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Simon Pegg to Play Scotty
In response to yesterday's casting news about Chris Pine possibly taking the captain's chair for the new Star Trek movie, apparently Simon Pegg will be playing the role of Scotty. Simon Pegg is known for his role as Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and more recently for his leading role in Hot Fuzz. "Pegg joins Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, John Cho as Sulu and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the film which reportedly, and logically, 'chronicles the early days of the Enterprise crew.' Leonard Nimoy will also put in an appearance, while Eric Bana signed up this week as the movie's villain, Nero."
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I heard they cancelled Enterprise when Mr. Bakula started calling his tricorder "Ziggy"
The problem with making a Star Trek Babies movie is that there is absolutely NO THREAT to any of the characters.
So what if baby Kirk is shot in the head causing him to fall into an erupting volcano at the moment the planet's sun goes nova?
It was all a dream sequence. Or it was a clone. Or a robot. Or the evil baby Kirk from the mirror dimension.
And the more characters you take from TOS, the less the threat is.
It's going to be like there's a HUGE TARGET painted on the one person on the bridge that isn't in TOS. And here is chief security office Ima Goingtodie.
You think that's bad? I hear Zachary Quinto is from Earth. Pssh.
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Those who mock the Shatner, those who dub him 'cheesy' or 'over the top' should ask themselves this: at what point during his performance of Kirk do you ever, even for one second, doubt that you are watching the captain of the starship Enterprise?
Shatner - like Doohan - is a method actor. When the camera is on him, he actually believes that he is in command of a starship, and his belief is what drags us kicking and screaming along with him. Love him or hate him, you could never catch him playing it at one iota less than warp 9. This new guy? Pwwwpt. He's just an actor. He's not the captain of the Enterprise.
Shatner. Is. Kirk.
Star Trek: The Documentary Series era. Is. Shatner.
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Give MsGeek a cigar! For completeness: In 1966, Doohan and Kelley turned 46, Shatner and Nimoy 35, Barrett and Nichols 34, Koenig 30, and Takei 29. I had forgotten how much older than the others Doohan was until I checked IMDB last week (The Blonde & I were rooting for Paul McGillion). If we're shooting for "eight years before" ST:TOS, Pegg is just the right age (and so is Pine, who's 27). Spock, of course, doesn't age the way humans do, so should be played by someone just about Nimoy's age; Quinto just turned 30, so that's not too far off. Yelchin is 18, which isn't too far off, but Cho is 35! Well, as long as he looks the part....
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Lets see:
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
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