http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926icFvL4Y8

I’m not sure that role proves he would be a great McCoy, more like he would be an poor Kirk. The sad part about it is that you see it as “campy, corny and cliched” and “hilarious”, when in fact it was a serious attempt to sell a dramatic sci-fi series. Urban’s performance is weak at best and highlights the difference in an actor’s early career and later. I guarantee Urban would not be caught dead in a project this weak again and has gained enough experience since to avoid such an amateurish performance.

Walter Koenig did indeed play the evil station commandant, which further proves he should count his blessings he had those two seasons on TOS.

He “americans” up real good.

Most of what we’ve heard about Karl Urban’s portrayal is that he is “dead on McCoy”, but the word on Chris Pine has been that he is “phenomenal” and “fantastic” as Kirk. Some of the critics have gone as far as to say that he “owns” the role from the start.

While, for those of us older fans, Kirk will always be remembered as a young William Shatner, Pine may be every bit as good in the role as those fortunate enough to see it this early have indicated.

If he is, I won’t deny him his due praise. He doesn’t have to be William Shatner. He has to be James Kirk.

While George Reeves was the original Superman/Clark Kent, I would certainly argue that Christopher Reeve was an even better one. Pine may not be better than Shatner (especially for those of us older fans), but he could certainly be just as great in his own right.

Interviewer : Beg pardon ?

Karl : That ship was designed by Gabe Koernor, a Star Trek fan, it’s not the ship in our movie.

Interviewer : You are such a Nerd….

Karl : Look, I’m IN the film, I think I should know what our ship looks like.

Interviewer : Oops.

:)

I just hope this movie is able to give all this cast a chance to do lots of nice character work amid all the action. I hope there are plenty of quieter moments and lots of dialogue, not just a flimsy action film.

That pilot was for a scifi show called “The Privateer”, in which Walter Koenig had some kind of role as a villain, I think, and I believe he did have a few lines with Karl… :)

I also realize it bothers some people here that Urban and Quinto are sticking a little closer to Kelley and Nimoy than Pine is to Shatner, but there’s something to consider: Neither McCoy nor Spock have been so endlessly parodied as has Shatner’s Kirk. Thus, Urban and Quinto have a little more leeway on being closer to the original performances because the minds of the viewers haven’t been informed by a endless string of over-the-top impersonations of their respective characters.