Loving the alien.
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"I would be happy for Star Trek to come along decades later with a new group of minds. I'd love someone to say, 'Besides this one, Gene Roddenberry's was nothing!'" - Gene Roddenberry
"...I think it would be wonderful years from now to see Star Trek come back with an equally talented new cast playing Spock and Kirk and Bones and Scotty and all the rest, as they say tomorrow's things to tomorrow's generations..." - Gene Roddenberry
another lost post...
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Of course, this is just my immediate impression, but it seems they gave this crew a more 90's TNG look--with the hairstyles, the uniforms and maybe even with the lighting. It's much more "familiar"-looking anyway. Compare these to the photos and trailer footage we’ve seen of our heroes.
What we know is the Kelvin is from a generation before Kirk and their scene kicks off the movie. So this could be a pretty cool way of starting us all out with a familiar feeling and then, when the timeline gets screwed up, we fast forward to a 2008 modern but "unfamiliar" look--for Trek.
If it holds true, that could be a very clever way of segueing to a new vision, if only in a stylistic sense; a vision which ironically depicts a time period from before the retro look of 1966 Trek.
people casting for trek seem to mix up ethnicity a lot...
examples:
british actor playing the french captain Picard
Chinese actor playing Korean Ensign Kim
Korean actress playing Japanese Ensign Sato...
..Korean actor playing Sulu (whom we always assumed was Japanese)
probably more that I can't think of right now....Canadian Shatner playing American captain Kirk doesn't really count...different nation yes, but not ethnically different
while everyone's argueing over his ethnicity, no one noticed he's a captain and wearing a blue tunic!
I bet that Alnschloss K’Bentayr belongs to the same species as Lt. Arex form Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS).
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Reed: What do you think of T'Pol, hmm? Do you think she's pretty? I think she's pretty.
Trip: Oh, God.
Reed: You ever noticed her bum?
Trip: What?
Reed: Her bum. She's got an awfully nice bum.
Trip: To Subcommander T'Pol. (toast)
Reed: Awfully nice.
I love how you guys assume that because the character is born in Cuba, that he simply MUST be of Cuban descent! Did you ever think that maybe his parents moved to Cuba and gave birth to him? Can you say with certainty that "Robau" is spanish, as opposed to Persian or some other middle eastern name?
And with all of that said, he could have been simply saying that he is the first ACTOR of middle eastern heritage to play the captain of a Starship. Think people.
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-- Steve
"War does not determine who is right. Only who is left."
I see what you're saying regarding the filmmakers intentions...but my point is that he's already middle-eastern...I just don't see the logic in making him cuban if for no other reason than that it's a 'safer' ethnicity or that he somehow looks cuban
I think it would've been fine to leave Robau as an middle-eastern person...the decision to make him cuban, cheapens the integrity of the character
What's up with the helmsman? Is he moonlighting as a Time-Life operator? :)
It reminds me of some of the Federation Council aliens in Voyage Home.
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-Erik Jendresen, writer of Star Trek: The Beginning
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
-General George S. Patton Jr.
"I am NOT Scorned."
-Scorned as Gage/Gage_2
There was a pretty cool pic of the hangar bay, with shuttles very reminescent of TOS shuttles.
I, like the posters below, think they went for a Where No Man Has Gone Before look.
Looks promising!
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Am I remembering correctly...at 1st when the captain of the Kelvin was cast, weren't some saying he was the 1st Arab starfleet captain...
...I guess that was wrong...he is the 1st Cuban starfleet Captain...
Is he also the 1st Captain from a former Communist country? (I'm assuming in 200+ years Cuba doesn't have a communist government anymore)
I like the 3-D exterior tour of USS KELVIN feature on the Web site. More that I see of the KELVIN - more than I like the balanced design. I appears the bridge has a window as opposed to a view screen (not sure, though) and the phaser turrets or cannons are retractable (again, not sure by the image).
I like the contrast of the guy who played the main terrorist in Iron Man now being a Starfleet captain.
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"You NEVER go full retard."- Tropic Thunder
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."- Blazing Saddles
From these photos, I wonder if they might look more like "The Cage" in terms of coloring and general styling (not the turtlenecks, obviously).
One second there's no news, and the next there is!
That's a pretty cool looking alien.
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"...to boldly fly where no man has gone in space..." -- Patrick Stewart, SNL
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