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Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI?
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on Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:55 PM
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GiggidyGiggidy writes "Our friends at IMDB.com are reporting that Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk in the new Star Trek Movie directed by J.J. Abrams. Is this the end of the Star Trek series we fans know and love, or the beginning of something bigger and better for the series?"
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Jean Lucy writes "TwitchGuru has an article outlining in detail what is known about Star Trek XI. The film is in the early stages of production, led by J.J. Abrams (creator of Lost), and the movie will most likely be a prequel featuring Kirk and Spock in their younger years. No word of Matt Damon to play Kirk, though..." From the article: "As reported in early September, even former Star Trek actors are saying that CBS has kicked Rick Berman off the Trek bandwagon. This helps to allay the fears of those who say that 'they' will screw up this movie as 'they' have been doing for the past several years. As Anthony Pascale put it to me, however, 'There is no they any more. Everyone who has worked on Star Trek previously, from the top executives at the studio to the guy who sweeps the floor on-set, is gone. There's now a totally different production team running Star Trek. This is what people have been asking for now for years.'"
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Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
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Other casting???
honestly, isn't it time for a real good laugh [stonetrek.com] at this tired old series?
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Lousy acting, lame plots, almost no finish. Sorry, but it simply doesn't live up to today's standards.
I thought DS9 was the gem in the group, but almost no one agrees there; oddly, some geeks just can't handle a coherent plot.
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Interesting)
Why not make a series where a crew get to go out of the galaxy. In the Star Trek Universe our galaxy was seeded with life that would generally turn out humanoid. That saves on special effects, but now that is not a problem.
Here is my idea: Star Trek: Magellan - named for the great traveller. Set decades after Voyager; a colony fleet is sent to the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy of our own. Take a vast and fast carrier ship (The Magellan), running on autopilot for, say 50 years. The crew wake up, ready to explore and terraform and colonise. The crew is interesting. Holograms now have sentient rights, and there are borg members (like the Klingons in TNG, they are no longer enemies). Communication with our galaxy is slow and difficult. They meet real aliens, not just humanoids with different foreheads.....
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Interesting)
Remember when science fiction was fun and the characters two dimensional? Remember when they travelled at sub light speeds around the solar system where there was no artificial gravity? Clarke's 2001, A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama, Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" and many more. We have the technology to make a coherent near future SF TV series, using the actual properties of our planets, with Lagrange colonies, pioneer colonies, mining operations on Mercury, slow freighters and liners using economy orbits and fast (expensively anti-matter powered) "Federation" ships busy about the system.
How many of us learned the basic (incorrect) properties of the planets from those books? Now let's do it again with Mercury's real day, and a non-tropical Venus. Settle the moons and adventure in space.
It is not for us. It is for that Aspergers 14 year old guy who is awkward with girls but knows the ABCs of Relativity; the one in the generation coming up fast behind us. Let us relive SF through his (yes his) eyes.
There can still be a 7 of 9 character so that he will have an imaginative, once removed from reality, sex life.
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Insightful)
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It got cancelled, and the movie did really poorly at the box office.
As geeks, we should'a been out there supporting Joss and his "new sc-fi series, with new characters and new stories and it is not based on a universe that lasted for 40 years".
I personally feel bad that I only saw the movie twice at the theatre.
We bitch about nothing good on, but then don't support it when it shows up.
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Amen. Notice how most people talk the talk, but have second thoughts about walkin' the walk? In my hometown, many people complained about there not being any 'real' cinema. I actually went out and did something about it, screening films in a local cultural center once a week, with no admission cost.
Guess what? NONE of the people, both men and women, who complained about lack of options in town, have shown up during the ten months I've been screening films, sheepishly delivering a barrage of chronic excuses:
- "I was busy"
- "I forgot (and went out on the town)"
- "I don't have time" (but they do have time to go out on the town on that same night, week in and week out)
- "Etcetera"
Fortunately, I have built up a modest but loyal audience, mainly composed of college science students (astronomy and oceanography).
But if I hear any more complaints from poseurs, I'm gonna laugh in their face, spit in their eye and piss in their ear.
I liked DS9. (Score:5, Insightful)
And TOS was damn good when it was released. It doesn't look that as cutting edge now, because the edge has moved on.
