Actress Alice Eve Chosen For ‘Major’ Star Trek Sequel Role + Del Toro Deal Pending For Villain November 30, 2011
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Star Trek sequel (2013) , trackback
It looks like JJ Abrams is close to casting a new female role for the Star Trek sequel. According to a Variety report actress Alice Eve has been selected for a role. It has also been reported that Benicio Del Toro is closer to signing on as the film’s villain.
Alice Eve Chosen For Star Trek Role – Del Toro Deal Is Pending
According to Variety, Star Trek sequel producer/director JJ Abrams has chosen actress Alice Eve for an unnamed role in the film. The report states that the role is "believed to be new to the canon." The 29 year-old London-born actress is best be known for her lead role in the 2010 comedy She’s Out of My League and for a recurring role on the latest season of Entourage. Eve also graced the cover of Maxim Magazine in April 2010, being named their "#1 pick for Hollywood’s hottest new star." Eve beat out Teresa Palmer (”I Am Number Four”) and Hayley Atwell (”Captain America: The First Avenger”) who were also considered for the role.
Alice Eve on April 2010 Maxim cover and in "She’s Out of My League" (2010)
Variety also has a couple of other tidbits on casting. Firstly that Benicio Del Toro has a "pending" deal to take on the villain role for the Star Trek sequel. Regarding his role, the report states: "insiders believe [Del Toro] will be playing someone familiar to Trekkies."
There is reportedly one other "major role" to cast. Specifically ""someone who’s older and in more of a supporting character to del Toro."
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Spock’s Vulcan Princess?? Perhaps a lead female villain into the Star Trek Movie lore would be an interesting addition ( referring to the Kirk Era movies )…?
She’s what I call smokin’ hot!!! ::drool::
Could she be Marla McGivers? LOL!!!
Why was my post pulled?
Alice Eve is really gorgeous and very talented. I hope she is playing a human love interest for James Kirk.
Isn’t it about time for Jimmy Boy to meet Carol??
Star Trek II: Meet the Kahns.
Works for me. She was pretty good in She’s Out of My League, and she’s easy on the eyes besides. Kirk love interest, you think?
Carol Marcus!!!!!
“insiders believe [Del Toro] will be playing someone familiar to Trekkies.”
Please not Khan please not Khan please not Khan
Quite likely a scientist role since we know lady scientists are all uber hotties in movies like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQ49gh7sTg
Maybe one of Khan’s superwomen?
Evolution of Star Trek
http://www.space.com/12858-star-trek-timeline-science-fiction-infographic.html
Ohh…”new to the canon”…so she can’t be Marla or Carol…
OH GOD YES! YES INDEED!
Janice Rand or Nurse Chapel.
I was thinking Christine Chapel or Carol Marcus as well.
Jim Kirks half sister who ends up dating Spock.
“The report states that the role is’believed to be new to the canon.’ ”
__________
…NEW to the canon???
OooOOooo YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:))
I’d vote for Yeoman Rand for Ms. Eve.
Droxene!
Schwing!
I bet she’s gonna be Nurse Chapel. ..and there’ll be a romance plot with McCoy.
People are forgetting the part she got is new to Trek canon.
Benicio Del Toro could also play Khan.
Yeoman Rand or Carol Marcus
“There is reportedly one other “major role” to cast. Specifically “”someone who’s older and in more of a supporting character to del Toro.”
I’m sure they won’t go the Romulan route again, but wouldn’t it be cool if del Toro was playing the Romulan captain from Balnce of Terror, and the older role was that of the Centurion who advises him?
other reports say that Alice beat out Haley Atwell (Peggy Carter in Captain America) for the role.
I dont even know what the role is…but I know I’d rather see it played by Miss Atwell.
Atwell played a British officer Peggy Carter who oversaw the supersoldier project.
del Toro = Kang.
If Alice Eve were a singer, I could look at her voice for hours!
Atwell lost out to Eve? Well, it looks like big tits win again!
Benicio del Tor as Kor!
Toro*
Harry I think Eve looks better than Atwell. Here’s the other actress that was also considered.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1954240/
@28 lol…yes, of course I know the role of Peggy Carter. What I’m saying is that I and no one else knows what this new Star Trek role is….but I’d rather see it played by Haley Atwell.
Basically, it was a long winded way of saying I like Atwell better than Eve,
get it?
“I bet she’s gonna be Nurse Chapel. ..and there’ll be a romance plot with McCoy.”
______
……..That won’t be possible, I’m “afraid” .
Dr. Leonard McCoy is already spoken for…..She is a French xenobiologist.
Roberto Orci said so, a while back.
Or, rather, I did , and, he did not dare to contradict me.
:)
@ 30…Haley…is pretty large in that area. I think boobs lost this time.
Come on, Garen, are there Klingons in this film? Throw us a bone.
38…i don’t get what you’re driving at…
@38…i don’t get what you’re driving at…
Garen, if you know what’s up in this film, you’d know if thre are Klingons in it.
Judging by your response, some might take that as a yes.
And I want KANG!
Actually, I wanted Talosians.
But I’ll take Kang.
TIberius Subprime…sorry to disappoint…i’m just a regular old commenter that’s been hanging around and commenting since 2007 or so. I have no insider info beyond that which is made public in other reports.
Okay. I judged based upon your comment that you knew what Alice’s role was in the new film.
And with that I thought you were an insider.
@Aurore – Got a source? Because as far as the movies are concerned thus far, he’s recently divorced and just out of the academy..
Well..if they HAD to recycle anything…i’d rather see Kang explored more in depth than see a Khan retread.
I’m with you on that Garen.
Kang or Talosians is what I’d like to see.
she definitely has the appeal of a TOS woman, thats for sure.
#45 People are just speculating on the role she will play and they keep forgetting its a role new to canon so it wont be Rand, Carol Marcus or Nurse Chapel.
Alice Eve is hot and sexy!
… a love interest for Kirk… maybe a shirtless Kirk………..
Helloooo Mr. Bob Orci are you there??… … Ok I’m just kidding….
:-) :-)
Stick her in a Starfleet issue mini-skirt please!
Wouldn’t it be better to cast established stars to pump up the international box office?
Cute! I hope she isn’t a Kirk love interest, though. Been there, done that. Maybe a nice lady for Scotty or Sulu….
“@Aurore – Got a source? Because as far as the movies are concerned thus far, he’s recently divorced and just out of the academy..”
Did you just utter the word “Source”?
Am I to believe that my word is not enough for you ?!
Fine! If you insist (post 233):
http://trekmovie.com/2011/10/02/pegg-lindelof-tweet-about-star-trek-sequel-orci-drops-pike-hint/
In 261, you’ll note that Mr. Orci did NOT contradict me.
Well ! That conclusively settles it, I guess. This is all the proof you need.
:)
With amazing headlights as displayed she should be Klingon, Romulan or Vulcan.
my money is on her being a Klingulculan
resistance is very futile indeed
WOW!
Bob & company manipulated Khan to have a X chromosome?
Kirk will die with a smile in this universe…
Um what a bunch of prudes??? LOL
Kirk bangs hot chicks. It’s what Captain Kirk does. They are not love interests they are friggen trysts.
If you want a Captain who doesn’t like hot chicks (or any chicks for that matter) go watch Next Gen reruns
Pine is taking a proper step toward Shatnerfication
What does this say about the director, perhaps a regular at Hooter’s!
Agree with other coments that she might be playing Carol or Nurse Chappel.
the Captain’s Woman
Hike up your skirt a little more and show the strange new worlds to me.
She will be Khan’s Harley Quinn.
Dr. Elizabeth Dehner?
One of Mudd’s women?
Leila Kalomi?
Holy moly. Khan could be front and centre in the movie…..and no one would notice at all with eye candy like Alice Eve around.
I vote yes. And hope she is a new character, as the article intimates.
Wow,shes gorgeous. Definitely for kirk. Way to pick ‘em!
Wowee!
If she is Yeoman Janice Rand will she also find out her role has been eliminated by driving up and finding her parking place is gone like the original Rand?
I agree with #32-I think Del Toro is playing Kor.
TITS! IN! SPAAAAAACE!
She and Simon Pegg opposite in the movie “Big Nothing” in 2006…
:-) :-)
Wasn’t there someone on here called Inside Production or something that said there would be news of a major female character, like the Borg Queen or Chekov would have a Borg love interest ?
Looks like whatever role she gets, Kirk will be giving her serious “Pine” time.
Does Variety’s claim that anonymous “insiders” say that Del Toro will have a “familiar” role have any real credibility? I think that Variety is a real news source that would have some fact-checking, but I don’t know this for sure.
If their claim that Del Toro will be playing an established character (if that is what “familiar” means) is credible, then what are the most likely candidates?
There are a lot of rumors flying around that this will be a Klingon-centric movie, so perhaps he would play one of the classic TOS Klingon captains as others have suggested above (i.e., Kang, Kor, or Koloth)?
Khan also is an obvious possibility. What other characters would have the prominence that would make them likely feature-film level villains?
I’ve seen Alice Even in a couple of movies. She’s a good actress and lovely to boot.
As for villain, Del Toro is a great actor. Let’s just hope this isn’t a mustache twirling bad guy. Star Trek isn’t Star Wars. I’m holding the Supreme Court to their promises of a deeper film.
I wonder if their are going to be similarities between the 2009 movie and this one? In the 2009 movie Nero had his henchman and maybe with the sequel Alice Eve will be Del Toro’s henchwoman? However in Nemesis they had Shizon and his henchman? I wonder if its good to continue this trend?
75. No worries;)
Eve’s going to be Nero’s wife, looking for REVENGE (TM) for her dead husband.
And Del Toro will be Khan’s older brother, looking for REVENGE (TM), blah, blah, blah.
Some things are just so damn obviously predictable…
#78 They said no time travel will be involved in the sequel. She also would have needed to escape from Romulas before the super nova hit.
77.
