STAR TREK BEYOND Will Pair Spock With Dr. McCoy

One of the worst things about JJ's movies has been how every other supporting character has been nerfed in favor of Spock and Kirk's little bromance. Saldana, Urban, and even Pegg have been so underused in these movies, so it's awesome to see this stargint to change now.

Karl Urban should be a bigger star instead of giving the Jai Courtney/Taylor Kitsch/Sam Worthington's lead roles to franchises.

He would've been an awesome Kyle Reese instead of meathead Jai.

RT, @ForceCult: Snoke and his staff. plagueis vibes for sure.

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I've loved Karl Urban since seeing him in LOTR. And he and the actor playing the android made Almost Human watchable.

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I liked the movie, but the general public just wasn't having any of it. Maybe because The Raid had just come out as well.

promoting a shitty movie while talking about a flop. you suck quinto.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I absolutely destest these films. Karl Urban is the only character/actor that will get any accolades from me. Anton Yelchin as Chekov gets a little honorable mention. The rest of the casting sucks balls as far as Star Trek is concerned.

I don't like the tone of trek being more like Star Wars, I don't like the overly emotional Spock, I definately don't like the wimpy ass Kirk nor does Simon Pegg's Scotty move me in any way. Scotty wasn't clown or comical for the sake of comedy. Uhura was not bitchy or bossy. Nichelle Nichols brought a poise and presence to the screen that Zoe wishes she had that kinda of skill. On top of the fact that Nichelle Nichols was gorgeous and helathy... Saldana needs a few sandwiches.

So many haters. I love the new movies. They're super fun. I do hope they go deeper into space and very far from Earth though. Also, more Sulu please!

Replacing McCoy with Uhura was dumb on several levels. Most importantly, it gave the voice of irrational emotion to a female character. Where the crusty grizzled doctor McCoy subverts the expectation that he be dispassionate, cold, or callus, Uhura reinforces it.

Moreover, because Uhura's principle role in the trio is as Spock's girlfriend, her emotionalism doesn't even inform the group's dynamic, so much as she just becomes a nagging ball-and-chain with little meaningful engagement to Kirk. She's just Spock's +1.

Thirdly, it's a total waste of Karl Urban, who seems to genuinely want to do DeForest Kelley's character justice.

I'm not against what they were trying to do. The original Star Trek had revolutionary diversity for it's time but going back to that same breakdown would be a step back now. But this isn't how to do that.



"You want to reboot Star Trek, but you don't want it to change."

Look, this version of Spock is just garbage anyway. He cannot be one of the three legs in the Freudian stool of Star Trek, because he's more id than McCoy ever was.

Okay... fine. If that's the starting point for the franchise, then make Uhura the voice of reason which is usually mistakenly referred to as "logic". When Quinto/Spock makes one of his cold calculations, she should have countered with how dumb the calculation was (because they were). When Quinto/Spock goes into a blind rage, she should have countered with calm. Uhura could have been the counterpoint to this childish irrational and dumb version of Spock, by being the adult that weathered his infantile mood swings. At least then we're getting some interesting character conflict. Instead, she was a third wheel on a unicycle...

Oh well... Whatever. Not my Star Trek.

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