Star Trek Reboot

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One thing that I think I haven't seen anyone else mention is how well the recast actors did with the body language of their counterparts. Sure, it wasn't McCoy's voice, or Sarek's, or anyone else's -- but they had taken the pains to mimic the body language. Sarek's ramrod-straight spine. Kirk's various ungainly/macho ways of sitting in his command chair. They got it right, which made up for the voices being different.

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*sigh* When I was in 7th grade, we went to New York for a field trip, and we went briefly to the American Museum of Natural History. At that time they had a huge banner advertising their planetarium show, mentioning that it was narrated by Mark Lenard. I was so excited, and had nobody to share that with, and I probably just went back to which ever Star Trek book I was reading at the time. I carried them to school in plain brown wrappers because I didn't like all the crap I got for reading them. At the time, I'd only seen him in the two eps where Sarek shows up in TNG, but that was enough.

It's sad when the actors you grew up with turn out to not, in fact, live forever. But it's good to now be among people who get this stuff.

And I've _still_ never been to that planetarium!!