Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND or

[Mutara Nebula 1967]

BATMAN?

I wonder if the success now means that it could be a series where the leads are replaced but the audience will still come or are we about to see the birth of a generation of fans who declare Nobody but PINE or QUINTO etc....could play these characters?

 

[Jeri]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Well, the books do well with new crew, from what I can tell. Some people seem to like and accept them.

 

[Alex1939]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

I prefer it doesn't go this route... I still think Star Trek should move forward in story, not always back to the original.

 

[VOODOOXI]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

I prefer it doesn't go this route... I still think Star Trek should move forward in story, not always back to the original.

Problem, is that so few people care about anything, but the original. That is why they did a Kirk + Spock film this time out.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Look on the bright side.

If JJ Abrams' Star Trek is to Batman, what Tim Burton's style over substance 1989 version is. We should look forward to a film that puts the 'origin' into Original Series sometime around 2025... a lá Batman Begins.

Not until a 4th alternate reality movie derails the franchise however...

 

[barnaclelapse]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

I think it's way too early to make that call, honestly.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Sure, the characters are all recastable now. Star Trek will be Kirk and Spock forever - at the movies, in any event. TV shows may go off on other excursions.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

I like what they are doing now, and would like to see this group go on for a while, but no- I don't feel that Star Trek is "eternally recastable". It worked this time, but they should really avoid doing TOS to death. After this new group is done with Trek, move on to something entirely new. While I love this new movie, there is still a part of me that still wishes we had gotten the Romulan/ Earth War movie with a completely new group of characters.

 

[Penhall99]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

BATMAN?

I wonder if the success now means that it could be a series where the leads are replaced but the audience will still come or are we about to see the birth of a generation of fans who declare Nobody but PINE or QUINTO etc....could play these characters?

Well we just got the new movie with the new cast, so I think its a bit early to be contemplating what will happen 20 plus years from now (or however long the new cast plays the parts).

Anyway, I'd prefer this was the last time the parts are recast. Move forward after this, go further into the future. The new movie is, after all, still connected to everything that came before.

 

[donners22]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

I don't think so. Much of the appeal is centred around the characters and their interactions. If the portrayal of the character (through both script and performance) does not ring true, then the appeal of the characters is not there.

Then again, there will be a whole generation at least with little to no knowledge of TOS - for them, Pine, Quinto and Urban are the trio.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Yep, the whole thing is recastable, from Porthos to Ezri Dax. I want them to get moving on ENT next. I'd even be up for seeing DS9 all over again in the new timeline. Most of that stuff can still happen but now we have a convenient excuse for declaring red-eye Dukat and Ferengi comedies non-canon.

 

[Mirror_Barclay]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Yep, the whole thing is recastable, from Porthos to Ezri Dax. I want them to get moving on ENT next. I'd even be up for seeing DS9 all over again in the new timeline. Most of that stuff can still happen but now we have a convenient excuse for declaring red-eye Dukat and Ferengi comedies non-canon.

I like the Ferengi comedies!

But if they recast an equally cute Ezri, and bring her on five seasons earlier, I'm all for NuDS9.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

In this alternate timeline, neither Jadzia nor Ezri become hosts and instead just have hot steamy sex with each other.

 

[Dream]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

Sure why not? Kirk and Spock are clearly the most iconic characters in Star Trek. I can see them doing a new Trek movie with recast new actors playing those two characters every few years. I'm fine with that as long as we eventually get a new show with completely new characters.

 

[igrokbok]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

THis movie proves that it CAN be recast...if handled by the right people. It could have gone wrong...very wrong.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

^ So you're not up for Brett Ratner and Stephen Sommers teaming up to reboot Star Trek: The Next Generation with Jason Statham as Picard, Ashton Kutcher as Riker, Chris Klein as Data, Tara Reid as Crusher, Krista Allen as Troi, and Triple H as Worf?

 

[Vicki]

Re: Is it too early to declare TREK is eternally recastable like BOND

BATMAN?

I wonder if the success now means that it could be a series where the leads are replaced but the audience will still come or are we about to see the birth of a generation of fans who declare Nobody but PINE or QUINTO etc....could play these characters?

In theory this might be possible, but in practice, I think no. The casting was nothing short of perfect, and it had to be, or it wouldn't have worked. Somewhere I saw an Abrams interview where he said they thought Spock would the hardest to cast and they actually got Quinto first. Kirk turned out to be the hardest and Pine was the last one cast. STXI works because all the charactors have a history and fit together like a puzzle.

I think a totally new cast playing all new charactors is probably more likely.