Not enough McCoy

[Alex1939]

When I think of ToS, I think Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. This movie seems to be Kirk and Spock. McCoy is more on the level of Uhura, Chekhov, Sulu, Scotty.

Did anyone else feel this way?


And I liked Urban ok. He wasn't my favorite new actor, but he got the job done.

I think the movie missed a golden opportunity by not having some witty dialog between Nimoy and Urban. That would've made me happier. I think that final seen between Quinto and Nimoy could've used Urban.

 

[FatStrat85]

I agree. The "triangle", as people call it, seemed to be largely absent. Maybe they will play that angle more in the next film.

 

[John Clark]

I thought Urban did a good job as McCoy and would have liked to see more interaction between him and Spock too.

 

[SalvorHardin]

This was just a 2 hour movie about the crew eventually coming together. They have not yet fully formed the friendships, the bonds we have seen in TOS.

That lies in the future and in possible sequels.
Plus there's so much you can do in a movie as opposed to a tv show with dozens of hours at your disposal.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

I wanted more Scotty. I though McCoy was fine, but they did give Pegg many of the best lines, just like Urban's McCoy, so it was quality time with our new friends.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

I wanted more Scotty. I though McCoy was fine, but they did give Pegg many of the best lines, just like Urban's McCoy, so it was quality time with our new friends.

 

[Captain Pike]

When you watch TOS McCoy doesn't get as much screentime or dialogue usually as Kirk & Spock. The spotlight has always been on those 2.

 

[VulcanJedi]

This was just a 2 hour movie about the crew eventually coming together. They have not yet fully formed the friendships, the bonds we have seen in TOS.

That lies in the future and in possible sequels.
Plus there's some much you can do in a movie as opposed to a tv show with dozens of hours at your disposal.

I agree, it would be nice to see more McCoy--but not there yet.

 

[Alex1939]

This was just a 2 hour movie about the crew eventually coming together. They have not yet fully formed the friendships, the bonds we have seen in TOS.

That lies in the future and in possible sequels.
Plus there's some much you can do in a movie as opposed to a tv show with dozens of hours at your disposal.

Much of that is true, that these are newly formed friendships and you can only do so much in two hours.

But this is a re-imagining of Star Trek. And Star Trek was Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. That was the core 3.

That's what I felt was most left out in the film, the importance of McCoy's friendship to Kirk and Spock. Like I said, a scene between McCoy and Prime-Spock (Nimoy) was a missed opportunity.

Prime-Spock is alive in large part due to McCoy in the events of St2:St3. There witty dialog and banter was part of what made ToS great. You'd think Prime-Spock would be interested to see a young McCoy and have a brief conversation with him. We can imagine that happened, but it didn't on film.

 

[commodore64]

Bones was kinda like that in the old version too -- slightly above the rest of the gang, but slightly behind Kirk and Spock.

Although, I loved Urban as McCoy so wanted to see more of him b/c he was so much fun to watch!

 

[Alex1939]

I wanted more Scotty. I though McCoy was fine, but they did give Pegg many of the best lines, just like Urban's McCoy, so it was quality time with our new friends.

Ugggh. Scotty was the one new character I really didn't like. I admit, a large part of it was due to his stupid side-kick. That side-kick screamed "Jar Jar" to me, and I'm just glad it didn't get that ugly. And I really like the actor, so I was particularly disappointed.

On the flip side, I expected to be disappointed by nuCheckhov, and he was one of my favorite new actors!

 

[commodore64]

^ I loved that they kinda explained:
* Why Chekov was so young
* Why he could do so many things on the Bridge (helm, navigation, science station, transporter ...)

And the Russian gag (Wictor, Wictor/nuclear wessels) could last forever.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

I wanted more Scotty. I though McCoy was fine, but they did give Pegg many of the best lines, just like Urban's McCoy, so it was quality time with our new friends.

Ugggh. Scotty was the one new character I really didn't like. I admit, a large part of it was due to his stupid side-kick. That side-kick screamed "Jar Jar" to me, and I'm just glad it didn't get that ugly. And I really like the actor, so I was particularly disappointed.

On the flip side, I expected to be disappointed by nuCheckhov, and he was one of my favorite new actors!

He grew on me, more than Scotty's little sidekick alien, but it did show Scotty was loyal to his mates, and look at it this way: he finally has someone to crawl through all the Jeffries tubes for him, leading to much less back-trouble in the future.

In fairness, I love Simon Pegg, and I saw him, not Scotty until he got into the one Safe Red-Shirt on the entire ship. The engineering scenes on the Enterprise towards the end of the film would have made Jimmy Doohan proud.

/And it wasn't Scotty hitting his head on a beam in this movie... just the, um, water park ride thing...

 

[Aike]

I agree. I think Orci and Kurtzman gave some of McCoy´s traits to Kirk.

This movie was really Kirk and Spock. Spock had a slightly bigger part than he used to have. McCoy was Kirk´s sidekick.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I wanted more Scotty.

Me too!

 

[Saga]

i would have liked more McCoy too. and more Scotty

 

[Brent]

Scotty didn't get enough time and lines on screen. Maybe in the sequel.