I will certainly concede that the direction of those movies made it look like it took no time at all to travel between distant star systems....
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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Yeah, I never liked that in the Kelvinverse films. Like 12 hours form Earth to Qunos and nothing is going to stop us between those two points.
I like Paul Wesley has an actor so I'm reserving judgements, but I do think they missed a chance. They casted the guy play Jack Crusher in Picard in the wrong part. All I can think when I see him is James T. Kirk.
It's definitely not ideal. Judging by the trailer, they seem to be trying to push him as charming by making the normally unflappable La'an getting all flustered and hot for him... but I still just can't buy it.
It doesn't help that Anson Mount's Pike is just so goddamn charming; what little Wesley might have is just completely washed out in the glare.
So was it established canon that Kirk joined the Enterprise around this time and worked his way up? Is that why he's here? Or did the SNW people actually think it was a good idea?
I like Jack way too much to agree. Even if he'd be the best of all possible Kirks, I'd still rather have him where he is, especially if Legacy happens.
I'm thinking it was the latter. I'm certainly not aware of any canon suggesting Kirk was on the Enterprise prior to being captain, and had thought that it was established in The Menagerie that he didn't really know Pike.
In the "original" timeline they supposedly met only once; when Jim took command of the Enterprise, but with all the whibbly wobbly timywimy that's been happening the last several years in all of Trek, who knows.
Huh. I don't mind about what's canon-accurate, but I thought maybe if he was supposed to be there, I could understand why they did that. I feel like his mere presence breaks the conceit of the show.
Star Trek has sometimes thrown away a line from an old show and overwritten it when they had a good reason to do so and to good effect. But I'm a little reluctant on this one. It isn't just a line that they'd met once in passing command protocols. It is that Spock has this loyalty to Pike that drives him to commit a capital offense to relieve his tragedy and Kirk who you'd expect that sort of behavior from is really a bystander. I guess Kirk wouldn't have had the idea because he probably doesn't know about Talos IV, but still...
He really did a good impression of TOS Kirk, even though he as a bit short for the role.
I don't know if you're making a joke or a reference to something I'm not getting but Vic Mignogna and William Shatner are both 5'10"
He just looked a bit shorter than Kirk did in TOS compared to the other big three of the cast. Its been a while since I met him in Atlanta, but that 5'10" is probably exaggerated.
Although perhaps its my memory that is faulty, as here is a picture of the original trio:
Regardless of that, I did enjoy his performance as Kirk.
I need this to come sooner
This is going to be like the last episode of Enterprise right, where its a holodeck episode for the Lower Decks crew? It has to be eihter that or a time travel episode.
Either possibility seems valid. I've been assuming time travel, but LD has done a lot of wild holodeck stuff. Still leaning towards time travel because, for the show to be a part of SNW and in live action, it seems like the presence of Boimler and Mariner has to be something that happens from the perspective of the Enterprise crew.
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