What actors do you think would be good as the rest of the OG crew?
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Joke fail.okay. I"m indifferent
Might make a good Eomer.Bones
I'll show myself out.
Right off, I like just about all the main cast.
The biggest sticking point is La'an Noonien-Singh. No problem with the actress or the character, but I wish she had another last name.
I like Anson Mount, but I wouldn't mind a little more edge to his Pike. He resembles Jeffrey Hunter a bit, and he cuts a dashing figure, but he's missing Hunter's edge and Greenwood's grit far too much. He's a cool dad captain, but sometimes I think they make him a bit too soft. I also would like Number One to be a bit colder.
I really like Bush, but I agree with those who felt she should've played a different character. Yeoman Colt was available if they didn't want to create a new character whole cloth.
I also like Gooding as Uhura, and I'm okay with her on the series because it allows for them to develop her character in ways that TOS didn't. However, I would also be okay with making her character new as well.
Peck is okay as Spock, but I don't like how they make him too emotional and this season he seems to be the person they want to use for comic relief too much already.
I would rather they have not used M'Benga, or perhaps just made this character a relative of TOS's M'Benga if they were dead set on using his name. It would avoid the questions about why he leaves the ship and then comes back as a medic under McCoy.
The biggest sticking point is La'an Noonien-Singh. No problem with the actress or the character, but I wish she had another last name.
I like Anson Mount, but I wouldn't mind a little more edge to his Pike. He resembles Jeffrey Hunter a bit, and he cuts a dashing figure, but he's missing Hunter's edge and Greenwood's grit far too much. He's a cool dad captain, but sometimes I think they make him a bit too soft. I also would like Number One to be a bit colder.
I really like Bush, but I agree with those who felt she should've played a different character. Yeoman Colt was available if they didn't want to create a new character whole cloth.
I also like Gooding as Uhura, and I'm okay with her on the series because it allows for them to develop her character in ways that TOS didn't. However, I would also be okay with making her character new as well.
Peck is okay as Spock, but I don't like how they make him too emotional and this season he seems to be the person they want to use for comic relief too much already.
I would rather they have not used M'Benga, or perhaps just made this character a relative of TOS's M'Benga if they were dead set on using his name. It would avoid the questions about why he leaves the ship and then comes back as a medic under McCoy.
Boy, duty assignments and transfers are really foreign concepts aren't they?
Chapel is mostly a blank slate. Her TOS portrayal was paper thin. SNW's version is superior in every way.
Why? I think showing a young Uhura who's growing as an officer is a good move
He was much more emotional in the pilots and early Season One. Most seem to think Peck is nailing it as Spock. Frankly I'm shocked at how much I'm liking him as Spock.
Another paper thin character given actual depth and dimension on SNW.
As fireproof said, people transfer on and off ships all of the time. My father spent 25 years in the USAF. He was deployed to several bases over those years, including a few TDY gigs. We moved almost every two to four years.
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I think that going with new characters opens the door for expanding the franchise and greater exploration, without any canon constraints. That's why I would be okay with not having Chapel, Uhura, and M'Benga onboard. I did mention that having Young Uhura aboard does lend to giving her character greater, and much deserved, development, though I would've been fine as well with Gooding playing a brand-new character. Though I would rather have Bush playing Colt than Chapel if she had to play an established character so they wouldn't have to explain away Chapel's marriage or how the Spock-Chapel relationship in TOS came to be. When it comes to M'Benga, while people might get transferred, there is now the question of demotion, that might now have to be addressed.
As for Peck's performance, it might work for you, but I'm iffy on it. I know the go to argument for his emotionalism is the pilot, but that was an unaired pilot for twenty years (and while it was interspersed in "The Menagerie" that past version of Spock was juxtaposed to the more standard iteration of the character on TOS).
No canon problems with Uhura so far.
African✓
Comm officer.✓
Likes to sing. ✓
Not really seeing where they can go wrong short of killing her off.
Colt? Why? Nurse has more dramatic turns than yeoman. They've made good use of Chapel's science background since episode one. What's Colt going to do? File a report?
Chapel was never married, just engaged. If you're gonna play the canon game get the details right.
Spock-Chapel is a "devolving story" with years to go until TOS. What's the problem with charting that again? Or maybe it won't Years to go until "A Private Little War".
So the parts seen in "The Menagerie" aren't canon????? Man, this canon stuff is confusing. It's more than the pilot. Spock is a bit different in WNMHGB and early season one. He has a rather puckish quality.
I would be most interested in learning if Cara Gee (The Expanse) was considered for the role of La'an Noonien Singh. If a female "bad-ass" of Asian ancestry is required, I would think that Ms. Gee could have filled the bill, admirably.
Gee is Ojibwa First Nation not Asian.
What demotion?
Duly noted, my mistake. Her strikingly beautiful features could nonetheless easily pass for Asian.
IIRC there is a connection between First Nations/Native Americans and East Asians.
I'm no anthropologist, but I think there is SOME connection between the very western-most 1st Nation/Native Americans and the various Siberian and perhaps Yakut tribes. The pre-contact Ojibwe inhabited an area running from the western-most edge of Wisconsin, eastward to just west of Maine, along the U.S./Canadian border. I doubt that there was much blood mixed between them and the inhabitants of the Pacific rim.
The people who became the Ojibwe had to come from somewhere. Popular theory is there were several migrations from Asia to the Americas. With various groups moving deeper and deeper into the Americas, eventually inhabiting territory from Patagonia to Northern Canada
Food for thought, though perhaps we've inadvertently been entirely too effective at introducing "thread drift", here.
I would never have come up with the idea of casting Carol Kane as a replacement for Bruce Horak's redoubtable, if much-loved "Hemmer" character. I nonetheless suspect that Ms. Kane will deliver a tour-de-force as Pelia.
I'd be interested in knowing if the SNW higher-ups gave any thought to filling the role with Christopher Doohan to play his father's signature role.
I would never have come up with the idea of casting Carol Kane as a replacement for Bruce Horak's redoubtable, if much-loved "Hemmer" character. I nonetheless suspect that Ms. Kane will deliver a tour-de-force as Pelia.
I'd be interested in knowing if the SNW higher-ups gave any thought to filling the role with Christopher Doohan to play his father's signature role.
I agree. I would have preferred Jess Bush as Colt. Even if it meant a Spock/Colt romance, that they could actually follow through on. Colt was supposed to have an energetic personality with 'strong female drives.' I feel that would play into Jess Bush's extroverted performance quite well. There's some amusing tension between her and Pike as well, that could have been played for laughs.
It also allows her to organically be more involved in the physical action, as Colt was a landing party officer.
The problem with Chapel is she is a dull, submissive character constrained by TOS canon, where she demonstrates an unrequited love for Spock that isn't reciprocated (as Spock has other love interests in TOS). Bush is too good for Chapel.
But, this makes great drama. So it works quite well.
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