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Will we see Robert April in Trex XI?

Freeman would be an excellent April. Hell, he'd be an excellent anything.

Washington would be great too. There was a thread over at Trekmovie.com where someone suggested Washington as Pike, which was an idea I really liked -- canon shmanon, he'd be awesome in the role.

We should be so lucky.
 
Outpost4 said:
ChristopherPike said:
I imagine they're going to avoid calling Pike the first Captain of the Enterprise...
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I'm afraid it will be otherwise. Hollywood loves having somebody be "first" in a story. It adds drama. I think they'll make Pike the first captain of the Enterprise.
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I doubt it. Abrams is too big a fan of Trek to let something like that slip. I imagine we'd sooner see April than see Pike called the first captain of the Enterprise.
 
As Archer was a captain of the Enterprise before either, it's quite probable Abrams won't go into semantics like this. What's important isn't that Pike is the first captain, it's that he's the captain previous to Kirk, and I expect the plot to reflect this.

I doubt very much whether we'll see Robert April; hell, his 'canonical' status boils down to his name being originally considered for the pike role and the inclusion of a character by that name in TAS. I like the idea of including Leslie Nielsen in the movie somehow, and I also like the idea of casting a photoshopped Gene in the role. Just make it a picture on a wall somewhere and leave it at that.
 
How does everyone feel about the idea of Kirk's dad serving under April? I know that has been advanced by a few non-canon sources. Seems a bit too "small universe" for me. I always imagined Kirk's dad as an Iowa farmer.
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Then again, it seems you only get to be a Starfleet officer if recommended by another Starfleet officer ("The Apple" and Nog's story). Something got young Kirk both interested in the Academy, and eligible for entering. And something got young Kirk to go from Iowa to Tarsus IV and see Kodos the Executioner in action. So there probably is an outer space history to the Kirk family after all.

Personally, I'd like the Kirk family to be a group of luddites who moved to Tarsus IV when Iowa became too techno for their tastes. Of course, Kirk's parents were then killed by Kodos, making the lad gaze determinedly at the sunset as the wind rustled his hair, and swear that one day he would go to the stars and become one of the bold Starfleeters that had come and saved the rest of the colony. But he would not arrive too late. :devil:

Timo Saloniemi
 
Isn't April supposed to be an Englishman?

Based on a Trek novel's cover image of him, I'm thinking: Michael Palin.

(I'm not going by how he appeared in TAS, that looked too much like Kirk)
 
When reading the Diane Carey novels in which April featured, I always pictured Charles Dance.

A lot of people have suggested Tom Wilkinson, given that he's English and bears a passing resemblance to GR.
 
Timo said:
Then again, it seems you only get to be a Starfleet officer if recommended by another Starfleet officer ("The Apple" and Nog's story).
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Nog only had to have a recommendation because he's from a non-Federation world.
 
As a big April fan, I would love to see him in the film. The guy is a legend after all... ;)


But I doubt that'll happen.
 
How about Robert Culp?

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"Robert April, FBI! Er...I mean...Captain of the Enterprise!"
 
Kegek said:
As Archer was a captain of the Enterprise before either, it's quite probable Abrams won't go into semantics like this. What's important isn't that Pike is the first captain, it's that he's the captain previous to Kirk, and I expect the plot to reflect this.

I doubt very much whether we'll see Robert April; hell, his 'canonical' status boils down to his name being originally considered for the pike role and the inclusion of a character by that name in TAS. I like the idea of including Leslie Nielsen in the movie somehow, and I also like the idea of casting a photoshopped Gene in the role. Just make it a picture on a wall somewhere and leave it at that.
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Personally, I've never understood all the fan devotion to April. Considering that, as you mention, his biggest chunk of 'canonical' status stems from a character in TAS (which, after all, isn't even recognized as canon) I really don't see the point in Abrams et al going out of their way to include him in the movie; hopefully, they just work it out that Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise and we can finally put all this April talk to rest for good.
 
Outpost4 said:
I think they'll make Pike the first captain of the Enterprise.
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Doesn't mean that April wasn't in command of it first; he could have had the rank of commodore back then.
 
steveman said:
Personally, I've never understood all the fan devotion to April. Considering that, as you mention, his biggest chunk of 'canonical' status stems from a character in TAS (which, after all, isn't even recognized as canon) I really don't see the point in Abrams et al going out of their way to include him in the movie; hopefully, they just work it out that Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise and we can finally put all this April talk to rest for good.
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I figure it's the same as Sulu's first name, Hikaru. So many people used it that it just grew to be something assumed, even though it didn't become canon until Star Trek VI. And like Uhura's first name...ask 10 TOS fans what her first name is, and I bet nine will same Nyota. However, the name has never been on TV or in a movie, so it's not canon. If you ask 10 TOS fans who was the first to command the 1701...most would probably say Robert April.
 
Rat Boy said:
Outpost4 said:
I think they'll make Pike the first captain of the Enterprise.
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Doesn't mean that April wasn't in command of it first; he could have had the rank of commodore back then.
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Anyone who commands a ship - regardless of their actual rank - is always called Captain. So even if April had the rank of commodore at the time, he'd still have been the captain of the ship.
 
Captain59 said:
steveman said:
Personally, I've never understood all the fan devotion to April. Considering that, as you mention, his biggest chunk of 'canonical' status stems from a character in TAS (which, after all, isn't even recognized as canon) I really don't see the point in Abrams et al going out of their way to include him in the movie; hopefully, they just work it out that Pike is the first captain of the Enterprise and we can finally put all this April talk to rest for good.
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I figure it's the same as Sulu's first name, Hikaru. So many people used it that it just grew to be something assumed, even though it didn't become canon until Star Trek VI. And like Uhura's first name...ask 10 TOS fans what her first name is, and I bet nine will same Nyota. However, the name has never been on TV or in a movie, so it's not canon. If you ask 10 TOS fans who was the first to command the 1701...most would probably say Robert April.
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Agreed...

But it still doesn't make it canon. I know I'd much rather see Pike -- someone whom we're familiar with and have at least somewhat of an emotional attachment to -- be recognized as the first commander of the 1701 than April, someone whom we've never met (save for that single episode of TAS) and have no real emotional attachment to. I say just simplify things and cut April of the picture completely. IMO, it's one of the peskier bits of fannon. I know I won't miss him.
 
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