Bob, long time no see! Your assurance implies a different type of villain? Refreshing!
@ 75
Thanks Bob Orci. Since Star Trek 2013 is going to be released in 3-D, take the Supreme Court and get them to see Martin Scorsese’s Hugo in 3-D. It’s a masterpiece. Get J.J. to treat you. He’s got money. ;-) And I hope you guys film the new movie in 3-D. No conversions please.
Before I forget, Happy Holidays.
@ 75.
Yup. If this sequel is like Transformers 2, then the Trek Franchise is done. If its like the Dark Knight then they won everyone over.
New to the canon eh? I wonder if they got my message about the female chief of security.
Better not be a yeo-wench.
#83 Good idea! I could see a female Enterprise Security Chief. Imagine the sexual tension their. A female Security Chief responsible for the Kirk’s safety and maybe they would have a secret relationship?
She’s English also and she should use her English accent and not an American one. That would be so sexy!
Hey Bob. You Guys are making some great choices in Casting. Now. Please get Tom Hanks in Star Trek. Please!!! Please!!!!
Oh and Bob Orci. Love what you guys are doing on Hawaii Five O. Love it!.
Hey Bob Orci. Did you read the latest about Robert Kennedy and a possible frame up of who Killed him. Check it out.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2011/11/30/bullet-switch-proves-sirhan-sirhan-innocent-of-robert-f-kennedy-assassination-claim-lawyers-86908-23599435/
88. yup. im shocked;)
“JIM DARLING. IT IS ME. IT IS RUTH.”
Bob. It just keeps getting more interesting Does it.
With Aaron Paul as Charlie X.
Please no Charlie X!
#58 Lord Garth,
I would like to see Kirk show some restraint, yeah he can charm them, but going to the extreme, that’s going too far.
Craiger, I’ve been peddling the female chief of security idea for a while. I’d like her to have a more meaningful role than just be the captain’s Yeo-wench (that’s what I call them).
Bob did you see the Quantum Leap two parter about JFK?
I do think she would make either a perfect Ruth or Carol Marcus.
Hey Craiger. That was a great Ep. Loved it. But. I think it was not that cut and dry of what really happened.
Grrr!
Well, Mr. Bob Orci is here, not there……cool….. :-) :-)
Great to see some casting news. She should motivate Del toro to come aboard. Doesnt mean we wont see nurse chapel or Carol Marcus. No news yet on Greenwood, Nimoy , Shatner(would be a nice sendoff in 3D!!? How about Sarek?
Holy smokes DROOL!
JJ Knows how to cast :)
3D boobs my prayers been answered, she is a hottie
Good grief! I’ve never seen the trekmovie boys so primed and pumped. Let’s hope Eve and her temptations don’t entirely distract Adam from Khan.
Maybe that remark about Eve being a new character will prove to be one of many misleading comments:
The latest comic has RAND on the Galileo mission.
I wonder how negotiations are going with Robbie Rist to portray “Cousin Oliver”?
Because if there’s one thing the Star Trek format cries out for, it’s lots of new cute extraneous characters in the cast.
Maybe spock will get the girl again :) love triangle?
Thanks Anthony for the news and pics :)
don’t get too excited — once she is in her Jabba-the-Hut type alien race make-up/suit, you won’t be able to recognize her.
As a female, I hate seeing chicks come in and take all the guys. It’s annoying.
Also, I would very much like to have her chest, could I please have a transplant? thank you.
OH and you should put that dog/unicorn/alien thing from The Enemy Within episode in the movie. I nominate my goldendoodle to play it.
#106
Ah boborci ur such a tease ;)
You get to “work” writing star trek in hawaii with maxim chicks!
I envy u :)
Bob is she that one Alien that turned to look at Sulu when the Enterprise didn’t go into warp?
110. Sister of that alien:)
Alice Eve’s breasts could provide shade for a small child!
So, when she “pops up” on screen, we’ll be able to appreciate her 2D’s in 3D!
#112
Rubs hands, excellent.
Bob. keep it up and I may not help you anymore on Conspiricy’s. Lol.
Hmm. Could she be. The Salt Vampire.
102: “Maybe that remark about Eve being a new character will prove to be one of many misleading comments”
I wouldn’t doubt that. Obviously she’s a fit for Rand for Marcus or for Chapel. Imagine the fallout of Spock dumping Uhura for the blonde babe.
Zoe might actually do some of that ass kicking she wanted — as Zoe.
Oy! that makes me laugh.
I’m not putting any money on Chapel…at least not in that controversial scenario! If it was anybody else doing Star Trek I might suspect that, but not these guys.
I would not mind rubbing her in 3D. Or especially in 4D
Yeah sure, her boobs will fill in the eye holes for whatever alien suit she’s wearing.
Yup, she can be chapel, marcus or as dmduncan says alien with big eyes so kirk and spock could look her in the eye as they “talk”
Bob I found that scene that alien is at 35 seconds into this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPHVGjP74-w&feature=related
#55,Aurore,I can’t believe somebody called you out on that! Your word is enough for me! :) Hi by the way!:) Can’t wait to find out more about there roles!
@ Bob Orci and Bad Robot team –
Alice Eve does look lovely. Naturally I am hoping that she will play Kirk’s love interest. Maybe her name could be Jasmia or similar and come from that far away, lovely, peaceful alien planet…
Too much to hope for, eh Bob? Just give “my captain” some real love and let him give some in return. Remember – natural justice for the win. Please.
To be h
Rusty0918 – your misogyny is showing…no respect whatsoever, what with bringing up the likes of General Patton, calling yeoman, wenches….UHG !!!
She’s gonna play Leila Kalomi from This Side of Paradise… Or Mara from Day of the Dove…
@116: Ick! That’s probably a fantasy you should have kept between you and your shower.
Hey Bob Orci,
I know we’re not supposed to go off topic but you got us hooked on your favorite Yugoslavian mountain hound, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Have you seen his new video from Conan O’Brien’s Youtube channel? Well, if not here it is. Our favorite Eastern European canine comedian takes on the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-253uBJap8
“JJ Abrams has chosen actress Alice Eve for an unnamed role in the film. The report states that the role is “believed to be new to the canon.”
Alice Eve is believed to be playing someone new to the canon, so why are people thinking she will be playing any number of female characters well known within Star Trek canon? Just doesn’t make sense to me.
Come on Memory Alpha memorizers… who is a villain who has an older advisor/assistant in the canon? I can’t think of one!
#125
I think because she could fit the role of carol marcus or nurse chapel, both coincidentally blonde I guess. Sorta like Benicio he can pull of the part of Khan or rebooted TOS Klingon.
Carol Marcuuuuus!!! :-P
Apparently Abrams and Co. saw “Crossing Over”. I’m guessing there won’t be a scene like that in Star Trek 2013, though. :^ )
Alice Eve was slated to play Emma Frost but she bailed because she didn’t like the Xmen First Class script. The new Star Trek script must be awesome for her to sign on :)
124. So good.
@106 (Bob), are you seriously giving away that she will be portraying an alien character or are you just kidding?
All the other articles tend to confirm that she will play a NEW character, therefore that rules out all the Trek women we are so far familiar with, including Carol Marcus.
Benicio Del Toro has been billed as playing a villain we are familiar with from the prime TOS universe. This is not the case with Alice Eve.
132. As you know, i am nothin but serious. So damn serious it hurts.
Or
I Keeeeeeeeed!
#132
I highly doubt JJ would go out of his way to hire a blonde bombshell to hide her assets under prosthetic costume.
Alice Eve will be the next Megan Fox after Star Trek 2013 I imagine.
boborci, can you confirm any martial arts sequences/kick ass fight scenes in the sequel? :)
#106 Really? Putting her in a Jabba type alien suit. That has got to be too stupid to be real – surely? Our Trek starved and tender psyches can’t take this sort of stuff. Be kind, please…;)
captain garth green slave girl friend
#129
NSFW this scene? http://8img.skins.be/2/8/0/4/5/9/8/alice-eve-nude-crossing-over-02.jpg
please delete this post if not appropriate, sorry in advance.
New to canon….oh, great, let the piss and moan fest begin….
Cool….I am a sucker for hot chicks. Not only that, but hot chicks are a staple of Star Trek.
I hope the phrase “someone familiar to Trekkies” does not mean Khan.
Glad to see things get in high gear!
The article states the part Alice Eve will be playing is “believed” to be new to canon.
Therefore, it is still quite possible that she’ll be playing Nurse Chapel or Janice Rand.
The only thing confirmed so far is that she is in the movie. Whether the part is new to canon or not has yet to be confirmed.
But clearly, this piece of casting news is designed to “tit-illate” the fanboys!
Until then, everybody else’s guesses are as good as mine.
Janice Rand
I’m betting Nurse Chapel, love triangle between Spock and Uhura.
Poor Kirk can’t catch a break with the ladies.
125: “Alice Eve is believed to be playing someone new to the canon, so why are people thinking she will be playing any number of female characters well known within Star Trek canon? Just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Because she is ONLY believed to be playing someone new to canon, and not known to be, in fact, playing someone new to canon.
So that info could also be a red herring. We don’t know who gave it out or where it came from.
Hey boborci, is Bruce-Admiral Pike- Greenwood back in the new movie ?
and while you are at it, any chance at all of having Shatner as well ?
I’m 86% sure that del Toro’s character’s name will start with a ‘K’.
As for Ms. Eve, I’m guessing she’ll serve a role similar to Edith Keeler (though she seems equipped to play a Klingon warrior as well).
Which canon – all of Star Trek canon or just TOS canon? If “canon” just applies to TOS canon, then she might well play a borgified female similar to 7 of 9. Alice Eve and Jeri Ryan have very similar looking figures. Oh cripes…
#139 Nice picture. I can’t help but notice the very small areola Alice has. That is the brown skin tissue surrounding the nipple. In a sexually mature female (not pubescent) the size of that pigmentation ranges between 1.5 inches in diameter up to 4 inches, depending on the overall size of the breast and where the woman may be in her reproductive cycle (lactation is part of the reproductive cycle). Hers are the size of the average man’s. Very curious.
