Tons of New Kelvin Info! (Including crew pics)

[Nerys Myk]

... More respect has been paid to accuracy with regard to the European characters...

I mostly agree with you here. My point, though, is that we know Scotty is Scottish, Kirk is American, and Chekov is Russian. We don't know, other than Takei's ethnicity, if Sulu is Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or all three.

Didn't the cut scene from TVH where Sulu meets his ancestor take place in Chinatown?

 

[Basil]

... More respect has been paid to accuracy with regard to the European characters...

I mostly agree with you here. My point, though, is that we know Scotty is Scottish, Kirk is American, and Chekov is Russian. We don't know, other than Takei's ethnicity, if Sulu is Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or all three.

That's true and a good point, though I guess we now know Sulu is American-born, and presumably American by citizenship.

 

[Basil]

... More respect has been paid to accuracy with regard to the European characters...

I mostly agree with you here. My point, though, is that we know Scotty is Scottish, Kirk is American, and Chekov is Russian. We don't know, other than Takei's ethnicity, if Sulu is Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or all three.

Didn't the cut scene from TVH where Sulu meets his ancestor take place in Chinatown?

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

 

[RAMA]

Also seems to be just another attempt at some Star Wars-ification of this brand of Abrams Trek. .

There is no logic to the statement whatsoever, in fact its so ridiculous it should probably be deleted from this thread. Why do I even bother...

RAMA

 

[Praetor]

The Kelvin looks smaller than a TOS Constitution-class ship, possibly similar in dimensions to Archer's NX-class Enterprise from almost a century earlier.

Actually the NX's saucer is a little bigger than the 1701's, it's only the stubby nacelles and lack of secondary hull that really make it any smaller in length - 225 to 1701's presumed 289.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Of course the real reason for this is the fact that TOS didn't have a large enough budget to include too many aliens.

Also, TOS went on for quite a bit of the first season before the notion that the Enterprise represented something more than an Earth-centered human civilization began to seep in to the scripts.

 

[BillJ]

Am I the only one that gets more of a Jim Kirk vibe from Chris Hemsworth than Chris Pine?

 

[Ravager]

Am I the only one that gets more of a Jim Kirk vibe from Chris Hemsworth than Chris Pine?

In my eyes he would be almost dead on!

Very close.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I mostly agree with you here. My point, though, is that we know Scotty is Scottish, Kirk is American, and Chekov is Russian. We don't know, other than Takei's ethnicity, if Sulu is Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or all three.

Didn't the cut scene from TVH where Sulu meets his ancestor take place in Chinatown?

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

 

[SonicRanger]

Didn't the cut scene from TVH where Sulu meets his ancestor take place in Chinatown?

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

Well, we know that the crew splits up at the junction of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific Avenues in San Francisco. Chinatown is practically right there, just a block or two to the west, where Sulu, Bones, and Scotty could walk in the few minutes while Kirk and Spock were trying to board a bus.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Didn't the cut scene from TVH where Sulu meets his ancestor take place in Chinatown?

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

Worse in what way? Sulu has ancestry that includes Chinese, Japanese and Filipino.

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

NO idea what so ever.

 

[Basil]

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

Well, we know that the crew splits up at the junction of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific Avenues in San Francisco. Chinatown is practically right there, just a block or two to the west, where Sulu, Bones, and Scotty could walk in the few minutes while Kirk and Spock were trying to board a bus.

Since the actual scene doesn't appear in the film, it's hard to say where precisely it's supposed to take place. But the arguing couple in the scene that made it into the film certainly sound like they're speaking a Chinese dialect to me.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

No, I'm not crying canon violation over this, but it does seem odd. Gold was the command colour in Archer's era, and is the command colour in Kirk and Pike's era, so it seems odd between these two eras Starfleet temporarily switched to blue. We shall call this the Badass Era, because Richard Robau is badass!

Captain Robau is so badass that they let him pick the colors.

 

[Maurice]

NO idea what so ever.

I can tell you EXACTLY where that is. It's not far from Chinatown...in fact, it's on the same street as Chinatown's main drag. But this spot is just north of Chinatown, across Columbus St., in North Beach, the Italian neighborhood. Specifically, it's the corner of Grant and Fresno, and that Saloon they're walking in front of is still there, and the outside still looks the same.
Click here to see it now!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This is what I'm talking about -- it just keeps getting worse.

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

Well, we know that the crew splits up at the junction of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific Avenues in San Francisco. Chinatown is practically right there, just a block or two to the west, where Sulu, Bones, and Scotty could walk in the few minutes while Kirk and Spock were trying to board a bus.

But this isn't evidence of a racist conspiracy or anything like that. I mean, who but real San Franciscans (which I obviously am not) would even recognize where that scene was in the first place?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Actually we have no idea where, specifically, that scene takes place. It could have been anywhere in San Francisco.

Well, we know that the crew splits up at the junction of Columbus, Kearny, and Pacific Avenues in San Francisco. Chinatown is practically right there, just a block or two to the west, where Sulu, Bones, and Scotty could walk in the few minutes while Kirk and Spock were trying to board a bus.

But this isn't evidence of a racist conspiracy or anything like that. I mean, who but real San Franciscans (which I obviously am not) would even recognize where that scene was in the first place?

The large number of Chinese people in the scene?

 

[Skywalker]

... More respect has been paid to accuracy with regard to the European characters...

I mostly agree with you here. My point, though, is that we know Scotty is Scottish, Kirk is American, and Chekov is Russian. We don't know, other than Takei's ethnicity, if Sulu is Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or all three.

Sulu is American.

ETA: Bah! I didn't notice there was an entire new page after SonicRanger's post.

 

[captainkirk]

Gold was the command colour in Archer's era, and is the command colour in Kirk and Pike's era, so it seems odd between these two eras Starfleet temporarily switched to blue.

Maybe Enterprise is no longer considered canon. Wouldn't that be awesome?

 

[number6]

Gold was the command colour in Archer's era, and is the command colour in Kirk and Pike's era, so it seems odd between these two eras Starfleet temporarily switched to blue.

Maybe Enterprise is no longer considered canon. Wouldn't that be awesome?

No.

 

[Skywalker]

Gold was the command colour in Archer's era, and is the command colour in Kirk and Pike's era, so it seems odd between these two eras Starfleet temporarily switched to blue.

Maybe Enterprise is no longer considered canon. Wouldn't that be awesome?

No.

Ditto that!