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Due for release on Christmas Day........
"Space: The Final Frontier"
The 11th Star Trek movie. The chronicles of the early days of James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise. It's directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Mission Impossible III).
it stars Chris Pine as a young James Kirk and Zachary Quinto as a young Spock, Leonard Nimoy also appears in the film as Spock (I'm guessing it starts with the older Spock narrating a flashback).
The controversy so far seems to be the casting of Simon Pegg as Scotty.
The best known actor in the film is Ben Cross who plays Spock's Vulcan father Sarak. Bruce greenwood plays Christopher Pike, who for those non trekkers was the Captain of the Enterprise in the pilot "The Cage" and was played by Jeffery Hunter.
So this is really the Prequel, the first that has been done. Since they killed Kirk off in 2293 (Star Trek: Generations) and again in 2371 after Picard brought him back from his alternate universe, I guess it's good they can't resurrect the Kirk character again.
Anyway, as a sci-fi and fantasy buff and having been around when Star Trek was first on TV, I'm looking forward to this movie.
Now if they would just make some decent movies based on Heinlein books like "Stranger in a Strange Land" or the lesser know, but my favorite "The Number of the Beast".
How about a redo of "Dune"?
And Jeez, do i wish there culd be a new Babylon 5 series, with J. Michael Straczynski writing the episodes. In my opinion this 5 year series was the best Sci-fi to appear on TV. Unfortunately the TV movies they made based on it sucked.
Hawk
"Space: The Final Frontier"
The 11th Star Trek movie. The chronicles of the early days of James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise. It's directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Mission Impossible III).
it stars Chris Pine as a young James Kirk and Zachary Quinto as a young Spock, Leonard Nimoy also appears in the film as Spock (I'm guessing it starts with the older Spock narrating a flashback).
The controversy so far seems to be the casting of Simon Pegg as Scotty.
The best known actor in the film is Ben Cross who plays Spock's Vulcan father Sarak. Bruce greenwood plays Christopher Pike, who for those non trekkers was the Captain of the Enterprise in the pilot "The Cage" and was played by Jeffery Hunter.
So this is really the Prequel, the first that has been done. Since they killed Kirk off in 2293 (Star Trek: Generations) and again in 2371 after Picard brought him back from his alternate universe, I guess it's good they can't resurrect the Kirk character again.
Anyway, as a sci-fi and fantasy buff and having been around when Star Trek was first on TV, I'm looking forward to this movie.
Now if they would just make some decent movies based on Heinlein books like "Stranger in a Strange Land" or the lesser know, but my favorite "The Number of the Beast".
How about a redo of "Dune"?
And Jeez, do i wish there culd be a new Babylon 5 series, with J. Michael Straczynski writing the episodes. In my opinion this 5 year series was the best Sci-fi to appear on TV. Unfortunately the TV movies they made based on it sucked.
Hawk
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