I am not being critical in any way. I couldn’t help but notice this apparent anomaly, so did a bit of research and found that my suspicions were correct. Probably just a variation on the normal, as in healthy.
Hopefully JJ is not going to go along with the rest of Hollywood and rehash old story lines. It is said he has his own ideas.
No Khan
She looks like she could make a good Vulcan, Romulan, Klingon or Cardassian based on her facial features. Of course she’s not half bad as a human either.
148.
Yes, Keachick, I would agree with your opinion that Alice Eve has strange looking nipples! Too small by half!
Well I hope she wont be put in JUST for eye-candy, which seems to be a pretty common thing. I hope her character will actually have a purpose. Unlike whatsername in the latest transformesrs movie. I honestly didnt see any other reason for her to be involved in any of it at all. Other than to add a pair of boobies to an otherwise mainly all-male cast.
Personally, I hope Alice Eve gets to be an anwsome, hot, essential (plot-wise) alien girl and not just some chick who fell into all the action by chance. But with this new cash-in style trek we can only hope…
#148
Healthy is good :) Kirk and Spock is so lucky, cat fight! called it
be pretty funny if that insider dude was right, Khan and ousted Borg Queen heheheh hey if it’s original story and it’s good, why not
Eve will also star in “The Raven,” an Edgar Allen Poe thriller directed by James McTeigue (”V for Vendetta”). Eve will also play a young version of Agent O, Emma Thompson’s character, in Barry Sonnenfeld’s “Men in Black III.”
#148
Also, Eve has different colour eyes (heterochromia); one eye is green and the other is blue.
@156. Well that just made her so much more cooler :)
Hey Orci Alice Eve es una hermosa rubia, propongo a Ximena Navarrete de chica Trek…. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVEHDjEvoU
Saludos
Apparently, according to her IMDb biography, Alice Eve “has heterochromia; her right eye is green and her left blue.” Now that could be useful if you want someone to be a little alien.
Been a big fan of Alice Eve ever since I saw the preview for “She’s Out Of My League”, she is a stunningly beautiful woman who will be well worthy of joining the membership of Star Trek Babes!! :-)
My bet is that she will play the love interest for Kirk in Star Trek 3D! (didn’t like the sound of Star Trek 2 or Star Trek 2013 to refer to the new movie so I have dubbed it Star Trek 3D instead lol)
“She’s English also and she should use her English accent and not an American one. ”
Yes.
But, depending on the role she’ ll end up playing, as a good actress, she
could speak with any accent, convincingly (enough).
Ask Karl Urban, or, Simon Pegg about it !
148, 151 I’ve known girls with similar um, attributes. Didn’t seem particularly odd. Quite a variety out there and I’m not complaining.
120. Olivia.
Hi !
“Can’t wait to find out more about there roles!”
I know, but, we must!!!!!!!!!
:))
She’s one of the alternate universe Mudd’s Women. Oh, and she sells carnivorous Tribbles to the Klingons.
Oh dear. I see I have repeated what somethoughts just wrote about her heterochromia. Got busy…
Harry, her nipples are fine. It is just the darker skin surrounding the perfectly normal looking nipples that there does not seem to be enough of.
Khan and the Borg Queen? Please no.
There was a thought going around a while back about having a female Romulan or Klingon commander of one of their warbirds. Alice Eve could play one of these women, who comes into contact with Captain Kirk. The two captains get into some kick ass hand to hand combat and she gives Kirk no quarter. Kirk is being a little bit chivalrous until that kick or punch and then he gives it back to her full force. They both earn the respect of the other and well, given who could be playing the female character and the cool dude who is playing Kirk, it is hard to believe that there would not be a very definite attraction. All the sweat, all those male and female pheromones flying around – it’s a no brainer really. It could be a brief but intensely arduous and enormously satisfying sexual encounter and they go their separate ways, having assuaged their basic primal passions or something more develops between them. However, they are not living in the 24th century at a time when the Klingons and the Federation are on the same side. They are still in the 23rd century and continuing what would be a clandestine relationship is difficult and even downright dangerous for the two of them…
Now, Bob & co, that could be a cool character for the actress to play!
(Oh crap- I’ve just thought that this might the one Kirk-fu/hand to hand fight that he gets to win – if it becomes a standard that Kirk only gets to win one Kirk-fu type encounter per movie. You know, like we know that some red shirts are going down and Dr McCoy says, “Dammit, I’m a doctor, not a ?)…:)
Yes, absolutely, I do indeed approve, wholeheartedly!
:D
On whether Alice Eve can do an American accent, I’ve seen her do accents in two movies. And somebody just posted a photo of her from “Crossing Over. ” (2009) Well, I’ve seen that film. She plays an Australian actress. I was watching her beautiful Australian accent, er.. noticing her gorgeous accent, um…. was listening to it all during the film. She did a great job. Hey Aurore (@ 161) maybe she can do a French accent.
Polly, you’re right. Frankly I hope it’s more than T&A.
Yeoman Rand was arguably the most annoying character in all of TOS. Her appearances in TMP and TUC were better though. Nurse Chapel wasn’t that inspirational a character either. In fact, Majel Barrett mentioned that she wasn’t totally fond of it in a “Star Trek: Insight” back in 1998 when Sci-Fi channel was doing their Special Edition.
I still say security chief.
88. Commodore Mike of the Terran Empire – November 30, 2011
—-Hey Bob Orci. Did you read the latest about Robert Kennedy and a possible frame up of who Killed him. Check it out.—-
I finally watched the entirety of “JFK: Evidence of Revision” which boborci had recommended some time ago, and I have to say that it’s pretty amazing. In all of the JFK assassination documentaries that I’d seen on the History Channel and so forth over the years, I’d never seen some of the most compelling evidence, such as LBJ’s mistress who’d come out and said that he’d told her that it was a conspiracy of which he had knowledge; another guy with no apparent motive who said that his father had been one of the assassins; and an interview with Jack Ruby in which he said that LBJ was involved. The RFK assassination has even more compelling evidence of conspiracy in several eye-witnesses who said they saw one of RFK’s security guards shoot him from behind.
What is “T&A”?
“Hey Aurore (@ 161) maybe she can do a French accent.”
And, if it happens, I’ll comment on it; I’ll tell you if it was convincing…enough for me, Bernie…I mean, Basement Blogger.
:)
I would have thought Carol Marcus if not for the “new to canon” point. At any rate just glad she is in the sequel.
I wouldn’t mind if she or Brooklyn Decker were cast as seven of nine.
This is probably too much of a cross-over wish, but I hope Del Toro plays Dr. Zaius. ; )
Oops. My winky-face above got screwed up.
Looks like Ms. Eve could play both Romulus and Remus.
Not Chapel, then?
Maybe Carol Marcus’s lineage died on Kelvin and in this new timeline there is no Genesis and there is no twok :) Maybe just a new hot blonde nurse or scientist. I hope she is human and not vulcan or klingon :)
165. Keachick – rose pinenut – November 30, 2011
It’s really just that one shot though. Human skin reacts to temperature changes:
http://tinyurl.com/6sot5tn
Mr. Orci, the Variety report said “one other major role to cast”…
would you say the cast for the sequel is smaller than the first or about the same?
Oh, and what’s the movie about?
Just kidding with that second part. But I’m really curious about my first question. I think having lots of guest charcters (like Undiscovered Country and Trek09) kind of lends an epic scope to the film.
I’m not putting much stock in the “new to Trek canon” line. Sounds like the ol’ bait and switch to me.
@126 The Last Vulcan _
” Balance of Terror ” Commander Keras had an elderly Centurion advisor. Though I doubt they could be using Romulans again.
memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Centurion
I honestly think Del Toro will be Khan. Granted Khan was Sikh but Ricardo Montalban was Mexican i.e. latin. Del Toro, from Puerto Rico i.e. latin. Yes he could be a Klingon, a very awesome Klingon (my vote for Kor over Kang) but honestly you don’t hire a French guy or a German to play Khan if one were to recast. Ricardo was latin so you look for a talented latin actor, Del Toro is latin, and a unique actor. its a damn logical choice. If he accepts I would be damn happy to have him in Star Trek. One thing Ill say about Bob and JJ, they are getting big name actors into Star Trek and that is a fantastic thing. Its something that Star Trek always lacked. Oh ok Ricardo for TWOK, Plummer in TUC, Cromwell for FC, and Hardy for NEM, but back in 2002 Hardy was not as well known as he is now for Inception and soon to be Bane in Batman. And Cromwell is not really an A list actor so yea, it still stands that Star Trek NEEDS SOME BIG NAMES!!! Eric Bana, Del Toro (PERFECT), and for #3….. :D who knows.
I have totally lost faith. It seems like a cert that they are going to redo Khan.
Prove me wrong guys, prove to me you can do true Star Trek.
Carol Marcus!
Who was your fav star trek babe?
Rand, Chapel, Uhura, Troi, Crusher, Kes, 7of9, T’pol, or Sato?
“Who was your fav star trek babe?”
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SPOCK.
Thank you for asking.
#185
:)
Oddly Sato looks like my wife but always loved blondes so 7/9 was nice.
As I said I have lost a bit of faith in something that will be great Star Trek but I do hope for a good film.
“…always loved blondes…”
So did I !!!
My husband has blonde hair. He used to have plenty of it, anyway…
:))
But, how could one resist THE Spock?
Yeoman Rand. She is also in Startrek #3 comic “The Galileo Seven” although in TOS she wasn’t in that episode….
@181 – Don’t forget F. Murray Abraham in Insurrection and Malcolm McDowell in Generations…
Just because they were underutilized for their breadth (actually, so was Bana in ST2009), several actors who played villains in the Star Trek franchise are of top caliber.
