Chris Pine as Pike looks good ! But he is too young.

[Bones1864]

Chris Pine really does look a bit like a younger Jeffery Hunter. But he is too young. casting thsee legendary characters will be near impossible. Not much is known about Captain Pike other than what was shown in Thecage and in the Menagerie. So why bnot have fun wit hthe whole thing.
It has never really ben canonized how long Pike commanded the Enterprise before the first pilot. If he only held command of the ship for a year or two then make Pike a Commander or lesser rank than Captain in Trek 11. Commorodore Robert April should command the ship with Chris Pike as his Executive Officer. It can all rotate around the ages of the characters of young Kirk and Spock,etc and in who plays them.
Robert April founded the 5 year mission program ? he would have held command of the U.S.S. Constitution first then after all wasset up he would have commanded the newer Enterprise, NCC-1701. He would have recruited the best of thebest and pulled a few officers from the Consitution like a young Bob Wesley, Matt Decker ,etc. Captain Garth could be refreered to as teh new skipepr of the U.S.S. Consitution. This would be a tease for Trek 12.
A cannot wait to see a captain Pike story onscreen and by rishing things the whole Chriosptoper Pike storyline could backfire. so making Pike a ship;s exec and Spock a temporaryily assiigned junior science officer that eventually stays iwt hthe Enterprise and learns from Chris Pike would work. Seeing young Kirk as maybe the Enterprise's trainee helsmsman would be a mind blower.
Jjust let Pike be a lesser officer and move up higher in Trek 12.

 

[Bones]

Well, it's, um... it's green.

 

[mr.peany]

I dunno. He's 27. Seems to fit the general casting so far. Hes the best option ive seen to this point. He was all kinds of cool in Smoking Aces. Heres hoping for a repeat performance.

 

[Kelso]

Wow, if this happens I will be a mere four months younger than Captain Kirk.

That just feels strange.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I checked him out on IMDB...WOW, those are some BLUE eyes! Yep, that's more the Pike-type tho he could do as Kirk. I just wish I knew whether these guys they keep talking about can act.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Kirk was only 32 in season one of Star Trek so 27 isn't much of a stretch. He looks more like 30 anyway. I swear that some people won't be happy until the parts of 30 year old characters are being played by people with gray hair and wrinkles.

 

[Venardhi]

Well as long as teenagers and early 20-somethings keep being played by thirty year old actors, you'll have this issue of everyone seeming too young for their parts unless they're played by someone a few years older, or at least someone that actually looks their age which is rare in Hollywood.

 

[Kryton]

RE: The OP...

Yeah, I remember MY first beer, too.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Kryton said:
RE: The OP...

Yeah, I remember MY first beer, too.

Yeah, I can't figure out if the posters who followed him just missed the "point" of his original post, or if they are just refusing to take the bait.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm 28 and I can't imagine myself looking different in two years.

I speak from first-hand knowledge, no one will notice Chris Pine's age if Kirk is supposed to be around 30. Don't you agree that barring something unusual it takes at least 10 years to see any real difference in adults?

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And anyway, the only source I've heard that Pine is going to play Pike is from Bones1864.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Lord Garth said:
And anyway, the only source I've heard that Pine is going to play Pike is from Bones1864.

He is a fount of information.

Maybe William Shatner gave him the inside tip about Pine as Pike when he was in Bones1864's towncar recently.

 

[Avilos]

Lord Garth said:
I'm 28 and I can't imagine myself looking different in two years.

I speak from first-hand knowledge, no one will notice Chris Pine's age if Kirk is supposed to be around 30. Don't you agree that barring something unusual it takes at least 10 years to see any real difference in adults?

Great point.
I've noticed this odd preconception with casting of many non-Trek characters too. That people ABSOLUTELY look their actual age...and nothing else.

I am 29 and people are always questioning me on my age. THinking I am anything from late teens to mid-thirties!

 

[Jack Bauer]

When I was in my around 28 or so some people thought I was about 18 or 19 years old. Some people don't look much older for 10-12 years into adulthood some times.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

I have a feeling that they are casting younger than their on-screen ages becuase of possible sequels. Quinto has already said that his deal is for three films.

If there are two more films following this one, I beleive Abrams already has the "Master Plan" in mind for the three films, and the films' timeframes all may be close to each other. Therefore, if the on-screen timeframe for all thre films is, say two years, but the y take 5 years to make all three films, these actors need to be able to look "30-ish" for a long time.

...and in response to the OP: you're right -- if Chris Pine is being hired to play Pike instead of Kirk, then he IS too young if this takes place close to the TOS time frame -- and it seems that way by the casting thus far. Jeffrey Hunter was 40 when he made 'The Cage', which would make the character over 50 during TOS. Even if this film may span across multiple timeframes, a 30-ish Capt. Pike may be able to make an appearance, but Kirk and Spock would have barely been reaching puberty when Pike was in his early 30's.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Samuel T. Cogley said:

Kryton said:
RE: The OP...

Yeah, I remember MY first beer, too.

Yeah, I can't figure out if the posters who followed him just missed the "point" of his original post, or if they are just refusing to take the bait.

Gossiping about Kirk rumors is just more interesting, that's all. That's pretty much my only motive for hanging around this place...

 

[indranee]

OMG I had to laugh at this pic! check it out

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/30/theater/Atheist650.jpg

 

[Jack Bauer]

What a Shatner-esque pose!