Pegg Denies Cumberbatch Role Rumors

[Set Harth]

Please no Section 31. Star Trek is supposed to be about a future where humans have moved beyond things like attempted genocide and secret police.

Never gonna happen.

 

[Dukhat]

Have you read the latest Ongoing comic? I think there is a strong hint in there, regarding the movie.

No, I have not read the comic. What is the hint you're referring to?

Anyway, Cumberbatch playing a Section 31 agent would fit the claims that his character will not be a villain in the traditional sense and that he will not be "just another disgruntled alien".

Well, by that logic, V'Ger and the whale probe were members of Section 31 too.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I really like the Section 31 idea, especially since we know that it existed in the 23rd century and we could finally see it in action in a Kirk & Co. movie.

Check out #9 of IDW's "Star Trek Ongoing" comic, Part 1 of "Return of the Archons"! I'm wondering if the first page with Sulu is yet another easter egg for the new movie, perhaps a similar alternate-agenda scenario for Benedict Cumberbatch's Starfleet-uniformed character?

 

[Oso Blanco]

Check out #9 of IDW's "Star Trek Ongoing" comic, Part 1 of "Return of the Archons"! I'm wondering if the first page with Sulu is yet another easter egg for the new movie, perhaps a similar alternate-agenda scenario for Benedict Cumberbatch's Starfleet-uniformed character?

That's exactly what I meant!

 

[Dukhat]

Some more description of the scene, or a scan, would be nice.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Some more description of the scene, or a scan, would be nice.

Spoiler: Section 31

They are trying to recruit Sulu.

 

[sojourner]

Please, NO Gary Seven. NO time travel.

I thought I read something early in preproduction that they planned to "use a character fans would recognize from TOS" which is what started all of the Khan speculation to begin with.

 

[Psion]

Please, NO Gary Seven. NO time travel.

I thought I read something early in preproduction that they planned to "use a character fans would recognize from TOS" which is what started all of the Khan speculation to begin with.

I remember that too, with the embellishment that it was a first season character, too.

It's Norman.

Edit to add: NORMAN COORDINATE

No, wait, that was second season.

 

[Procutus]

I really like the Section 31 idea, especially since we know that it existed in the 23rd century and we could finally see it in action in a Kirk & Co. movie.

Check out #9 of IDW's "Star Trek Ongoing" comic, Part 1 of "Return of the Archons"! I'm wondering if the first page with Sulu is yet another easter egg for the new movie, perhaps a similar alternate-agenda scenario for Benedict Cumberbatch's Starfleet-uniformed character?

Thanks for that, sounds rather intriguing.

 

[Avon]

simon pegg has no sense of humor in real life. so it's anyones guess whether he's telling the truth or not

 

[sojourner]

^Yep, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead were just flukes.

 

[Therin of Andor]

simon pegg has no sense of humor in real life.

Snubbed you at a convention. eh?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Some more description of the scene, or a scan, would be nice.

http://issuu.com/idwpublishing/docs/startrek_09-preview?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Google is your friend. First seven pages of art and dialog as a preview, as with most IDW issues.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They also denied Cumberbatch was the Villain.

Whom? That was reported from the get go and even Cumberbatch himself has said that he is portraying the villain.

For Cumberbatch not to be playing the antagonist would be tricky to pull off. There isn't room for yet another key character in this already too-full cast.

I suppose the antagonist could be something impersonal like a Doomsday Machine, but it's also possible that the "antagonist" is not a "villain" in the same sense that Nero was.

 

[Therin of Andor]

this already too-full cast.

 

[Captaindemotion]

simon pegg has no sense of humor in real life. so it's anyones guess whether he's telling the truth or not

Okay, this warrants a !!!!!!!

 

[Greg Cox]

this already too-full cast.

I admit I'm scratching my head over that one, too.

I mean, look at WOK. Besides the regular Enterprise crew, we also had Khan, Joaquin, Carol Marcus, David Marcus, Saavik, Captain Terrell, and (briefly) Scotty's nephew.

Or, to choose a more contemporary example, the 2009 movie also featured Nero, Pike, Old Spock, Sarek, Amanda, George Kirk, and, arguably, the green girl. Granted, George was killed off early on, but it was a big and showy enough part to count as a prominent role.

The new movie has, as far as we know, three or four guest-characters? Sounds typical to me . . .

 

[F. King Daniel]

Maybe Cumberbatch is playing.... Joachim? Super human strength and endurence, and he's physically a lot closer to him than he is Khan.

 

[Captaindemotion]

It would be an interesting twist on it. The crew open the Botany Bay ... to find that Khan's capsule has opened and he has died. But the rest of his crew prove just as troublesome.

Don't see it happening though.

 

[Franklin]

It would be an interesting twist on it. The crew open the Botany Bay ... to find that Khan's capsule has opened and he has died. But the rest of his crew prove just as troublesome.

Don't see it happening though.

Me either. It would seem contrived and a bit of a cheat. Why bother with the whole Botany Bay thing if Khan isn't being used? Khan was the leader. Khan was the one with the charisma. Khan was the one escaping into space with his followers. Khan is the one with the past. With all that in the back of fans' minds, and with Khan supposedly having the "brand recognition" among casual and non-fans, why turn out to give Kirk the "second string?"