core fan base speculators.

 

[Luminus]

Spoiler

Close, maybe Captain Robau and Kirk's father, George Samuel Kirk, Sr.

I don't think that would be "emotional" enough for the audience. I mean, really, who cares if Kirk's father dies?

I think it would. It'll hang as a dark note to bring the audience in.

A mysterious attach, someone asking for George Kirk, then the Kelvin destroyed is a very dramatic opening.

Then cutting to a young boy (James) hearing that his father is killed? Heartbreaking.

Showing that emotional his on the child, then moving through that kids life, and at a certain point, the adult Kirk has to face that emotional sore spot.

It provides an emotional anchor and some depth to James Kirk in the film, and there is little that is more powerful that a 12 year old boy hearing that his father has been killed in the line of duty.

This could bring many viewers to a state of tears.

No, it wouldn't, because Kirk never talked about his father. He's irrelevant to Trek outside of being responsible for the creation of Kirk, that is. It would be contrived plotting at best, just like that contrived plotting in Star Trek 3 with Kirk's son. Of all the women Kirk slept with over the years, he has a child with one we've never seen or herad of before.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Of all the women Kirk slept with over the years, he has a child with one we've never seen or herad of before.

Since Carol Marcus became a scientist, she was most probably the "blonde lab assistant" whom Gary Mitchell set him up with ("Where No Man..."), esp. since Kirk claims he "almost married her".

 

[Kelso]

^ Unless that was Dr. Janet Wallace.

 

[Luminus]

You have zero proof that was the same woman.

 

[Knucles2]

What if things aren't set back to "normal" though, and now we have a new normal

Well, then we have a new "normal."

I.'m all for "new normals". Old "normals" tend to become "abnormals". And we all know what happens when we let "A.B.normals" hand around too long...

 

[richpit]

It was his final front ear.

That's hilarious!!

 

[Michael]

You have zero proof that was the same woman.

Ever heard of a thing called imagination?

 

[CommanderRaytas]

^ Imagination, imagination, what is imagination?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Unless that was Dr. Janet Wallace.

In fact, one proposed story for ST II included endocrinologist Dr Janet Wallace and Kirk's son, Dr David Wallace, but the production team realised that it might infer that Kirk played up to Janet while she was married to Theodore Wallace (mentioned in "The Deadly Years").

You have zero proof that was the same woman.

And yet you reject the concept of "a child with one we've never seen or herad of before"?

 

[Luminus]

You two are reaching really far into imagination with that assumption.