Tom Cruise to be in Star Trek?
Tuesday, August 7, 2007That’s the rumor.
If you’re a Trek fan then you know the first Captain of the Enterprise was Christopher Pike in the pilot episode. Then the ship was helmed over to Captain Kirk. It seems that J.J. Abrams wants Tom Cruise to play Pike.
Cruise’s name first surfaced last fall as a possibility for a role in Trek, but Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson advised TrekMovie.com at the time, “That story is not true.” There was still bad blood between Cruise and Trek studio Paramount at that time, but in recent months Sumner Redstone, the Viacom honcho who ousted Cruise, has softened his rhetoric, leaving the door open for reconciliation. A Cruise cameo in Trek, however, would be a favor to Abrams and not to Paramount.
About the Captain switch for the original show:
When NBC balked at the cerebral nature of the show and wanted a new, action-heavy pilot filmed, Hunter was unavailable so a new character, Captain Kirk, was created. The unaired pilot was later recycled for the two-part first season episode “The Menagerie,” which saw Spock court-martialed for trying to take a disfigured Pike back to Talos IV, the setting of “The Cage.” In Trek lore, Spock served with Pike for about a decade.
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