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10/16/2008
First Look: The Crew of the New Star Trek
Here's your first look (left) at the dynamic duo of JJ Abrams' upcoming Star Trek flick — Zachary Quinto as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk. On the right, as set photo of Quinto from last November — "Spock in a Mock" (more here). Ahh, the wonders of make-up, a razor, and retouching.
Your first look at the rest of the bridge crew on the USS Enterprise, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 9:04 AM EST by Andy in Film, News, Zachary Quinto | Permalink
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lol this looks ridiculous
Posted by: brad | Oct 16, 2008 9:25:37 AM
Sorry, but he just looks like Sylar in a Spock costume to me.
Posted by: JeffRob | Oct 16, 2008 9:28:23 AM
I guess as Kirk ages, his eyes turn from blue to brown?
Posted by: Joren | Oct 16, 2008 9:43:46 AM
Why is Hollywood always tying to break something that ain't fixed.. I prefer Old school Star trek.
Posted by: Aamyko | Oct 16, 2008 9:50:03 AM
It's like a Muppet Babies version of Star Trek.
Posted by: crispy | Oct 16, 2008 9:59:57 AM
Was there really a need to revamp and 2008ify the bridge? WHy couldn't they just leave it looking like the original. Oh right I forgot the kids of today have no attention span or interest in anything thats not all flashy cgi special efx and no substance.
Posted by: Robocub | Oct 16, 2008 10:10:47 AM
Is that Miss Coco Peru!
Posted by: RP | Oct 16, 2008 10:14:12 AM
Coco Peru! OMG! I L'dOL! "Have you ever gotten cum in your eye? It BURNS!"
Posted by: tooboot | Oct 16, 2008 10:27:23 AM
One thing seems likely:
It will probably increase the current volume of Kirk/Spock Slash-Fic.
Other than the eyes, I can sorta see this Kirk growing into the Kirk from ST:TOS. A few years lost cruising the universe, a couple of hard nights on the Pleasure planet, a few too many Rigellian Ales each week, skipping his holodeck work-outs to sleep in with that green lady...
Yeah, I can see the progression.
Posted by: dego | Oct 16, 2008 10:34:25 AM
Being a Trekkie from the 1960's, and enjoying every incantation of Trek throughout, I have been looking forward to the new film. There were a series of covert photos taken of the interior of a troop shuttle where the attention to detail showed a bevy of those wonderful, cheesy, chunky buttons and knobs that The Original Series had in abundance.
I have been following some of the fan-developed stories (search on Star Trek Phase II), and honestly, the newly released photos look almost as... amateur... as those. Still looking forward to the movie.
Rad
Posted by: Rad | Oct 16, 2008 10:43:44 AM
Crispy stated it brilliantly.
Posted by: soulbrotha | Oct 16, 2008 10:47:20 AM
I hear that in this one Sulu is Gay. Yawn.
Posted by: star blechk | Oct 16, 2008 11:19:52 AM
...perhaps more like the Disney High School Musical version of Star Trek.
Posted by: Pbar | Oct 16, 2008 11:22:28 AM
Damn it Jim. I'm a doctor not a homosexual. LOL.
Posted by: Matt | Oct 16, 2008 11:28:46 AM
You can say bad things about the new Star Trek movie, but I bet you going to go and see it.
Besides, I want Chris and Karl.
Posted by: Seph | Oct 16, 2008 11:30:26 AM
New-Kirk is just too young. I suspect that he can actually act! So, he is totally not down to Shatner's standard.
In all seriousness, who cares if they revamp Star Trek? James Bond and Batman were re-energized by the introduction of new lead actors and changes to their respective mythologies.
The new bridge looks realistic if you extrapolate current technology. Unfortunately, the original series bridge and tech looked old-tech in comparison to our technology. Communicators and tricorders in the original series are bulkier than current cell phones.
Posted by: noah | Oct 16, 2008 11:33:18 AM
It's like Hanna Montana meets Trek!
Posted by: anon | Oct 16, 2008 12:52:34 PM
Bitch, moan, compare and complain all you want...you know you're still going to watch this when it comes out :)
Posted by: Loki | Oct 16, 2008 1:30:40 PM
I just wish they'd given Uhura a beehive! :)
Posted by: Aman Chaudhary | Oct 16, 2008 1:32:54 PM
The bridge looks like ridiculous. I guess Apple got the contract at Utopia Planetia shipyards.
I remember a review of First Contact praising art design for 1701-E for doing away with the "lobby at the Best Western" feel of the 1701-D that was a relic of the late 1980s production aesthetic of TNG. It looks like we are replacing 1701 with the bubbles and smooth lines of my iPhone. I really don't like it.
There was a time that Star Trek determined the design of future real world gadgets. I wish that that kind of originality was still around.
Posted by: Derek | Oct 16, 2008 2:31:41 PM
sorry, but the bridge looks more realistic and futuristic than the old one. (remember there are supposed to be in the future)
Face it guys, you're old.
Posted by: Trekkie | Oct 16, 2008 2:53:30 PM
It's obvious that the bridge looks more futuristic than the days of Kirk and Spock - and this movie is suppose to be even earlier than that. And I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed that they didn't even TRY to make the Kirk character resemble William Shatner (what's with that hair!).
However, I am accustomed to seeing cast changes for popular rolls on the Broadway stage, and entirely different stage sets as the play/musical moves across the country in tours. So that is what I'll keep in mind when I see this movie. The point is to focus on the characters and the story line and not compare the actors and sets. For some time I have been enjoying Star Trek fan-made films and TV series, like HiddenFrontier.com, even though there are totally different people playing the rolls. The concept of doing a Star Trek "Academy Years" movie or show has been floating around the Star Trek production drawing boards for decades - even Gene Roddenberry was intrigued by the idea. So this movie is not a surprise.
My advice is that, if your imagination can't be stretched enough to accept these actors and sets as being "Kirk, Crew and Enterprise", simply imagine it's just another story of another crew in the world of the Federation, like TNG or DS9, etc. I'd rather just open up my imagination and enjoy the show than to never get another Star Trek movie again! So long as we keep it alive, one day someone WILL come along at Paramount and give us another REAL Trek quality film like Wrath of Khan or Voyage Home.
Posted by: RevJimCunningham | Oct 16, 2008 4:45:57 PM
Star Trek was my first love (before I discovered boys), and let me say I'm happy J.J. Abrams has united both in the fine, fine person of Chris Pine.
As for its faithfulness to the original, Star Trek's loyalty to Roddenberry's utopian, 1960s vision is overrated. Deep Space Nine was dark, subversive and full of moral compromises - and also the best of the five Star Trek TV series. So I don't care so much if Abrams "reboots" the series to some extent, so long as he maintains some fidelity to Roddenberry's vision (tolerance, noninterference, the desire to learn and explore).
Plus, re-imagining a series isn't necessarily a bad thing. Look at Battlestar Galactica, which is incredible television (and has some of the hottest men alive among the cast).
Posted by: Ben | Oct 16, 2008 5:32:12 PM
"Sorry, but he just looks like Sylar in a Spock costume to me."
Really? I thought he looked just like the gay best friend from Tori Spelling's "So NoTORIous" in a Spock costume to me.
People who can't separate actors from their past roles are silly.
Posted by: Sean | Oct 16, 2008 7:52:30 PM
Looks like kids playing dressups - which is exactly who this movie will appeal to. Hollywood's creative bankruptcy continues...
Posted by: Grant | Oct 16, 2008 10:40:48 PM