Benicio Del Toro is an actor of great talent, and I don’t think he’d exactly jump at the chance of playing a character who’s already been pretty well tapped out – I mean Khan.
Klingons would be boring enough, but Khan? It’s been done.
One thing the Bad Robot team is not big on is rehashing material. Sure, they rebooted Star Trek, but now they don’t need to reboot anything. They’ve got a whole, big sandbox to play in, and you all think they’ll just trot out all the old toys?
Forget the girl, forget Khan. What we need from @boborci is a confirmation of Kirk-fu being prominently displayed in all it’s glory. IN 3-D.
Now we know why Paramount wants the movie in 3D
It’s…it’s Lenore Karidian! Obviously the next movie is about Kodos and Tarsus IV, since every Khan-suggesting fan knows that the alternate universe is all about rehashing TOS for the new generation, as opposed to coming up with new stories. Since Damon Lindelof would’ve liked George Lucas to come up with a brand new story for the prequel trilogy, I’m holding him to that comment.
I had a bad Thought. Del Toro as Sybock. (Shutters).
193. A couple of reasons are apparent. If she isn’t intended for Kirk I will be disappointed. It’s critical to his character development….You’re welcome, Chris.
I’d say that’s what a shutter was invented for.
“I had a bad Thought. Del Toro as Sybock. (Shutters).”
Don’t be too hard on yourself, Commodore Mike of the Terran Empire; it has already been suggested before…
The story I wrote had the crew up against the Borg (proto-borg), who were born from the V’ ger machine planet, and it included Carol Marcus and a baby David Marcus to boot.
Probably a good thing these guys are writting the thing. :]
I’m thinking Carol Marcus here, and yes she is HOT!!! A Kirk lady through and through.
Here is what I think… She will be Marla McGivers / Movie will start as here being a love interest for Kirk, then Khan comes on the scene (Del Toro) / The rivalry between Kirk & Khan begins…..
infinite diversity? i guess everyone (especially women) in the future will be one-size-fits-all: sexy. gene roddenberry would most likely approve. i hope she can act.
“i hope she can act.”
______
Of course she can!
What if the man called “Inside the production” was right and she is going to be the Borg queen?
Gotta say, if the article is correct about her character being “new to the canon,” then so will everything else that proceeds from the first movie. It’s a frackin’ alternate universe! Everything is new!
Also, if she turned down the role of Emma Frost in “X-Men: First Class” because she didn’t like the script, she must not be a big fan, because that was actually a very good movie. Maybe Frost’s character was under-utilized (come on, getting ice for Sebastian Shaw’s tea? That’s so ’60s – oh, wait, the movie was set in 1961…), but there was so much going on in that movie that many of the other characters were under-utilized.
I want to see women like this in tough roles. It’s not 1967 any more. Make her chief of Security, but don’t make her a love interest. I’m sick of seeing Kirk hop into bed with every slave girl and Tarakian moon princess that comes along (with apologies to Galaxy Quest) and I think the captain of a starship should show a little more restraint. After all, that rank is the equivalent of a colonel in the USAF or Army, which should be a more seasoned and experienced, like Pike.
And as far as the role for the hoped-for Del Toro: Sure, make him a Klingon, but not like the Klingons we’ve come to expect in Trek. Redesign the species completely. In the deleted scenes with Nero on Rura Penthe, the Klingon interrogator was wearing a helmet that made him look Klingon. He also had a voice and diction that implied that, while they may be a warrior race, they are also more urbane and refined than their TOS predecessors. Not like the Chinese or the Soviets, but more like … oh, I don’t know … Goldfinger. Y’know what I mean?
if Del Toro is Khan I will go to the premier just to Vomit on their red carpet
106
Nice. that made me laugh.
She’s way too voluptuous/sexy to play Carol Marcus…
Yeoman Rand, I’m assuming?
In any event, the ambient temperature of the alternate universe just went up a few degrees… ;-D
I’m still waiting to read that Bruce Greenwood will be back as PIKE!
Still waiting—
208.
Would love to see BG back as Pike, too. He was great.
I guess Eve won’t be playing Rand at all. A character ‘new to canon’ they say. That’s for the best anyway, really…
I wish the villain del Toro were playing were also ‘new to canon.’
I really don’t want to see a remake of Space Seed, so I very much hope it isn’t Khan. But the tidbit about an older supporting role gives me hope. Khan’s followers were all about the same age, or maybe younger. I’m going to be an optimist on this one and guess Kor will be the villain.
#184 What, no DS9 love? Gotta add Kira Naris and Jadzia Dax to that list.
Terry Farrell FTW!
(And lets not forget Janeway!) Lots of ST babes to choose from.
#208 And Ben Cross.
Carol Marcus or Yeoman Rand
I like people’s post on here but let me say mine.
ALICE EVE: She is smoking hot… OMG!!!!… I think the role(s) that will fit for her are 1: Carol marcus, 2: Marla McGivers, 3: Nurse Chapel or Rand
Now to BENICIO DEL TORO…. Only one role baby…. KAHN, KAHN, KAHN!!!!! Thats right! Star Trek’s most lovable, genetic super human villian is back but here’s the twist…. It involves the KLINGONS…. How cute is this Sequel huh?????…. LMAO
I figured it out!
Alice Eve will play Kirk’s long lost sister, Jamie Krik!
Just remember you heard it here first!
Nurse Chapel!!!!
I’m amazed at how many fans can’t grasp the notion of an actress playing a role that is NOT canon. “Not canon” means she’s not playing a character we have seen or heard of before, folks…duh!!!
Dr. Carol Marcus!
Yoeman Janice Rand?
@185. Aurore – December 1, 2011
I couldn’t agree more with you!!! :D
Personally I would like to see her play Nurse Chapel, just because I enjoyed the dynamic she had with Spock, (even though that may throw a wrench in the the Spock/Uhura thing…darn :P ). But I could see her playing T’Pring or Carrol Marcus…or someone else…really, who the heck knows WHERE they’re going with this?!
(@boborci: Put you’re hand down! Of COURSE you know where this is going!!)
“…who the heck knows WHERE they’re going with this?!”
_______
Truth be told, I hope they go where no Plomeek soup has been thrown, before…
:)
#217 Just shows you how so many Trek fans have blinders on and explains why so many think they are the authority on what is and isn’t Star Trek. And how they take that false sense of authority and criticize everything they can about the JJ movies.
#220 I think it’s pretty clear they aren’t going where you suggest. She’s not playing any of those characters.
Older and supporting role to Del Toro… just a thought… what if we all got it wrong? Maybe Del Toro is the Romulan Commander from Balance of Terror, with the supporting role being the Centurion?
#224 I would be very surprised if this movie is in any way a remake of a TOS epsiode.
I could be wrong, but I just think Bob, JJ and crew are more creative than that. Del Toro may play a character we have heard of before, but I doubt the story will be based on an old show like that. It’s just too obvious and in my mind, not at all creative.
Keachick…
#148.. “about niples”….I’m impressed how you pay attention to certain details …LOL… I wonder if the producers were also thinking about that … ok, I’m just kidding a little … +LOL
:-) :-)
It would be more creative if Del Toro played a character that was never a big part of Trek Canon. A character that in this new time line, because of changes in the new time line, because far more important that he was in the old time line.
Maybe a character that was good, or neutral, in the old time line, but becomes powerful and evil in this time line.
I would expect something like that far more than him playing Khan or some obvious bad guy and therefore making this movie a remake of some old story.
#222 — I don’t think they know what the word “canon” means…LOL!!! They probably think its something that shoots our big black cannonballs…something from a Pirates of the Carribean film…HAHA!!!
Shake the lice and mothballs out of the pineapple wig and show us…
RAND!
ps – #148. You did it. You make nipples seem icky.
I hope Del Toro is Khan.
I also hope Eve is Kirk’s love interest. In none of the films has Kirk had a proper love interest. He should fall in love. That would be novel. Perhaps Khan kills her. I don’t know.
If this happens, I will be one happy Trekkie. I have been calling for both of these things for ages: Khan back and a love story for Kirk. Great if true!
No. 152 Polly -
She went to university where she was involved in several theater productions and Beverly Playhouse Hills; therefore, she is not an eyecandy. :)
Ok…read carefully:
Rand, Chapel, Saavik, Kara the Imorg, Ruth, Mara — are canon and this gal won’t be playing those parts.
Are people forgetting what Bob told me in this post about her role?
110. Craiger – November 30, 2011
Bob is she that one Alien that turned to look at Sulu when the Enterprise
didn’t go into warp?
111. boborci – November 30, 2011
110. Sister of that alien:)
Chapel, Rand, Marcus — take your pick: I’m certain she could play either character. Janices Lester comes to mind as a potenial threat — who was Kirk’s soul-stealing nemisis in TOS episode “Turnabout Intruder.” (SEE:
)
There are SO MANY possibilities…. even a new character, although I’d wager Bob Orci & Co. might throw us some surprises, including who Alice Eve is to portray. My bet? Carol Marcus — Alice seems to me, from a “looks” perspective, to have [a younger] Bibi Besch’s lovely looks and demeanor. I’m open to whatever Bob & Co. give us, though. Warp Speed, Bob!
Sorry about that LINK, above, everyone: without the thingies, it would be http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Janice_Lester. (I hope that shows up this time, for proper reference.)
#232 So are you saying there’s a chance she is playing Carol Marcus?
@43
I’m just plain, simple Garen.
I’m really surprised at how many people don’t get the writing process. Haven’t you listened to any podcasts or audio commentaries? The creative team has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by making it seem like they’re relying on Star Trek II.
#238: Who said Star Trek 2… Space Seed is more likely sir. Remember Khan is yet to be discovered which more than likely is how this sequel might take place.
Redoing Space Seed would be a huge mistake. It would be so unimaginative and uncreative. I would be shocked if this writing crew would do something as obvious and simplistic as that.
I can’t imagine it took so long to get this script done because they were doing something as simple as rehashing and old TOS episode with a few new twists.
