Star Trek Picture Dump

Above and Beyond / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | October 16, 2008 | Comments (60)

We don’t normally do big picture dumps, but the other movie sites are flashing these new Star Trek photos around like nipple slips on gossip blogs, only geekier, so we don’t want to deprive y’all just because large pictures don’t layout well on our site.

First up, here’s the cover of next week’s edition of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Zachary Quinto as Spock and Chris Pine as Captain Kirk. Thoughts? Quinto isn’t really doing it for me (that looks like a caricature of a Spock haircut) and OMGFUCKINGOD, are you serious, J.J. Abrams actually went through on his promise to cast Chris Pine? He was the romantic lead in a Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy (Just My Luck), and he flippin’ looks like it. Shatner takes shit less douchy-looking than that guy.

Here’s a pic of Quinto chokin’ a bitch. It’s a significant improvement over the EW cover. Truth is, Spock just doesn’t do photo shoots.

And here’s Eric Bana as Nero, and that, folks, gives us hope. He looks fairly badass there.

Here’s the Enterprise taking some enemy fire. Meh.

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Finally, an image of the cast. Left to right, that’s: Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, Simon Pegg as Lt. Montgomery Scott, Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, John Cho as Sulu and Zoe Saldana as Uhura. And no offense, but that picture looks like a very Trekkie episode of J.J. Abrams’ “Felicity.” Ben or Noel?

I’ll take Simon Pegg.

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Eyebrows! Eyebrows! Pancaaaakes -- I mean, eyebroooowsss!

Posted by: Sofía at October 16, 2008 2:09 PM

What do you call that expression on Zachary Quinto's mug on the EW cover? Fellatio Face? There's just something totally wrong there.

On the upside, Karl Urban looks more like Bones McCoy than I would ever have imagined possible.

Back on the downside, Chris Pine is going to SINK this movie.

Posted by: Jerce at October 16, 2008 2:09 PM

Oh Godtopus, they made Kirk look....douchey.

Posted by: peachfish at October 16, 2008 2:10 PM

This movie looks ridiculous

Posted by: mark at October 16, 2008 2:13 PM

NO.NO.NO.NO.NO. Its wrong. Its just so wrong.

Fuck this. I'm calling The Shat and we're coming down there to fake choke and simulate punches on these kids. We're gonna take these bitches down and they don't stand a chance.

Nobody wrestles with vague homo-erotic undertones like The Shat, and that prissy Chris Pine gonna get a tea bagging like he was the Earl of Grey.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 16, 2008 2:18 PM

Did anyone notice how Zach Quinto's eyebrows looked completely painted on on the last episode of Heroes? I wondered if it was because he was filming this at the same time, and needed some touch ups. I love that man's eyebrows.

Sigh. What's the point of having Eric Bana in your movie if he's a) not gonna look like himself or b) be shirtless? What a waste.

Karl Urban does look surprisingly good there. I had hoped that at least they'd get them to wear less ridiculous uniforms.

This movie's gonna be completely awesomely bad and I'll so be sitting in the front row! YEAAH!

Posted by: figgy at October 16, 2008 2:19 PM

I like Zachary Quinto. I don't know what else I have to say. Dude is intense.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 16, 2008 2:19 PM

Karl Urban is McCoy? He may merit some red jeans if he gets pissed off at least once.

That couldn't be more Pegg, but it'll be amusing to hear GlasgaePegg.

Posted by: Jay at October 16, 2008 2:20 PM

Are Spock and Kirk rubbing nipples on the EW cover? Is that why it's called EW?

Why doesn't Chekov look like Davy Jones? The whole point was that he looked like Davy Jones, only Russian. (Also Chekov doesn't actually show up in the classic episodes until season two so he shouldn't even be here.)

Yeah, Urban looks like McCoy there, but it could just be the angle.

When I first heard of Simon Pegg for Scotty, I thought EW, but now I'm thinking he might be the best thing in it.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 2:21 PM

Oh and I don't know about "douchey" but he doesn't look like a real human.

Posted by: Jay at October 16, 2008 2:24 PM

Hmmm, I remember Karl Urban being a lot hotter in LOTR:2&3. Perhaps I was mistaken.

I'm undecided on this. But I do love Zachary Quinto, he's quickly becoming the most entertaining thing about Heroes. (Yes I'm still watching. Shut up.)

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at October 16, 2008 2:24 PM

Simon Pegg is pulling off a very "I'm as disgusted as you are that this is happening" look.

I love you Montgomery Scott.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 16, 2008 2:26 PM

Hum, Uhura is wearing a high neck and a B cup. Wannt bet she's wearing pants instead of that micro mini skort with matching panties?

