Hi, got here by clicking on a black hole at a friend of a friend's place :-)
The age thing is interesting -- I'd read someone's analysis out there in cyberspace somewhere that the Nu-Characters' age spreads aren't wide enough compared to data in Old-Canon, so that Chekov isn't enough younger than Kirk or Scotty, etc.
Actually though, as regarding the actors themselves, I found after googling that it's much the same birth-year spread for both casts. TOS birth years ran (oldest to youngest) 1920-1937; Nu-Trek runs 1970-1989. Oldest/youngest is virtually identical, but where the others fall on the intervening stairsteps differ in intriguing ways:
1920 (Kelley, Doohan) 1931 (Shatner, Nimoy) 1932 (Nichols) 1936 (Koenig) 1937 (Takei) (who knew he was "really" the youngest?)
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Date: 2009-05-15 03:12 pm (UTC)The age thing is interesting -- I'd read someone's analysis out there in cyberspace somewhere that the Nu-Characters' age spreads aren't wide enough compared to data in Old-Canon, so that Chekov isn't enough younger than Kirk or Scotty, etc.
Actually though, as regarding the actors themselves, I found after googling that it's much
the same birth-year spread for both casts. TOS birth years ran (oldest to youngest) 1920-1937; Nu-Trek runs 1970-1989. Oldest/youngest is virtually identical, but where the others fall on the intervening stairsteps differ in intriguing ways:
1920 (Kelley, Doohan)
1931 (Shatner, Nimoy)
1932 (Nichols)
1936 (Koenig)
1937 (Takei) (who knew he was "really" the youngest?)
1970 (Pegg)
1972 (Urban, Cho)
1977 (Quinto)
1978 (Saldana)
1980 (Pine)
1989 (Yelchin)
Ultimately meaningless, I'll grant you, but good for a few minutes of amusement.