Miracle Worker?

[Captain59]

It seemed to me that Chekov was the miracle worker in this movie, with two beaming incidents that saved Kirk and Sulu; and then Spock, Sarek, and the Vulcan High Coucil.

Scotty really didn't do any miracle working. It was Spock Prime that beamed them aboard the Enterprise while at warp. I guess Scotty doesn't earn that reputation until he changes the laws of physics.

 

[Brent]

He wasn't even able to "Giver her all she got Captain" His answer was to eject the warp cores

Uh Oh, you may have a good point here

 

[DeafPoet]

Then again, he did do some cool beaming to save Spock, Kirk and Pike.

 

[Brent]

Then again, he did do some cool beaming to save Spock, Kirk and Pike.

Beaming from different locations onto one pad at the same time, sure, but Chekov got a target lock on very fast moving objects, and looking at the targeting scanner graphics as he was doing it it looked pretty hard to get a lock on them while moving so fast.

 

[darkshadow0001]

It seemed to me that Chekov was the miracle worker in this movie, with two beaming incidents that saved Kirk and Sulu; and then Spock, Sarek, and the Vulcan High Coucil.

Scotty really didn't do any miracle working. It was Spock Prime that beamed them aboard the Enterprise while at warp. I guess Scotty doesn't earn that reputation until he changes the laws of physics.

I thought about that, too. I was actually surprised by the actor's ability (I can't remember his name) to sound just like the original Chekov. I couldn't even tell the difference...

 

[erebus]

i think JJ is the miracle worker. Its incredible what has been achieved with this film considering all the daunting hurdles and obstacles before it.

 

[darkshadow0001]

i think JJ is the miracle worker. Its incredible what has been acheived with this film considering all the daunting hurdles and obstacles before it.

Yep. I think that the odd/even-numbered curse of Star Trek films has been wiped out with this film..! I give it 4 out of 4 stars...

 

[EnsignRicky]

I think we wound up with a whole ship of miracle workers. no sense letting that whole scientific technobable thing get in the way of a good fast paced, action packed, hard rockin', breast knockin' adventure. Uhura provides all the physics this film needs.

 

[Captain59]

I think we wound up with a whole ship of miracle workers. no sense letting that whole scientific technobable thing get in the way of a good fast paced, action packed, hard rockin', breast knockin' adventure. Uhura provides all the physics this film needs.

That's a good point...everyone did something. I think Scotty did say, "I'm giving her all she's got" or something like that. We all expected Chekov to scream, but in fact saved some pretty important people.

Very good movie.

 

[Shikarnov]

It seemed to me that Chekov was the miracle worker in this movie, with two beaming incidents that saved Kirk and Sulu; and then Spock, Sarek, and the Vulcan High Coucil.

Scotty really didn't do any miracle working. It was Spock Prime that beamed them aboard the Enterprise while at warp. I guess Scotty doesn't earn that reputation until he changes the laws of physics.

I thought about that, too. I was actually surprised by the actor's ability (I can't remember his name) to sound just like the original Chekov. I couldn't even tell the difference...

I have several Russian friends who noted, with delight, that the one or two times he spoke in Russian, the accent was absolutely perfect -- that of a native speaker.

 

[Borgminister]

Wesley Chekov...

 

[SalvorHardin]

It seemed to me that Chekov was the miracle worker in this movie, with two beaming incidents that saved Kirk and Sulu; and then Spock, Sarek, and the Vulcan High Coucil.

Scotty really didn't do any miracle working. It was Spock Prime that beamed them aboard the Enterprise while at warp. I guess Scotty doesn't earn that reputation until he changes the laws of physics.

I thought about that, too. I was actually surprised by the actor's ability (I can't remember his name) to sound just like the original Chekov. I couldn't even tell the difference...

I have several Russian friends who noted, with delight, that the one or two times he spoke in Russian, the accent was absolutely perfect -- that of a native speaker.

An interesting Yelchin comment on his choice of accent:

Yelchin: I wanted it to be close to the Chekov accent, I guess that is where our opinions differ. I have no problem doing a real Russian accent, but that wouldn’t be Chekov to me.

The interesting thing about it is that his accent is a cold-war stereotype of a Russian person. And when I watched the series and the films, that is what I found interesting about it. And I adjusted it, it is not entirely the same, but Walter [Koenig] came on set and was like "that sounds like me." And that is what was fun for me.

As a person familiar with a Russian accent, and someone with Russian roots who can speak Russian and knows what Russian people sound like, it was fun to purposefully mess around with the Russian accent — to purposefully change what I thought a Russian accent was to suit that stereotype they had in the sixties.