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 2:28 PM

Hum, Uhura is wearing a high neck and a B cup. Wanna bet she's wearing pants instead of that micro mini skort with matching panties?

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 2:28 PM

I wonder if Urban can pull off DeForest Kelley's southern drawl.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 2:32 PM

Jerce, fellatio face is pretty apt, he looks completely surprised that anyone would want his dick in their mouth.

Chris Pine has that sexually ambiguous zero threat to your teenage daughter's hymen look. I don't like that look. It reeks of shoddy cunnilingus.

Posted by: Julie at October 16, 2008 2:36 PM

There's other shots else where on the interwebz of the film, on frankly awesome one with Pine slouched sideways in the seat a la The Shat in full recliner mode, while Karl Bones stands in the background looking so scarily like the real Mcoy (ha!!!!!) that im WAY more hopeful about this film than i was before

Yeah, though, Uhura's costume is all kinds of wrong. Maybe in her youth she was a prude then the Kirk Cock loosened her inhibitions and made her a funky fresh sista?

As for Pine, believe it or not in (the awesome loud bangy) Smokin'Aces he kind of shows his acting chops to an impressive degree in one very short scene (for the Ben Affleck haters, when he kills him then plays with his corpse)

All I'm saying is, dont write him off just yet. Yeah his only major movie was with La Lohan and....ugh, McFly.
But the combined ASS of Lohan and McFly could make anyone seem a talentless shill

Speaking of talentless shills, am i wrong for being happy Guy and Madonna are divorcing?

Rock'N'Rolla rocked when their marriage was on the rocks...

Sherlock Holmes is gonna be the shit

Posted by: Nadine at October 16, 2008 2:38 PM

OK, i didn't think Karl Urban would work as Bones, but I'm kinda digging it. He might just pull it off.

Plus, yanno... he's hot. I'd play doctor with him any ol' time.

Posted by: lizzieborden at October 16, 2008 2:48 PM

Sorry, that Quinto Choke pic just looks like Sylar choking someone on Halloween.

As for Pines, I dug him in Smokin' Aces, so I'm not giving up hope just yet.

Posted by: Anne at October 16, 2008 2:59 PM

Hmmm, I remember Karl Urban being a lot hotter in LOTR:2&3. Perhaps I was mistaken.
You were NOT mistaken.

Chris Pine has that sexually ambiguous zero threat to your teenage daughter's hymen look. I don't like that look. It reeks of shoddy cunnilingus.
Heeee.

in (the awesome loud bangy) Smokin'Aces he kind of shows his acting chops to an impressive degree in one very short scene
That was Pine? I didn't recognize him. You're right; he was good. But he still looks like a distillation of seventeen douches in these photos. I'm reserving judgment.

Posted by: Jerce at October 16, 2008 3:00 PM

oh I am so torn. On the one hand, I love the idea of the crew having been together forever and all. On the other hand fuck you J.J. only Shatner can play Kirk. Also, Spock looks as if Quinto is confused about what unemotionally logical should look like (hint: not vaguely retarded. Fail.) Checkov's hair is all kinds of wrong, and Sulu does not look like the quietly elegant and smooth gay man we all know he is (no, I'm not confusing reality with fiction. In my head Sulu is just as gay and elegant as George Takei).

Posted by: s. pisaster at October 16, 2008 3:00 PM

I will not pay to promote this asshattery, it's stupid, it's Dawson's Trek, there's only ONE Spock and ONE, Kirk.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 3:01 PM

it's stupid, it's Dawson's Trek

Tee hee.

Posted by: Julie at October 16, 2008 3:02 PM

speaking as pretty big Star Trek fan (though I kind of quit following after Undiscovered Country and TNG) I really hope JJ can inject some life into these movies again.

Posted by: dylanj at October 16, 2008 3:02 PM

Sulu does not look like the quietly elegant and smooth gay man we all know he is

Sulu is/was massively cool!

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/character/1112493.html

Posted by: Jerce at October 16, 2008 3:03 PM

I'm a hopeless geek, and I know I'm a hopeless geek, but I will not be watching this.

That said, my first response on seeing that last picture was "What the hell is Kirk doing on the bridge out of uniform?"

Posted by: sistercoyote at October 16, 2008 3:05 PM

Sulu was pretty boss in the 6th movie as a captain. I do think no Trek moment or movie will ever match Wrath of Khan

Posted by: dylanj at October 16, 2008 3:08 PM

Simon Pegg is Scotty? Holy dang. And that guy really looks like Bones.

