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[Temis the Vorta]

No foaming at the mouth about the latest scurrilous rumors from TrekToday?

James Kyson Lee as Sulu - suits me fine, I've already touted him as being perfect for the part (especially if you see him in interviews being much more of a Sulu-esque live wire than his Heroes character ever is).

Greg Hemphill as Scotty - subtract the mascara and add a bottle of Rigellian brandy, and that's Scotty all right - much better than some scrawny little girl like McAvoy.

 

[seigezunt]

based on a quick Google, I have to agree. Hemphill looks like he could very much be the part (by looks). More of a resemblance than McAvoy. Lee also looks good.

 

[RookieBatman]

I don't watch Heroes, and have never heard of Greg Hemphill, so it really doesn't matter to me either way. Like many, I'm just waiting with baited breath for Kirk.

 

[StewMc]

Of course Hemphill has had a Trek role before.

 

[mahler5]

Yo check it out.
Casting for Jamie Kirk?????????
Abrams wants a female kirk.
Holy Crap

 

[Kegek]

At present, I'm most concerned about McCoy casting. Kirk is a hard bit of casting to really screw-up, as he's an archetype who has been played many times, both directly in Shatner parodies and indirectly in many 'starship commanders' (even some that predate Kirk, like Leslie Nielsen as J.J. Adams in Forbidden Planet).

McCoy's another matter, his gruff, emotional, sharp wit and Southern geniality were as much a product of DeForest Kelley's performances as they were of good writing. I mean, look at all those fan made movies and Star Trek spoofs - so many of them get Kirk and Spock dead on. And the McCoy is always the weak link. Yeah, this is a difficult one...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Kirk is a hard bit of casting to really screw-up

I think they could screw it up pretty easily. Imagine them casting some boring actor with an extremely shallow notion of who Kirk is: just a Generic Action Hero type. That's what I'm really worried about. Kirk has a lot of facets to his personality: he is so friggen earnest, so emotionally out-there, much more than you'd expect a stoic starship captain type to be, he can be on the edge of hysteria, yet can snap back into this cold and nearly ruthless leader in a heartbeat. He's not generic at all, he's a very specific character.

Now that I think about it, I have to wonder what Starfleet was thinking, turning their flagship over to such a loose cannon. I guess Kirk really must be this amazing eccentric genius, because he is a very atypical starship captain type - Picard would be much much closer to my idea of the type Starfleet would trust.

McCoy is like Spock - the mannerisms aren't absurd, so the new guys can just watch the old episodes for inspiration. The new Kirk will be entirely dependent on the character as written in the script, and will have to come up with his own mannerisms. Kirk's the one that could really go horribly wrong.

 

[Sharr Khan]

I have to wonder what Starfleet was thinking, turning their flagship over to such a loose cannon.

Considering how he blithly blows off the Prime Directive you have a point.

I love how he totally pushes the whole notion of "This might be in violation of the Prime Directive Capitan" In "The World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky" with:

"Well Mr Spock don't you think its preferable they know the truth?" and we never hear the PD mentioned again. In point of fact they from there and do all sorts of interfering... for the better...

Sharr

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Not to mention his 17 separate temporal violations. He's lucky he lived in a "looser" era.

If they cast Kirk right, he could end up being my favorite character. I guess I've always thought of his eccentricites as being part of Shatner's mannerisms, but they're really part of the character as he was written.

 

[Kegek]

Temis the Vorta said:
Now that I think about it, I have to wonder what Starfleet was thinking, turning their flagship over to such a loose cannon.

Not to be a total nerd (okay, maybe just a little) but it was never really said that Kirk's Enterprise was the flagship. I believe the preferred fanon assumption was that it wasn't during TOS, but it became so when it was refitted. Anyway, it's a moot point, as we do know it was a big responsability to be giving to anyone...

...and while Kirk is definately distinctive and engaging, he is a recognizable clear-cut archetype, which is more than I can say for McCoy.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

McCoy's the eccentric curmudgeon, he seems like a type, too. But like Kirk, more than just the type.