Bruce Greenwood: Capt. Pike is ESSENTIAL to Star Trek's sequel

I'd like nothing more than to see Pike come back for the sequel. I think Greenwood is probably one of the finest actors I've ever come across in a long time and after seeing him in Thirteen Days in my opinion the man can do no wrong.

Yep. But I did like him in Trek and hope they at least have him in the sequel in some fashion.

Hey! He GOT Kirk into Starfleet and HE made Kirk Spock's second in command! The entire survival of Earth was due to Pike's actions.

2012 but little other information yet.

Meh. That function could've easily been served by any generic captain. Greenwood's giving the character more importance than he has. He should just be glad that he didn't end up in the Pike Box at the end.

Damon Lindelof has started writing the script.

damn, it means they're going to do another one.

I think there should be a least a scene in the next movie where Kirk comes to visit Pike and spends maybe a minute or two asking him for advice. That'd be appropriate. But even though I like Bruce Greenwood as an actor and Pike as a character he really doesn't deserve anymore screen-time than that.

P.S. Actually it'd be incredibly funny if during that "advice scene" Pike's wheelchair started beeping due to some malfunction and he says something funny to Kirk like, "yeah... this chair keeps doing that".

That was a given when it made money.

i know, i was just hoping it would end up in preproduction hell.

We're not that lucky. Now who wants to take bets on what important plot points are going to be left out this time? I'll also be taking bets on whether Scotty, as the comic relief, will make a fart joke.

the whole film should be Zach Quinto and Karl Urban arguing in character. that should make up for any gripes i had about the first movie. oh right, and no filming in the Enterprise's distillery. everytime they cut to engineering i was having Space Mutiny flashbacks.

JJ: Hey guys, I have an idea. Lets update the original Star Trek and make it look all hip and shiny and ultra-iPod modern, and we'll make the engine room look more primitive than it did in 1966!

I also liked Bruce as the thoughtful President in National Treasure II, and am hoping to see him again in III, assuming they follow up on the story of that one page from the secret book.

I'll be glad if they bring him back on Star Trek. The man is gifted with one of those soothing voices I just love to listen to. Not as soothing as the late artist Bob Ross, but if Greenwood did a voice recording of the New York phone book, I'd probably listen.

Considering they actually filmed the engineering scenes at the Budweiser plant, distillery is an apt description

Agreed, it drove me crazy, I imagine thats what starship engineering would look like if Bender were chief architect for Starfleet. Y'know if engineering gets retcon'd into something more appropriate for the next movie I for one will not ***** at all!


Make it so!

That was actually one of the bigger "problems" I had with movie. I sort of didn't mind the "ibridge" that was clearly designed by Apple and I sort of didn't mind the steampunk distillery as the engineering room when considered separately. What bugged me was how both of those things were on the SAME ship?!? Talk about a jarring mismatch.

You can make fun all you want about the cheesy 1960's styled look of the original series. But at least all the different rooms of that old TV Enterprise looked like they all belonged together on the same ship. JJ Abrams' ship looked like they gathered junk parts from a ship scrapyard and welded it all together piecemeal.

ok this is going to sound waaay more A-hole then I mean it to be (which is zero) but have you ever opened the hood on your car? how does that look anything like the dashboard and seats inside the car?

seriously. it's all grease, oil, matte(sp) metal moving gears, belts,etc. while the dashboard is sleak, smooth, shiny with buttons and lights.

granted now cars engines are so compact that they look more like a box than all the parts of an engine from 20 years ago, so they do look sleaker and more like the inside but not enough really.

The differences between the bridge and the engine room never struck me as odd. (other than the giant waterslide coolant with a blender attachment that scotty was in)