Posted by: Lucas at October 16, 2008 3:09 PM

*sigh*

If this Abrams character wanted to do something clever with Trek (and not completely RAPE, ASSFUCK and HOSE DOWN WITH SEMEN on the faces of established and beloved characters) he could have taken on the New Frontier by Peter David storyline. It even has lipstick lesbianism and a motherfucking hermaphrodite.

How awesome is that? A fucking hermo.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 3:17 PM

Quinto on that EW cover is so airbrushed he looks like Daddy Quinto procreated with one of those trolls with a jewel in its tummy. Could that be the film's secret new alien race?

I'd love to say that Simon Pegg is enough to get me to look past my Trek hatred and see this flick, but I've learned the hard way too many times that Pegg minus Frost and Wright equals crap flick. Go make a Spaced movie, already!

Posted by: David at October 16, 2008 3:21 PM

Chris Pine has that sexually ambiguous zero threat to your teenage daughter's hymen look. I don't like that look. It reeks of shoddy cunnilingus.

Oh Julie. Your magnificence truly astounds sometimes.

Posted by: MG at October 16, 2008 3:22 PM

About time Karl Urban got a decent part. He was way too hot in Lord of the Rings (even with all the hair) to have been ignored for this long.

lizzieborden HOLLAH.

Posted by: figgy at October 16, 2008 3:26 PM

oh HELL no. I wouldn't watch this in the year 2015 at 3:am on TBS if the only other thing on was a girls gone wild ad.

Posted by: Rene at October 16, 2008 3:35 PM

I suspect Anton Yelchin would be able to do a better Russian accent than Walter Koenig, but Yelchin is way prettier than the role really demands. (Then again, that seems to be par for the casting course here.) Add Karl Urban to the mix, though, and Kirk/Spock slashfic might get replaced by McCoy/Chekov slashfic.

I wonder if they've rewritten the part of Lt Uhura so that her role on the ship is no longer "interstellar receptionist".

Finally: John Cho and Simon Pegg are made of awesome, no matter what sort of dreck they're in.

Posted by: jeem at October 16, 2008 3:49 PM

Ginny, don't be ashamed. Quinto's the only reason I watch Heroes, and I don't feel weird about it. The man may have some crazy eyebrows, but he can act.
I just hope Zoe Saldana does a decent job in this and doesn't get pushed to the background. If that dickhead Tyler Perry has more lines than her, I'll be really pissed off.

Posted by: Brie at October 16, 2008 3:51 PM

Paramount exec: Jesus I just saw the forwards of the new Trek flick! We poured $150 million into this unholy crap!

Abrams: I know, I really screwed the pooch. Sorry. I gotta go. I need to go reanimate Joshua Jackson for his next Fringe scene.

Paramount exec: Holy fuck! What am I gonna do. I can't shit away $150 million like this. Is it too late to insert Shia Labeouf digitally in post?

Paramount PR guy: Too late, but I got an idea! We'll make it back in merchandising. I'll start things off by putting Kirk and Spock action figures on the cover of EW this month.

Paramount Exec: Brilliant! Just make sure you give the action figures a really gay pose! Trekers will love that!

Posted by: Ed Newman at October 16, 2008 3:53 PM

figgy I'm glad someone agrees with me! I'm willing to share. We could do a doctor/nurse thing.

Or we could be Hawkeye Pierce's favorite fantasy and both be nurses.

Yeah, I totally brought out MASH right there. Go me.

Posted by: lizzieborden at October 16, 2008 4:12 PM

sistercoyote : 'That said, my first response on seeing that last picture was "What the hell is Kirk doing on the bridge out of uniform?" '

Kirk was always on the bridge out of uniform. Remember that little wrap-around number he used to wear?

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 4:19 PM

Ed Newman: Is it too late to insert Shia Labeouf digitally in post?

I nominate "LaBeouf" as a verb in the vein of "jumping the shark" or "nuking the fridge", having the meaning of "casting a young trendy talentless actor hated by everyone over 25 in a central role, especially as a character originally played by an icon, or a character related to said icon's character."

For example, "ok so the new Star Trek sucks but at least they didn't LaBeouf Captain Kirk".

Posted by: stipe42 at October 16, 2008 4:23 PM

Kirk was always on the bridge out of uniform. Remember that little wrap-around number he used to wear?

Posted by: BWeaves at October 16, 2008 4:19 PM

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I do remember that, he also rocked a blue one with gold trim on the bottom of the sleeves IIRC on a couple of episodes.

