Will Pine and Quinto replace Shatner and Nimoy on the covers?

[Therin of Andor]

Oh...you just wait...

Exactly? You saw "Time After Time"? Well Nicholas Meyer knew how to create a real time machine for HG Wells (who looked rather like a progeny of Dr Soran) in his battle with Gorkon, I mean Jack the Ripper, or was it St John Talbot? Anyway, Old Spock now has access to a time machine in the new movie, so he already knows what Pine will look like when he's older, which is also why the cover of Diane Carey's "Best Destiny" is able to predict Young Kirk so well... JJ was testing his device in "Lost" last season!

 

[Man of Steel]

New books will feature the new cast, but they'll only be sold in an alternate reality where Borders bookstores reign supreme.

Dayton,

That chair suits you. Do we have to call you Captain now?

 

[Lynx]

If the film is a hit will pocket books replace Shatner and Nimoys image's with quinto and Pine.Would paramount tell pocket books to put Pine and quinto on the TOS novels.Is it possible that a novel being planned or written now with the writer thinking of Shatner and Nimoy when writing the dialogue could find out that Pine and Quinto are on the cover instead of the original actors.Does anyone know what pocket books plan for the issue?Or are they waiting for the film to come out before deciding.

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

 

[Defcon]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Oh, so I guess you already have seen the movie to make this statement?

 

[EnsignRicky]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Oh, so I guess you already have seen the movie to make this statement?

Some people don't have to see the movie to know that.

 

[Christopher]

I don't think any of the cast members of the film would disagree with the statement that the original actors are the definitive portrayers of the roles and that they're simply trying to follow in their footsteps rather than supplant them. So there's no point in getting into an argument about who the "real" Kirk and Spock are.

 

[Defcon]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Oh, so I guess you already have seen the movie to make this statement?

Some people don't have to see the movie to know that.

Prejudiced people?

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Oh, so I guess you already have seen the movie to make this statement?

They ARE copies. That isn't any sort of statement about whether the new movie is good or bad. It is a statement of fact. They aren't the original actors to portray the characters, therefore they are copies, or replacements, or however you would like to put it.

Actually I assume that Lynx probably didn't mean it in a positive way, I'm just nitpicking.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

They ARE copies. That isn't any sort of statement about whether the new movie is good or bad. It is a statement of fact. They aren't the original actors to portray the characters, therefore they are copies, or replacements, or however you would like to put it.

Copies and replacements aren't the same thing. While Pine and Quinto are replacements for the original actors, I doubt very much that they're copies.

Nor are replacements less "real" or necessarily less worthy than that which they replace. I can guarantee that not one of the automobiles that have replaced the 1977 Mustang II that I was foolish enough to buy as my first new automobile have been inferior to it in any way.

In any event, I'd guess that the marketing department at Pocket Books or some other office somewhere at Paramount will have a great deal of influence over whose images appear on Trek novels in 2010 and beyond...but I wouldn't want to guess right now who it will be.

 

[Defcon]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Oh, so I guess you already have seen the movie to make this statement?

They ARE copies. That isn't any sort of statement about whether the new movie is good or bad. It is a statement of fact. They aren't the original actors to portray the characters, therefore they are copies, or replacements, or however you would like to put it.

Only if they're just trying to reproduce the same characters Shatner & Nimoy played one hundred percent, as long as they're interpreting the role in their own ways they aren't "copies".

 

[Therin of Andor]

Hopefully not. Shatner and Nimoy are Kirk and Spock while the others are just copies.

Who was that little Vulcan toddler in ST III, then? And then the Vulcan boy, teenager and young man?

They were all Spock at a younger age, played by other actors 'cos Nimoy couldn't play them with a lot of makeup and suspension of disbelief.

Some people don't have to see the movie to know that.

Ah, IDIC!

 

[Christopher]

The new actors are neither copies nor replacements for the originals. They're successors.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And replacements.

 

[Dayton Ward]

There are many copies....

 

[Christopher]

And replacements.

No, they are not. They are creating something new that's meant to coexist alongside the work of the original actors, not to shove it aside or negate it, or to try to duplicate it. It's impossible to replace the original cast -- only to follow in their footsteps and try to create something that honors their work while being distinct from it. It's not like they're unscrewing a light bulb and putting a new one in. "Replacement" is totally the wrong word.

 

[William Leisner]

OMG they're frakkin' Cylons!!!

 

[RandyS]

There are many copies....

And they have a plan.......

For many sequels.

Hopefully.

 

[Ronald Held]

Does it help that the new cast are a part of an alternate timeline which will replace the one we are familar with?

 

[Thrawn]

Does it help that the new cast are a part of an alternate timeline which will replace the one we are familar with?

Coexist with, not replace.

 

[TheAlmanac]

Does it help that the new cast are a part of an alternate timeline which will replace the one we are familar with?

If TrekLit takes the Doctor Who approach, with separate lines of licenced fiction which favour different continuity, it might help people who feel this way about the actors...their "preferred" versions would continue to have new stories printed, either way.

I'd also be intrigued if the franchise somehow ended up with the Terminator approach, with even the filmed material existing in multiple continuities...