That’s the kind of thing they do for low budget popcorn sequels when they are just trying to make an easy profit with as little cost as possibe and churn out something.
224. “Older and supporting role to Del Toro… just a thought… what if we all got it wrong? Maybe Del Toro is the Romulan Commander from Balance of Terror, with the supporting role being the Centurion?”
Different reality. Maybe Ben Cross is the Commander (nice nod to Mark Lenard) and gets killed by ambitous Del Toro as the Centurion?
On a side note, I’m not real impressed with these two castings. I mean, they are good and all, but I was hoping for a bigger name to be the bad guy in this movie.
Is Del Toro “the” bad guy, or just “a” bad guy? I thought originally he was going to be a bad guy, but not necessarily the main one. I thought there was speculation that a bigger start was being considered for the main antagonist role.
Is that out the window now? Is Del Toro it?
Like I said, this news (these two castings) is nice, but not something that blows me away or gets me real excited.
Loving that lady! But I do have to stress that although the casting is looking awesome at the moment, if Paramount want to sell Star Trek overseas then their going to have to cast a few big named actors like Tom Cruise or Johnny Depp or Matt Damon or Christian Bale or all four!
#236 — NO!!! LOL!!!
Here’s a comprehensive list of who she won’t be playing (in addition to those I listed above):
Gillian Taylor, Carol Marcus, Luma the Imorg, The Borg Queen, Droxibe, Vana, Lt. Palomas, The Mother Horta, The Companion, Mira Romaine, Irina Galune (sp?), Miri, the alien chick from That Which Survives, Janice Lester, the Romulan commander from Enterprise Incident, Elaan of Troyius, various and sundry Yeomen from TOS, Lt. Illia, Aurelan Kirk, Kara the Argelian belly dancer, a female tribble, the blonde bicycle wheel player from The Way To Eden, Roberta Lincoln, Eleen, T’Pring, Lwaxana Troi. Beverly Crusher, Valeris, T’Pau, T’Lar, Shahna from Gamesters of Triskelion, Deela, Tonia Barrows, Areel Shaw, Dr. Dehner, Number One, Vina (any incarnation thereof), Edith Keeler, Odona, Dr. Helen Noel, Miss Piper, girl from Tombstone, AZ (Spectre of the Gun), Dr. Miranda Jones, Dr. Pulaski, Philana ( MPlato’s Stepchildren), Valeris, Mirananee, Kelinda, Dr. Ann Mulhall…any other female, male, or alien character depicted in any of the established Star Trek TV series and films!!
You got that?! :-)
#244 Hmmmmm…. but she is so perfect for Marcus or Nurse Chapel. Surely she must be playing one of them.
:)
I’ve only seen Alice Eve in “She’s Out of My League” but she definitely has some good acting chops. Nice to see her branching out into sci-fi!
Also glad that her character may be new to the canon. I’d be really interesting if they were planning for her to be a new member of the command staff on the Enterprise. It’d be a bold move and potentially a really neat one to see an even more different dynamic between the already known bridge crew members.
If that were the case, then the big question is which department position she’d fill.
Nurse Chapel, Janice Rand, or
(a) Human female which Kirk falls for and must die/leave at the end of the film.
(b) Alien female with evil ulterior motives (or not?) who Kirk falls for who causes much trouble for Enterprise crew and who must die/leave at the end of the film.
And thank you for your comprehensive list, SciFiGuy. :D
Looks like the decision has been made, but we’re really going for yet-another Trek adventure with a key “villain”? C’mon guys…Trek isn’t supposed to be a series of stories w/our heroes versus villains every time. Leave that formula storytelling for Star Wars or Buck Rogers. Next time, get out of the storytelling box. I like a great, snarling three-dimensional villain as much as the next guy, but mix it up a bit. Star Trek is best when it isn’t so formulaic…
No Borg please no Borg please.
Just thought of something…
Kirk and the Enterprise get transported into a parallel universe where everything is the same…except their genders are reversed. Alice Eve plays Miss Kirk.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Del toro will Play Lord Garth and Alice will play Dr. Janice Lester. Together they will team up and cause all kinds of Problems for Kirk and Spock.
She is a hottie. Im hoping she plays a Slut from Risa or an orian slave girl :D
#248 Not having a villain would spell disaster for the movie. You can do that in a TV series where you have a different story every week and you can explore more.
In the movies, where you have a different story every 3 or 4 years, you need to have that element for a successful action/adventure movie. Which is what Star Trek is.
Like I’ve said before, if you want to make a Star Trek movie about the Enterprise getting stuck in some giant space cloud that is threating the lives of the crew, and spend 2 hours trying to understand the cloud’s motives and reason with it – well then fine. But realize that it will be the last Star Trek movie ever made.
By the way, they did that with TMP, and most people outside of hard core Trekkers, consider that movie to be a long and dreadfully boring movie.
I don’t mind seeing that kind of Star Trek at home on the TV, but I’m not paying $9 to go see it at the movie theater.
#251 Commodore,
I like your idea but if I may submit Meagan Fox as Lord Garths Orion Slave girl….just a thought.
Ilia.
#177 Thank you. Yes, I see what you mean by the effects of temperature on parts of the body.
#204 – “I want to see women like this in tough roles. It’s not 1967 any more. Make her chief of Security, but don’t make her a love interest. I’m sick of seeing Kirk hop into bed with every slave girl and…”
What has her possibly playing the Chief of Security got to do with her off-duty romantic/sexual life? So women can’t be both tough, when necessary, and be loving and sexual as well? What an incredibly limited view you seem to have of the (female) human species?
As for Kirk, without doing an actual count up of his apparent sexual escapades in the TOS TV and movie series, I would venture to say that less than a third had him have any kind of real encounter with a woman, human or otherwise. The only slave girl I can recall him “hop into bed with” was the attractive blonde “I would never lie to the one who owns me” woman in Bread and Circuses.
A lot of the time, we saw Kirk being alone, lonely and seemingly over- burdened with a sense of duty and responsibility. Kirk needs to be love and be loved, just like anybody else.
In this alternate universe, this Kirk could have a different, better life but that is up to whether the writers and producers of this Trek have the imagination, vision and courage to make it happen!
#229, #235 – “nipples icky”, “without the thingies”. WHAT?
Since when did giving a little information about an important part of the female body suddenly make “nipples icky”?
I assume when you wrote “without the thingies”, you were actually referring to human breasts. They are not “thingies”, they are breasts, and if it weren’t for the life-giving nourishment they are able to give a small human infant, most of us would not be here today. Effective breast milk substitutes have only been around within the last 50 -100 years.
Grow up, get educated and show some goddamn RESPECT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areola
256 Ya know why men have breasts?…cause at like 8 weeks old we are all female….so men get breasts as like a throw in….
#257 Yep, I knew that. Do you know why all embryos start out being “female”?
I meant to say also, so much for Eve being formed out of Adam’s rib – got that so wrong! But then again, it may only be wrong if you take it all literally, which, unfortunately, many people do, still.
Re the comments about the actors being selected to play various roles not being big star names -
Surely, the actors playing the main characters should be seen as the “stars” of the movie. To have really big name actors play a villain etc could detract people’s attention away from those who actually are the main players, and indeed, reason for the movie in the first place. It is the love of the TOS characters (Kirk and Spock, in particular) that inspires people to write more stories for those people and for others to want to see these characters being played out on the big (and maybe later, small) screen.
Frankly, other characters like villains, love interests, Starfleet bureaucrats etc could be played by anyone really (obviously by good actors suited to the role they are playing).
However it is CHRIS PINE who is Kirk, ZACHARY QUINTO who is Spock, KARL URBAN who is Dr McCoy etc etc. You see where I am going with this?
Vulcan. Look at those eyebrows and the way she looks cold even when smiling in the blue dress.
Vulcans and Klingons vying for a tropical colony planet?
I haven’t posted in a long time.
But my longstanding opinion is that Khan should be left alone for a movie or two, because the story is only more interesting if Khan is not rerouted by Kirk. Like a ‘proof of concept’ on Joachim’s “Yours is superior.”
Moreover, BDT does not look like a genetically engineered superman. He looks like the Mongolian influenced Klingons we almost got in 9.
It’s funny, the very fist picture her smile is like Carol Marcus, the Maxim shot she looks like a Borg Queen, the last picture of her in the blue dress, she looks like Nurse Chapel. God I am so confused.
I wish they can just announce who they will be playing already! :) We deserve to know, we been good and been real patient :))
# 244 She is playing Rena from Talos IV. Pike , Rena and Tango all back on earth in Hawaii. Del Toro is Gary Mitchell. Remember the movie left a 3 year gap. Kirk hopefully made more friends then just Bones at Starfleet. They go to the barrier Mitchell gets his ESP and brings the Federation and the Klingons to the brink of war meanwhile Pike tries to save the Fedeartion by talking to the big heads on Talos 4 to get them to stop Mitchell plans but also goes back to see Rena. Kirk goes to Talos 4 to bring Pike home and finds out what he will be when he gets older ..[shanter's role] Kirk realizes that his friendship with Gary is not worth the war with the Klingons and sets to kill his friend. This time guys get the tombstone right James T Kirk and James R. Kirk.
bob O and trekkies what do you think????
#264
Nice.
Would Vina be considered canon/cannon?
Most of the survivors are now quite elderly except for one, the beautiful Vina, who they claim was born at the time of the crash. It’s all an illusion, however, and the planet’s super-intelligent inhabitants take the Captain prisoner
#260 Completely disagree. Having a big name actor playing the villain would create more buzz and draw more interest.
JJ and crew have even said as much in previous interviews. I’m sure casting Del Toro (an Oscar award winner) is an attempt at getting such a big name star. He certainly has more credentials in Hollywood than the rest of the cast, but I’m just saying I would have liked it if they had gotten someone even bigger.
