Blogtor Who reader Jason Murray has very kindly shared this information concerning the identity of the Doctors next companion:

“Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary is coming. In Cardiff, we’re gearing up for the biggest, the best and the most ambitious season we’ve ever made. There will be shocks, surprises and heartbreak – the Doctor is about to say goodbye to his very best friends, Amy and Rory.

And then he’s about to say hello to someone very different – the Doctor is going to meet someone very new in the very last place he could ever have expected…”

Different is a very difficult word to pin down and of course, wide open to speculation. Does Moffat mean different for the show or different when compared to Amy and Rory? Are they physically different as in a different species or different in attitude towards what we usually expect in a companion?

Unless we finally get that grumpy alien gelatinous cube we’ve all be praying to see stacked next to the Doctor then its unlikely that it’ll be too different. After all the companion is our place-holder and its hard to sympathies with jelly.

As for that ‘very last place…’ well what would be more surprising than finding a companion who’s already on-board?

As usual share your speculations below.

What with filming Torchwood in glamorous locations all over the world and before that, giving birth to her child, Myles has been a busy bee recently. Now she’s traded the alien adventures that Cardiff and Los Angeles has to offer for something a bit more subtle.

Zach Braff’s (JD in Scrubs) new West End comedy is called All New People. Not only does he star in the play, he’s also written it as well, that’s talent for you! The story centres on:

“The dead of winter, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Charlie (Zach Braff), has hit rock bottom. Away from the rest of the world, this perfect escape is interrupted by a motley parade of misfits who show up and change his plans. A hired beauty, a fireman, and an eccentric British real estate agent desperately trying to stay in the country all suddenly find themselves tangled together in a beach house where the mood is anything but sunny.”

Myles is very excited to be treading the boards again and has recently talked about her upcoming work plus the future of Torchwood in an interview with The Metro newspaper. Want to know what John Barrowman is really like beyond the camera?

All New People is on tour and can be seen in London at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre from February 22nd to April 28^th 2012. Visit www.allnewpeople.co.uk for more details.

But in reality it means more and more technological advances. Broadband internet, HD televisions, iPads, iPhones and Blu Ray films are all part of the everyday world replacing old technology that is deemed to slow and to unclear to make use of.

But what’s that you say? You don’t have an HD television or a Blu-ray player? Well then, what do you enjoy your digital viewings of Doctor Who on? Oh, a standard television. Well yes, we suppose that’s just as fun.

But if you’ve been looking to upgrade to HD TV’s and Blu-ray players but haven’t had the time or the motivation (don’t worry, you’re not alone) now might be the time to head over to the Doctor Who official Facebook page (via your superfast broadband connection. What’s that? You don’t have one? But how do you visit various Doctor Who websites in super fast time? Oh, 56K dial up. Well that’s very…nice) and click the “like” button followed by a few details.

This will automatically enter you in to the competition the page is holding where you could win not only a copy of Doctor Who: The Complete 6th Series (limited edition version) and The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe on shiny Blu-ray but you’ll also get a 32 inch HD television to watch them on as well! One competition, one chance and you could be updated for modern day home entertainment via the click of a button!

Someone has to win so there’s every chance that the lucky person could be you! Visit the official Facebook page www.facebook.com/DoctorWho?sk=app_111113792337055, “like” the page and then leave your details

Good luck to everybody that enters!

Mixing that lamented genre’s potent combination of mythic, fictional creatures and, like, life and stuff – Hollow Earth concerns 12 year-old twins and Barrowman stand in’s Matt and Emily Calder, who have special powers, such as the ability to bring art to life (I’m hoping that means ‘drawings’ rather than ‘art’ because otherwise that would mean a lot of trips to the National Pointy Stick Gallery every time there lives were endangered.)

This pair of Penny Crayons also have the ability to access the titular Hollow Earth where; ‘all the demons, devils and creatures ever imagined lie trapped for eternity’ – It’s a story of art, imagination and, the inevitable franchise rights (there’s already talk of a TV series.)

