Gary Mitchell, where is he?

[Kirk1980]

Doctor Dehner pants!

 

[JoeZhang]

i'm sure audiences would have been thrilled at the intense scenes of Kirk reading books and getting a bucket of water thrown on him by Finnegan.

Wait a minute... you aren't suggested that happened on earth? it ONLY makes sense for the water to have been tipped on him in space. Give me your email address and I will send you my 52 page essay "Why water bucket tipping only makes sense on space dock 1".

 

[Cicero]

Also...will there be any women crewmembers in.....

pants?

Inquiring minds want to know!

We've seen some women wearing pants on the bridge, at least, in the trailer.

 

[JonathonWally]

So I've watched the trailer a bunch of times now. I see all the people playing the cast, but I don't see Gary Mitchell.

What about the original turtleneck uniforms?

Will Sulu start out in astrophysics?

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?


(Sorry, I just had to do it.)

OT: There have been no sign of the turtleneck uniform tunics, and Gary Mitchell does not appear to figure in this story. The same would probably be true of Sulu's stint in Astrophysics, though much is yet to be known.

More of a Phil Collins fan actually. I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Even if the movie took place in the unaltered TOS timeline, somehow including the WNMHGB turtlenecks, Mitchell, and everything else, I would not expect to see Gary in this movie if it were still centered around Kirk's days as a cadet at the Academy. From what is established in the original timeline, Kirk met Mitchell later on, when Mitchell was a cadet, and Kirk was an Academy Instructor. So it makes no sense even within established canon for Gary to show up in this movie.

 

[EJA]

What's to stop Gary coming on board after Kirk's assumed command? I believe there was a similar situation in Enterprise: The First Adventure, an old novel from the early 80s?

 

[Kanenas]

What abiut that upperclasman who used to torment Kirk? ("Shore Leave" episode TOS)

 

[blockaderunner]

Gary Mitchell is rooming with Robert April in a flat on the corner of Who and Cares.

 

[JuanBolio]

Then again, we never had a problem with the fandom idea that Kirk grew up without a father before. While it might be that George Kirk Sr. wasn't fated to die in the hands of Nero, it might be that he was fated to die anyway, around that timeframe, and Nero affected nothing much.

If Nero has accurate and authentic intelligence, why would he try and kill Kirk's parents at a timepoint where Kirk himself has already been born? Nero might have aimed at killing little Jimmy specifically, but failed because Jimmy was evacuated from the exploding Kelvin in time. Thus, virtually nothing in Kirk's life changed.

That is, of course there might be a butterfly effect where everything changes because a tiny detail went differently back in the 2230s. But no Trek episode or movie so far has supported the existence of a butterfly effect: the changes are always minor, and only affect the life of a specific person while leaving his or her surroundings basically intact (say, "Tapestry").

Timo Saloniemi

I'm not certain Nero is after Kirk - we know Nero escapes from a Klingon prison. We know the Kelvin incident happens near a star, and that on the same day its destroyed Nero also takes out a large number of Klingon warships. I think Nero did a slingshot maneuver and the Kelvin just happened to be in the way when he popped out.

 

[seigezunt]

here he is...

 

[M'Sharak]

What abiut that upperclasman who used to torment Kirk? ("Shore Leave" episode TOS)

No one was cast for the part of Finnegan, either, going by any information I've seen.