Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that Paramount is in talks with 27-year old actor Chris Pine to play the role of Captain Kirk in the new 'Star Trek' film. Pine is almost completely unknown, but he's also being courted to star opposite George Clooney in 'White Jazz,' so he's being called "the hottest new actor in town." In addition, 'Hulk' actor Eric Bana was cast today as Nero, the main villain of Trek XI."

Shatner is out?

[Zymergy]

Chris Pine: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1517976/ [imdb.com]

Eric Bana: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051509/ [imdb.com]
There is one true James TIBERIUS Kirk! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk [wikipedia.org]
Is Paramount trying to do with Kirk what has been done with the various flavors of "007" or "Batman"?

Re:Shatner is out?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Uh, that's the entire point of Trek XI- like http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/ [startreknewvoyages.com]'s fan fiction, this movie fits into the continuity between the original series and the movie- therefore they need YOUNGER actors!

I just hope that they learn something else from New Voyages and we get Newtonian-physics-accurate battle scenes in normal space.

Make up your mind

[Snowgen]

The headline said the role was cast, and the summary said "in talks". Make up your mind, and don't get back to me until you have an answer.

Re:Good Job, but

[polyomninym]

Somewhere between Pike and Pine lies the Seattle Convention Center.

Re:Interesting name

[Anonymous Coward]

The first captain of the Enterprise [wikipedia.org] was Capt. Paul.

Archer was the first recorded to captain

[DigitalReverend]

If you go by Star Trek Canon,

Archer was the first recorded Federation captain of a ship named Enterprise (NX-01)

Capt April was the first captain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) followed by Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk and then Willard Decker. Spock was captain occasionally.

Then on the Enterprise B (NCC 1701-B) John Harriman, and later Demora Sulu who was the daughter of Sulu from the original series.

Enterprise C was captained by Rachel Garrett.

And the Enterprise D was captained by Picard, although Riker, and Edward Jellico captained the ship at least once during it's commission.

There was one other Enterprise, the USS Enterprise (XCV 330) but little is known about it and there is no record of who it's captain was.

Hows that for a geek trekker side.

Re:Shatner is out?

[hawaiian717]

From everything I'm hearing, the consensus seems to be that the movie will actually be before the original series, not after it. You're correct about New Voyages though, it's essentially "Season 4".

Re:Shatner is out?

[dougmc]

and we get Newtonian-physics-accurate battle scenes in normal space.

Considering that their impulse drives can get them to significant percentages of c, and warp drive is much faster -- and people don't get splattered across the bridge every time they make a course change, I'd say probably not.

Babylon 5 is over there ...

Re:Archer was the first recorded to captain

[hawaiian717]

Demora Sulu as captain of the Enterprise-B isn't canon.

NX-01 was a pre-Federation Starfleet vessel. In "These Are the Voyages..." the ship was heading to Earth for both the retirement of the vessel as well as the founding of the Federation. As such, XCV 330 would also be pre-Federation.

Re:McCoy?

[garett_spencley]

I agree that Sinise would make an excellent McCoy ... but they're casting for the roles the crew in their mid 20's. Sinise is 52.