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TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Chekov)!!

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So we figured out (on Trek BBS) why Yelchin's Chekov looks so different than Walter's (curly hair etc) and why he is a super genius (gifted whiz kid) in this timeline... who skipped ahead like a prodigy would

Yelchin's Chekov was born 4-5 years EARLIER in this NEW timeline..


The OLD Chekov would have only been 12-13 by 2258.

The new one is 17.


It's a different Chekov! That's why they didnt bother trying to make him look like Walter.

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Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

I believe Yelchin did an extraordinary job at portraying Chekov. I was a little worried when I first found out that he would be playing Chekov, but now that I've seen the movie I believe that my worries were for nothing, because he went above and beyond my expectations.
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

And here I thought they didn't bother making Yelchin look like Koenig because Koenig looked ridiculous.
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

agordy85 said:
I believe Yelchin did an extraordinary job at portraying Chekov. I was a little worried when I first found out that he would be playing Chekov, but now that I've seen the movie I believe that my worries were for nothing, because he went above and beyond my expectations.
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I agree, but playing along...

The Kelvin incident altered the course of events, resulting in Chekov's father to meet Chekov's mother several years earlier, meaning that he fathered Chekov years earlier, meaning an entirely different sperm met an entirely different egg, resulting in a different apperance -not the least of which being this Chekov having the dominant trait of curly hair.
 
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Trekker4747 said:
agordy85 said:
I believe Yelchin did an extraordinary job at portraying Chekov. I was a little worried when I first found out that he would be playing Chekov, but now that I've seen the movie I believe that my worries were for nothing, because he went above and beyond my expectations.
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I agree, but playing along...

The Kelvin incident altered the course of events, resulting in Chekov's father to meet Chekov's mother several years earlier, meaning that he fathered Chekov years earlier, meaning an entirely different sperm met an entirely different egg, resulting in a different apperance -not the least of which being this Chekov having the dominant trait of curly hair.
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Genius!

Would have been a funny touch to have Old Spock see him and go, "You are Pavel Chekov? Fascinating."
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

People change hair style. I had long, brown wavy hair when I was 17. Now I have short, straight graying hair. No biggies.
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

It's simple. The new timeline takes place in a future in which Beatlemania didn't last until the 24th Century.

Now the Beastie Boys, on the other hand . . . .
 
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Trekker4747 said:
agordy85 said:
I believe Yelchin did an extraordinary job at portraying Chekov. I was a little worried when I first found out that he would be playing Chekov, but now that I've seen the movie I believe that my worries were for nothing, because he went above and beyond my expectations.
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I agree, but playing along...

The Kelvin incident altered the course of events, resulting in Chekov's father to meet Chekov's mother several years earlier, meaning that he fathered Chekov years earlier, meaning an entirely different sperm met an entirely different egg, resulting in a different apperance -not the least of which being this Chekov having the dominant trait of curly hair.
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Now explain why Jim Kirk has blue eyes in the new universe, instead of brown like Kirk Prime*. Since he was conceived before the Narada arrived in the past, he would have come from the same exact sperm and the same exact egg, right? ;)

*Not that I actually care, I'm just foolin'.
 
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Actually, the fashion guru who masterminded the 1960s cultural revival from the late 2250s onwards was one of the casualties onboard the Kelvin. ;)
 
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Skywalker said:
Now explain why Jim Kirk has blue eyes in the new universe, instead of brown like Kirk Prime*. Since he was conceived before the Narada arrived in the past, he would have come from the same exact sperm and the same exact egg, right? ;)

*Not that I actually care, I'm just foolin'.
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Ummmm.... Radiation from the exploding Kelvin/neighboring star causing a bizzare, specific, non-harmful body-wide gene mutation?

;)
 
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Zion Ravescene said:
Actually, the fashion guru who masterminded the 1960s cultural revival from the late 2250s onwards was one of the casualties onboard the Kelvin. ;)
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And yet, thankfully, mini-skirts and go-go boots still came back into vogue.
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

It's more than just the hairstyle...


The NuChekov is a child prodigy and genius who skipped ahead because of his incredible scientific aptitude..

OldChekov wasn't as smart.


NuChekov got the better genes of the two. :P
 
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Greg Cox said:
Zion Ravescene said:
Actually, the fashion guru who masterminded the 1960s cultural revival from the late 2250s onwards was one of the casualties onboard the Kelvin. ;)
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And yet, thankfully, mini-skirts and go-go boots still came back into vogue.
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Yet not black stockings. :(

And to the OP.

You only need to use an apostrophe "S" when you make a name posessive!

Not plural!
 
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Trekker4747 said:
...Chekov's father to meet Chekov's mother several years earlier, meaning that he fathered Chekov years earlier, meaning an entirely different sperm met an entirely different egg, resulting in a different apperance...
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Every egg produced by a woman has the same genetic material, and every sperm produced by a man has the same genetic material, except for the deciding gender chromosome.

By your theory, the only difference might have been Chekov being a girl.

There is, however, the matter of HOW the mother's and father's genetic material combine. This is why all the boys of a family don't look exactly like one another, and all the girls don't.

Each child is a random combination of their parents' genetic material.

This Pavel Chekov could be more or less a BROTHER of the one we know, except that the one we know is never conceived...

...or is born when he's supposed to be, but ends up with the Russian form of the name "Peter". ;)

Another possible explanation for Chekov's hair is that after the Kelvin incident, the Federation outlawed any human wearing a vulcanoid sugar bowl haircut, which as we all know Chekov preferred.

In place of this, he had his hair permed and with 23rd century techniques, his perm is permanent. :D
 
Re: TWO Chekov's, both alike in dignity! (Yelchin is a DIFFERENT Cheko

Yelchin and Urban seemed to get the biggest belly laughs of the entire movie. When Chekov went running down to the transporter room screaming in his Russian accent that "he could do it" half the audience in my theater was going crazy.
 
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Skywalker said:
Now explain why Jim Kirk has blue eyes in the new universe, instead of brown like Kirk Prime*...
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We never knew it, but during the Kodos period young Kirk caught a virus that damaged his eyes and the medical treatment he received left him with recolored irises. For the rest of his life his eyes were brown.

In the new timeline that never happened, so Jim has the blue eyes he was born with.

Heh heh heh...
 
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