Rounding Out the Crew!

Hey, cool! Kirk and McCoy've been cast!

That should be everyone right? Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Scotty?

I have to admit, I'm kind of sad Scotty's not going to be Paul McGillon, but hey, Simon Pegg! I think he does have some weird young-thin-Scotty thing going on, so that should be fun.

I have no idea who the guy playing Kirk is, but I'm thinking that's a good thing really. Means awareness of prior roles isn't going to get in the way for me. (I'd worry about that for Quinto as Spock, but I think Spock's probably an easier role to be...Spock in. As opposed to being Sylar-on-the-Enterprise. Kirk's less...I don't really want to say iconic, but there's something that makes him more likely than Spock I think to be over-powered by previous roles. I have no idea if that makes sense outside of my head, but there you go.)

The pictures on IMDB aren't enlightening to me, though I like the one on Blog@. I hope he keeps his hair like that. He looks appropriately smarmy and yet oddly hot. So that's good for a Kirk.

...this is totally going to revitalize Star Trek Original Series slash, isn't it?

The one I'm kind of leery about, well make that two, since I'm not sure it's a wise idea in this day and age to cast a Korean man to play a Japanese man*. Then again, there ARE a fairly high percentage of ethnic Korean people in Japan that it might work. But it does seem to suggest a whole "all Asian ethnicities are interchangeable" thing. Oh well, hopefully Cho, who I'm unfamiliar with, will bust out with a damn awesome Sulu portrayal and I'll be so impressed that I don't think about anything like that. I hope he has a good voice, Takei has, like, the awesomest voice ever.

ETA: Will points out in the comments that Sulu is a Filipino name, however, I have to admit, I still consider him a Japanese character. Mostly because he's been given both a Japanese first name in the book, and when his culture is clumsily referenced in the show, it usually resembles a typical sixties caricature of Japanese.

Karl Urban as McCoy? Really? I mean, everyone else seems fairly visually well matched to their original counterparts. (Saldana and Quinto, I think, evoke their predecessors the most. Yelchin doesn't look terribly like Koenig, but Chekov's a relatively minor role, and he looks about twelve and can presumably fake a Russian accent, so he should work. Even Cho looks like he's at least of a comparative build as Takei was.) They're also relatively minor actors still as well. Quinto and Pegg are probably most famous, and that's for one role, or a handful of quirky, hilarious British movies.

Urban though really doesn't remotely evoke DeForest Kelley to me, not being slender or southern, and none of his roles that I recall have ever utilized a capacity for a sharp tongue or rapier wit able to keep on fairly level playing field with a Vulcan. It doesn't necessarily mean he can't, of course, but it definitely seems like a stretch. With the others, I can easily see possible reasons they were cast. Him not so much. He's probably not more well known than the others, I guess, but he SEEMS like a bigger name, if that makes sense. He's very distinctive.

Oh well, considering everyone else seems to fit amazingly well visually, I should probably give them the benefit of the doubt.

Hey, will there be a nurse Chapel?