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Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI?
GiggidyGiggidy writes "Our friends at IMDB.com are reporting that Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk in the new Star Trek Movie directed by J.J. Abrams. Is this the end of the Star Trek series we fans know and love, or the beginning of something bigger and better for the series?"
To me, Star Trek is a joke. Something I remember from my childhood. Camp clothing, poor acting (especially Shatner), predictable plots. I liked it - but for probably all the wrong reasons!
It doesn't have to be this way. I also loved the cheesy 60s Batman film with the rubber shark and everything, and it took Batman Begins to take the Batman character seriously. If this Star Trek film is done properly, with proper actors instead of all those old people, and with a modern sensibility, it could be a pretty good trilogy...uh, I mean film.
Taking all bets on how long it will be until Abram's mutilated corpse turns up.
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(No way Matt Damon passes for that young. Can he pull off being from Iowa too?)
Starfleet Academy was modeled after the American military academies--kids fresh out of secondary education, 18 yrs of age or so. Remember that Wesley Crusher was supposed to have been a wunderkind, making it to the rank of ensign at 14 or whatever young age it was, ahead of his enrollment at the Academy.
Which means that I, having little or no emotions, and being around the age of an Academy midshipman, and being asian, should play Spock.
ahahahaha...
Exactly! Star Trek is that dog turd in the yard that's got the hardened shell from sitting in the sun too long. It's nasty at this point but you just think you know how nasty it can be. If you go back and poke it with a stick you're going to be regretting it for a long time to come. Then you'll break the seal and release the world of nasty hidden within.
Unfortunately no matter how nasty that dog turd in the yard is there's always some dumb mutt that will eat it. That's what the unapologetic fanatical core of Trekkies has become. They're like that stupid dog on your street that eats shit. Nobody will let it near them for fear that it might try to lick them.
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