Peter Weller cast in new Star Trek movie

[wyldwolf]

This seemed to pass by unnoticed the other day, but Slashfilm picked up on it, so I thought it'd be worth throwing out there for rampant speculation's sake.

On Monday, Entertainment Weekly reached out to Peter Weller's agent, Todd Eisner, who commented on the actor's part in STAR TREK 2. Here's what he had to say...

Of course J.J. Abrams is very tight-lipped about his projects,” said agent Todd Eisner, “but I do know that it’s a substantial role and that Peter is playing a C.E.O.

Combine this with Variety's report that there is an older, substantial supporting villain to the main baddie (i.e. Khan), and I can't help but wonder if he'll be the head of the corporation that spearheaded the development of genetically-engineered supersoldiers, which leads to the Eugenics War...

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[krispos42]

2. What are your prime directives?

"No identification of self or mission. No interference with the social development of said planet. No references to space or the fact that there are other worlds or civilizations."

[cyberswede]

3. Directive 4 n/t

[krispos42]

4. "You're Fired"

[uppityperson]

5. Buckaroo Bonzai meets Spock&Kirk?

huh, thanks for the notice

[Quartermass]

6. A CEO?

I guess that means that the Federation will be using a monetary system in Abram's Trek.

OH JOY!

This'll piss off the die hard fans.

[wyldwolf]

7. word is he's a villian

[Generic Brad]

8. Here's my plot prediction

I would love to see Khan appear and be a flawed mercenary who redeems himself by saving Spock and/or the Enterprise from Weller's evil plotting through an extraordinary act of self sacrifice. And I would also like to see Kirk hook up with a young Dr. Carol Marcus. Basically - just turn the whole "Wrath of Kahn" concept around so he is a good guy. It is an alternate time line, after all. They are not the same people they were in the original time frame.

[Robbins]

9. Star Trek

Weller will be secondary villain reports have siad there will be 2 villains.And they come from Star Trek Cannon.All reports seem to
hint at Khan being main villian.My guess for secondary villain Is a Klingon character from Original series.

The creative team has stressed In past the characters are still the same It's just aspects of their past have been changed due to events of last film.Khan would still have same back story.He would be revived from ship.The writers may take elelements from books that
said the Eugenics wars was secret conflict between the genericlly enchanced supermen.The Idea Is they were running things behind the
scenes and much of the wars,and other conflicts/events of the 1990's were conflict between them.They took elements from Books
and brought them Into Cannon In last film,and will likely do same here.

[GaYellowDawg]

10. CANON

"Cannon" is a weapon. CANON is what you're talking about. Sorry, but you jumped on a pet peeve there.

Quite a good post otherwise.

[GaYellowDawg]

11. Ugh

I'm not sure how well this will turn out. I'd hoped that they would base things loosely on both Star Trek "history" and the events of the first movie. For instance:

Romulans were dashing for the exits of that mining ship at the end of the last movie. Let's say that a few survive, and the Romulan Empire demands them back as Romulan citizens. Naturally, the Federation says "no" because they want to pump the survivors for information on advanced weapons technology - and keep the Romulan Empire from doing so. While the diplomats are working on this, the Klingons stage a raid on the holding area where the Romulans are kept and kidnap them. Then the Romulans extend an offer to the remaining Vulcans to join the Romulan Empire as honored citizens (particularly Spock Prime) and reunify the species. When Spock Prime seems to agree to further his dream of extending the philosophy of logic to Romulus, the Federation, in violation of its own laws, places him under house arrest as "a potentially destabilizing figure" or something like that.

So the Federation and the Romulans declare war against the Klingon Empire in order to keep the future Romulans from providing Klingons with future technology; in the meantime, Romulus plans to use their alliance with the Federation as a smokescreen to "free" Spock Prime from captivity. A brilliant tactical figure swiftly routs the Klingon force - remember Garth of Izar from the original series? - using unconventional tactics. Unfortunately, he is "lost" during the battle in which the Klingons kill the Romulans in order to not give them up... but not so lost. Romulus captures him and tortures the location of Spock Prime out of him (landing him in an insane asylum later... familiar?), then attempts a raid of their own, only to be ambushed by Federation forces (as the location given to any Federation leaders on the front lines is deliberately false). Finally, it falls to Jim Kirk to free his "old" friend from his own government and expose his captivity, causing upheaval in the Federation council. Spock Prime builds a prototype advanced warp ship and heads top speed perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy, self-imposing his own exile in order to not continue damaging the timeline. At the end of the movie, an uneasy peace exists, with the Klingons and Romulans weakened by their defeat and with massive tension between the two over the murdered Romulans, and the Federation in political turmoil. Oh yeah, on edit: the Vulcans are seriously considering the move to Romulus at the end of the movie because they are mightily upset at the Federation military secretly keeping agents of their genocide for potential military information.

That's what I would do for a sequel.