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<blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9726569" data-attributes="member: 78087"><p>Ok, let’s do characters with different actors. It’s worth noting that I mostly started watching Trek as a child with the TOS films, so I imprinted on those versions of the TOS characters are to some degree. I’ll only do the ones with three actors.</p><p></p><p>Kirk: Paul Wesley > Chris Pine > William Shatner</p><p></p><p>Honestly not my favourite character anyway - an arrogant condescending 60s liberal who hardens as he gets older and is constantly trying to recapture his golden years, the very essence of OK Boomer for me (of course, Shatner isn’t a boomer, but that’s how the character feels). So I’ve never liked Shatner in the role (or almost any role), and so to the bottom he goes. Pine is OK, but he’s basically Chris Pine, it never feels like he’s inhabiting the part. Paul Wesley hasn’t appeared a lot on SNW and is a minor character, which helps, but he does very well with what he’s given - the emergent Kirk, cocky but yet to justify that confidence.</p><p></p><p>Spock: Leonard Nimoy = Ethan Peck > Zachary Quinto</p><p></p><p>By contrast, I think all three Spock actors have done an outstanding job of inhabiting and interpreting the character. Nimoy is probably just ahead on longevity and interpretation of the character over time, but Peck is superb as the emotionally confused and conflicted Spock, not yet the mature and mostly stable adult Nimoy. Quinto is excellent as a very focused interpretation who’s arguably more the protagonist than his Kirk.</p><p></p><p>Uhura: Celia Rose Gooding = Nichelle Nichols > Zoe Saldana</p><p></p><p>I love Gooding’s insecure but developing, joyful, philologist, musical version of Uhura, but of course Nichols is the OG and did outstandingly with the occasionally thankless part she was given as the ship’s secretary. Not as thankless as Saldana’s part - Saldana is an excellent actress but hampered by the terrible script.</p><p></p><p>I won’t do Scotty because I just haven’t seen enough of the SNW version of him. Briefly on the others - Urban is superb but beaten out by McCoy’s original, ditto with Yelchin and Koenig, and honestly both Cho and Pegg are travesties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jian, post: 9726569, member: 78087"] Ok, let’s do characters with different actors. It’s worth noting that I mostly started watching Trek as a child with the TOS films, so I imprinted on those versions of the TOS characters are to some degree. I’ll only do the ones with three actors. Kirk: Paul Wesley > Chris Pine > William Shatner Honestly not my favourite character anyway - an arrogant condescending 60s liberal who hardens as he gets older and is constantly trying to recapture his golden years, the very essence of OK Boomer for me (of course, Shatner isn’t a boomer, but that’s how the character feels). So I’ve never liked Shatner in the role (or almost any role), and so to the bottom he goes. Pine is OK, but he’s basically Chris Pine, it never feels like he’s inhabiting the part. Paul Wesley hasn’t appeared a lot on SNW and is a minor character, which helps, but he does very well with what he’s given - the emergent Kirk, cocky but yet to justify that confidence. Spock: Leonard Nimoy = Ethan Peck > Zachary Quinto By contrast, I think all three Spock actors have done an outstanding job of inhabiting and interpreting the character. Nimoy is probably just ahead on longevity and interpretation of the character over time, but Peck is superb as the emotionally confused and conflicted Spock, not yet the mature and mostly stable adult Nimoy. Quinto is excellent as a very focused interpretation who’s arguably more the protagonist than his Kirk. Uhura: Celia Rose Gooding = Nichelle Nichols > Zoe Saldana I love Gooding’s insecure but developing, joyful, philologist, musical version of Uhura, but of course Nichols is the OG and did outstandingly with the occasionally thankless part she was given as the ship’s secretary. Not as thankless as Saldana’s part - Saldana is an excellent actress but hampered by the terrible script. I won’t do Scotty because I just haven’t seen enough of the SNW version of him. Briefly on the others - Urban is superb but beaten out by McCoy’s original, ditto with Yelchin and Koenig, and honestly both Cho and Pegg are travesties. [/QUOTE]
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