When Paramount hires me I'll start thinking like an executive. So long as I am a moderately nitpicky fan not on the payroll, that's the opinion I'll stand behind.
Bruce Greenwood is the new Pike!!!
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When Paramount hires me I'll start thinking like an executive. So long as I am a moderately nitpicky fan not on the payroll, that's the opinion I'll stand behind.
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Too bad it isn't a new t.v. series with Greenwood as Pike. Though that concept would probably go nowhere, man.
Cute. 
The only thing I've seen Greenwood in is John from Cincinatti. Pretty much everyone hated that show, but I thought it was brilliant. And he did a good job there, so I've got no worries about how well he'll play Pike.
Once again, any opinion which is even slightly qualified approval rather than a full on fellating of the multi-faced God that is Abrams and the non-Trekkie audience is subject to that rapier wit. I consider myself dully--er, I mean, duly--chastized. All hail McTrek.
(Now do you have the tenor of discussion you were so obviously looking for?)
Actually, no, I was hoping for a lighthearted rejoinder. I forget sometimes where I am.
(how can anyone not smile at a sentence with "fandango" in it? It could have been "movietickets.com"
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(how can anyone not smile at a sentence with "fandango" in it? It could have been "movietickets.com"
)
Ho hum.
I like the choice though I am surprised. Going to be a great captain.
This is a good fit, I think. I never really had any opinion on who should be cast in this role, I never considered Pike to be as consequential a character as some around here. Just so long as they cast a competent actor with at least a passing resemblance. Looks like they did a good job! 
Aragorn said:
Is it just me or is the post from ChristopherPike a bit (or a lot) on the scary side?
Maxwell Everett said:
Quick & dirty photomanip:
That makes him look like Kent McCord.
It looks REALLY like him!
Starship Polaris said:
Actually, no, I was hoping for a lighthearted rejoinder. I forget sometimes where I am.
(how can anyone not smile at a sentence with "fandango" in it? It could have been "movietickets.com"
Fair enough. Let's try this:
Hey! Stop leaking behind-the-scenes plans without spoiler code! I'm going to sic my lawyer on you if you keep this up!
Now where did I put Cogley's number?
Thank you for the offer. I'll be waiting in my trailer. You know where it is....
It's better if you do it like this...
Just a little cut-and-pasting makes the difference...
Gep Malakai said:
Now where did I put Cogley's number?
Just a little cut-and-pasting makes the difference...
You know, an overlooked possibility here is the time travel factor. If there is something going on here that keeps Kirk from becoming Captain, then Greenwood may be playing Pike as if he did not hand over the Enterprise to Kirk. Ergo, the accident did not happen. Pike remained Captain of the ship, etc.Brutal Strudel said:
Holytomato said:
Darnit it Maxwell Everett! I was just about to say, "Come on! You know the rules."
Great pic! :thumbsup:
What's with this, "He's too OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!"
Remember, the movie isn't set during Kirk's Academy, oops sorry "Starfleet Academy 90210" days.
During the period we saw Pike in TOS--11 years before "The Menagerie"--Pike appeared to be a man in his mid-thirties, late thirties at the oldest. By the time he was confined to the boop-boopmobile, he would still have been younger than this guy and Kirk was a full captain at that point. (The dialogue of the episode makes this worse when Commodore Mendez refers to Pike as being "about your age, Jim" which would make him no older than 40 while he was in the wheelchair. I think we can safely ignore that for this discussion.)
So any Pike who is visibly older than his early forties in a film showing a pre-TOS Kirk and Spock is too old. He may still do a fine job and it's hardly a deal-breaker (not for me, at least; the creative team may be but that's a different insult-filled discussion), just a statement of apparent fact.
Franklin does make a good point, though, and they might be able to make it look as if Pike is a good five or six years younger than Greenwood. If I could accept Shatner and Nimoy et al. in 1979 as being only 2 1/2 years older than they were in 1969, I can handle a 51-year-old Greenwood as a, say, 43-year-old Pike .
I'm certainly pleased. I like Greenwood a lot, I thought he was great as JFK in 13 Days. I hadn't considered him for the role, but I think he's a great choice.
Now if we could only get someone cast as Gary Mitchell in this film, but it doesn't seem that his character is going to appear.
Now if we could only get someone cast as Gary Mitchell in this film, but it doesn't seem that his character is going to appear.
He should do a good job.
I guess the only other main roles yet to be cast are Spock's parents, no?
I guess the only other main roles yet to be cast are Spock's parents, no?
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