First spy PHOTOS of Quinto as Spock

[gastrof]

Cary L. Brown said:
Yet another indication that this is being done as a part of "existing canon" rather than something very different....

What kills me about this point, tho', is the talk of the ship being made to look different, and yet they insist they're holding to existing canon.

If they change the look of the communicators, the phasers, the uniforms, the bridge, the ship's corridors or make any obvious (even if slight) changes to the Enterprise's appearance...

Then isn't this VIOLATING canon, and declaring this "something else"?

 

[TK421]

Cary L. Brown said:
So the next test will be... will they give Chris Pine the 1960's Shatner haircut (that WAS still his real hair back then, wasn't it?)

I think that if you give Pine that hair, he really looks pretty damned close, too. Can't wait to see him "in character" for the first time.

He had a hair piece on the front, just like the one Sean Connery wore for all the James Bond movies.

There's an episode where Shatner had to appear old, and they took the wig off and that was his natural hairline at the time.

 

[archeryguy1701]

gastrof said:

Cary L. Brown said:
Yet another indication that this is being done as a part of "existing canon" rather than something very different....

What kills me about this point, tho', is the talk of the ship being made to look different, and yet they insist they're holding to existing canon.

If they change the look of the communicators, the phasers, the uniforms, the bridge, the ship's corridors or make any obvious (even if slight) changes to the Enterprise's appearance...

Then isn't this VIOLATING canon, and declaring this "something else"?

Not necessarily... we know the Enterprise was refitted at least once and made to look completely different. For all we know, there was a second refit (or techincally, a first refit) changing the Star Trek XI Enterprise into the TOS Enterprise... we still have no idea when exactly this is due to take place.

Same applies to the phasers, comunicators, and uniforms. They were all different during Pike's command.

 

[Peacemaker]

gastrof said:

Cary L. Brown said:
Yet another indication that this is being done as a part of "existing canon" rather than something very different....

What kills me about this point, tho', is the talk of the ship being made to look different, and yet they insist they're holding to existing canon.

If they change the look of the communicators, the phasers, the uniforms, the bridge, the ship's corridors or make any obvious (even if slight) changes to the Enterprise's appearance...

Then isn't this VIOLATING canon, and declaring this "something else"?

Not really, since we are going to be viewing an era about which we know very little and have seen very little. Tell us, what did hand phasers look like at the end of Pike's time on the Enterprise? What did they look like between the time of The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before? What exactly did the corridors look like, etc.? The only thing that they can't change too much is the exterior of the Enterprise. The rest isn't really set in stone.

 

[Roshi]

whoa the resemblance is un-fucking-believably uncanny!
Good call Temis. You should ask JJ a piece of the actions!

 

[Kryton]

What was Kirk's middle initial between WNMHGB and Court Martial?!?

 

[DontFeedPhil]

I was really hoping he'd be wearing a Vulcan Catsuit made popular by T'Pol on Enterprise. Thats what I see when I think of a real Vulkin...Quick someone make a photomanip of that...

 

[Roshi]

Quinto looks like as if he was going to sing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins!

 

[Kegek]

I don't really think Spock's appearance proves anything canon-wise one way or another, as cool as it is. It's like Brandon Routh in Superman Returns - pretty much loooks the same, but the continuity was ambiguous.

They're not going to reinvent the wheel, and contra some complainers, there's nothing about the Spock look that needed changing. I think, when it comes to 'visual canon', the big tests will be the uniforms and the Enterprise.

 

[Mejles_Kelej]

http://www.jfxonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/spock-357.jpg
Look at the vulcan posture in the shadow - looks like T'Pol

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Wow ... he looks just like him. Awesome stuff.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

gastrof said:

Cary L. Brown said:
Yet another indication that this is being done as a part of "existing canon" rather than something very different....

What kills me about this point, tho', is the talk of the ship being made to look different, and yet they insist they're holding to existing canon.

If they change the look of the communicators, the phasers, the uniforms, the bridge, the ship's corridors or make any obvious (even if slight) changes to the Enterprise's appearance...

