lordwow

They've said it won't break canon. But here's 2 canon explanations possible:

1) He left and came back to the Enterprise later
2) The more plausable, was that he was assigned to another role on the ship during season 1 (and not seen), which was how the writers of Wrath of Khan have reasoned his knowing Khan into canon.

Zen Peckinpah

Once again, Zachary Quinto looks pretty great as Spock. Look closer and you'll see he's handing Kirk's ass to him, the latter of whom is on the wrong end of a Vulcan Death Grip.

Karl Urban's McCoy has calmed my calls for Jake Weber to play the role.

Chris Pine looks like he could be a pretty good Kirk, even if from the first stills he looks like he could end up being more like Kirk meets Steve Holt.

And Simon Pegg looks gloriously angry as Scotty.

Bring this fucker on already!

Sean O'Hara

For me to buy that, they have to first prove to me that they're familiar with the canon.

I can buy that Chekov was on the Enterprise but not a bridge officer during the first season, but if this is indeed about Kirk's first mission as Captain, then they're breaking canon by (A) having McCoy on board (some really old dude was CMO in "Where No Man's Gone Before), and (B) not having Gary Mitchell as the XO.

Cartload

Was it established in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" that Mitchell was the XO?

Superman07

The production looks top notch. That said:

The uniforms look like TOS tv era, but the ships look movies 1-6 era. However, the sets themselves look very Enterprise era. I'm confused.

raven56706

wow... they actually look like them...

lopper

I'm not loving the look of the bridge/ship interiors yet. The group shot looks pretty damn cool, though.

Cartload

I do like that the bridge is well lit. The dark bridges from the last few movies and series really made me wonder if the Federation ever paid their electricity bills.

Deftones

pictures look pretty badass...

jdslater1

Is it me or does Urban look like Greg Kinner in that pic?

riley_dude

Ohhh yeah. I think I might just like this movie.

Giantrobo

Wow, I'm even more excited!

Josh-da-man

I don't know, I'm just not feeling it.

The bridge doesn't look bad... a little colorless... the old 1960s bridge would look backward and clunky by today's standards, especially on the big screen.

Quinto looks great as Spock. Excellent choice, there.

The rest, I'm not so sure about. Urban looks about fifteen years too young to be McCoy. Chekov looks strange without the Monkee hair (though the actor looks like him in the face). Don't really car for Uhura's hair pulled back tight (though Zoe is mighty cute). Sulu doesn't look anything like Sulu. Can't get a decent look at Pegg as Scotty, but he doesn't look bad.

Still ambivalent about Pine's Kirk. I'll have to see him action before I can judge the choice of actor.

The biggest hurdle that the movie faces is that these characters have been defined by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Dee Kelly, Jimmy Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and George Takei. Their looks, their mannerisms, their voices. That's something that's going to be damned hard to duplicate.

Chew

Looking mighty sweet. A good balance of modern and retro.

Of course, I can't help but think of Sylar in that Spock neck choke close-up.

lordwow

No, according to Memory Alpha:

He was a helmsman, not the XO.

tronmaster

Entertainment Weekly has the Star Trek article on their website EW. Here's the link:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20233502,00.html

It's broken into 8 pages, with 1/2 page is spoiler territory, EW warns you ahead of time of the upcoming spoiler on page 4 which is where the spoiler occurs. The writer gives description of the Star Trek movie throughout that some may consider spoiler.

So read at your own risk.

riley_dude

Interesting article in Entertainment Weekly. The creators know that Trek as a name had become a joke and they need to change everyone's mind about that.

tanman

I wonder what ship that is that's getting a pounding. I like the updated unifroms, kind of like spiderman to show off more texture.

I was feeling the actors before in their roles when it was a head shot but that group shot doesn't really look that good. Of course I'll reserve judgment until I've seen the movie but it will all come down to if I am halfway through the movie and I don't think of them as look alikes but actually accept them as their respective character.

If you ask me that will be an enourmous feat if they can do that.

Panda Phil

ytrez

How to they have a young original series crew when they weren't even assembled together until after Pike's first enterprise mission?

MBoyd

I used to really like Trek. I could go on and on about what went wrong like most anyone on the internet, but why at this point? I hope this gets something really cool going. I can completely ignore canon and enjoy a well-made film after being pretty uninterested in anything Trek for 12 years now.

invisiblegt

That would be the , according to TrekWeb.

milo bloom

I love the uniforms and the actors are all fine, but the bridge just seems too different. We saw an original style bridge in Enterprise's "In a Mirror, Darkly" 2 parter, and I thought it looked fine. I honestly just expected this new production to use a "smoother" version of the original layout, but it looks like they're actually changing the layout, even adding stations that weren't there.



As for Chekov, Walter Koenig supposedly tells a pretty funny story about how he was a lower decks officer when Kahn was aboard, and Kahn was angry at him because he kept him waiting for the bathroom one time.

Red Dog

That was something I asked long ago in this thread - if Gary Mitchell would be a character in this.

The actors all look pretty young - a little too young, but then again, I was very young when I first watched TOS and now I'm older than Shatner was in the late 60s, so that could be influencing me.

riley_dude

I love the uniform too. I am hoping we will be able to buy these.