Editing Newsletter/Summer 2007 (section)

===Q 10===
'''10. In your opinion, who would make a good young Kirk and Spock in the upcoming Star Trek 2008 movie?'''

*To me, Shatner as Kirk, Nimoy as Spock, with Kelley as Bones is as classic as you can get. Why mess with a classic? I think we need to move on. I wish that Kate Mulgrew could be in the new Star Trek XI movie as Janeway or anybody else. She's fantastic! -[[herbalsheila]]
*I have no idea, but I can't wait to see what they do. I really can't get past the original actors playing those characters, so it's going to be a hard sell for me. I hope that incorporate Captain Archer into the movie. He would still be alive... - [[user:jfrench|Jason French]]
*I don’t follow the kid actors, so I can’t suggest any names, but I hope the writers and producers toss off the restrictions of ‘canon’ and do something fresh, like they tried to do with Enterprise. There’s a point where a ‘classic’ crosses the line into ‘stale’. I think that many fans’ adherence to old casts, old writing styles, etc. puts the whole Star Trek scenario in serious danger of stagnating. This is FICTION. There’s no such thing as a ‘canon’. Fictional characters and scenarios should be re-interpreted in new ways by each generation, to meet their own needs. If they are not, the work loses it’s integrity, it’s quality of truth. When a story is so beloved that it evolves into a cultural mythology, as Star Trek has, it doesn’t make sense to stifle the creativity of a new generation by strapping them down too tightly to the previous generation’s vision. Roddenberry’s dream is strong and inclusive enough to withstand a new take on it, and whichever actors they cast, I hope to see just that! -[[GrannyGM]]