Trek 12 is actually doing double duty as the long awaited big screen Trek-Who crossover event.
"Listen you lot, you've got lens flares whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you turn them off for a minute because I AM TALKING!"
Pike to return?
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"Listen you lot, you've got lens flares whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you turn them off for a minute because I AM TALKING!"
Well, sources tell me that this is actually the case. He's still in a wheelchair, and it turns out that there's a big dilemma for Uhura. She'll have a wheelchair fetish, and will be torn when Davros, creator of the Daleks returns...yes, that's right, Trek 12 is actually doing double duty as the long awaited big screen Trek-Who crossover event.
Benedict Cumberbatch will be the Doctor and this will lead into David Yates' standalone DW movie. Cue a massive falling out between BC and Stephen Moffatt.
Surely you're aware KingDaniel that in the alternate universe, Fleet Captains outrank mere Admirals.
Come on now.
Well, sources tell me that this is actually the case. He's still in a wheelchair, and it turns out that there's a big dilemma for Uhura. She'll have a wheelchair fetish, and will be torn when Davros, creator of the Daleks returns...yes, that's right, Trek 12 is actually doing double duty as the long awaited big screen Trek-Who crossover event.
that sounds awesome
Do we need Pike? If the movie is set years after the 2009 film, then the crew should be well seasoned in their respective roles. They wouldn't need Pike breathing down their necks.
^ No-one is saying we need him. There just may be a role for him. In many Trek movies, our crew gets orders from a superior officer. Why not make it a familiar face? That's hardly 'breathing down their necks'.
Well, he's in the movie anyway.
Which is awesome. Bruce Greenwood is a very good actor and his Pike was cool.
Sure. It's a new timeline.
Pike was a great character and played by a great actor. He was still alive at movie's end. The actor had a good time working on the film and was keen to do so again. Sequels usually make renewed use of popular, successful characters/actors if the story permits.
As the new movie was being written, the writers would have kept their options open and looked for opportunities to use Pike.
What we all have to remember is that Jim Kirk, while getting the captaincy of the Enterprise only three years earlier than he did in the original timeline (IIRC, he got the captaincy at 28 in the prime timeline), is still rough around the edges. He didn't have George Kirk as his mentor and so needs Chris Pike.
As an aside, I'm glad Pike isn't stuck in that moving iron lung in this timeline.
As an aside, I'm glad Pike isn't stuck in that moving iron lung in this timeline.
^ Seeing a planet destroyed before his eyes isn't traumatic enough?
Perhaps too distant, too abstract, not people he knew etc.
The film didn't really give the impression that anyone was that bothered by it. Where was the shock, the horror? But perhaps they were just being professional or the fact they had 12 odd minutes to "get used to the idea"?
It seems, according to Memory Alpha, Kirk was 31 when he was appointed to command the Enterprise in the prime timeline (i.e. six years later, plus experience).
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It was Spocks great trauma that made him super mature.
For Kirk it did not really mean much, he was jsut unsurious at at the end as he was at the beginning.
We see the shocked reactions of the crew digesting what's happened during Spock's log entry, right after Vulcan's destruction. Plus, at the end, Spock was leaving Starfleet to assist with the rebuilding efforts, until his older self dissuaded him.
Memory Alpha assumes TOS to be Kirk's first command, and that his command of the Enterprise began when the five-year mission does. Both are, as far as I'm aware, assumptions.
The age of 28 is from the old novel "Enterprise: The First Adventure", which is pretty much the Prime universe TOS origin/first mission story.
No, but that doesn't mean that Pike can't be the Admiral who gives Kirk his orders for the Enterprise's next mission.
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