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by c.p.
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Original message modified Oct 23, 2008 @ 18:40:
Topic: That One
The fulcrum of the new movie's plot is Number One.

I said it. That's my guess.

As casting rumors leaked last year and one by one we found out in which characters those actresses landed, the game of musical chairs left one woman glaringly without a chair: Pike's Number One.

Or did it? Majel Barrett played two characters in Trek Lore. Number One was one of them. Might there be some weird parallel to this accident of casting and fate in the new movie? If there is, would it be too clever by half?

I ask because of the coy answers in response to the question of Number One from the writers and now from Greenwood. This is a simple thing to answer isn't it? You don't have to give anything away by acknowledging her existence do you? In fact, dotting all the "i's" they have while forgetting to dot that one is utterly voluntary on its face.

EW's report that the opening scene involving the Kelvin will leave fans crying, "Heresy!", makes me think we're in for a real mindfuck of a roller coaster ride. And unlike some of the earlier pessimistic fervor around here that they would blow up the Trek universe out of ignorance, in the end they may do it out of acute insight. "It's about questioning what we know," they answered in the EW article.

In the end, if I had to guess, I think canon will technically allow for whatever they have in store for us. But it will defiantly challenge conventional assumptions-at least regarding some of these early characters who's stories remain cloudy even for the most well read, well watched fan.

And frankly, that's what Star Trek needs. A shake-up cruise.
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