Then isn't this VIOLATING canon, and declaring this "something else"?

Well, about the ship being made to look different... who's been saying that?

I've heard it from various "friends of friends" on the net, but I haven't heard it from anyone ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN MAKING THE MOVIE. Have you?

Every bit about the Enterprise being made to look different has come from someone unassociated with the film, as far as I know. In many cases from the same folks who kept insisting that "they will NOT keep the original Spock haircut because it's so dated. Just accept it."

I never did accept that, and I don't accept the "whole new ship design" claims either, because I've yet to see ANYTHING but wishful thinking posts from folks who want to see a "new and kewler" design.

The fact that Quinto is wearing a costume that is, stylistically, VERY similar to the costume worn by Mark Lenard in "Babel" was a very pleasant surprise to me. C'mon... if they're bothering to get the COSTUME DETAILS that consistent, not with ALL Trek lore but SPECIFICALLY WITH TOS TREK LORE... I find it... "less than likely" that we'll see random ship redesigns, too.

Regarding the "redesigned ship" argument:

1) It hasn't come from the folks in a position to know

2) The most that they've said is that the ship isn't EXACTLY what we've seen before... which COULD just mean that it's got additional fine "polish" but is an unchanged DESIGN.

3) We've seen internet rumor-mongering from various sources that have been supported by EXACTLY NOTHING.

4) It is very likely that other ships besides Enterprise will be seen in this film.

SO... maybe the rumors are correct. Or maybe they're total fabrications. Or maybe they're misinformed... made based upon someone seeing "a ship design" (not the Enterprise at all...) and assuming, incorrectly, that it's the "redesigned Enterprise."

So far we have NO reason to conclude that the 1701 will look any different from what we already know. Except for the wild-eyed rantings of people who keep claiming that "the original design is just 'so 60s' and thus must be DESTROYED!!!!!!!" and replaced by something "new and kewl."

 

[igrokbok]

There will be tweaks and little changes here and there to ships, costumes, etc, that can easily be explained away by the movie existing in the alternate time line created by the bad guys. But I wouldn't look for any radical changes from what we saw in TOS.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Damn...

Well that trumps my 'Photoshopped' avatar.

 

[Captain Pike]

He looks... fine. Great even. TOS right down to his boots! (check 'em out)..

 

[Tralah]

I gave such the excited fan girl squeal when I saw these pictures. Has Temis reacted to them yet? I can't wait to see what she thinks especially since she was one of the first who saw Quinto as Spock.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Quinto looks good in the faraway shots, but in the close-ups he looks like some guy on SNL doing a Spock parody.

Quinto's face is too full. He looks like a little boy in a Spock costume. And the eyebrow makeup looks a little garish, as if he was applying the makeup while driving and hit a speed bump.

I don't need him to look exactly like Nimoy, so that's not a deal breaker for me. But there's a stark contrast between Nimoy's angular, often gaunt features compared to Quinto's more rounded, almost chubby-looking little boy face.

 

[Stardate]

cool i like it.

 

[Kegek]

Samuel T. Cogley said:
I don't need him to look exactly like Nimoy, so that's not a deal breaker for me. But there's a stark contrast between Nimoy's angular, often gaunt features compared to Quinto's more rounded, almost chubby-looking little boy face.

I'll admit to having that problem as well. He just doesn't have as finely chiseled a face as Nimoy. You could cut a razorblade with that jaw. I guess I'll really have to see him acting as Spock for me to buy it, and if he's good as all these Heroes fans say he is it'll be good enough for me.

Still, he looks good as Spock. Just like I imagined he would, right down to the bowler haircut.

 

[Tralah]

I think it works since Quinto is supposed to play the younger version of Spock. Granted if Nimoy was the same age as when he played Spock in the 60's it would be glaring difference, but Nimoy's much older, so in the context of this movie, it should be fine. Quinto isn't going to be standing side-by-side to the 1960s Spock after all.