New Star Trek trailer online

[Rykion]

I watch a lot of cartoons too. It doesn't make me think that what happens in them is a good idea for a movie. Unless the movie's target audience is preteen boys.

Sorry that came out harsher than I meant. I do like a lot of anime, but its important to remember that just about anything can happen in anime. I don't think something happening in anime is necessarily a good precedent for a live action movie.

 

[Ranger REG]

According to Memory Alpha, Chekov was 18 when he entered the Academy, and about 22 when he first appeared as the navigator in season 2 of the original series. As far as age is concerned in Hollywood, he's close enough.

Ah, but he was considered to be already onboard Enterprise during Season 1, because in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan he remembered Khan and SS Botany Bay, which first appeared in S1 episode, "The Space Seed."

While you can argue that he may have learned of it in the ship's log later, but the terrified look on his face in the movie suggested he had been there when Khan and his supermen hijacked the ship.

 

[Pbartender]

Ah, but he was considered to be already onboard Enterprise during Season 1, because in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan he remembered Khan and SS Botany Bay, which first appeared in S1 episode, "The Space Seed."

While you can argue that he may have learned of it in the ship's log later, but the terrified look on his face in the movie suggested he had been there when Khan and his supermen hijacked the ship.

I don't understand your argument.

I wasn't saying anything about Khan or season 1 of the TOS. Only that the age (and apparent age) of the new actor is pretty close to the apocryphal age of Chekov (by Hollywood) when he made his first appearance on the original TV show at the beginning of the 2nd season. I made no claims as to when the character actually or supposedly joined the crew.

If, as you and many others suggest and I have no reason to disagree with, Chekov was on-board earlier, then that brings the age difference between character and actor closer and better supports my point above.


Upon re-examination of your original post, it seems I misinterpreted... You were saying that Chekov should not appear in the movie at all. I can't really argue with that, except that Memory Alpha isn't very good at sighting sources and it's hard to tell whether his first assignment being the Enterprise under Kirk is fact, apocrypha or surmise. He very well might have been aboard with Kirk as captain for the Kahn incident, even thought his first assignment wasn't technically under Kirk.

Either way, it's not going to bother most people.

 

[EricNoah]

I'm concerned that the time-travel plot, and the inclusion of Nimoy-Spock, will mean that this isn't as much of a reboot as it needs to be. And of course the needless convolutions of plot that come with such a gimmick.

I gotta say, as much as Quinto is a very inspired choice for Spock (so much so that I now really can't see anyone else in the role for this movie), I was even more taken by whoever is playing McCoy. His line in the trailer and the look on his face was VERY Deforest Kelley; it was almost spooky (in a good way).

 

[Hand of Evil]

I gotta say, as much as Quinto is a very inspired choice for Spock (so much so that I now really can't see anyone else in the role for this movie), I was even more taken by whoever is playing McCoy. His line in the trailer and the look on his face was VERY Deforest Kelley; it was almost spooky (in a good way).

That would be Karl Urban, been around for a while, played Ceaser in Xena, also Cupid, was the second in command of the Necro's in The Chronicles of Riddick. Also, Pathfinder.

 

[Rykion]

That would be Karl Urban, been around for a while, played Ceaser in Xena, also Cupid, was the second in command of the Necro's in The Chronicles of Riddick. Also, Pathfinder.

Not to mention Eomer in LotR.

 

[horacethegrey]

Karl Urban for me was the biggest and most pleasant surprise in the previews of this film. I'll admit to having my doubts when he was cast, but I was literally blown away by how scarily he looks like Deforest Kelley in the promotional stills. And his line delivery in the trailer was incredibly spot on. I can't wait to say how he'll handle good ol' Bones in the final film.

 

[Arnwyn]

Macross fan, eh?

[Nitpick]
Everything but Macross, actually.
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[EricNoah]

Oh yeah, Eomer - I knew he looked somewhat familiar somehow.

 

[Pbartender]

It's possible, but some of the others seem to have been just assigned to the Enterprise. Kirk isn't even supposed to be part of the crew.

Good point... Although on rewatching the trailer, I do notice that by the end of the trailer ("Buckle up.") Kirk does have his yellow shirt.