BEST costumes were the the gigantic "gortex" jackets from Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 4:36 PM

BEST costumes were the the gigantic "gortex" jackets from Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock.

haha yeah, those coats were wild. Almost as crazy as Kirk's son and his 80's perm-mullet hair

Posted by: dylanj at October 16, 2008 4:57 PM

At the risk of revealing way too much about my childhood, that shot can't be the Enterprise taking fire. The serial number is wrong. The Enterprise's is NCC-1701.

...Middle school was a lonely time.

Posted by: Daniel Carlson at October 16, 2008 5:27 PM

dont worry dan i noticed it too

Posted by: dylanj at October 16, 2008 5:32 PM

I love Karl Urban, but I thought he was a really odd choice for McCoy. Now seeing these pictures and some others, I think he might just pull it off. *crosses fingers*

Posted by: Celie at October 16, 2008 5:43 PM

I don't hate "Star Trek" at all, but I never watched the original series. I've seen little snippets here and there, but I don't think I've ever seen an entire episode. I did watch the last season of TNG in high school when I was dating a guy who loooooved it and would piss his pants if he missed an episode, and I didn't argue because Patrick Stewart is sexy as hell.

Aaanyway, the point is: Get back to me in about ten years when they've got, like, a bald Rupert Everett as Picard, Corbin Bleu with a headband on his face, Zac Efron painted gold, and one of Britney's sons playing Wesley Crusher.

Posted by: Sarina at October 16, 2008 6:05 PM

Is it just me, or does Quinto make Spock look 11 years old in these shots? Seriously not credible.

As for Pine, a friend of mine took a French class with him. Holly from The Girls Next Door was also in the class. That's all I know.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 16, 2008 7:12 PM

This travesty will be relegated to the trash heap of franchise history right next to "enterprise." Hopefully Mr. Abrams career will go right along with it.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 7:27 PM

Sarina that's fucking terrifying. And unrealistic, because after Zac Efron finally comes out of the closet in 5 years he'll surely have the sex-change operation done and will fade into obscurity, doing Vegas shows of High School Musical 15 for $50 a night.

At least, that is my dream. Stupid Zac Efron.

Posted by: figgy at October 16, 2008 7:50 PM

Star Trek looks kinda interesting. On a side note, sometimes when I'm sitting in my cubicle at work I daydream about eating pussy.

Posted by: Pookie at October 16, 2008 7:51 PM

I don't think I'm going to like it. There's good cheese, and then there's bad cheese. So far, I'm smelling something foul. ZQ looks a fool, and if he pulls out that Sylar angry face, it's going to take everyone out of the film.

Posted by: Cindy at October 16, 2008 8:08 PM

I love that man's eyebrows.

figgy, my friend, I am right there with you. I though they looked a bit odd this week too. And Genny (also Genevieve), you are most definitely (obviously) not the only one still watching. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm still watching.

Eyebrows! Eyebrows! Pancaaaakes -- I mean, eyebroooowsss!

Sofia, where does this come from?? it's so familiar, yet I cannot place it...

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at October 16, 2008 8:14 PM

Jerce Sulu was from San Francisco...! It all FITS! Duh. Sometimes I feel so dumb.

Posted by: replica at October 17, 2008 12:30 AM

Don't make me bust out my impression, replica! I'll tell you where I was born...and whether or not the breaking thrusters fired!

Posted by: Jay at October 17, 2008 12:38 AM

Anna von Beaverplatz- It's from Cabin Fever. Best scene of the whole flick, as well.

Posted by: Anne at October 17, 2008 1:23 AM

Set phasers to bullshit.

Posted by: Recondite at October 17, 2008 3:24 AM

The ship above is the USS Kelvin. Uhura is not wearing pants. And it seems that Kirk's black shirt is some kind of uniform derivative, or at least GI casual.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00019138.html

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00019098.html

Posted by: Jay at October 17, 2008 6:58 AM

Jay: You're right. Uhura is not wearing pants. But I'm still disappointed that they didn't give her that cool asymetrical neckline. I always liked that.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 17, 2008 9:15 AM

I'm also thinking that McCoy looks a bit too hot, too muscular. He's going to out hot Kirk.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 17, 2008 9:16 AM

I just want to here Yelchin say Nuclear Wessel.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 17, 2008 11:58 AM

Pajibans,

I am a dyed-in-the-wool Trek nerd, and proud of it. I've watched everything...even suffered through "Enterprise". So far, after looking at these pictures (and others, including a too-slick looking bridge set), I've gotta quote Ren & Stimpy's 'Mr. Horse'.

"Nosir, I don't like it!"

I'm hoping to be wrong. Honestly. If not, I'll probably be done with Trek. That will be a sad day indeed.

Posted by: GreenLantern at October 17, 2008 12:12 PM

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