Wow I made blunder Vina is correct thank you #265. We could go with Rena its a different time line now so what the hell but still a bad mistake on my part I should have known that
Lieutenant M’Ress.
rowrrrr
Oh, wow — I hadn’t thought of VENA from “The Cage” (later used in the 2-parter “The Menagerie” ….) — not a bad idea, come to think of it. But I wouldn’t wager Bob & Co. have re-written The Cage as the basis of the next story with the new (younger) cast.
How do you like that: I typed so fast I mis-spelled my own name, and Vina’s, too. BIG oooops…
DIsappointment. I was hoping they would cast someone who wasn’t generic starlet blonde. There are so many more interesting actresses out there, that this feels very lower common denominator.
Star Trek = Extremely Gorgeous Looking People
Here we go again. I am not sure if Alice Eve is a natural blonde or not. I am not sure who these many more interesting actresses are out there, but let me guess, none of them would be blonde. I suspect that if Alice Eve’s photo showed her as a brunette, you would not be calling her a “generic starlet blonde” and writing stuff like “lower common denominator”.
Gosh, and to think there are just so many “generic starlet brunettes” around to chose from as well.
I’m wondering if she’ll be playing a Vulcan, as all the Vulcans (with the exception of Spock) seem to have British accents in this new timeline; and, as the other actress who was in line for the roll was also British, it would seem to imply the character will have that accent…
Alice Eve is so fresh-faced gorgeous, there’s only one explanation: she’ll be a love interest for Kirk and during a tense moment in the story, she’ll be brutally murdered by the villain. This will allow Kirk his chance to go batshit crazy on the bad guy while we all cheer him on.
Harry – Alice Eve or Erica Durance? :)
Harry – I don’t really want to see Kirk’s love die, but I wouldn’t mind seeing Chris Pine doing Kirk going batshit crazy on the bad guy. That could be something to watch…
“Harry – Alice Eve or Erica Durance?:)”
I think the answer is obvious, unless Harry is going on some kind of masochistic binge or he is actually secretly in love with Erica Durance…
The real question should be – Erica Durance or Reese Witherspoon? Which would be more attractive and interesting – the dull acting or that beautiful chin?
I would have thought, myself, that the answer to the latter question would be obvious – the chin for the win, every time…:)
Of course, I am half expecting Harry to come back with something like that chin being too big for even a Klingon bat’leth to deal to .
Now, you see, we were having a nice conversation about a gorgeous girl like Alice Eve and you two had to bring human slugs like Durance and Witherspoon into the equation. YUCK!!!
Harry, please, watch your language! “Human slugs”. Really? You could, at least, show a little pity, even compassion. I task you.
Next, I’ll read that you are sorry for comparing them to slugs. Slugs deserve better consideration than that.
What to do? I don’t know. Is there no hope?….:)
Where were we? Oh yes, Alice Eve…!
I also like, Catherine Bell, Kirsten Dunst and Coto De Pablo.
#275
I like this idea, Kirk goes super saiyen dragonball z styles on the villain who murdered his only love. This is why Kirk never marries and settles down, his one true love got killed by those Klingon bastards.
Never heard of her before.
Remember wanted to the Gorn but didn’t and that one alien said Humans were a most promsing species because of that.
No, somethoughts. Maybe this is what happens to this love of his life, but he does find another love, in *Jasmia*… Not being able to love another again because of death does not bode well for the griever’s long term psychological wellbeing and this may well compromise important decisions he may make in the future. Hey, we don’t want to turn Kirk into some kind of Nero! I am not saying Khan here because Khan was already “full of himself/it” even before his wife died. It is doubtful that Nero was ever as big an up himself a-hole as Khan was.
However I also didn’t like Roddenberry’s no conflict clause.
#285
Yea, was just relating kirk to the prime timeline where his love is the ship of the enterprise. Kirk devoted his life to the federation and starfleet, something he regreted in generations while inside the nexus.
Should be #284
#243
Yes they need to hire top talent from asia, and europe so movie fans can go see their top talent in a film they may otherwise ignore.
It seems that many people think she is the love interest of Kirk … and end up being murdered by the villain … is so obvious, Mr. Bob Orci? … hmmm … no … I think he will not answer that…………….:-) :-)
I hope they announce Marina Sirtis as the computer voice!
boborci-
Remember the scene in TMP where the replacement Vulcan is horrifyingly reassembled and dies a terrible screaming death in a transporter malfunction?
Can you remake that scene using a never-seen cadet named “Jasmia”?
Just so we never have to hear the name again?
NICHELLE NICHOLS as the new computer voice!!!
She deserves to be the voice of the Enterprise!
Ooh, I got it. Alice Eve plays the Enterprise’s avatar, and Kirk literally falls in love with her!
How many times have we seen “no Khan” posted on this sight since the last movie?
There have been polls, even direct interactions with the writers, but yet here we are watching them court Benicio Del Toro for what is obviously the role of Khan & this chick, who is blatantly obvious for a hotter version of Carol Marcus.
Just more proof that the supreme court don’t give a Gorn’s excretion about the real fans!
You know, the ones like us who have kept this franchise alive for over 40 years!
They would rather attract some fans of George Lucas & his celebrated mediocrity.
Just like with Transformers, Orci & Kurtzman show no respect for core fans who understand these franchises better than they do.
#290.
Why? Just because Majel Barrett Roddenberry did? That would be too obvious because it would look like Marina Sirtis is trying to follow in the late Majel’s footsteps. Not only that, but Sirtis has repeatedly ripped into J.J Abrams, and slammed the new movie before it was even made.
No, I have to agree with Odkin here, Nichelle Nicholls would be more appropriate and welcome. She’s the only TOS cast member NOT to get at least a cameo in another incarnation of Trek, and she really deserves one last part in Trek. The computer voice would be perfect!
Failing that, the role should go to someone outside of Trek.
#294
I am as much as a fan as you and I am sure others are also, does that mean what I want or others want is more important than what you want? Nothing has been confirmed and until we see the new movie, lets not be too quick to judge.
Just be happy Star Trek is finally getting the budget and attention it deserves.
#294 Are you being a troll or something? How about YOU try showing some respect to Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman, by not writing the garbage you have written. “Gorn’s excretion” Really? I assume you know who all the “real fans” are and you have taken it upon yourself to speak for them. Oh God, not another one speaking for “us”.
There is NOTHING OBVIOUS about Benicio Del Toro necessarily playing Khan or Alice Eve playing Carol Marcus. It is not blatantly obvious at all. In fact, many people have given any number of TOS character names that these two actors could reasonably play. Given that it is more than likely, according to the article of this thread, that Alice Eve will play a character that is not known within canon, you assertion about who “this chick” will play even more stupid.
#295: Yes, exactly! It is because Majel Barret played the voice that I think it’d be cool if Sirtis did it after her. Especially since Sirtis played her daughter. But, I think Nichelle Nichols would be a good choice as well. Hey, Trekmovie! How about another poll of who should be the new computer voice?
I vote Sirtis.
“Can you remake that scene using a never-seen cadet named “Jasmia”?
Just so we never get to hear that name again?”
While you are at it, Bob Orci, could you PLEASE have someone kill that Carol Marcus person off before Kirk gets her banged up and breaks his heart, just “so we never get to hear that name again”.
I, for one, am sick of hearing the names Carol Marcus and Khan! Been there, done that. There is nothing original about these names or the people they represent. Nor is there anything original, Odkin, in the scene you would have Bob Orci remake – just a nasty, horrible scene.
294
Thank god for that!!!!!
No Khan — but YES to new villain named Hank.
I think Nichelle Nichols would be great if she were to be the new computer voice. She still has a lovely speaking voice. She is probably more deserving of this role than Marina Sirtis, especially if Marina Sirtis has been ripping into JJ Abrams even before he completed his first Star Trek film. Why would he even want to have Sirtis around?
I agree about a poll being taken. Who are other possible candidates for this important job? Someone suggested Brent Spiner doing a voice similar to that of Data’s. That might work.
So far, the candidates could be – Marina Sirtis, Nichelle Nichols, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan…anyone else?
#293
They got the nacelles right :)
#302
Angelina Jolie has a nice voice, seductive and sweet. Scotty and Chekov can talk to the computer all night long.
Alice Eve is Carol Marcus all the way. To me that is the one character they need to add to this alternative universe. She could really be an equal to Kirk I think. She is the mother of Kirk’s only son. How interesting would it be for Kirk to become a father in this universe where he lost his own father and never knew him. I wonder if Kirk would choose Starfleet over his son or would he walk away?
As far as BDT, I gotta think he will be a klingon and not Khan. I think the Supreme Court could do a great Khan story dont get me wrong. But I think they would be wise to not model their second movie too closely on the TDK. I know they said they looked to Batman Begins to see how to reboot the Star Trek movie series. My hope is they dont think that they should go and redefine a legendary character in Khan like Nolan did with the Joker.
This movie is coming along nicely. Given the amount of time it has taken them to get it in front of cameras, I am expecting it to be quite good.
If they do decide to switch genders in regards to the computer voice, I suggest Anthony (C-3PO) Daniels!
Heh heh heh…..
:-D
There’s only one thing I want to know:
Will the Organian Girl be in the Sequel, the one who was assigned to the Farragut before it sped off to Vulcan to its doom.
Okay. Either that joke was too stealthy. Shwoom! Under the radar. Or you folks are not posting your lols.
Oh come on now. The choice of the voice is obvious, isn’t it?
William Shatner does the voice as a contentious and disobedient Enterprise that wants to second guess Pine Kirk’s every decision.
#309
Lol would make for a funny tv episode, the enterprise rather sing and dance then listen.
#302
Robert Picardo has a nice holodoc voice also
William Shatner would be funny.
Fran Drecsher or Carol Kane.
I’m betting she’s just going to be the usual bubblicious babe of the week, if she really IS new to canon. That whole Mad Men/Playboy Club/Pan Am vibe is in the air right now. Could Old School Star Trek be behind?
