Posted on 10/03/2007 7:01:34 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Word has trickled down the pipe that Paul McGillion ("Dr. Carson Beckett") recently auditioned for the role of Montgomery Scott in the eleventh "Star Trek" motion picture. From the mouth of Paul himself, GateWorld is pleased to confirm that this is so!
"I can't tell you a whole lot," McGillion said, "but I can confirm that I did indeed audition for the role of Scotty in the new 'Star Trek' movie. It was obviously thrilling to be able to go in and read for that character, seeing as I grow up watching Star Trek with my family."
(Excerpt) Read more at gateworld.net ...
Cool. Okay, so I had to look him up. I don’t watch SG:A, but it’s nice that it’s someone in the sci-fi family and not just any Hollywood actor. Or worse, some Hollywood celebrity (’cause most of them don’t or can’t act).
I have seen him in Atlantis and he played a Scottish doctor.. He would be a good scotty...
They killed his character off at the end of last season.
I know..
I’m having trouble not thinking of this as “Star Trek Babies.”
lol
Eh.
Who’s going to play Welshie? ( Futurama ref/ )
Very funny episode.
WELSHIE!
Ping
Eh.
It kind of boggles the mind that James Doohan was once early-middle-aged. How time flies. (Of course, that was before I was born ...)
Yes, yes, of course, of course...
* kaff *
This movie has absolutely no business being made. If Paramount is going to try and develop a new ST franchise, then it should be set in the Post-TNG era, with a BIG three way war among the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans.
So they think that they are returning to familiar ground with this movie. And why not, Star Wars I made a fortune. (Yes, the difference was that fans were waiting nearly 20 years for to see it even if it did eventually suck big time.)
The funny thing is that few ST movies have made over $100 million. Part of that is because many of them are older when movie ticket prices were half what they are now and things were pushed as SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS anywhere near as forcefully as they are these days.
I actually watched "Enterprise" and tried awfully hard to like it, but I just couldn't take all the time travel stories and the continuity breaks with TOS. And I wasn't terribly impressed with the show's explanation as to why some Klingons looked just like humans while others were the more typical crested variety. I did like Dr. Singh and the Augments though...
It definitely had problems but it was watchable. Part of the “chance” it needed, was better writers, or at least a more informed writing team. (Better producers would’ve been too much to have hoped for.)
But -- I just wish they had real sicfi writers that could explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and civilizations and boldly go were no man has gone before! I’m all for continuing on, not going further back in the past.
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