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Perhaps there's a flashback structure to the film, like Batman Begins. I read somewhere (no idea where) that the film may feature scenes of Kirk's birth/early childhood. If the same is true of Spock then it would make sense to hire younger actors and make them up to look old than try to make an older actor to look young.
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I think people have just made a list of all the female characters from Kirk's past, not taking into account that any of the pretty women cast lately could be his alien babe of the week. I mean, that's the real litmus test for the movie, isn't it? The Enterprise can be shaped like a flying spork, but if Kirk isn't a womanising manwhore, it's not Star Trek.
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I just came from the open casting call... so hopefully I'll end up wearing a Starfleet cadet uniform with Vulcan ears down the road.
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quote:Paramount is making an effort not to show off the costumes as you can tell by the images below. All of the �extras� are required to wear long black trench coats to cover the costumes but even then a few details were still revealed.
Possible Plot Points: (Probably TNG era) Romulans (led by �Nero�) use the Guardian of Forever to go back and Kill Kirk Older Spock goes back and enlists the help of younger Spock (before he met Kirk) to set things right Audience first introduced to Kirk when he is performing the Kobayashi Maru test This is all fairly plausible and is along the lines of the original AICN plot rumors. TrekMovie.com had already confirmed that the plot involves time traveling Romulans and that the Kobayashi Maru scenario will be seen. Recently a source told TrekMovie.com that older Spock (and presumably the Romulans) are �post-TNG era.� Probably the biggest new item in the above story would the inclusion of the Guardian of Forever (the sentient time portal from �City on the Edge of Forever�). One source recently told TrekMovie.com that something like the GoF was being built on the Paramount lot, but this was dismissed by another source who said that this was more likely the opening to a cave. Perhaps they both were right.
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I dunno; I wouldn't mind seeing the Kobayashi Maru test. But the rest of it certainly sounds hokey. But has anyone read the plot for "Yesteryear" lately?
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The potential objections to this are nthfold. . .
The Guardian of Forever is one of the biggest Yeah-buts in Trek. A sentient-but-not-too-bright-to-the-point-of-gullibility time machine-portal-thingy that doesn't seem to care (or at least be able to stop) who goes through it to do who-knows-what to the timeline? Not much of a Guardian if you ask me.
At this point, the GoF could be the solution to so many problems that've been encountered in Trek that to use it now almost seems like lazy plotting. Furthermore, of all the interesting scenarios that use of the GoF COULD have introduced to Trek, the straight "we have to go back in time to stop the baddies from changing the past and thus the present" plot really IS lazy plotting. This will be the fourth Trek film to involve some sort of time travel.
Another thing: it could undermine the Kirk-Spock relationship, which is based on an unparalleled level of mutual trust and understanding. How's that going to play out when this movie will show that right at the start of their friendship, young Spock was conducting a secret mission most likely without young Kirk knowing about it?
It also undermines one of the greatest scenes in Trek: Spock's self-sacrifice at the end of TWoK. Now he's going to know that he survives to a much older age than he obviously was at that time. And any reset of the timeline at the end of this film won't wash, and neither will having his memory wiped (even if by his older self) - this is Sposkc we're talking about!
But, despite all that, I think I could stand to watch this movie.
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I would bet money that the above report is not accurate in the slightest. None of that is going to be in this film. Except maybe the Kobayashi Maru.
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