They should never have brought back James T Kirk.
Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central
Corgana@startrek.website 5 months ago
Me: Star Trek needs to stop bringing back old characters!
Also Me: SNW has done a fantastic job with every legacy character they’ve reprised!
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Corgana@startrek.website 5 months ago
That’s what I originally said too but I really can’t argue with the result.
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Same. SNW has been an interesting pattern for me. The powers that be will make creative decisions that I find dubious when announced (Kirk, musical episode, La’an being related to Khan), but each time, the show pulls it off. I think Paul Wesley has done a really good job, “Subspace Rhapsody” is just so much fun, and La’an is literally my favorite character on SNW.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 months ago
In this specific case, it’d be weird if Korby didn’t show up.
askryan@startrek.website 5 months ago
Yeah, all of the recasts have been spectacular with this one exception; I’m fully stumped by Paul Wesley and his take on the character. I don’t need anyone aping Shatner and I love the idea of highlighting the more bookish actual Kirk than the pop culture image of him, but Ozempic Kirk spends 90% of his time looking bored out of his mind and 10% of his time doing a terrible Han Solo impression. I cannot understand spending so much time on him when literally everyone else on screen sparkles and he has the charisma of wet felt.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I agree completely, and it really didn’t help that they introduced him in an episode that took place during an alternate version of the TOS timeframe. I’m can deal with him as a younger Kirk, but as a version of Kirk in his prime? No way.
halm@leminal.space 5 months ago
I’m with you on the first part.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 months ago
Emony Dax got handsy with Bones in the 2240s, and Audrid died in 2284.
In SNW’s 2259ish setting, it should be one of those two.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 5 months ago
Emony (the gymnast) appears prominently in the Discovery novel ‘Die Standing’ that tells MU Georgiou’s journey between seasons one and two.
In the book, Emony had a covert identity as an operative for Starfleet Intelligence and was paired with Georgiou for a mission.
So, I have been hoping that Emory might appear in the S31 event movie.
While Chase Masterson’s Leeta took on Emony’s identity in the Trill zhian’tara ritual, there’s no reason to think she couldn’t be very different looking than Chase. So I am hoping Emony might be one of the yet-to-be-named female main characters.
End0fLine@programming.dev 5 months ago
I have not yet read this one. Would you consider it a good read?
Corgana@startrek.website 5 months ago
I love that idea!