Kirk Nathan Fillion, i also like Adam’s idea of David Boreanaz

Spock Matthew Fox / John C Mc Ginley

Mc Coy William L Petersen / Greg Grunberg

Scottie Mc Avoy

Sulu Daniel Dae Kim

Uhura Judy Reyes

Chekov if he’s featured Zack Braff

No A list actors but well known TV stars.

I hope all you good Canadians out there (and Americans?…lol) will forgive my momentary faux pas in post #21. i was typing so fast my brain functions somehow had the word “IOWA” flashing up when I was making my point of wanting a non-European as the good Captain!… I must be coming to this site too often… Anyway friends, apologies again for getting my facts confused with my fiction there!

May I take the opportunity to whole-heartedly welcome EITHER a fine American OR Canadian actor to get the role of Kirk when the time comes.

And may I also add that under NO circumstances do I wish to see Scotsman EWEN (”Trainspotting”s “Spud” character) BREMNER even considered for the “Scotty” role… His face and voice totally made the already poor “Aliens vs Predator” even worse for me. He is also too weedy to play “Scotty”. Harsh, but true. So just don’t.

Bill Shatner = 100% Grade-A Canadian beef.. or is it ham? ;)

Now that would be one Scotsman TOO much even for this patriotic Highlander…lol!

No, I personally wouldn’t want Ewan (Obi-wan) McGregor in the iconic role of Kirk…that honour HAS to go to some good old AMERICAN actor, as I couldn’t imagine it any other way. I do hope to see a fellow Scot in the secondary role of “Scotty” though (if he is indeed in the upcoming Movie!), but only if he has a GOOD accent… The excellent “characature” Scottish done by the sadly missed Canadian James Doohan has been a treat warmly appreciated by my fellow Countrymen over the years, but the last thing we will want nowadays is someone trying to mimic that particular way of talking…but I definately only want a Scotsman in the role if they have a very good particular type of accent to carry of some of “Scotty’s” more colourful phrases. Not every Scot’s actor has a good enough voice to replace the dulcet tones of James Doohan……it was one of the his standout traits…we have very many regional variations…and I firmly believe that the likes of DOUGLAS HENSHALL has the ideal accent.

Dances with Wolves was pretty damn good. I think Kostner single-handedly brought back the America Western back in 1990, which was a good thing. It just shows you that its best to stick with what you know and stick to your own back yard.

Robin Hood was just a little out of reach for him.
Conversely, can you picture Patrick Stewart playing Kostner’s role in Dances with Wolves?

Not bloody likely.

#10 I can see Gary Sinise as McCoy the others I’m not quite sure .

First and foremost, casting is about the character, not the previous actor that inhabited it. “Who’s best for the role?” — not “Who looks most like the actor who filled it forty years ago?”

I’m not suggesting (or recommending) that we’ll see radically dissimilar actors to those we’ve loved in these roles for 40 years, but I think it’s a fool’s folly to try and pigeonhole the process on “who looks most like 1967 James Doohan.” This is an exciting opportunity to breath new life and fresh (yes, modern) perspective to the roles — especially since it’s for a big budget, big screen 2008 movie, and not a (relatively) low-budget ’60s TV show.

(And btw? We fans are but a fraction of the intended audience, as the Prime Directive of this film clearly is to reenlist lapsed fans (alienated by Enterprise, Nemesis, Voyager, Insurrection) and convert non-fans — in other words, to expand far beyond the flickering flame of hard-core Trek fans who could only stomach ponying up a paltry $43 million to see Nemesis.)

Secondly, Paramount is relaunching an entire franchise with this film, and will most likely want/need to lock in all the actors with a three-picture option. So it’s not just who works best for this first film, but who conceivably will work best over the course of potentially three (or even more) films if this first one succeeds. And while I can see it might make some sense to perhaps go with a couple “name” stars for the Big Three roles (coughDamoncoughKirk) and maybe some smaller supporting/cameo roles (coughHankscoughPike) — where they’d only be needed for a few days of shooting, and hence incur a fraction of their normal price — it may not make economic sense to go _too_ big, because “Star Trek” itself is the star (and Paramount is known for being one of the studios most reluctant to spend lots of money on stars, as Tom Cruise can attest). I mean, just look at the successful strategy employed by Casino Royale — another ’60s era franchise that’s been reborn.

Also, I keep seeing Gary Sinise’s name bandied about as the perfect, de facto choice for McCoy, and while I would have agreed back in, oh, 1994 (circa Forrest Gump, when he was 39), I gotta ask you all to please wake up, look at your calendars, check IMDb, and realize that Sinise will be 52 next month — five years older than DeForrest Kelley was when he first played McCoy. And this is supposed to be a prequel. (And, again, think three films.)

Of course, going back to my first point, there’s no real reason why McCoy’s age (relative or otherwise) necessarily has to precisely correlate with that established by the original series… but in that case, the age criticism of McAvoy for Scotty is moot, as well, isn’t it?

On behalf of all Americans, allow me to offer you my most heartfelt apology for Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. I personally campaigned against the movie (seriously) before its release, telling people that they ought not to support this pending disaster. Nobody believed me. Costner just did Dances With Wolves. Oh man, did they walk into a speeding train!

And I like Costner in a handful of his movies, I think he’s a good actor in the Cary Grant school of screen presence, but Dear Lord, he was terrible in Robin Hood. What a mess. Again, I am sorry.

cheerio lads.