Fear Itself by James Swallow
Spoilers Kelvin Timeline Character appearances in SNW?
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Though Noel Clarke probably wouldn't play Thomas considering what came out about him verbally and sexually harassing women.
Because Keenser was a dumb gimmick. He added nothing to the Kelvin movies. Who needs him grafted onto SNW?
If that’s the case, then maybe he can give insight into Georgiou’s time as captain pre-DIS S1 and other key crewmembers at the time (Burnham, Saru, Detmer, and the lesser known characters Gant and Troke).
I never expected him to. Seeing as in SNW, Bruce Greenwood isn’t playing Pike, Zachary Quinto isn’t playing Spock, Chris Pine isn’t playing Kirk and Zoe Saldana isn’t playing Uhura.
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The Corvette.
I always wanted to see the opposite with Michael, having her counterpart turn up in a Kelvin comic with a completely different backstory, maybe not even in Starfleet, but definitely being friends with Spock.
I always wanted to see the opposite with Michael, having her counterpart turn up in a Kelvin comic with a completely different backstory, maybe not even in Starfleet, but definitely being friends with Spock.
The one think I hated about the Kelvin comics is that they had Robert April go off the deep end and start supplying arms to an alien civilization.
I like the idea Michael was adopted by Admiral Marcus, raised as the sister of Carol but she'd be the hardcore Section 31 one and totally on board with his evil plans.
He just pulled a Ron Tracy.
There's a rumor that 1 or 2 of them might this season, but of course I can't say this for sure.
I would love to see Aisha Hinds reprise navigation officer Darwin, but she is busy with 9-1-1 in Los Angeles.
No, he doesn't. He just needs to be written as well as he was on TOS.
Yep. If SNW continues to use Scotty, I hope he's the serious, no-nonsense professional he was on TOS instead of the comic relief guy he devolved into in the movies.
Devolved?
Wow. He was the only one who quit in in protest in Into Darkness.
Wow. He was the only one who quit in in protest in Into Darkness.
Well, Keenser did too.
Even Simon Pegg himself complained Scotty was just comic relief in the first two movies.
Maybe the first one. He still took on very serious moments and was great with it. I don't see him devolved at all.
Scotty in the original series had his funny moments. Remember when he drank that alien under the table? Or the time he transported the tribbles on to the Klingon ship
I think he's closer to the reboot films than Scotty in TOS (who also functioned as comic relief upon occasion). He appears to be an young engineering genius on SNW who needs more experience and seasoning. I'm fine with that.
According to his Wikipedia article, he won a case of defamation against Guardian. Police dropped the investigation. Sounds like he’s game!
British defamation laws. Heh.
For me, personally, I thought Pegg's Scotty was the only casting misstep in the Kelvinverse, because he was too slapstick and channelled nothing of TOS Scotty. I always felt Paul McGillion would have been better and would have been able to bring some of Doohan's gravitas to the role but it was clear that wasn't what they wanted.
Case in point - Keenser. The dynamic between the characters was very weird and not well thought out. He was a Starfleet engineer, assigned to Scotty's research station on Delta Vega, so I assumed he was probably a specialist, i.e. a petty officer, assigned to assist in the research, and Scotty treats him like a dogsbody, very disrespectfully, albeit they are all alone and it's clear that they are also friends, a bit like Spock/McCoy perhaps. There was a suggestion that his species was largely non-verbal as he just used to grunt and mumble.
Then, they are both assigned to the Enterprise but Scotty treats him just the same, shouting at him instead of just giving him orders, which feels a bit inappropriate given that he's his commanding officer in a hierarchy and it's in front of his contemporaries. This is not the same as Spock/McCoy because Scotty is his boss. It's more like Spock/Rand.
Then in the comic, which was allegedly canon, they revealed that Keenser is a lieutenant! So, not a dogsbody non-com but one of Scotty's senior engineering officers, possibly even his assistant chief! How can Keenser have any authority over his sub-ordinates when Scotty treats him publicly with such racial prejudice and lack of respect, and when he barely utters enough sentences to give an order? Kelvin Scotty is an innovative engineer but a terrible chief engineer. He's more akin to Barclay. But, of course, the Kelvin writers were not very nuanced, so Keenser remains loyal to Scotty, like a puppy remains loyal to its abusive owner. It's actually a terrible message about human superiority to put on screen. He was more like a running gag than a character.
Deep Roy was a sci fi legend, and I would not be averse to seeing Keenser feature if they flesh out his species, but not as a senior engineer under Scotty's command. We don't need casual racism in the show.