The problem is that the Star Trek franchise has not kept up with the edge. Now they're afraid of the edge. They don't want to make a show that small core will love for years and years and years. They want a show that almost everyone will sort of like and probably watch every week. They want "Friends"
They want "episodes", not stories.
They want light, cute actors, not developed characters.
Re:I liked DS9. (Score:5, Insightful)
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There's one Problem with that. (Score:5, Insightful)
That was the original idea behind "Andromeda" (Score:5, Insightful)
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If you watch the show, especially the episodes when they were still using one of the writers from Bab 5, you can even see how some of the "Andromeda" aliens mapped to the Star Trek species they were based on.
In short, Roddenberry WANTED to trash the Federation and run the universe from a point of collapse and chaos. What happened was that his notes got used to start a new show, the "Federation" got renamed the "Confederacy" and it was treated to a decent special effects budget and not much else.
If you watch it as a post Federation show, and mentally map some of the alien species to their Trek counterparts, the show actually becomes watchable.
After all, Shatner taught all of us to look beyond the acting.
Re:I liked DS9. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sure Ron Moore was in agreement with that, and that's why he moved on to Battlestar Galactica. You can't skip and episode of that show or you will be pretty lost. It also is pretty edgy, dealing with modern day ideas of terrorism, military power, and political espianage. And although this point gets argued, I'd say it has the best FX of any Sci-Fi show on TV right now.
Re:I liked DS9. (Score:5, Insightful)
Mod parent up. (Score:4, Insightful)
Particularly with how Dax was killed by evil ghosts while on a quest to save the Orb of Prophecy so The Emissary could perform the Rite of X and seal the Portal of Y.
They ran out of real story so they tried to stitch in a DnD plot line and they ended up with the standard fantasy cardboard characters.
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
At least that would mean he could be the first motherf**ker to see new galaxies... Or find a new alien lifeform... and f**k it.
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't Shatner have this pretty well covered?
Re:Oh, Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
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Chris Rock - Computer Voice
Jason Mewes - Mr. Spock
Kevin Smith - Montgomery Scott"
My thoughts EXACTLY. This HAS to be done. I'd pay BIG money to see this.
You need to get Alan Rickman in there as well though. He is after all the only one with experience in space.
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My Jungle loooooooooooove.
Re:The rest of the Cast (Score:5, Funny)
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In Soviet Star Trek, Enterprise drives you!
Meanwhile, aboard the Millenium Falcon... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @10:09AM)
Obi-Wan Kenobi looks pained.
Luke: What's wrong?
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in The Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror. I fear something terrible has happened.
When paradigms collide... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://thinkyhead.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday October 28 2004, @04:32AM)
Seven of Nine: That was merely a spurious fluctuation in the tachyon matrix containment field. I have compensated.
I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Almost there! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Almost there! (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday March 21 2007, @11:19AM)
I think Rick Berman's motto should be: "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!" [imdb.com]
Joss Whedon would be a good writer for it (Score:4, Insightful)
Why not use Joss Whedon as chief writer and use the gang of two to fill in "Star Trek" details and to organize it into three-acts?
My goodness, Firely/Serenity were so good!
Don't skimp on space, ethics, and phaser fire, though....
Durka-Durka-Stan (Score:5, Funny)
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Now, get Sinise. (Score:4, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday October 02 2006, @08:42AM)
Now they need to sign Gary Sinise as McCoy. Hopefully, they can keep Affleck out. He has the superficial look and the emotionless demeanor necessary for Spock, but brings nothing else.
superficial look and emotionless demeanor? (Score:5, Funny)
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Affleck has nothing on Little Buddha.
Re:superficial look and emotionless demeanor? (Score:5, Funny)
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I think Keanu lacks the personality and range of emotion required for the Spock role...
Re:superficial look and emotionless demeanor? (Score:5, Funny)
Kirk: Spock any readings on the enemy vessel?
Spock: Whoa!
Re:superficial look and emotionless demeanor? (Score:4, Funny)
Even Better (Score:5, Funny)
Kirk (drawing his phaser): Phasers on Stun!
Spock: Not necessary Captian. . . I know Kung Fu.
Re:superficial look and emotionless demeanor? (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno, this could be the role Hayden Christansen was born for! He could use BOTH of his facial expressions...
Re:At first. (Score:4, Insightful)
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