Seeing her very often in the trailer/tv spots and especially those new foreign posters where it is her, spock, and kirk. One is to assume her role is A LOT bigger than in the past. But how big will it be? More than McCoy? Or is it because she is a pretty face and the studio just wants to play that up? It's really interesting seeing her more or less getting equal marketing as kirk and spock.
Uhura...a lead character?
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Seeing as how Uhura played mostly a minimal role in all six TOS movies, to the point where guest stars like Saavik played meatier parts, I wouldn't mind if Uhura had more lines.
From what I hear (rumors, take what you will), McCoy has a much larger and more integral part than the trailers lead us to believe, too.
From what I hear (rumors, take what you will), McCoy has a much larger and more integral part than the trailers lead us to believe, too.
Yeah I know but it is interesting. Past Star Trek films to get a female lead part they created characters like Saavik or gave Kirk some girl to romance like that Whale lady. Never really went the Uhura route. I am actually kind of surprised they didn't give Kirk a romantic storyline in this, being it being more mainstream and all.
Well, someone is writhing around in bed with Kirk in those trailers...
That's one of the Orion Cadets, of course.
What's left unsaid is that they have decided to create romantic tension between Kirk and Uhura over the life of this trilogy. New timeline and all that. That's why she's the second lead after Spock.
I have to agree. I wouldn't mind if she also were more important, but I think this is the ultimate reason for her being on the posters.
What's left unsaid is that they have decided to create romantic tension between Kirk and Uhura over the life of this trilogy. New timeline and all that. That's why she's the second lead after Spock.[/quote]
the book "Enterprise: The First Adventure" by Vonda N. Mcintyre (a very very old book) - depicts the very first adventure of the original crew (in the original timeline of course) on the Enterprise with Kirk taking command for the first time....when he first sees Uhura Kirk is absolutely spellbound by her and has a massive attraction...in the end he has to use his will and sense of professionalism to stop from acting on his desires..hence the strictly platonic relationship thruout the series run and movies coz lets face it, the hottest babe (Nichelle Nichols!) during all of kirk's travels was right there behind him on the bridge...
Orci and Kurtzman have stated they have borrowed from trek books for this story even though the books arent canon...so it makes some sense for them to have some sort of tension in the new time line
If I remember, there was an AICN report by Kevin Anderson (not sure if it was him, might be wrong) on the trek movie coz JJ had shown him a rough cut last year....in it he gave high praise to Pine as Kirk, but the biggest surprise for him was the character of Uhura who has much more prominence in the story than Nichelle's character
Its good tho that their tapping the peripheral characters coz there's plenty of untapped story potential..eg we got to know so much of Martok (who was only a guest star) in 3yrs of DS9 than we did about Sulu/Uhurua/Chekov combined in 40yrs (books excluded)
the book "Enterprise: The First Adventure" by Vonda N. Mcintyre (a very very old book) - depicts the very first adventure of the original crew (in the original timeline of course) on the Enterprise with Kirk taking command for the first time....when he first sees Uhura Kirk is absolutely spellbound by her and has a massive attraction...in the end he has to use his will and sense of professionalism to stop from acting on his desires..hence the strictly platonic relationship thruout the series run and movies coz lets face it, the hottest babe (Nichelle Nichols!) during all of kirk's travels was right there behind him on the bridge...
Orci and Kurtzman have stated they have borrowed from trek books for this story even though the books arent canon...so it makes some sense for them to have some sort of tension in the new time line
If I remember, there was an AICN report by Kevin Anderson (not sure if it was him, might be wrong) on the trek movie coz JJ had shown him a rough cut last year....in it he gave high praise to Pine as Kirk, but the biggest surprise for him was the character of Uhura who has much more prominence in the story than Nichelle's character
Its good tho that their tapping the peripheral characters coz there's plenty of untapped story potential..eg we got to know so much of Martok (who was only a guest star) in 3yrs of DS9 than we did about Sulu/Uhurua/Chekov combined in 40yrs (books excluded)
I believe all the so called lesser characters will have at least one hugh shinning moment reflecting their position. Uhura will probably do something in Communication which will be invaluable to the moment, something she improvises which buys time for everyone to think or act. It'll be the thing Kirk never forgets and the main reason for eventually asking her to be part of his crew.
Everyone will have such a moment in the sun.
Everyone will have such a moment in the sun.
Hollywood likes to use good-looking women to sell their movies? Well, that's a switch.
Ugh. Dopey and obvious, let's hope it's not true.
Y'know, having Kirk/Uhura chemistry would certainly require a reevaluation of Plato's Stepchildren, only because we saw Kirk and Uhura strain to kiss each other. "We agreed... that we're... just... good... FRIENDS!"
Well, the seeming attraction between Kirk and Uhura I see as a kind of homage to the first black/white kiss on TV. It does add a different dimension to Don Juan T. Kirk, Casanova of the Stars! -- RR
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