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Actually, now that you mention it, that, and his beard makes him look a bit like the Klingons as we saw them in TOS. Which, unless he was a time traveling Klingon, would make sense for the time period, and adhere to the canon established in Enterprise...
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Keeping in mind that, from a continuity standpoint, no one in the Federation knew what Romulans looked like until "Balance of Terror." So if our pre-TOS series heroes see Nero, then they shouldn't know he's a Romulan. Would make sense that he's an agent though.
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Yeah. If the Romulans wanted to keep annonymous, they could have just surgically altered his ears, and given him some tatoos to look like a member of a species that we don't yet know about. If he really is a Romulan that is.
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I can understand recasting the leads, but some of the actors don't even look much like the character they're portraying. At least Pine and Quinto look like Kirk and Spock ( as we know them), or look at least similar enough to the original actors that you could say that the new actors portray younger versions of the characters.
Still, I don't mind too much, as long as the movie itself isn't complete crap. If it is, the fact that some of the characters look completely different will just be an extra kick in the rear. We only have 9 months left to wait now anyway.
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Pegg looks nothing like Scotty, Cho looks nothing like Sulu, and Yelchin looks nothing like Chekov...and Salanda looks *nothing* like Uhura. I don't really have an opinion about Pine, but Quinto I can believe as Spock (which came as a huge shock to me when I saw his poster). So, I agree, Sean - this better be a good movie or I'm going to be bitching a lot about poor casting B)
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Many times, it's not the actor's face but their actual *acting* that will bring across a convincing portrayal of a known character. So I wouldn't write them off just yet simply because they don't look absolutely perfect.
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They also have a shot of the Kelvin under attack. The bridge looks...busy (with a notable lack gummi buttons, instead there appear to be touch screens(TOSCARS!)).
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