The book was first conceived by the pair in 2010 where they spent two months researching both its highland and London settings before they returned to their respective sides of the Atlantic – its due to this gulf that the novel took so long to write, well that and the Barrowman’s own goofing off:

“Oh, we both revert to childhood on most of our projects together, but this one even more so because we were continually asking ourselves what kids would like in a book, especially one with monsters and lots of adventure. Writing Hollow Earth gave us an excuse, if nothing else, to be kids again — well, more kids than usual.”

For those not enamoured by Young Adult fiction maybe more pleased to find out that the pair are to collaborate again, only this time back in the more familiar world of Torchwood – which again changes the dynamic of how the pair work together:

“[the collaboration] is different again for us because John has such an intimate relationship with our novel’s main character and because we’re adding to a rich canon and a highly successful franchise.”

Hollow Earth is available to buy from Amazon now for £4.09.

You may have seen on Twitter or other websites that Matt Smith has proposed to his long-standing girlfriend at the Doctor Who Experience in London.

The marriage offer, which Matt had been planning for weeks (with some help from BBC Worldwide), came as some surprise to his girlfriend who was under the impression she was on a shopping trip.

Of course, it isn’t THE Matt Smith who has proposed to his on-off model friend Daisy Lowe.

Rather, it is a real chap from Rochford, Essex, one of the many people to share his name with the Doctor Who star.

The Doctor Who Experience at London’s Olympia, a walk through exhibition where the Doctor takes you on a spectacular adventure though time and space, has already been enjoyed by over 200,000 fans both young and old, and was chosen by Matt as the perfect setting for his proposal to girlfriend and avid Doctor Who fan, Stacie-Anne Dilkes, 23. The attraction is in the final three weeks of its year-long London run.

Of course, Matt has never dreamed of playing up to this namesake coolness and therefore avoided dressing in a tweed jacket and bow tie for the occasion, the standard uniform of the Eleventh Time Lord (what? Oh, he did dress the same…?)

Alt-Smith stunned his wife-to-be by pretending to be an exhibit (despite bearing no discernible resemblance to the Doctor Who star) in a section of the Experience which hosts original props, costumes and monsters from almost 50 years of the programme – before bending down on one knee and asking for her hand in marriage.

Happily, she didn’t kick him in the Sensorites and dispense Mace. Instead, she said YES!

Incidentally, the real Matt Smith has congratulated the couple.

“Matt Smith proposing to his girlfriend! Firstly, being a Smith means phone calls to the bank take so much longer – there are so many Smiths!! But I bet none of them have proposed at the Doctor Who Experience! Amy and Rory would be proud. Next – babies in the TARDIS…? Congratulations to you both and many years of happiness. Love, Matt.”

]]> http://www.kasterborous.com/wordpress/2012/02/a-doctors-proposal/feed/ 1 http://www.kasterborous.com/wordpress/2012/02/rivers-return/ http://www.kasterborous.com/wordpress/2012/02/rivers-return/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:36:49 +0000 Andrew Reynolds http://www.kasterborous.com/wordpress/?p=32767 Its not often that a time travellers future has been so entwined with the filming schedule of Upstairs, Downstairs but – if comments made by Alex Kingston on The Graham Norton Show – are to be believed – then River Song could be making a return to Doctor Who.

The Radio Times reports that in an interview which airs this Friday at 10:35 pm on BBC 1 Alex revealed that thanks to the scheduling Gods, her role in the second series of the BBC remake of Upstairs, Downstairs (it was a lot like You Rang M’Lord? but with a serious face, no Su Pollard and no crooning Bob Monkhouse title sequence) wouldn’t clash with a possible return to the show:

“You may see her again. Who knows? Lets just say, Upstairs, Downstairs and Doctor Who don’t film at the same time.”

Alex also confessed that she’d known for a very long time that (spoiler alert!) River was Amy’s daughter – a fact she hid from her co-stars:

“I knew…for the whole of the last series. [The other actors] didn’t know and were constantly trying to get it out of me. They discovered it in that episode [A Good Man Goes to War] when they read the script.”

So all that remains to be speculated over is: with Mom and Dad out of the picture  isn’t it time River cut loose and joined the TARDIS party?

