Voyager Reboot Casting

[JHoffman555]

Hiya -
I've put together an imagined cast for a potential Voyager reboot.

Take a look & lemme know where I screwed up:

http://www.ugo.com/movies/j-j-abrams-reboots-star-trek-voyager

 

[DevilEyes]

It would help if I knew who some of those people were...

You just love casting Mark Strong in every non-human outsider role, don't you? I can understand that... But what's up with the Timberlake love?

Temeura Morrison would probably be lot more badass as Chakotay, but Gemma Atterton is way too young for Janeway. Though I guess it could work if you imagine her 20 years older, with Morrison and others not getting any older. (Imaginary castings allow that, after all.)

 

[Udat]

Can we have a sexier Neelix, Harry, Tuvok and Chakotay.

 

[DevilEyes]

^ Words Neelix and "sexy" don't go together.

 

[Udat]

Well in the re-booted Neelix is hot!!!

 

[JHoffman555]

Sexy Neelix. I'm down with that!

 

[Udat]

See I`ve sold JHoffman on the idea, now who will pay for the new series?

 

[WHF]

Klea Scott would be my choice for Janeway. Most will remember her from the TV series Millennium, but what sells me on her for this role is the CBC series Intelligence. On this series she had this attitude that if you crossed her you were fucked. She was also able to portray an inner uncertainty about her decisions.

She is an actor you can believe is capable of commanding a starship and at 42 she is in the right age range for a captain.

There was another actor on that show, Matt Frewer, who played her second in command. They didn't trust each other and the Frewer character would try and undermine the Scott Character because he was trying to get her job. If one was willing to ditch Chakotay's spiritualism he would be a good choice for that role. Frewer also does arrogance and comedy well so he would also work as the EMH.

 

[stj]

Baldness is irrelevant. Steve Carell is the EMH.

I don't think Justin Timberlake will want to talk about breaking into Rain's bedroom, though. Even in fantasy casting.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Rena Owen as Seska

Seska: "Chakotay, give me the keys to the shuttlecraft so me and the kids can go see Neelix."

Temeura Chakotay: "Shut-up woman, you already took all my money!"

Also an Aaron Eckhart or George Clooney cameo as Commander Cavitt, the doomed first officer of Voyager.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

Edward James Olmos as Janeway, Michael Hogan as Seven

 

[Danny99]

I'll say no thanks simply for the fact that you have Katee Sackhoff on this list.

After watching her on 24 this year, I wish I could erase her from my memory.

 

[Enterprise1981]

Justin Timberlake as Tom Paris and Ellen Page as B'Elana Torres? I don't think so, Tim. But I'm cool with Sackhoff as Seven of Nine.

 

[stj]

Sackhoff for anything is just wrong. Ellen Page for Seven of Nine. Or Amanda Seyfried.

Josh Hartnett for Tom Paris, the right blend of pretty and bland. But they could tweak the part and get a good actor?

Michelle Rodriguez for Torres is obvious, but sometimes not doing the obvious is just being perverse instead of original, right?

Either maturation chambers are completely ridiculous or Seven of Nine was cast too young. Clea Duval, for more age appropriate and edgy.

Angela Bassett for Janeway, and Hugh Laurie for Tuvok. Because.

Wes Studi for Chakotay.

Sean Astin for Neelix.

The situation for young Asian male actors is still horrible. The only name actor who is age appropriate is John Cho.

 

[WHF]

An example of why I think Klea Scott would work as Janeway:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeD3n8sTkg[/yt]

 

[Cornholio]

Hiya -
I've put together an imagined cast for a potential Voyager reboot.

Take a look & lemme know where I screwed up:

http://www.ugo.com/movies/j-j-abrams-reboots-star-trek-voyager

perfect. except I'd make these changes:

Kathryn Hepburn as Janeway
Humphrey Bogart as Chakotay
Paul Winfield as Tuvok
William Powell as the EMH
Myrna Loy as Kes
Donna Reed as Seven
Audrey Hepburn as B'elanna
Moe Howard as Paris
Larry Fine as Neelix
Curly Howard as Harry

 

[kimc]

In 2009 J.J. Abrams rocked the Star Trek world by rebooting the Original Series with a younger cast and a non-canon origin story. Now it's The Next Generation's turn!

Well he has a forumula that works for him: create a love triangle with three hot youngsters (Jack/Kate/Sawyer or Spock/Uhura/Kirk), throw in some time travel and stir...

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

In 2009 J.J. Abrams rocked the Star Trek world by rebooting the Original Series with a younger cast and a non-canon origin story. Now it's The Next Generation's turn!

Well he has a forumula that works for him: create a love triangle with three hot youngsters (Jack/Kate/Sawyer or Spock/Uhura/Kirk), throw in some time travel and stir...

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

I have a problem recasting any of the rest of Trek outside of TOS right now. Reason being, it's too soon.

The actors in the other series are still out there in a way that would make it plausible that they could re-enter their roles. Roxanne Dawson and Jeri Ryan, for example, look almost exactly the same as they did 10 years ago. (That's stunning if you think about it.) Others could get back into shape and pick up where they left off. *coughrobbiemcneilcough*

Besides:

 

[Ensign Johnson]

I'd like to see a film with the original Voyager cast, but with the new movies now I can't see it happening. Maybe Admiral Janeway could turn up in the next film because of some sort of anomaly.

 

[Mysterion]

My two cents:

Janeway: Gina Torres (Firefly)
Chakotay: Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves)