Peter Weller joins Star Trek Sequel cast

[Greg Cox]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

I doubt that it's going to be any previously-established Trek character.

Ditto. Just because Weller appeared in an Enterprise episode doesn't mean he's playing the same character or a descendent or whatever.

Remember, James Cromwell had guest-starred on at least two tv episodes before being cast as Zefram Cochrane in FIRST CONTACT. And Mark Lenard sure wasn't playing Sarek or the Romulan Commander in TMP . . . .

The vast majority of moviegoers never saw or don't remember that ENTERPRISE episode, so I doubt that the new movie--which is set in an entirely different timeline anyway--would bother to reference it.

 

[Hythlodeus]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

CEO might also - call me crazy, I dunno - imply that the character is the chief executive officer of some sort of corporation.

It could also mean that Weller's playing the Klingon in charge of Rura Penthe, since the prisoner's mine dilithium there.

Yes, and it could also mean that the character is - gee - the chief executive officer (CEO) of a corporation.

exactly. a klingon officer who is specialised in executing chiefs.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Fuck the Klingons.

 

[Bob Karo]

Fuck the Klingons.

I still want a Vanguard novel with that title.

 

[Hythlodeus]

Fuck the Klingons.

I still want a Vanguard novel with that title.

^ this

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It would have to be Fuck The Klingons!

 

[Broccoli]

Fuck the Klingons.

I still want a Vanguard novel with that title.

Great! Now that you posted that in a public forum where Trek tie-in writers post, it'll never happen!

 

[controlfreak]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

I doubt that it's going to be any previously-established Trek character.

Ditto. Just because Weller appeared in an Enterprise episode doesn't mean he's playing the same character or a descendent or whatever.

Remember, James Cromwell had guest-starred on at least two tv episodes before being cast as Zefram Cochrane in FIRST CONTACT. And Mark Lenard sure wasn't playing Sarek or the Romulan Commander in TMP . . . .

The vast majority of moviegoers never saw or don't remember that ENTERPRISE episode, so I doubt that the new movie--which is set in an entirely different timeline anyway--would bother to reference it.

Chris Pine will play TJ Hooker in the next film.

 

[Ranger3]

Fuck the Klingons.

I still want a Vanguard novel with that title.

Great! Now that you posted that in a public forum where Trek tie-in writers post, it'll never happen!

Well, there goes that idea....

 

[Set Harth]

Fuck the Klingons.

I prefer humans.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

I doubt that it's going to be any previously-established Trek character.

Ditto. Just because Weller appeared in an Enterprise episode doesn't mean he's playing the same character or a descendent or whatever.

Remember, James Cromwell had guest-starred on at least two tv episodes before being cast as Zefram Cochrane in FIRST CONTACT. And Mark Lenard sure wasn't playing Sarek or the Romulan Commander in TMP . . . .

The vast majority of moviegoers never saw or don't remember that ENTERPRISE episode, so I doubt that the new movie--which is set in an entirely different timeline anyway--would bother to reference it.

It was the same timeline until Nero arrived and started futzing history on Kirk's birthday and beyond. Star Trek: Enterprise is part of that same past in both timelines.

(unless you know something the rest of us don't)

 

[ChristopherPike]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

It was the same timeline until Nero arrived and started futzing history on Kirk's birthday and beyond. Star Trek: Enterprise is part of that same past in both timelines.

(unless you know something the rest of us don't)

I'd like to believe that too. However thinking about it...

Really the only fact we know for sure, from the mind of Bob Orci, is that the Admiral Archer referenced was the same person from Star Trek: Enterprise. Of course, it seems more likely that the Narada opened up a passageway to a different universe. Nero would have to be isolated from the Prime Universe first, for the changes not to affect anything. Meaning Archer's 22nd Century exploits may have been different over there, than those we saw. Possibly just the broadstrokes remaining the same... being the son of Henry Archer and founding the Federation, being his key contribution in each universe. I don't suppose we'll ever know for sure, even if Weller does play Paxton or a future relative. A portrait of the NX-01 hanging in the Briefing Room or on the Rec Deck would give an indication. I don't see them going to any trouble though.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Fuck the Klingons.

I don't know, I mean, I'm basically a hornball, but Klingon sex looks too rough for me.

 

[ChristopherPike]

I don't know, I mean, I'm basically a hornball, but Klingon sex looks too rough for me.

They sharpen their teeth too... so that could *ahem* go horribly wrong at any moment.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Fuck the Klingons.

I prefer humans.

You don't drink enough.

 

[Set Harth]

Re: Peter Weller joins Star Strek Sequel cast

Really the only fact we know for sure, from the mind of Bob Orci, is that the Admiral Archer referenced was the same person from Star Trek: Enterprise. Of course, it seems more likely that the Narada opened up a passageway to a different universe.

If facts "from the mind of Bob Orci" are so important, we have statements from the mind of Bob Orci that say otherwise. There is no basis to assert that a contradictory outcome is "more likely".

Nero would have to be isolated from the Prime Universe first, for the changes not to affect anything.

I don't even know what this means.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Of course, it seems more likely that the Narada opened up a passageway to a different universe.

I think, if that were the case, it would have been said in the movie. There's nothing even remotely indicating that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I don't know how they would be able to tell. From either perspective (Nero's or the Enterprise crew) there doesn't seem to be a way for them to know absolutely if Nero had originated in a different universe.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Spock Prime would have known. Yet, he spoke only of travelling back through time and not hopping universes.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Why would Spock Prime know? He could have emerged into an alternate universe and not realized it. I mean, he'd know he went back in time, of course, but not anything beyond that. You can't exactly scan for universes.