If anyone is out of place in Star Trek then it is John Cho, every performance in the new movies is reminiscent of the originals with the exception of Kirk, Uhura and Sulu, but even then you see some of Uhura's sassyness in Zoe Saldana and Chris Pine occasionally acts the way I'd imagine a young Kirk to be.
Sulu on the other hand is completely missing from both movies, replaced by John Cho who plays the part of John Cho, he doesn't even look Japanese in the slightest, he is Korean and clearly looks more like a mainland asian. Now if anything is racist then it was the casting of a 'generic slant-eyed asian' as if to say that they all 'look the same'.
The original Scotty was played by a Canadian who had clearly never heard a real Scottish accent in his life and if anything Simon Pegg has rightly or wrongly tried to remedy this by atleast basing his on the various Scottish people he has no doubt met in his life, the original (James Dougan?) never used words like gonnae, git, doon, etc like most Scots do.
So, wee bit of a duff thread this is. Have you even seen the films?
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