So here is Kasterborous’ list of the top ten disguises used by batty Time Lord the Master!

Before we get down to business it’s worth giving an honourable mention to those that didn’t make the cut, take a bow: The Adjudicator, Mr. Seta, Street Preacher, The Sheriff, Count Marius Castillo, George Steer, Merlin (that’s right, before the events of Battlefield as well) and McMaster.

Now the criteria for choosing just what makes a good disguise are:

1) The name of the temporary character must be a pun, anagram or a direct translation of his own name,

2) It must have dubious value as a disguise; for instance, disguising yourself on a planet where no one knows who you are in the first place and

3) It must be used to gain access to either technology, an event or a planet with far-reaching consequences, say, for example using a disguise to access TITAN or influence the signing of the Magna Carta.

Let us proceed…

10. Kalid – Time-Flight

Having escaped Castrovalva via the magic of needing to be in this serial, the Master dons the pointless disguise of Kalid , an Asian trickster who possesses knowledge of the powerful alien gestalt; the Xeraphin in this “We have a Concorde, so let’s use it!” in Fifth Doctor serial.

Why is it so pointless?

No one on the planet knows who he is – so unless he expected the Doctor to eventually turn up and ruin his overly complex and convoluted plan there’s no need for the subterfuge.

The only explanation for having gone to such lengths is that it afforded him easy access into the citadel – although that isn’t explicitly said in the script – and it couldn’t have been possession like Tremas before him, because that raises all sorts of questions about the Masters lifespan.

Plus, he’s seen taking the costume off!

Unless this was a literal possession (the mechanics of which would be astounding) then he wouldn’t be peeling layers off and chastising the Doctor for, yet again, failing to understand his plan (the Doctor wasn’t the only one.)

The real problem is that unlike those early Delgado serials where the character developed and the circumstances changed with each appearance the Master seems to be stuck in the same rut he was in way back in Logopolis – affording us little new insight into his and the Doctor’s relationship.

9. Sir Giles Estram – The King’s Demons

When your own lead character acknowledges that this plot to stop the signing of the Magna Carta is ‘small-time’ then you really have no choice but to question why on Earth the Master was there in the first place – let alone donning the utterly unconvincing persona of Sir Giles Estram – “The King’s Anagram”.

Both Kalid and Estram seem to have been constructed to undermine the Master’s menace – both represent the nadir of shoe-horning him into plots that really don’t call for his presence (just what was he doing before the Doctor appeared? Why did he wait for him to arrive to implement his plan?)

The biggest tell in this serial is the reveal, which judging by the 13th century character’s reactions, made absolutely no difference to the story – again like Kalid, there’s little reason for him to don the disguise other than preparing for the Doctor’s inevitable arrival.

8. Bruce – Doctor Who: The Movie

Poor Bruce.

It’s not easy being a paramedic, especially when rogue Chinese gangs keep killing eccentrically dressed older gentlemen who stand around anachronistic police boxes right at the end of your shift.

Not that we have any time to feel the loss of Bruce when the Master’s morphant swallows his soul – Bruce is used solely by the Master in a moment reminiscent of The Terminator to find out what happened to John Smith, only with out the menace…or the car through the doors…or a sense of purpose.

Bruce’s life is little more than a snoring joke and a hokey eye effect – it’s a shame that when he does become the Master that more isn’t made of the life interrupted – Napa Valley wasn’t too far away, how about a Sideways style story featuring the Bruce-Master and his old college roommate heading out for one last wild weekend of wine and women?

It couldn’t be any worse, right. After all the Master is only really there to prove that Terry Nation was indeed a powerful man.

7. Portreeve – Castrovalva

The Master makes plans like frustrated novelists write books – each week there’s twenty different ideas ready to be utilised and all of them fail. There built to fail in fact. How else could you explain the plan within a plan of both setting the TARDIS on a collision course with Event One and inputting the entirely fictional planet of Castrovalva into the TARDIS’ index file?

He must have known one or the other was going to fail. In fact, going back to Logopolis, he must have assumed that the Doctor wouldn’t be killed by his fall from the radar dish else why would he have gone to the trouble of constructing such a scheme?

