SPOILERS!!! NEW AICN RUMORS (APRIL 30)

[CommanderRaytas]

I don't care if they do Khan, but why do they have to pick the whitest guy possible to play him? That really doesn't make a lot of sense.

I don't care as much about the ethnicity as you can explain this either way....but Khan? Dude...lame.

I trust JJ Abrams and will give him the benefit of the doubt regardless of Khan being retarded. He'll make something out of it. I may not like Khan, but hell, what we get is what we get, and I'll probably end up liking the film anyway.

 

[Franklin]

Yep. Here are the pics from the bar. I still can't believe they were at a Hooters. LOL. Seriously?

http://trekmovie.com/2012/05/06/photos-star-trek-sequel-stars-mission-to-hooters/

Here's what I can't believe I see in one picture. The oranges around the rim of he pitcher. The opaqueness of the beer in the pitcher and in Cumberbatch's glass. The orange slice he's holding. That's Blue Moon they're drinking? Pegg and Cumberbatch are from the land of a 1000 great ales, and over here they drink Blue Moon? Really?

Edited to add:
Of course, there could be a promotional tie in.

Starfleet women give up their careers for him.
To him, the Vulcan neck pinch merely tickles.
He can catch up on 200 years of galactic history in one afternoon.
He is -- the most interesting villain in Star Trek.
"I don't always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Blue Moon. Stay evil, my friends."

 

[Captain Rob]

I got it. Cumberbatch is playing a disaffected Starfleet officer named Commander Graeme Khan. He never heard of augments, the SS Botany Bay, Eugenics Wars, or Khan Noonien Singh. And he sure as hell never read Milton.
JJ's recycled names before.

 

[22 Stars]

Capt Rob, i like that and was hoping so I reread the Trekmovie article and it 'specified' Khan Noonien Singh Not that I am willing to accept it yet.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Whether or not you agree with them using Khan in this movie, one thing does occur to me. I remember when the movie Red Dragon was being promoted (this being the adaptation of the first Hannibal Lecter novel, with Anthony Hopkins reprising his role, well over a decade after Silence of the Lambs, even though RD was set first) the makers addressing the issue of Hopkins being too old for the role.

They basically said 'Look, if you're watching this movie and you're concentrating on how old he looks, then we've failed. If we succeed, then you're enjoying the movie and you're enjoying his performance, then you won't care about how old he looks.'

I think that much the same will apply to Cumberbatch as Khan. You will either enjoy him as Khan or you won't. If you enjoy his performance, you won't care that he doesn't look Indian, Mexican or Montal-ban (see what I did there?). If you don't enjoy his performance, then his looks/ ethnicity will just be another one of your gripes.

 

[indranee]

Exactly. Plus, Montalban didn't look Indian. Neither in TOS, nor in TWOK. I'm sorry, but I'm Indian and he had a very distinct look, but it wasn't "Indian".

And, yes, people, please don't tell me "Indian comes in all shapes and sizes etc". I already know that and I stand by my statement above.

 

[Anticitizen]

Exactly. Plus, Montalban didn't look Indian. Neither in TOS, nor in TWOK. I'm sorry, but I'm Indian and he had a very distinct look, but it wasn't "Indian".

And, yes, people, please don't tell me "Indian comes in all shapes and sizes etc". I already know that and I stand by my statement above.

Khan is supposed to be a genetically engineered superman. I honestly don't have a problem however he would look - it'd be fair to accept that he would be a sort of a 'mutt' of races/genetics, built from the best parts of all flavors.

I DO have a problem with rehashing the idea of Khan, though. It's a whole new timeline... come up with something new. How many times did they have to go back to the Borg before we were all sick of it?

 

[Neumann]

Starfleet women give up their careers for him.
To him, the Vulcan neck pinch merely tickles.
He can catch up on 200 years of galactic history in one afternoon.
He is -- the most interesting villain in Star Trek.
"I don't always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Blue Moon. Stay evil, my friends."

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

How many times did they have to go back to the Borg before we were all sick of it?

Once, in the movies, and they made a lot of money.

You can claim a relationship between the Borg and Voyager's ratings, but you can't present evidence to that effect.

 

[indranee]

Voyager's ratings were crap because the show was, mostly, crap.

 

[Shazam!]

Only mostly?

 

[indranee]

I'm being generous here. I did like Year of Hell.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Voyager's ratings were crap because the show was, mostly, crap.

Why did DS9's ratings go to hell at about the same rate, then? More "mostly crap?"

Both shows finished up with ratings sufficient to sustain them and be profitable, or else Enterprise would not have been greenlighted.

 

[indranee]

DS9 was syndicated and not shown in many markets whereas VOY was on pretty much every major market. So, technically, DS9's ratings were higher

Besides, DS9 wasn't crap

 

[Miss Lemon]

What's wrong with being fangirly? Have you seen the "needed each other thread"?

I have!!

It's the only thread in this subforum where people don't bitch and roll their eyes at eachother. There's only love and understanding.

 

[Franklin]

What's wrong with being fangirly? Have you seen the "needed each other thread"?

I have!!

It's the only thread in this subforum where people don't bitch and roll their eyes at eachother. There's only love and understanding.

That is because Landru guides that thread. And Landru only wishes peace and tranquility.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

You are not of the Body!

 

[indranee]

No, but she's FOR the body. Or bodies, in this case

 

[Miss Lemon]

We are ALL of the body. Some of us just don't dare to admit it.

 

[Balrog]

Man! Rehashing Khan?!

That's like the Batman franchise rehashing The Joker! There's NO WAY they could make that work a second time around. I mean, The Joker IS Nicholson, and...

... wait, what?