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The New Trek
May. 7th, 2009 01:38 pmI'd been trying to pretend that I'm not excited about the new Star Trek film (having studiously ignored Insurrection and whatever its predecessor was called), but this is a lie; not only does my heart, as a Trekkie, really belong to the original Enterprise crew (and nae bluidy A, B, C or D!)*, Leonard Nimoy is involved in it, and Spock was the first TV character I ever fancied, though I didn't realise that's what it was at the time. Though not the first fictional character (that was Aragorn)†.
Anyway, the Grauniad has quite a nice photo gallery of the classic actors and their younger counterparts. They're surprisingly good, though (a) Simon Pegg doesn't remotely resemble James Doohan (b) Karl Urban (Bones) looks more like Chekov than the guy playing Chekov does - and why is Chekov in the film anyway? Surely he ought to be at home in Moscow doing his GCSEs or something (c) I have high hopes of Zachary Quinto as Spock, because he's quite good at alien and differently emotioned, but he's nowhere near as hot as the young Leonard Nimoy, who was just ridiculously... beautiful as Spock. (Awaits aggrieved dissent from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrs_tater).
I'm not sure about the idea of teenage tearaway! Kirk; I rather liked the idea of him as 'a stack of books with legs' at the Academy - and part of the reason Kirk is such a shocking flirt on shore is that he's punctiliously careful to avoid entanglements on board. For such an ostentatiously gung-ho, clean-cut hero, he's surprisingly Slytherin (Spock, on the other hand, pretends to be a Ravenclaw, but is pretty much pure Gryffindor underneath).
Incidentally, Mark Lenard really was inspired casting as Spock's father; old! Spock bears a surprisingly strong resemblance to him.
*I love DS9, but it's a very different sort of show - which may actually be why I'm able to love it wholeheartedly. Well, that and Sisko-Kira-Odo-Worf-Bashir-Garak *glomps them*. Especially Sisko and Kira, though (predictably, I like the stuff about faith and doubt and Sisko's entirely unwelcome vocation...)
† God alone knows what this reveals about my taste in men, but it's probably not a surprise that my personal life... isn't.
Anyway, the Grauniad has quite a nice photo gallery of the classic actors and their younger counterparts. They're surprisingly good, though (a) Simon Pegg doesn't remotely resemble James Doohan (b) Karl Urban (Bones) looks more like Chekov than the guy playing Chekov does - and why is Chekov in the film anyway? Surely he ought to be at home in Moscow doing his GCSEs or something (c) I have high hopes of Zachary Quinto as Spock, because he's quite good at alien and differently emotioned, but he's nowhere near as hot as the young Leonard Nimoy, who was just ridiculously... beautiful as Spock. (Awaits aggrieved dissent from
mrs_tater). I'm not sure about the idea of teenage tearaway! Kirk; I rather liked the idea of him as 'a stack of books with legs' at the Academy - and part of the reason Kirk is such a shocking flirt on shore is that he's punctiliously careful to avoid entanglements on board. For such an ostentatiously gung-ho, clean-cut hero, he's surprisingly Slytherin (Spock, on the other hand, pretends to be a Ravenclaw, but is pretty much pure Gryffindor underneath).
Incidentally, Mark Lenard really was inspired casting as Spock's father; old! Spock bears a surprisingly strong resemblance to him.
*I love DS9, but it's a very different sort of show - which may actually be why I'm able to love it wholeheartedly. Well, that and Sisko-Kira-Odo-Worf-Bashir-Garak *glomps them*. Especially Sisko and Kira, though (predictably, I like the stuff about faith and doubt and Sisko's entirely unwelcome vocation...)
† God alone knows what this reveals about my taste in men, but it's probably not a surprise that my personal life... isn't.
