Star Trek Video Chat: Part 1

The crew of the Enterprise sits down with IGN. This part one of the interview.

Star Trek Video Chat: Part 1 [Film Playing] Chris Pine: But I think for Kirk, it really is a young man dealing with the death of his father. And I think that was clearly the most emotionally affecting experience of his life that I mean clearly he was only around for when he was an infant. But has created this broken home in a situation where clearly growing up without a model, a male model I think has been profoundly difficult for him. Zachary Quinto: His memo? Chris Pine: With Michael Vanderloo I guess. Anyway, but now we are being serious because we are talking, but how dare you’ve done something? Zachary Quinto: Sorry. Chris Pine: FN role. Zachary Quinto: You meant to say a male role model Chris Pine: Thank you, role model. Thank you Zach. [Film Playing] Karl Urban: Well, the point we discover little McCoy in this movie, he has really come to the end of a road. He has been boomed by life and had some various tragedies occur. And it is literally the last place left that he has to go. I think when they first met that McCoy senses that Jim is kind of kindred spirit that he also is a little bit outside the box and a bit of a rebel. And pretty quickly, they developed a solid friendship. [Film Playing] Zachary Quinto: Well, for Spock you know, it shown early in the film and clearly that he always had struggled with the duality between his Vulcan half and his human half which is something that anybody knows the character knows is a part of his journey. But in this film in particular carries him to his young adulthood and he is defining the path that he wants to walk in his life. And he is really split between two options. And I think that that duality and the conflict that bubbles up inside is a result of that duality, it’s something that the character and the consideration of the franchise is really working to gain control of it [Film Playing] John Cho: For me. I think—deep desire to serve you know at the end, there’s an old-fashioned kind of sense of community and optimism that is common to interestingly enough of course Roden Berry but also George Decay. He is that kind of old-fashioned man and that is what I admired about him and that I think that sentiment is part of what makes his kept Star Trek popular over decades. [Film Playing] Zoe Saldana: I almost feel like she definitely represents a complete opposite of Kirk. In a way that Kirk is meant to be in it but he hasn’t really owned up or consciously acknowledged his purpose because of all the misfortunes he’s had in his life whereas Uhura, I kind of put picture like five years old like look in the mirror going, “I'm going to be on that enterprise. I'm going to be on that enterprise.” Because she is such a driven person. It was so much on the script and so much of Michelle’s version of Uhura too in the original series where she was such a stoic, determined, confident, solid woman you would have to be sort of like a bookie of the apt pupil kind of person in order for you to get from that to where she ended up in the series. Anton Velchin: Well, I think a sort of a navigator and as any kind of I mean as majority of I think Russian people, there is an interest in mathematics. And I think sort of a natural path to go down but similar to what John said, it is kind of fascinating that in the middle of the cold war, there comes a sort of a Russian character that is actually a positive character. I mean examples like Red Dawn come to mind, the opposite. And it is really to Jean Ron Mary’s credit to his vision of what the universe can be that I think he place this Russian character there. And I think it gives Russian people and Americans in the world of view of Russian people that you don’t really see often. And it is an optimistic view of the nation.