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The other day I wondered how Winona Ryder could play Spock\u2019s mother<\/a> in Star Trek XI<\/i> when she is only six years older than Zachary Quinto, the actor playing Spock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, now IESB.net<\/a> reports that Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth<\/a>, who is 24, is going to play George Samuel Kirk Sr. \u2014 father of Captain James T. Kirk, who is being played in the film by Chris Pine, who is 27.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, the actor playing the dad is younger<\/i> than the actor playing the son. What gives? I\u2019m guessing flashbacks. Or maybe the rumoured time-travel premise<\/a> of this movie is even more complicated than we thought.<\/p>\n

I wonder if anybody has been hired to play Kirk\u2019s brother, George Samuel Kirk Jr.<\/a> \u2014 whose corpse, briefly seen in the original series, was played by William Shatner. For that matter, I wonder if we will see Kirk\u2019s sister-in-law, Aurelan Kirk<\/a>, or his nephew, Peter Kirk<\/a>, who was played by 12-year-old Craig Hundley in the series and was thus presumably born well before the events of this movie.<\/p>\n

The site also reports that Jennifer Morrison<\/a> of House M.D.<\/i> has been cast in the film, and that the character Carol Marcus<\/a> appears in the script, and it speculates that there may be a connection between these two things.<\/p>\n

The middle-aged Carol Marcus \u2014 the mother of Kirk\u2019s by-then adult son David Marcus<\/a> \u2014 was played in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/a><\/i> (1982; my comments<\/a>) by Bibi Besch<\/a>, who was 42 at the time, though it is not clear how old the character<\/i> was supposed to be. Morrison, who would presumably be playing the younger Carol, is 28.<\/p>\n

As a reference point, official Star Trek continuity claims that Kirk and Carol had their fling in 2260, David was born in 2261, the events of the original series took place between 2265 and 2269, and the events of ST2:TWOK<\/i> took place in 2285 \u2014 when David was 24 years old and Kirk was 52.<\/p>\n

So if Kirk was 27 when David was conceived, it makes sense that Carol would have been in her late 20s, too. But if the film somehow tries to include both<\/i> Kirk\u2019s fling with Carol and<\/i> the early days of Kirk\u2019s captaincy, then that could be a bit of a stretch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"