Casting J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: The Next Generation Reboot

[Nerys Myk]

Sure it did. Kirk became Picard and Riker. Spock became Data, Troi and Worf. McCoy became Crusher and Pulaski.

Ehhh, I see what you're going for but I don't think this works. TNG is basically a retooling of the Phase II concept that never wound up getting made apart from the bits and pieces that survived into TMP. And the Phase II material was in fact a very deliberate attempt to make something that wasn't just a copy of TOS.

Picard and Riker are thus really heirs to the Kirk and Deckard characters conceived for Phase II, and in this sense it's probably a good thing that Phase II didn't happen because the transformation of Kirk that it involved would have been confusing -- the ideas needed a new character. Likewise Data is a conceptual descendant of Xon, who had been conceived as the inverse of Spock (a non-human trying to understand humanity rather than a half-human trying to repress his humanity); and Troi is a successor to Ilia. McCoy would have stuck around in Phase II and really could have had a spiritual heir in Pulaski, if not so much in Crusher (I do wish Pulaski had stuck around longer, she was far more interesting), but that's the closest thing to real continuity.

Yes they are re-imagined versions of the Phase II characters. And Phase II is a re-imagined version of TOS. Both Decker and Riker are young action hero Kirk. While Picard and Phase II Kirk are intellectual older Kirk. Data is Spock's "knows it all" mystified by humans aspect. Troi and Worf represent his human/alien aspect. Troi also had the "mind power" aspect. Worf has the " humans" thing, too. Crusher is the old friend and confidant part of McCoy. Pulaski was McCoy in drag.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I gotta admit, I'm drawn to the ideas of Wil Wheaton as Riker and Dulé Hill as Geordi.

 

[BigJake]

While Picard and Phase II Kirk are intellectual older Kirk.

It's the "intellectual" part that needed a new character. Kirk was always wily, but selling him as aging into a worldly, seasoned scholar with a cautious command style was never going to work. 'Specially not with Shatner playing him. The character was someone other than Kirk.

Data is Spock's "knows it all" mystified by humans aspect. Troi and Worf represent his human/alien aspect. Troi also had the "mind power" aspect. Worf has the " humans" thing, too.

Heh, I think we're rather reaching when we reach the point of claiming that four different characters are some form of Spock analogue. I admire the ingenuity but I can't go there with you.

 

[Nerys Myk]

While Picard and Phase II Kirk are intellectual older Kirk.

It's the "intellectual" part that needed a new character. Kirk was always wily, but selling him as aging into a worldly, seasoned scholar with a cautious command style was never going to work. 'Specially not with Shatner playing him. The character was someone other than Kirk.

Data is Spock's "knows it all" mystified by humans aspect. Troi and Worf represent his human/alien aspect. Troi also had the "mind power" aspect. Worf has the " humans" thing, too.

Heh, I think we're rather reaching when we reach the point of claiming that four different characters are some form of Spock analogue. I admire the ingenuity but I can't go there with you.

They are aspects of Kirk and Spock, not Kirk and Spock in total. Of course the TNG characters developed into their own characters.

Early Kirk ( and Pike before him) was much more intellectual than what he would become. I can see that Kirk growing into a Picard type.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Pike --> Picard?

 

[Push The Button]

I gotta admit, I'm drawn to the ideas of Wil Wheaton as Riker and Dulé Hill as Geordi.

Great choices. I can see Wil Wheaton as Riker, he even has the Riker beard in that photo above.