If she isn’t really new to canon, then the character that she resembles the most is me is Leila Kalomi. There is definitely a resemblance to Jill Ireland.
“If she isn’t really new to canon, then the character that she resembles the most is me is Leila Kalomi. ”
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Leila Kalomi, but, in this reality, she is Leila Kalomi-M’Benga.
That would be new to the canon…
I think Alice Eve and Jennifer Morrison have similar facial features. This settles it. Eve will definitely play Kirk’s younger sister that he never knew about.
I think it’s clear: Benicio Del Toro is going to reprise the role of Franky Four Fingers for the Star Trek movie…
But the real question is, who’s going to play Brick Top?
Perhaps she’s new to Kirk’s “cannon”?
I think there are really only two choices for computer voice: Nichols or Sirits. But, just the pad the poll, I guess we could just throw in all the ex-Trek female cast members: McFadden, Crosby, Muldaur, Farrell, Visitor, deBoer, Mulgrew, Dawson, Ryan, Lien, Blalock, Park. And throw in William Shatner for kicks.
“Eve will definitely play Kirk’s younger sister that he never knew about.”
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Now, wouldn’t that be something?…
… And, I’d say that, she would be Kirk’s younger sister that * WE* never knew about, if such were the case….
@318 — For the last time! “Canon” is spelled… oh, wait, nevermind.
As far as the villain is concerned, if there must be one, he had better be a “Keyser Söze”-type (character) rather than a Soran.
That is just my opinion, of course…
#320
Swear I saw that some where in a galaxy far far away…
James Earl Jones for computer voice
“Swear I saw that some where in a galaxy far far away…”
Now, you see, I did not want to bring “that” up.
But, look on the bright side; at least, Kirk did not flirt with her in Star Trek 2009…
:)
#292: “NICHELLE NICHOLS as the new computer voice!!!
She deserves to be the voice of the Enterprise!”
excellent idea! let’s hope that the powers that be are reading.
Having Nichelle as the computer voice is a great idea!
@220
T’pring probably died when Vulcan was destroyed.
If T’pring was still alive and bonded to Spock, would he fall for Uhura?
Crap, I just got Doohan-ed. OK, fine, I’m on board: Nichelle Nichols for the computer voice!
Make. This. Happen.
Douglas Rain for the computer voice
I like the idea of this girl playing Kirk’s love interest that Del Toro kills.
Everyone knows that Kirk will never have any kind of long term meaningful relationship with a woman. That’s the character, it’s not going to suddenly change now.
His first and only love is the Enterprise and Starfleet.
Also, people need to quit getting so caught up in how similar or not an actor looks to a previous actor that played a role in Star Trek.
They are not casting people in these movies based on how much they do or don’t look like a previous actor.
“Everyone knows that Kirk will never have any kind of long term meaningful relationship with a woman. That’s the character, it’s not going to suddenly change now.”
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If I may be so bold to ask; wanna bet?
Rendez-vous in 2013 to find out …for sure…
:)
lol sure.
If you think Kirk is going to settle down get married and have kids then I would say you are nuts. Not going to happen.
Kirk has always had brief love affairs or flings, whatever. That’s the character. The swashbuckling hero. The cowboy in space. The lone ranger type. He is destined to be alone. That’s the only way he can be the hero. He has to be married to his career – the ship, the crew, his commrads Spock and McCoy.
Nichelle Nichols would be a FANTASTIC computer voice for Nu Trek. So fitting! It would really be nice to have a hint of the original crew always with the nu crew on their voyages; almost like the First Lady always being apart of every mission for every other ship… a very nice sentiment, if you ask me.
#335. Jay… Yeah… definitely!
:-) :-)
She’s cute, but a little too baby-faced for my taste.
No. 325 Gordan Ramsay’s wife -
We are in Star Trek, not Star Wars. >:-)
Bob Orci!
I got a question for you:
Did you folks intend to drop a hint about one of locations for new Star Trek movie in Hawaii Five-0? :) I remember I saw small NCC-1701 toy hanging from rear mirror in Masi Oka’s jeep in one of their episodes. :) Am I right? ? :)
BTW, I love your H50 show! :)
“If you think Kirk is going to settle down get married and have kids…”
Who talked about Kirk settling down, getting married and having kids? earlier, you were referring to a “meaningful relationship with a woman” :
“Everyone knows that Kirk will never have any kind of long term meaningful relationship with a woman.”
…..This type of relationship, to me, does not necessarily imply what you have now brought up.
“….then I would say you are nuts.”
Thank you for your professional opinion, Doctor.
My point in 334 was merely that while you seemed to have certitudes, I, on the other hand, had none.
I do not know what the future holds for my seven beloved characters.
However, I do long to find out.
Well, Kirk did have a kid in the prime timeline and he did want to be a part of that child’s life, to a greater or lesser extent. Only she “wanted him in my world”. “I didn’t want him gallivanting around the universe with his father”.
It is doubtful they would have married, but to say that Kirk was not interested in being a father to that baby, well that’s a different matter. Watch TWOK again and pay attention this time and then tell me if I am so nuts. Kirk became “married” to the Enterprise etc more by default than anything else and his loneliness, along with a certain amount of bitterness because he lost his son for a second time with such a cruel finality, showed more and more as he got older.
He doesn’t have to be married to anything…It also depends on what is meant by “settling down”.
Correction 341.
earlier = Earlier
I suspect that Bob Orci will not answer, but I do hope that you, Bob Orci, will be able to arrange for all the main cast (in or out of costume) to assemble on the bridge (no, not the Golden Gate bridge…:)) to have a few group photos taken. Then, you will let us see these photos and make it possible for any of us to use one as a desktop picture if we want.
Of course, it would be nice if other cast already chosen were to appear in the photo, but maybe you guys want to keep them a secret for now. That’s OK too.
I think it would be a lovely (pre)Christmas present for me at least (if not for many others here at trekmovie.com as well – you *guys* need to speak up). I do not know what to give in return, except to extend my love and best wishes to you personally and professionally, and that you will have great success with everything connected with the Star Trek sequel movie.
@344. Keachick
oh wow……that would be an AWESOME Christmas present!!!! I won’t hold my breath… but I will certainly keep my fingers crossed!! :D
329: @220
T’pring probably died when Vulcan was destroyed.
If T’pring was still alive and bonded to Spock, would he fall for Uhura?
Didn’t T’Pring fall for Stonn while still bonded to Spock in the TOS? . . . what does being bonded have to do with anything? Vulcans have a marriage ceremony that you can get out of by having your bonded killed. . .
~FS
#341 and #342
If you understand the premise of Star Trek and the character of Kirk, you know he can not have a long term meaningful relationship. If you notice, the whole part of his life where he had a son with Marcus was in the past and told in about 5 minutes. It was never a story line in Star Trek. Outside of that, in the 45 years of Star Trek, Kirk has never carried on a meaningful relationship witha woman.
It won’t happen. It’’s as basic to Star Trek as the Enterprise. He is the hero and is married to his career, and in a larger sense his role as the hero.
If he has a love interest in this or any future movie, you can bet all you own that it won’t last past the end of that movie. Either she will die, or something will happen where he has to choose his duty to his ship and crew over her. That has always been the case and will continue to be.
In weak moments he waffles on it, though. “A few days, no braid on my shoulder…”
By the way Keachick, you are a very self rightous person aren’t you? I’ve noticed you keep throwing around insults and then acting so unbelieveably sensitive anytime any criticisms are thrown your way.
It’s very smug and arrogant of you to tell me to “pay attention this time” as if I didn’t the first time.
Having a meaningful relationship with a woman, in my mind means something that last for more than one episode or movie. That has never happend for Kirk, and I doubt ever will because it goes against the framework of what is Star Trek. The whole hero thing requires that the hero sacrafice his personal desires for the greater good. In this case his duty to his ship and crew.
They will not write in some love of his life character that will be around from now on for Kirk to have some long term monogamous relationship with. Kirk will always be the alpha male that gets all the women. That’s the character. Always has been.
#348 Yes, that is to show the audience the sacrifice he makes as the hero.
Also, Kirk was not “married” to the Enterprise or his duty to his ship and crea by default. It has been that way since day of of the show.
The whole concept of him having a child was introduced in TWOK. So you are suggesting he was never commited to the Enterprise or crew during the 3 year TOS series. That’s just not true.
Also, the whole story arc of him having a child, and then sacrificing that child to save his crew (yes that is what was meant by him dying) just further illustrates the lonely hero character that is Kirk. That he can’t have what normal men have. That is what is called the tragic hero in literature.
Well, if she ends up tanking in Star Trek (X)II, she should audition for fox news – she’ll have to work on her midwestern American accent, but she looks like the type they seem to favor when hiring for the ‘news bunny’ position. ;-)
Give the new computer voice to Troi. Also I still think this has Talos IV written all over it. Hawaii, Vina, and role in Del Toro as Gary Mitchell you have a great story. I wonder why you trekkers havent picked up on that. Remember Greenwood [Pike] is in the wheel chair and Pike should be ready to retire. Gary Mitchell is an easy write in and you can bring the Klingons in as well with MR Mitchell being the cause of the problem. Kirk Prime can get in the movie with the new Kirk going to Talos 4 and the big heads getting Kirk to look at himself in the future. Kirk then leaves Pike on Talos 4 , the big heads help Kirk defeat Gary Mitchell and stop the war with the Klingons. Everyone is happy the cannon is not totally destroyed, Shatner gets a role in the movie, Klingons and the Fed have a knockim out space battle and finally Khan , Kang, the Gorn, and the Hippies all can stay in the Prime world, Star trek 3 is the young Q trelane along with Harry Mudd. Damm I wish I could write for Star Trek…let me know Bob O what you think..please as well as the rest of you trekkers
First of all, Jay, what was told in those “five minutes” or so in TWOK is very relevant to understanding another important aspect of the James Kirk character. His relationship with Carol Marcus and the subsequent birth of his son happened prior to his getting command of the starship Enterprise. The only person who knew about Carol and David was Dr McCoy, by reason of being one of Kirk’s best friends and by McCoy being Kirk’s and Carol’s personal physician. Dr McCoy delivered the baby, David.
