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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Milagroso" data-source="post: 3677596" data-attributes="member: 32058">First point to make: Quinto as Spock = Good Move, IMO. He certaintly has the look and I don't doubt he has the skill to pull it off. I agree that with today's audience, a new Trek movie will likely be stylized to produce characters that are darker and grittier. I think that they are trying to appeal to a market that has become desensitized to the "noble hero" and prefers the darker, brooding, Punisher-like heroes. I think that it would be a mistake to revamp Kirk in this way. Recast - well, obviously yes. The notion that only Shatner can play Kirk is truly naive. A good actor can take a character, add a slight flair to it that is distinctly theirs, play off the cues by the those who have made the role legendary and ** most importantly ** make the character believable to the viewers. If the viewer doesn't believe that the actor is Kirk, then they will not see him as Kirk but instead see him whoever they most identified that actor with. Say for example, Sean Connery. First movie that will pop in anyone's head is James Bond, but when watching The Medicine Man nowhere does my mind think of his character (was it Dr. Crane?) as Bond. He made himself believable in the role. I believed that Dr. Crane was walking on the roof of the Amazon looking for the cure for cancer and not about ready to seduce his research assistant, shoot someone with a PBwhatever, and order a vodka-martini (shaken, not stirred). So, in my opinion, whoever they get to play the role of Kirk will be fine for me as long as he does a good job at making me believe he is Kirk. Now as for re-writing his character with a dark side... honestly, they don't need to. The character of James T. Kirk was written and portrayed with enough problems and quirks to satisfy that need. It may not be apparently obvious, but it is there. The character is fleshed enough. With his temper, his arrogance, his wrath, his lust. Jeez, he isn't a saint. That was the best thing about Sci-Fi back then. The stories then were not about how man interacted with his sci-fi setting. They were about how man interacted with himself in a sci-fi setting. Oh, and I love the nBG. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Elf Witch... HI!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />    (remember me?)Hypersmurf: And I thought I was the only one still around today who remembers Danger Mouse.</blockquote>

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