ok, normally i just say "let it happen and see what happens"...

[acroyear]

...but this current idea at Paramount of "StarFleet Acadamy" and getting new actors to play a young Kirk and Spock is just plain stupid...

one simply doesn't try to do Spock or Kirk unless one is Nimoy and Shatner - it becomes not a performance but a parody, no matter how serious one tries to be.

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[motherwell.livejournal.com]

Actors to play the young Kirk and Spock? That sounds like a wretched no-win situation (at least for the old-trekkie audience): if their acting is worse than Nimoy's and Shatner's, they'll just suck; and if it's better, we'll all wonder how Kirk and Spock could become worse characters as they aged.

Of course, they'll probably get enough audience to make it profitable, fiasco or no fiasco. Best to just shrug it off and walk on by...

[dawntreader]

it seems like it would be a no-win situation all around.

Star Trek fans will never go for it and non-fans will never give it a chance because it's Star Trek.