Who will the Villain Be??? ***POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT****

[Agenda]

Gary Mitchell sounds intriguing. If they do the Talosians, it'd be like a remake of the Cage. Delusion vs. Reality. It could be Nolan-esque.

 

[Jack Bauer]

None of those sound interesting to me at all though it all comes down to the execution. Am I the only one that loathes Harry Mudd? I've never really liked that character. He always annoyed me.

 

[thumbtack]

Betty White as a correct age T'Pol.

 

[Nero's Shadow]

The Talosians would be very, very cool.

Have them controlling Gary Mitchell now that would be cool mind control of a starship captain . !!!!!

And let's see pike getting badly hurt maybe saving kirk and the crew. ?

 

[zar]

And actually, after 9 movies with villains I'd like to have a movie without any villain.

Yes please.

 

[Piper]

It's easy to imagine any number of different storylines which need an intergalactic rogue in them, so I think Mudd, who is, performance aside, quite a standard kind of character, is the most likely of the five (and the one I'd most like to see.)

 

[C.E. Evans]

I could see the "villain" being a man-made space disaster that unleashes environmental devastation on a galactic scale. Gary Mitchell could appear--not as a bad guy--but as a "Finnegan-type" character from Kirk's days at the Academy during the large-scale Starfleet effort to save worlds from ruin (no turning into a power-mad, godlike being for this version of Mitchell)...

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I think an original villain is the way to go; using some obscure recurring extra that only die-hard fans remember (yes, like Mudd) would seriously drag the film down. A scene where the character appears is fine; defining an entire story around the character, no. It'd be like making Guinan the center of a movie plot.

Oh wait...

 

[Dream]

Javier Bardem as Khan Noonien Singh please.

Seriously, not having a villain might be interesting...

 

[Kelso]

Of those listed, I'd go for Mudd. Played by Seth Rogan.

 

[Aragorn]

In this alternate universe, Kirk will single-handedly get the Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, Dominion and Borg to join the Federation. And they'll be completely caught off guard by the Tribble uprising.

 

[Saspearia]

I reckon they are having us on with this line up. It's not like JJ to give too much away at this stage. I would like to see the mysterious time travelling guy from Enterprise, it could add to the 'messed up timeline' story a bit more plus tie in Enterprise to the cannon better

 

[Kaziarl]

I vote for the space hippies. They were terrifying.

Joking aside. I think Tralane would be funny, but then comedy probably isn't what the studio would go for in a big movie. So with that in mind, the Talosians.

 

[Cheapjack]

My guess is Harry Mudd or the Talosians.

 

[JarodRussell]

Of those listed, I'd go for Mudd. Played by Seth Rogan.

Ugh. Or Jack Black, while we're at it.

 

[Etched]

None of those sound interesting to me at all though it all comes down to the execution.

That's pretty much how I feel, none of them really scream blockbuster movie material to me but it depends greatly on what the over all concept is and how it is put together.

But I'm going to be taking anything that comes from a "secret inside source" with a whole bag of salt. I'm sure we'll hear all kinds of nonsense from those claiming to be in the know before the movie comes out.

 

[Pauln6]

See, I think Mudd is most likely precisely because they aren't going for a big blockbuster villain (and because JJ's mate Greg Grunberg has said he'd love to play him). He will be a minor player, a support antagonist causing problems by witholding information or some such, much like SGU's Dr Rush. NuBaltar was nothing like the bombastic, melodramatic original, so the credibility of the character will indeed depend upon his execution (at the end, when he rejects Kirk's help, presumably).

 

[M'Sharak]

But I'm going to be taking anything that comes from a "secret inside source" with a whole bag of salt.

By far the wisest course to take at this early stage, I'm thinking.

I'm sure we'll hear all kinds of nonsense from those claiming to be in the know before the movie comes out.

Oh, yeah - just like it was the last time around.

 

[danellis]

... Trelane is too cheesy and Q-like...

I would've thought that Q as a character would have better recognition than Trelane and there's no real canon reason not to use Q (I like John de Lancie as an great actor away from the francise). Not that I'm saying either would be a good idea.

dJE

 

[cooleddie74]

Why not have Harry Mudd AND the Klingons in the same movie? Maybe Harry could accidentally spark an interstellar crisis that drags the Klingons into conflict with the Federation and the movie is spent trying to correct Mudd's tragic mistake?