Comments on: Cover and Details For Star Trek Magazine Official Movie Guide

By: Anna Kiss

Anna Kiss — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:39:41 +0000

Ben Cross is an AMAZING Sarek. Anyone who disagrees is a die-hard Mark Leonard fan. Nothing wrong with that, but why harp on about Mr. Cross in such an unpleasant way? Leonard’s gone, Cross is in his place interpreting the character perhaps a lil differently, but that’s an actor’s JOB – to interpret, not simply mimic.

(Besides, Winona Ryder was far worse and far more haggard, how come no one is bitching and moaning about her? Lol)

Peace.

By: krikzil (aka Lixy)

krikzil (aka Lixy) — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:47:37 +0000

Just got me Entertainment Weekly and Trek (SPock) is on the cover with a nice article in it. There’s also a great shot of Nimoy on the set filming the finale of FRINGE.

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:40:02 +0000

I’ll buy the magazine for what it is, but that cover looks like a drunken amateur using Photoshop for the first time got to design it!

By: Star Wars is DEAD (",) !!!!

Star Wars is DEAD (",) !!!! — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:14:52 +0000

Ben Cross looks like a vampire ?? Nofseratu ??

By: Romy

Romy — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:03:41 +0000

I find it quite incredible that Simon Pegg should have to point out that Scotty is not a “purely comic figure”.
Anyone told the writers?

By: Chris Pike

Chris Pike — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:36:19 +0000

I know it’s a tiny point to make, but love the way the original iconic fypeface/logo has become/is becoming the standard Trek ident. About time, it’s only taken 30 years to get back to it!

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:54:57 +0000

I do like the new version of Captain Pike. And all due respect to Nichelle … and all due respect to Zoe for saying “that’s not her – her boobs are too small!” I do love the Uhura character as well. The rest are asking us, as Hillary Clinton said once to a 4-star General, to “suspend disbelief,” and big time. I think the moviemasters were ingenious for bringing on Wynona Rider but from what I hear most of her excellent performance will be on the cutting room floor – and that’s a big shame. Ben Cross – and I’m sure he’s a nice guy, looks about as much like a convincing Sarek as I do. Think TAS will go down in history for doing better (Yesteryear).

Let me make something clear to both the producers and the people I’ve seriously P.O.’d over the last week. I really do hope that this film does extremely well. The reasons for delaying it from the December release are still unclear, and if I would have been the dialated-eyed Jimmy Kimmel last night the first question I would have asked JJ would be what was wrong with the film then? Since then, the economy has continued a serious downside, and now Paramount is in a situation where people who grew up believing after their Confirmation that they are too busy and important to attend Church are now back, praying to God that this movie does well. This movie, whether anyone else wants to admit it or not, is what the movie Titanic was once for Paramount … the literal sink or swim economic gamble that must pay off …. in big ways … if there is to be a Paramount Pictures (and to some degree, CBS entertainment division) in the future.

Now having watched Leno from Monday I can tell you that the scene when (spoilers) Nero sort of hangs the St Peter of the episode on a cross upside down … the saint happens to be Kirk’s father who has sacrificed his life for his friends, we are introduced to the stardate system, which has long been a hotly contested and consistently inconsistently feature of Star Trek. The Stardate provided is 2233.04. This would be the year followed by the month so far as I can tell, which according to Folklore is 12 years before the 2245 launch of the Enterprise and 30 years away from Kirk’s assumption of command of the Enterprise.

On JJ’s appearance on Kimmel we were introduced to an interesting ST-V like view of a Shuttlecraft launch from this horribly malformed ship, and g-forces that would break every bone were it not for the presumption of dampening fields within the space suits of the crew of the much celebrated attack on the oil rig – or whatever it is.

I do hope this film succeeds, and I have no doubt that given the millions poured into the advertising – not seen in Star Trek since 1979, we will not be shocked and appalled by what we see, as we were then. I guess we’ll all know next week.

By: SciFiMetalGirl

SciFiMetalGirl — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:41:32 +0000

Which cover comes with my subscription? Oh well, doesn’t matter, they all look good!

By: Kalashnikov

Kalashnikov — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:35:18 +0000

48 –

Yes, I agree with you. I also think that McCoy had blue eyes but the hell with it.

By: JohnWA

JohnWA — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:13:54 +0000

47-

Yeah, I didn’t pick up on that either.

They usually don’t bother to cast for eye color or hair. If it is important, then they could have the makeup people take care of it. But I don’t think it matters too much because James Kirk is a fictional character.

Now, if Pine was casted as Genghis Khan, then we might have a problem. There was that unintentionally hilarious 1950s movie with John Wayne in the role of Genghis. At the time, it wasn’t uncommon for shows and movies set in Africa, South America, and Asia to have an entirely white cast. I think people forget that Gene Roddenberry changed everything when it came to accurate casting. TOS was really ahead of its time.