McCoy or Gore?
My children humored me last night and went with me to the new Star Trek movie. Ingmar Bergman it ain’t, but it was totally enjoyable as a splendidly over-the-top action reboot of the franchise. The kids, who have never suffered through enjoyed watching any of the original TV series episodes, seemed to enjoy it (they said they did, anyway). I imagine there are Trekkies/Trekkers who will find fault with the re-imagining of the story, even though J.J. Abrams was careful to throw in some iconic characters and allusions to TV mythology.
The casting was quite clever, including Simon Pegg as engineer Scotty and most especially Zachary Quinto as a spot-on Spock. ‘Bones’ McCoy was Karl Urban, memorable in The Lord of the Rings and The Bourne Supremacy. But his struggle with an American accent kept reminding me of someone struggling to hide a Tennessee twang, and it finally hit me. He’s Al Gore.
Update: I Googled this idea to see if anyone else had noticed it. Jonah Goldberg compared the Gore & McCoy in a couple of columns around 2000, but not in reference to the current movie.
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