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Most shocking, or pleasantly surprising, is the strength of the cast. The actors portray versions of the characters fans recognize, yet put just enough of their own stamp on the roles to them their own. It’s an extraordinarily fine tightrope walk between imitation and breaking new ground, but of course not too much of the latter so as to not have the fanbase bristle. Apart from the reality that actors Pine, Quinto, Saldana, Urban, Simon Pegg (as Montgomery Scott), John Cho (as Hiraku Sulu), and the late Anton Yelchin (as Pavel Chekov) are extremely charismatic and easy to like, the fact of the matter is that the characters exist in an alternate timeline due to Nero’s spiteful interference with Trek history. As such, they don’t have to be exactly like the original crew. To put it bluntly, they are precisely what they are: the characters we know, just a little different. Much more so than the messy Generations, Star Trek is a true passing of the torch, what with the inclusion of the original Spock to assist this ‘Kelvin timeline’ Kirk and crew defeat Nero. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/star-trek-retrospective-part-3/