New vs. old Star Trek

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:07:04 PDT

Quickly, answer the following: which Kirk is wearing the girdle? Now that we've finally had our first taste of what we can expect to see in J.J. Abrams new Star Trek movie, Cinemablend has put together a comparison between the old and the new versions of the characters, the costumes and the bridge of the Enterprise. For example, on the left we've got 27-year-old Chris Pine playing Captain Kirk at the start of his command and on the right we've got thirtysomething William Shatner as the original Captain Kirk from the 1960s TV series. Speaking for myself, Pine looks too young for my sensibility; I just can't buy this guy commanding a starship. Modeling for a JCrew catalogue, yes. To see the entire side-by-side comparison gallery, visit Cinemablend

This is not your father's Star Trek

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:09 PDT

Paramount has been holding all of its promo material for their reboot of the Star Trek franchise tightly to their corporate chest. Now -- today -- the grip has been loosened. The studio has released five stills from the $150 million adventure due out next summer including our first real looks at the new people playing Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and Uhura. I've got mixed feelings about what I saw.First things first: I'm a Star Trek nerd. Sure, there's some crap but what other movie or television franchise has 40+ years of continuity spread out over hundreds of TV episodes and 10 movies? It's given us bad nightmares like Star Trek: Nemesis and all of Voyager but awesome stuff like The Wrath of Khan or the tribbles episode. And I know that the franchise desperately needed an enema; it's bloated and somewhere along the way it lost it's focus about examining the human condition with high adventure. So when I looked at today's photos I saw stuff that I liked and stuff that I hated. I like the slight changes to the 1960s crew uniforms. I love the way that Karl Urban is channeling the physical mannerisms of DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy. I dig Zachary Quinto as Spock. However, that new bridge design is awful. Why couldn't the production designer just moderize the old TV bridge? This looks like a trendy bar in L.A. right down to the hostess table. I'm also not too big about the way that Simon Pegg looks as Scotty, and I definitely think that the guy playing Kirk looks waaaaay too young to be in command, but I can reserve final judgment until I see them on screen and acting. But really, that bridge design sucks Klingon bumper. Want to see the other Trek movie photos that surfaced today? Check out MTV, JoBlo, IGN and TrekMovie.

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This is not your father's Star Trek