But they don't hire Americans anymore to play Americans, so why not? Go hire an Aussie to play him. How about Hugo Weaving? "I canna make it fookin work, Captain!"

Okay, they had nothing fun for Scotty, but they should have written something like "likes to get drunk and screw."

Trek is full of iconic figure and yet they know nothing better than Kirk, Spock, and the same as Romulans or Klingons!?

Fuck this shit!

"Hey I got an idea... let's make all those Trekkers/Trekkie's really mad, while simultaneously annoying anyone who remembers the show and movies by replacing the cast of with a group cutesy 20 something look-a-likes while also making a really boring movie!" Brilliant! Here's too much money.

The last thing the man remembered driving to Upper Bidwell Park, and going for a hike in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The man scanned the horizon in every direction, and he was definately not near any mountains at the moment, in fact no land was visible whatsoever. However, there was something visible though. Off in the distance, he could make out another object adrift in the vast body of water. The man shrugged, and decided to take inventory, and examine the small craft separating him from the freezing cold water below. Above him, the sky began to darken, and the wind began to pick up causing the waves began to grow in size, and more often than not, water was finding its way into the craft.

The man shivered and realized he could be in for a problem, he was becoming soaked, and it seemed to be getting darker, which meant he would only be getting colder. Continuing to examine to the craft, the man discovered a old fashioned key, and an not so small leak. The boat was sinking, albeit, slowly, but as with all sinking boats, the sinking would eventually become precariously fast. The man decided his only course of action was to begin paddling, towards whatever was floating in the distance, hoping that whatever he discovered would be less likely to sink. Since there were no paddles, the man had to use his hands to paddle, and as he closed the gap between his boat and the object, he was able to make out what it was To his surprise, it was a raft, featureless save for the fact that in the center of the raft, was a door, an upright door that didn't seem to be attached to anything.

It began to rain, and not a light rain, but a heavy rain, and with it the winds were picking up more, and the waves quickly became very violent. And as the sinking of the boat became eminent, another thing became clear, that the violent waves were in a way helping him, actually bringing him closer to the raft with the strange door. A particularly omnipitent wave began bearing down on the boat, and the man decided he only had one course of action left, to swim. The man made sure to grab the key, and jumped into the water, swimming the rest of the way there.

Pulling himself onto the raft, he did the one thing anyone would do in his situation, he tried to open the door. It was locked of course. It was quite dark at this point, and the man was cold and wet, and there was not much to hold on to, save for the door. "The Key" he shouted to himself. The man put the key in the lock, and turned it, feeling it click, the man actually smiled. "Are you my lucky key or what" he said to the key, as he pulled it out, grasped it in his hands. "Lets see" he said to the key again, and turned the doorknob, opening the door to reveal......

I cry like a bitch when I see that scene. :(

KIRK: Set a course for Rigel VII, Mr. Chimp!

MR. CHIMP: (Chimp yelling!)

SPOCK: Fascinating.

Yes, I read it.

A clear break from Roddenberry's vision of future humanity (a key reason why TOS reached a level of greatness) -- so this IS clearly a re-imagining.

RE: Cyclo's point - Agreed, ROCKY, as we know it, would not work without Stallone IMO because the character is positively intertwined with the actor (in a great way most would say), much like TREK.

Apart from that I agree. It sounds like a crappy flick. Like Bronx Cheer said Star Trek is a tale of progress, not fuckin regression. But I'm a little biased, the only Trek I saw in theater was Nemesis (my pals organized my birthday party on a theater, with a Nemesis showing. Haven't talked to them since the incident) and mostly I think Abrams is a terrible, terrible director. $150 million for a first feature film (a sad record) and the guy fucks a 2 hours TV episode of Mission Impossible. Nice achievement, buddy.

SULU: Captain! Klingons off the starboard bow.

KIRK: Again with the Klingons! Mr. Scott, give me full power.

SCOTTY: It's no good captain! I... can't reach... the control panel...

Face it, Shatner was wearing a girdle by the second season and by his last movie Scotty was really taking advantage of the weightlessness. Get some young healthy fit actors and put it in their long term contracts that they have to stay that way (well, except young, you can't negotiate that) and then you've got aa franchise. Denny Crane can negotiate the contracts.

Really, looking ahead firty years, do you think Zachary Quinto wants to look back on his career and say "I played Mr. Spock for 30 years" or "I played a super-villain who ate brains on some TV series that was hot for a couple of seasons back in the '00ze."

And JJ should just grab Daniel Dae Kim from Lost and have him play Sulu.

He was in JJ's party scene in Mission Impossible 3.

It's going to be good. Kirk will be the Academy coolster and Spock will be the nerd. Janice Rand will be a cheerleader.

This movie is going to blast off at the box office; it'll be a cosmic cinematic experience. It's going to boldly go!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, right.

I like what the Popeye DVD set (1933-1938) says as a disclaimer...

They basically said that these types of prejudices existed in this country, at one time. We don't like these attitudes. They are wrong. However, we aren't going to pretend that they never existed, because that would be equally wrong.

In essence... here's how it was, we don't condone it; but we ain't going to clean up the mess someone else made over 70 years ago.

The same goes for how "Bones" McCoy behaved on a 40 year-old TV series. As for a rebooted version of the character... well they can change him if they want but that can't take back what was already done. Revisonist history can be a perilous mine-field.

If you want to view paradise, simply watch Start Trek 2 and view it.

Anything you want to, do it.

Wanna recast Spock?

There's nothing to it!