DR McCOY has been cast in JJAbrams' STAR TREK reimaging. Bones will be portrayed by KARL URBAN (Lord of the Rings, Pathfinder, Riddick). Looking at this final cast, I have to wonder if JJAbrams has ever WATCHED the show or movies? I'm thinking he just did google image searches and started casting based on perty pictures. Whatever. The Franchise died many many years ago (DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), so the reanimated corpse of Star Trek will be whatever it will be. I've grown tired of caring.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
FINAL-ISH STAR TREK CASTING
DR McCOY has been cast in JJAbrams' STAR TREK reimaging. Bones will be portrayed by KARL URBAN (Lord of the Rings, Pathfinder, Riddick). Looking at this final cast, I have to wonder if JJAbrams has ever WATCHED the show or movies? I'm thinking he just did google image searches and started casting based on perty pictures. Whatever. The Franchise died many many years ago (DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), so the reanimated corpse of Star Trek will be whatever it will be. I've grown tired of caring.
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why are they all 16?
I've spent the year making my way through all the "Star Trek" series... I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So far I've watched every show except for "Voyager" and right now I'm up to season 4 disc 2.
The only show I even liked a little was DS9. Every other series was all about the status-quo. Most of them were like procedural dramas only instead of solving a crime it was solving the sci-fi/tech problem of the week. I mean sure there were a few good episodes here there... but on a whole there wasn't that much focus on character growth or ongoing story lines.
So anyway... I don't know why you say that the franchised died with DS9 when it was the only watchable version of the show.
I say that because I'm right, Scott. hahaha!
Ok, some poorly written and explained quick rundowns:
The original, you have to view with some historical significance goggles on and "the IDEA was cool" goggles.... also, Shatner brought the Stage to Screen, which I dug. This show I like more for the IDEAS and premise. I do love the cast, though. And the designs are awesome.
Next Gen was often times a rehash of the original, but there were a few solid seasons in the middle although they did push too much on the "diplomatic relations" I thought. Near the end of this series, the DIVERSITY of space was barely there; new aliens were merely human looking with a small cosmetic alteration (like a crinkled nose). Also, they all spoke with American accents... there was NO diversity of culture and outlook. And the show began to be about the Federation going through space teaching other races how HUMANS are the perfect race and everyone should be like us... while also spotlighting Humans' shortcomings (many which Gene Roddenberry established we had evolved out of in the Future). ST began losing its way and original vision.
DS9 was too stagnant for my tastes. It often felt like "Love Boat" without the romance. I will say, tho, that I bailed right around the time Worf showed up... before the season-long Dominion war, which I heard was good. Oh, also, DS9 was filled with horrible acting, I felt, which turned me off. I grew tired of all the "character moments" like watching the crew's kids struggle with their homework, ending with a lesson learned and either Dax or the Doc making a horrible pun joke.
Voyager, while a GREAT PREMISE, bored me and again felt stagnant and just filling airtime with lame "character moments". It was here I could see that the writers/producers had run out of ideas and had rehashed ideas to death. I bailed when the borg bunny showed up.
Overall, Star Trek IS way overrated. I"m not a Trekkie at all, but can talk the talk. I enjoy the series for the premise and ideas, really. Like with many things with me, I see the potential and get frustrated when they aren't fullfilled... the way I see them of course. haha.
I can't believe you've been able to watch all the series like that!!!!
If you haven't seen yet, go rent the documentary TREKKIES. It's awesome!
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