Excellent, entertaining, fix casting

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2013)

I want to begin that this Star Trek is one of the best ones done thus far which is why I'm giving it a 8/10. Excellent story, writing, humor and powerful acting across the crew. It seems the producers and directors went through painstaking casting for the core crew. Zachary Quinto is a spitting image of Leonard Nimoy and Chris Pine is very close to the young William Shatner-- he was quite the looker back in the day. Hence I am puzzled as to why the casting mgr would choose a blue-eyed white guy to represent the superiorly genetically engineered race when these are prequels to past Star Trek stories. We all know Khan was of some type of South Asian descent, with an eternal tan, played by Ricardo Montalban with amazing flair and princely dictatorial command. While the fellow who played Khan was indeed outstanding, the trekkies who have seen the Wrath of Khan are sorely disappointed. Seems a bit discriminatory. It's like when Hollywood casted a white guy to play GOKU. This seems a reversal of the past when Mickey Mantel played a Japanese guy quite ridiculously in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Seriously Hollywood, I thought you set the bar on this and Star Trek being one of the most incredible TV and movie examples of the diversity inclusion. It would have been a 10 in my book if the casting had been more accurate. Can you imagine if they had made young Spock black, James T Kirk Asian...one would hear some major screaming? The India fellow in TV show Hero would have been perfect.