Monday, May 4, 2009

Star Trek: The Younger Generation

Over 43 years after the first Star Trek series hit the small screen (on September 8, 1966), a new movie reinvention, with an all new cast playing characters introduced in that original TV series, will make its big screen debut this Friday. Interestingly, not a single one of the actors portraying the main four characters in the new movie were yet born in 1996, and all of them are younger now than the actors that portrayed the characters back in 1966, as follows:


Character Original actor New actor Age diff

James T Kirk William Shatner 35 Chris Pine 28 7
Spock Leonard Nimoy 35 Zachary Quinto 31 4
Scotty James Doohan 46 Simon Pegg 39 7
Leonard "Bones" McCoy DeForest Kelley 46 Karl Urban 36 10
Average age difference 7

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