Star Trek: The Franchise

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witchie said:

The others look like children next to them.

New Kirk just turned 27. A 27-year-old as captain of a ship? And New Chekov is 18. Eighteen!

Hollywood's desperation for the youth market is crazy-obvious now. Of course, the rest of us would rather stab ourselves in the face than sit in the theatre with a bunch of loud, rude, stupid kids*, so I guess it makes sense.

*Not an indictment of youth, just of the uniformly ill-behaved audiences in movie theatres today.

[kore]

I have to agree. It seems very teen-driven. As much as I am curious to see what this version will be about, I don't think I could sit in a theater for it. I have little tolerance for high-strung, immature youngesters.

I've been known to change my mind in the past about films. It could be the same for this one as well.

Ok, Eric Bana is pretty good. Karl Urban is great in action films. Leonard Nimoy is Leonard Nimoy. The rest of the cast I kinda know by face, but associated with Teen-films (except for Zachary Q).

I believe Chris Pines was in one of the Princess Diaries movies.

[Ripley]

What gets me about this is that we're supposed to believe that the same crew has been on the same ship for 30 or 40 years. Call me overly realistic, but I don't think that's the way the Navy works. Don't you always have new people coming in, and other people leaving to take promotions?

[viridian]

Roddenberry was a big fan of the Horatio Hornblower novels, right? I don't have any idea, but were captains/admirals in the Royal Navy back then able to retain a core group of officers on their ships? But yes, there should be far more turnover if Star Fleet was anything like the armed forces.

I'm still hopeful for the movie since I'm intrigued by the casting, but Teen!Kirk is far too young for the role. This could be good, or it could be The WB in Space.

[OnyxRose]

I was willing to overlook certain other people in the cast but New!Kirk is just awful casting wise. He's too young, way too young. I'm afraid they've already sunk the ship with that casting.

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Big whoopy deal, he's 27. Shatner was 35 when he started the show. Chekhov's an ensign, the lowest commisioned rank onboard. A cursory glance at any navy ship today reveals officers that look like they're barely out of high school. I think we fans have to live with the reality that while the original series' cast looked like our parents, we're now older than most of them were at the time. I, for one, am glad for the eye candy and an Enterprise crew that doesn't need toupee glue or corseting.

[kostgard]

an Enterprise crew that doesn't need toupee glue or corseting.

Aw, that was half the fun of the original series!

[Malle Babbe]

I'll have to ask my friend, who was a big Trekkie when we were kids (Trekkie, not Trekker; she had a sense of humor about her fandom), but I thought Kirk was one of the youngest in Starfleet to make captain. Still, Simon Pegg as Scotty will get my ass in the theater.

[LurkerNan]

I thought the setting was going to be the group straight out of the StarFleet academy, which would make this group the right age. Even Karl Urban as McCoy makes sense to me, because McCoy is supposed to be a lot older than the rest of the group. He's the old man of the bunch.

Who am I kidding... bad or good, I'm there with popcorn. They had me at "Space, the final frontier..."

[Coffeecakes]

Eric Bana should be great as the villain. And they can use his big ears to effect by adding prosthetics to make them look even bigger!

Bwahahaha!

But seriously, I have no clue about Star Trek or anything, but Urban and Bana in the same movie? I am so there!