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Jack Lord · #16 11-19-2008, 12:11 PM

Am I the only one who thinks most CGIs look no more realistic than the 1966 model of the Enterprise on wires? Maybe less so?

Holst · #17 11-19-2008, 12:14 PM

Simon Pegg plays Scotty, so the film shows promise.

starcycle · #18 11-19-2008, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Arkay

In a way, that may be inevitable; something done today withOUT making uses of the advances in technology would be panned for being so "backwards"... but film technology has advanced so much that a "disconnect" is almost inevitable.

What I DO NOT readily accept is when they apply all kinds of "modern values" to the story lines and change the essence, the very nature of the show, and somehow claim because it uses the same character names, it is the same. Sorry, it isn't. [I'm not saying this about this particular film, since I haven't even seen the film yet, but I suspect it may be true here...]

Exactly. There's no reason they can't use the technology to make something like ST4 (the one with the whales), or even First Contact, which used a lot of tech effects, borg, etc. and yet still had lots of humor and seemed like Star Trek. It's hard to tell from just a trailer, too, but this one just seems kind of "dark" and angsty. I guess they have to appeal more to some teenage demographic or something, not really sure.

wajobu · #19 11-19-2008, 01:38 PM

Denny Crane, lock and load.

I still enjoy my DVDs of the original series

Jim, I'm just a country doctor!

Who says no skin in the original? Tell that to this 10 year old in 1966.

Sensors locked-in and ready for this one...

wajobu · #20 11-19-2008, 05:05 PM

He he he...just saw the new trailer.

Phasers locked and ready...

soundmotor · #21 11-19-2008, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Holst

Simon Pegg plays Scotty, so the film shows promise.

I truly enjoy Simon Pegg on both sides of the camera but I believe he was miscast here. He'll do a great job no doubt but with the Kirk & Spock selections, they could indeed be earlier versions of Shatner & Nimoy. (Or at least close enough for the geeks (like me) to be happy.) Pegg is much fairer than James Doohan and wiry. Doohan always looked like he could take a punch. On the other hand, Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett on SG-Atlantis) woulda been perfect methinks. He's even Scottish born. Yeah, I am nitpicking but you judge if McGillion didn't have the look or not -