Centurion Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Comic-Con News: Nimoy and Quinto in Trek XI. Kirk not yet cast. Old and young Spock? Hmm... Time travel again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hmm... given that it's Star Trek - I think time travel is pretty likely... plus, it would give license to continuity rape... Although, it could play out in so many ways - it's pointless to speculate. Not only that, it could simply be for the purposes of story telling. Older Spock at the academy telling some young whipper snappers about he and Kirk were great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badmoonryzn Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Over the last few months I been pondering why Paramount said they would not ever do another Star Trek movie or TV show. I saw this on the two hour special the History channel did on the Star Trek phenomenon. I believe the one gentleman was the head of Paramount, then Gene’s widow said something similar and Capt Kirk said it at the end of the show. It is rather hard to believe a show that has brought in half a billion would be shelved forever. Yea Sure. Anyway, I have watched every show and movie now for the last forty some years and I would love to see more series and movies. With the following the show has it is doubtful it would ever lose money. Were still watching the series from the sixties for heavens sake. Long live the Star Trek imaginations. Badmoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Quinto Confirmed As Spock, Kirk Not Cast Score one for the bloggers. Of all the people that have been bantied about as being part of the new "Star Trek XI" cast, it appears that one of the shots in the dark had to hit its mark, and it did. Director J.J. Abrams confirmed that both "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy will play the iconic role of the Enterprise science officer Spock in the upcoming Trek movie, according to Cinematical. Abrams made the long-awaited announcement during his Comic-Con International panel in San Diego Thursday afternoon. As far as major casting announcements, however, that was pretty much it. There is still no Kirk cast. No McCoy. No Scotty. And filming begins in just four months. Abrams said that William Shatner is not fully out of the film yet, but they are trying to find a place for the "Boston Legal" star. His best friend and 40-year Trek co-star Nimoy attended the panel with Abrams, and told the crowd he would don the pointy ears one last time. "People have been asking me why I'm doing this movie, and I think the answer is obvious," Nimoy said. "We have a great director, a wonderful script, and a wonderful young actor playing Spock, so ... it was logical." Source: SyFy Portal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 If they had lenoard Nimoy and william shatner in the new film it would probably boost the people that view it, certainly I have took more interest in this now there is a possibility in this happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Sylar + Pointy Ears - Emotions = >:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Sylar + Pointy Ears - Emotions = >:D That's true! :D If the other actors cast in Trek XI are Quinto types, do you think a new Trek series based on TOS is possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I wouldn't say no to a new series, but it all comes down to if the movie is successful enough. :-\ I'm not to enthusiastic about a series featuring a young Kirk and I'd rather see a new Captain and crew (perhaps someone that has been mentioned or been part of a past series). They could also make a series of "short" series (miniseries or a double seasons) exploring some of the "big" events in canon like the wars with Klingons and Romulans, as long as they do not make yet another 5 year mission that turns into a gel rubbing disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I wouldn't say no to a new series, but it all comes down to if the movie is successful enough. :-\ I'm not to enthusiastic about a series featuring a young Kirk and I'd rather see a new Captain and crew (perhaps someone that has been mentioned or been part of a past series). They could also make a series of "short" series (miniseries or a double seasons) exploring some of the "big" events in canon like the wars with Klingons and Romulans, as long as they do not make yet another 5 year mission that turns into a gel rubbing disaster. Hilander is correct in what he said about it being yet another 5 year mission, I would actually say that a big event like wars with the klingons or romulans would be more interesting, the only snag with this is that we have already had this with DS9, in season 4 we had the way of the warrior and then we had the romulans against them in season 5/6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabrood Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I still don't see how this movie could possibly appeal to non-fans of the franchise (or sci-fi for that matter), which allegedly is Abrams goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 To be honest I think only star trek 4:The Voyage home really appealed to non-trek fans with its tongue-in cheek humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paniq Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 If they had lenoard Nimoy and william shatner in the new film it would probably boost the people that view it, certainly I have took more interest in this now there is a possibility in this happening! But that could hamper its non-fan appeal, depending on how its done. Is it being done for some kind of continuity reason - putting them in at the start only (so you get a "Dr Who movie" scenario) or for some other scene that's obviously to appease fans but confuses non-fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rara Avis Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 To be honest I think only star trek 4:The Voyage home really appealed to non-trek fans with its tongue-in cheek humour. Sounds right. Like Star trek V - "The Final Frontier" mostly appeals to folks who enjoy frontal lobotomy's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Is it weird that some people will watch any canon trek, such as Enterprise or Nemesis and find it enjoyable, and is actually looking forward to this movie? That's me. And as for it not appealing to non-scifi fans, i find that a little cruel, considering we know very little about what it's going to be about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Is it weird that some people will watch any canon trek, such as Enterprise or Nemesis and find it enjoyable, and is actually looking forward to this movie? That's me. And as for it not appealing to non-scifi fans, i find that a little cruel, considering we know very little about what it's going to be about. Its not really cruel really as Star Trek really hasnt had the same appeal as the likes of star wars (even though I much prefer star trek). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I wouldn't say no to a new series, but it all comes down to if the movie is successful enough. :-\ I'm not to enthusiastic about a series featuring a young Kirk and I'd rather see a new Captain and crew (perhaps someone that has been mentioned or been part of a past series). They could also make a series of "short" series (miniseries or a double seasons) exploring some of the "big" events in canon like the wars with Klingons and Romulans, as long as they do not make yet another 5 year mission that turns into a gel rubbing disaster. Hilander is correct in what he said about it being yet another 5 year mission, I would actually say that a big event like wars with the klingons or romulans would be more interesting, the only snag with this is that we have already had this with DS9, in season 4 we had the way of the warrior and then we had the romulans against them in season 5/6. DS9 was mostly about the Dominion War, but I can see your point that it might be repetitive with yet another war. Then changing the style from the basic "canon" format would help a lot. Would be nice to see Main Cast wearing a "red shirt" and be replaced by a new face every now and then. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabrood Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I thought they were going to ignore the canon for ST XI anyway? Something along the lines "the canon is more of a drawback than a help"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rara Avis Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Maybe because the writers just got lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soval Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I hope the new movie is good and that they follow the canon. It's not star trek if they have the crew firing turbolasers instead of phasers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Oh, let's face it - Star Trek doesn't really have continuity... it's all just a big mess. Ignoring it won't really make a big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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