So, who might our "A-List" villain be?

[Balthier the Great]

Of the top ten, my vote goes to Depp. I think he could pull of a good villian, and he's got more style than Damon. Damon just looks into the camera and broods.

Just pleez don't make Depp a Space Pirate.

 

[cardinal biggles]

fudgefase said:
Mandy Patinkin?

He can play Captain Pike, who's seeking the six-fingered Klingon who killed his father.

"Hello. My name is Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Aragorn said:

fudgefase said:
Michael Keaton - damn good actor, reasonable box office draw and well able to play a baddie that you can sympathise with.

Box office draw???

Maybe if we're going back to, say, 1992...

 

[Dr. Chandra]

Procutus said:

trekkiebaggio said:
Samuel L. Jackson as a Klingon.

"Get these motherfuckin' tribbles off this motherfuckin' starship!"

That was pretty good.

 

[guardian]

I think they will have young Kirk (25-30 years old), go against a older adversary. The young hero defeats a older more experienced adversary. That would propel Kirk to the reputation he later had which both helped him and annoyed his contemporaries. It always seemed to me, that other older starfleet officers had a real jealousy over Kirk's career and reputaion. Commadore Wesley, Matt Decker, Commadore Stone, Captain Stiles etc.

Maybe we can see the evolution of his 'boy wonder' status--to borrow a phrase from Daystrom.

 

[fudgefase]

Oh Cardinal Biggles - you're very cruel, but I like the MP joke v much! I still think Michael Keaton could do it though.

 

[Peter the Younger]

I find myself sort of liking the idea of the "noble adversary", similar to the Romulan Commander in Balance of Terror. That sort of role, if written well, would have at least some chance of attracting a decent A-lister. A legendary Klingon commander, sort of the equivalent of Yamamoto, would work really well.

 

[Lumen]

I don't think our A-list villain will be obscured by makeup — which is to say, no Klingons.

 

[LoneStranger]

Oh, I don't know. I think there are some A-List actors who would love to put the makeup on. You can't hide a famous voice, and in the case of a Klingon or Romulan, I don't think the makeup is going to obscure their face.

Though he didn't put on any masks or makeup, Samuel L. Jackson practically begged for a part in the Star Wars prequels. I could see an A-List actor who grew up with Star Trek wanting to put the makeup on to become a Klingon and live out a childhood fantasy.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Of course there's 2 kinds of Klingons...the crunchy ones and the smoothies. The smoothie Klingon won't obscure the actor too much.

 

[Joisey]

How big and bad of a villian can you have for mere Star Fleet cadets to deal with????

For once, will we get a Star Trek movie where the "captain" is not saving the entire universe????

An appropriate villian: Finnigan, the Upper Classman who made Kirk's early years a living hell for him. A "Personal Villian", not a Macro-Villian. Think "Smallville".

 

[Lumen]

Most reports seem to indicate that most of them are at least out of the academy, unless I've missed something very recent.

But I agree that the story ought to be personal.

 

[seigezunt]

Lumen said:
I don't think our A-list villain will be obscured by makeup — which is to say, no Klingons.

Please, God, no Let-Me-Tell-You-My-Family-History-and Honor-Crap Klingons. Longing for the days of Kor and Kang, before they had horseshoe crabs on their heads...

 

[Holytomato]

Actually Kor and Kang got horse crab forehead (Debt of Honor, and Blood Oath).

I vote for Anita Bryant. She plays a woman who got nixed for a starship command cuz Jim Kirk wouldn't seduce the Command School instructor.

...

Oh wait that's been done.

Oh, I got it, Karl Rove plays a pale, slimy cyborg woman with a removable head :waggle eyebrows: that hates Jim Kirk cuz he wouldn't setle down. She plots her revenge. Jim Kirk gives stirring Moby Dick Speech. Oh...darn..that been done too.

Why must there be a Big Bad?

Do something different says I.