I don’t know about you guys, but I thought the casting on ST '09 was terrible. New-Kirk and New-Spork are okay, but I don’t think any other character was cast well. Regardless of looking like the original actors, none of them were even close to the original characters. Not to mention that I only find Kirk and Spock better because they vaguely resemble the original actors enough to be passable.
? Karl Urban as Bones is by far the best cast of the lot.
I also think Scotty was passable. Spock was good but still looks so young (I guess smoking has something to do with that) and the material given to him wasn’t true to character. Everyone else I’m entirely neutral to, I don’t think any of them were particularly bad. If anything, the script is more to blame for those movies than the cast. Star Trek Continues remains truer to the Star Trek I know.
Anyway, isn’t there a Star Trek thread in Off Topic someplace?