Kirk has brown eyes

[Rÿcher]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?)

Probably Abrams, when he was a rebellious teen arrested by cyborg cops.

 

[JoeZhang]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

I think the explanation is that the best actor for the role had different coloured eyes.

Or are you suggesting that Simon Pegg has a finger cut off?

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Don't forget, trailers are heavily edited. Maybe the whole exchange between Kirk and the cop goes like this in the film:

Cop: What is your name.
Kirk: Kirk.
Cop: What is your full name.
Kirk: (defiantly) I'm James Tiberius Kirk!

I'm not saying this is definitely how it will be in the film, but since I havn't seen the film, I'm not going to criticize the dialog I hear in a trailer because I don't know the context of that dialog.

...and the eye thing. Here's food for thought...Shatner was not Kirk; Shatner was only an actor playing the character of Kirk, so maybe it was Shatner whose eye color was wrong for the character.

Of course that's a extreme argument on my part, but my point is they didn't chose Shatner for the role because his eye color matched a pre-conceived eye color for the character of Kirk, so why should they care about eye color this time around? Eye color is not a Kirk character trait.

In fact, I couldn't tell you what color eyes Shatner has until this same complaint was brought up last year when Pine was chosen to play the role.

 

[Timo]

...Of course, changing your eye color might be a common cosmetic fad in the 23rd century. That, and a bit of facial surgery.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Rÿcher]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

I think the explanation is that the best actor for the role had different coloured eyes.

Or are you suggesting that Simon Pegg has a finger cut off?

Scotty's finger was carefully concealed as best they could so as to not show he has a missing finger. If they were to show Pegg with a finger, it could be argued that he loses it at some later date or chooses not to wear a prosthesis because without it, he can get his hand into tighter spaces.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yep, aside from cosmetic surgery (or something simpler and more subtle that we don't yet understand) there's a more straightforward explanation:

Pine's eyes are blue. So Kirk's eyes are blue, now.

 

[Franklin]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

Well, it stayed consistent with this Kirk, because Chris Pine has blue eyes, too. Not a big deal, really. If Abrams had thought it was, he'd have had Pine wear brown contacts.

As far as what kind of kid gives a cop his full names goes: a bad-ass kid!

 

[ST-One]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

Well, it stayed consistent with this Kirk, because Chris Pine has blue eyes, too. Not a big deal, really. If Abrams had thought it was, he'd have had Pine wear brown contacts.

As far as what kind of kid gives a cop his full names goes: a bad-ass kid!

a bad-ass kid that almost went under with the Poseidon...

 

[Kemaiku]

Eye pigmentation could be as easily a changed cosmetic appearance as lip stick or nail polish, only a slightly more manly way of having eye colour changed to a more striking brighter colour.

The thing Bashir used to hide Dax's spots for the duration, could have existed for ages, Kirk wanted blue eyes, two minutes and hello blue.

 

[BenRoethig]

Its fairly common to see parts recast where they have a different eye color than their predecessor.

 

[T'Aerwynd]

Yeah. I was kind of thrown off by Pine's blue eyes at first -- just because I always identified the TOS characters very strongly with their eye color -- but it's a trivial detail to me now. He's going to make a really great Kirk.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

Actually Shatner's eyes are hazel, which is closer to green than brown.

If you're going to bitch about stuff, get your nitpicky fanboy facts right.

 

[RoJoHen]

Actually Shatner's eyes are hazel, which is closer to green than brown.

If you're going to bitch about stuff, get your nitpicky fanboy facts right.

That's what I like to see.

 

[Jim Steele]

Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

Of all the things to complain about, you go with this?

 

[RoJoHen]

Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

Of all the things to complain about, you go with this?

Do you not understand how serious this is?!

 

[Irishman]

The Shat has brown eyes but this kid had blue eyes as you can see as he's telling the cop his full name (who does that?) and when he's looking up at the Enterprise being built on Earth (again, who does that?)

reminds me is "1969", the episode of Stargate SG-1. They get sent back in time where they meet Lt. Hammond where he has brown eyes where General Hammond has blue eyes. Eye color doesn't change over time. It might a little but not like that.

You almost hit on it.

William Shatner has brown eyes, not James Kirk. Is James Kirk also going to work as a middle-aged horny old lawyer in Boston in the 2000's?

Come on. Aren't we sophisticated enough to tell the difference between the actor and the character?

 

[Jim Steele]

Aren't we sophisticated enough to tell the difference between the actor and the character?

No.

 

[JoeZhang]

Aren't we sophisticated enough to tell the difference between the actor and the character?

No.

You realise that your Avatar actually says that Pine IS Kirk, you wanted "Not Kirk." not "Not. Kirk."

 

[T'Aerwynd]

William Shatner has brown eyes, not James Kirk. Is James Kirk also going to work as a middle-aged horny old lawyer in Boston in the 2000's? Come on. Aren't we sophisticated enough to tell the difference between the actor and the character?

I would agree, of course. But in many of the books (and oh, please no arguments about how the books aren't canon and etc. etc.), Kirk's hazels are mentioned. It doesn't matter so much to me. But, for example, when I think of Dr. McCoy (no matter how good Karl Urban is), I will always remember that piercing blue stare of De Kelley's. Nobody could pin a Captain with his eyes better than him.