Carol Marcus said to Kirk something like “we were never going to be together” and this is what in her mind gave her reason to deny him access to his son. It was clear from the film that Kirk was willing, prepared to be as good a father as he could be, but she said “No”. She then goes on
to lie to her son.
At the end of TWOK, David goes to see his father in his quarters and Kirk says something about hoping that David would have looked him up when he got older, and was a bit disappointed that his son had not wanted to meet him but didn’t push the issue. When he finds out that Carol had lied to David, then the reason why David never came knocking when he was old enough, became clear.
Who says that Kirk (deliberately) sacrificed his own son? If the Klingon had chosen the young Spock, what would your position be then? That was just as likely. In fact, it was actually DAVID, not James Kirk, who sacrified himself in order to save Saavik! David saw out of the corner of his eye that the Klingon was going to kill Saavik and stopped him…This took place in the follow-on movie, The Search for Spock.
BTW, did I ever mention monogamous marriage? It is a rhetorical question. The answer is NO. Also, why is it suddenly only possible to be committed to one thing? People can be committed to their careers and their marriages and/or children. These are not mutually exclusive.
As I said, I do think that James Kirk was single, as in not having anybody special in his life, by default. That is not to say that he did not have a great sense of duty and commitment, and even a sense of fulfilment from being the captain of the Enterprise, because he did. After all, he did tell Picard in Generations not to let them (SF) take the Enterprise away from him because while he is on the Enterprise, he can make a difference.
You know what, I don’t really care about the rules that describe some tragic hero figure in literature, who can’t do or be this or that or can only be or do whatever. I care about a character representing a real, live flesh and blood human being, albeit living 200+ years from now. Call me crazy (you wouldn’t be the first), but there it is.
It seems that Alice Eve has joined the crew … yesterday she was at least at an event with JJAbrams, ZQ, Zoe, Cho and Anton … CP unfortunately was not there!
source:
http://socialitelife.com/zoe-saldana-zachary-quinto-light-up-childrens-defense-fund-awards-red-carpet-photos-12-2011
:-) :-)
347, 349, 350, 351.
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“If you understand the premise of Star Trek…”
Star Trek being many things to many people, what you understand of it may differ from what I do.
As I said earlier, you have certitudes concerning what awaits James Tiberius Kirk, and, that’s fine.
Nevertheless, and, although I appreciated your comment on Kirk as a tragic hero, I’m still not convinced that his fate is as predictable as you stated.
The fact is that your understanding of Star Trek informs me, in no way whatsoever, of what “the powers that be” have in mind for the sequel.
Which is why I said that I did not know what the future held; after watching Star Trek 2009, I sincerely believed that all bets were off, so to speak.
Thus, rather than proclaiming that I could infer what should happen to any given character in light of what has been done before, I prefer to wait until I have the opportunity to watch the next Star Trek.
How about Diane Kruger for Yoeman Rand or Nurse Chapel?
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7ilWYtlO0mkAeFJXNyoA?p=diane%20kruger&fr2=piv-web
Carol Marcus! and….
Khaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!
Yahoooieee!
353.
There is no canon to “restore”. The new movies take place in an entirely different universe so anything can happen without any consequences to the Prime Universe.
[from Star Trek 2009] Spock : “He (Kirk) incorrectly thought there would be a disruption to the timeline.”
Also, the fact that young Spock didn’t disappear when Prime Spock entered the new universe is proof of the multi universe.
“I’ve noticed you keep throwing around insults and then acting so unbelieveably sensitive anytime any criticisms are thrown your way.”
What insults, Jay? However, this is one of your insults, which I thought had been directed at me, however Aurore is thinking that it was directed at her also -
“If you think Kirk is going to settle down get married and have kids then I would say *YOU ARE NUTS. Not going to happen.”
* My uppercase emphasis.
I would like Kirk to be in a longer term relationship than he has been in, without her dying because Star Trek TOS *TV and *movie canon so far for James Kirk has shown his potential to be a good lover and father. Whether that happens or not is of course up to the writers.
*TV – The Paradise Syndrome – it is not particularly relevant that Kirk suffered some form of amnesia, because he was still the same basic person that we knew from other television episodes.
*Movie – The Wrath of Khan – already explained.
@180… Yeah, I agree with you that Romulans should be out this time around. I’m thinking it’s gotta be a really major character duo… but who… Senior and Junior Decker??? They weren’t villains… I’m pretty sure that Bob & Co. are going to stick with TOS rather than any TNG and beyond… so who the heck is Del Toro playing and with who? There’s gotta be some way of figuring this out! :)
Maybe the senior to Del Toro’s character is a woman.
Hmmm. So here we have two actors, Del Toro and Alice Eve. Eve could surely play Dr. Marcus. We don’t have a proper backstory for Kirk’s affair with Marcus, which makes it an attractive detail to fill in. And Dr. Marcus first appears in a movie with Khan.
It would make sense, if she does play Dr. Marcus, that Del Toro would reprise the role of Khan in a new story where those two elements (Marcus and Khan) survive from TWOK into the sequel.
Then again, if the sequel was a reboot of The Cage, Alice Eve would ALSO make an excellent Vina. Vina too was a beautiful blonde woman.
And the character of Vina should be common to both the prime universe and the rebootiverse, and be stranded on Talos IV in both, even if Talos IV is not named that in the sequel.
I just had an *interesting* thought – Alice Eve plays first officer of the Enterprise. Spock takes a sabbatical to help rebuild the new Vulcan world and Alice Eve’s character takes over as his temporary replacement. Maybe new Vulcan could look a bit like Hawaii and that is where you get Quinto/Spock running for his life and the Enterprise (the only ship in the quadrant) arrives just in the nick of time…
That way, Alice Eve would be playing one of the main characters and be new to canon
or she could play that Klingon commander who ends up charming or being charmed by Captain Kirk!
Both work for me.
I have just thought up a little scenario where Captain Kirk and first officer (Alice Eve) have had a long day, battling *”Del Toro and his bad boys”. Kirk and *Alice argue over strategy and she, a bit tired and distracted, says to Kirk as she leaves the ready room “Oh, screw you!”. Kirk quickly replies, “Well, yes, that I can do.”
Of course, the other serious/good aspect of this is that we, the audience, get to see a woman in command as acting captain at some point, something not seen in the 23rd century prime universe.
Spock eventually does take over from her and she goes onto other assignments, like taking temporary command of a small space station. All’s well that ends well.
Bob Orci? Am I close at all? Yes/No?
BTW, how is the puffle hunting going?
Have “Chris Pine” and “James Kirk” been found yet? Yes/No.
How about “Quinto” and “Spock”? Yes/No.
Hey, everyone – Less than six weeks to go before filming starts!
Come on, Mr. Orci, I know that there’s no chance, but make Alice Eve 6 of 9! Think of the fun you could have with that name! She’d be one luscious Borg babe! Assimilate me baby! :)
It could be McCoy’s ex-wife! She’s never been in any of the movies, so technically she’d be new to canon :)
The captain of the Saratoga from “The Voyage Home” was a woman, so technically, it has already been done in the 23rd century. Of course, no woman has ever commanded the Enterprise (1701). Rachel Garrett (TNG’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise”) did command the Enterprise C, though.
Maybe we’ll see Uhura briefly command the Enterprise while Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty are off ship, on a dangerous mission. And Uhura has to use her linguistic skills to avoid an interstellar conflict, or to get the ship out of trouble? The Uhura fans could get to see their favorite character in the spotlight, and we’d get our Kirk-Spock-McCoy (and Scotty) moments, too.
But some people will still insist/complain that Uhura was “left behind” on the ship while the boys got to go and fight the bad guys. Not sure if the writers can win on this issue. Oh well.
To the powers that be:
Please add one more vote to have Ms. Nichols play the computer voice. A small but significant cameo might be nice also since someone mentioned she hasn’t had one yet. It doesn’t have to involve time travel. It could be a contrasting flashback or a relatively recent memory of Spock Prime’s. You never know… :-)
Thanks
It had been suggested that Nichelle Nichols could play this Uhura’s (Zoe Saldana) grandmother. I’m not sure if it had been written for the first movie, but obviously the scene never happened. I think that could be a nice cameo for Nichelle Nichols – maybe have her give her blessing on Uhura’s relationship with Spock. It was, after all, Nichelle’s memory and understanding of the Spock/Uhura dynamics in the early episodes of TOS that had Nichelle approve of the present Spock/Uhura relationship in the alternate universe.
Yes. I think if Nichelle Nichols wants to be the new computer voice, that would be great.
Are you getting this, Bob?
Good man.
Whoever Ms. Eve plays (remember; NON-canon role), I just hope they don’t layer a lot of thick alien makeup prosthetics on her face (or any at all, preferably), or shave her head, or all the other ways Star Trek has tried to make attractive women ugly in the past…
That’d be a hell of a shame; she’s way too cute to be a Klingon… ;-)
There won’t be a Romulan in sight for the next movie…. they’ve been overexposed in the past two films. The Klingons will be the villians in the next movie. Guaranteed.
If only Romulans HAD been overexposed in the past two films… rather than background cyphers.
It’s high time Romulans were reinvented and took the overexposed position currently occupied by Klingons.
Anyone here got STAR TREK SCENE IT? Whoever did the voice of the computer on that, should be asked to take the place of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. She sounded pretty good to me.
Alice Eve = Yeoman third class, w/ excruciatingly hot T&A, who gives Kirk a fifth grade boner, which luckily he covers with the clipboard she just handed him… =D
#376 That is a definite possibility…:)
I’d have rather seen Haylay Atwell, but not by much…
Alice Eve just *HAS* to be Yeoman Janice Rand!