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So I don't know if anybody follows movie casting at all But the news on the internet seems to be that JJ Abrams' new Star Trek movie project is going to be populated by an interesting cast

* James T Kirk - Chris Pine
* Sulu - John Cho
* McCoy - Karl Urban
* Spock - Zachary Quinto
* Scotty - Simon Pegg
* Uhura - Zo Saldana
* Checkov - Anton Yelchin

To say that this is a unique cast would be an understatement. I'm excited about Pegg & Cho as Scotty & Sulu Don't know Yelchin or Saldana Zachary Quinto is great as the evil Sylar in Heroes And I can't say I've ever seen Chris Pine. So it's a mixed bag.

But JJ Abrams has done interesting things in the past. MI:3 was the last movie I saw of his and it could've been renamed "Run Tom (Cruise), Run!" because that's pretty much all Tom's character did. But I liked the first season or two of Alias, so maybe this will work out.

With some of the new information coming out about the movie... A villain goes to the past to stop Kirk before he causes all the problems down the line in the time stream... Old Spock follows the bad guy to warn New Spock about the impending danger... Captain Christopher Pike (from the original ST episode The Cage and the pilot) plays a role in this movie...

It will be interesting to see what the first teaser for the film holds, as it should be released for the holidays to tantalize us to see the film when it is released next year!

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