I don't think he's out of shape at all, but it's a good demonstration of how the camera seems to add ten pounds.
At the very least, everybody in the future is going to have perfect teeth and will probably be a bit more symmetrical (which most folks interpret as attractiveness) due to fewer illnesses and probably better genes. You know what would just scream "future healthcare"? Better mental health. That's probably the one area where Trek has consistently failed to imagine a better future.
I heard M'Benga lost a fight against Timothee Chalamet on some desert planet just before running off to the Enterprise. It must have happened during his internship on Vulcan.
He's nothing like Booker Bradshaw who appeared in two episodes of the original series. I don't know why they have to reuse these old characters and have such different actors cast. Apart from that he seems okay in the role. JB
Yes the Curtis thing though I get but it was still with the Shatner Kirk and the Kelley McCoy rather than a completely new cast! JB
Well, we can't really bring back the dead, now can we? Recasting must be hard when we'd rather have the dead back.
Who is say they are not good enough? This is storytelling, not historical reenactment. Nothing about TOS is being damaged. Also, as much as I love TOS it was not perfection.
And it is for me. And? What part of TOS is being damaged? What is being taken away from it? All I see is a lot of fan assumptions and a lot of hand wringing over minutia that is not as important as the characters in the stories and what we learn about them. If you want the dead back, by all means please watch TOS.