For someone so keen on planning ahead; it seems a little unnecessary to construct a trap with so many variables: Why did the Master give the people of Castrovalva free will? Did he get lost in the details of his world? Did he believe that by giving them free will it make the trap more difficult to escape once he had manipulated the people with Portreeve?

Portreeve was a slightly less successful incarnation of Tremas – a likeable, rounded character who in this instant turned out to be the Master rather than forcibly turned into the Master.

All the credit rightly goes to Anthony Ainsley who always made the most of the material he was given – making his Master eminently more boo-able than the previous incarnations.

6. A Member of The Four Horsemen - Smash Hit

Music is a part of the Master’s character – he not only has a penchant for the Scissor Sisters but, according to PDA novel Deadly Reunion he also played the drums in the Gallifrey Academy Hot Five. That’s right – he not only hears the sound of drums, he plays them.

However he left his tub thumping behind him when, in the 1973 Doctor Who Holiday Special, Smash Hit he hypnotised an up and coming pop group The Swifts, gave them a suitably ominous new name, The Four Horsemen, and set about hypnotizing the population (who were all listening in to Billy ‘the Kid’ Kiddsley’s show) to converge at Stonehenge – although he really doesn’t have much of a plan for the population of the UK other than a bit of converging.

It’s not really made clear how the entire population managed to be listening to the same radio station at the same time. Neither is it explained how the Doctor and the Brigadier managed to avoid being brainwashed either (although in as seen in Terror of the Autons, a strong will can deter the effects) or why the characteristically hypnotic Master suddenly needs a mind control machine when the crowds start to gather at Stonehenge (we’ve all seen Paul McKenna, surely there has to be a safety word to break the spell? People don’t stop being Chickens once they’ve had a quick flap and cluck. It’s just poor planning on his behalf.)

Still it doesn’t really matter when the whole thing wraps up with the Brigadier, under the Master’s control (yeah, now it works), trying to kill the Doctor, who thanks to a non-specific command to ‘kill’ avoids regeneration as the Brig in turn starts to ‘kill’ the Master.

With the mind control device destroyed, all that’s left for the Doctor to do is to tell one of the doubtful members of The Swifts that getting out of the pop scene might just be a good idea – as if this happens quite a lot to the Bay City Rollers.

The Master wasn’t quite done with pop music though. In PDA novel Hidden Talent he again employees his hypnotic powers to rig a talent show which if he just used a phone in could have netted him millions.

5. Colonel Masters/Telephone Engineer – Terror of the Autons

The Master is a lot of things but he’s not a details man.

His recklessness with his disguises and, eventually, his allegiance to the cause is something that follows through all incarnations of the character. You always get the sense that even if he had gone to such lengths to create a plausible ruse, all it would have brought him was time.

The fact that he changes his mind so quickly after the Doctor attempts to persuade him to repel the Nestene invasion is perhaps a sign that he was struggling with the grandness of his scheme – albeit one that he clearly couldn’t wait to share with the world.

For a man with a hypnotic hold on the human race its difficult to see why he bothered with the cunning disguise of Colonel Masters (perhaps his lack of imagination hints at the apathy he feels towards such disguises?) after all he could have simply ceased control of the Farrell Family plastics works without the incredibly thin cover of Masters (if he can adopt realistic face masks like that of the telephone engineer and his wayward flex – then why not use an existing customer of the factory as his disguise?)

Although we would have been denied one of the most iconic/mocked moments in Doctor Who – Mr. McDermott’s Ed Wood style death by chair.

4. Professor Thascales – The Time Monster

The Time Monster largely fails to recapture the potent alchemy of The Daemons – a serial it tries to ape in all but execution. The one saving grace of this tale of Atlantis is Roger Delgado and UNIT’s gradual awareness of the Master’s tricks.

The serial does a nice job of pointing out the absurdity of the Master operating under the nose of UNIT: Benton isn’t fooled by his impersonation of the Brigadier (again, it’s the details that let the Master down), the Master under the guise of Professor Thascales (Greek for “Master”) pretends to be a pacifist in order to avoid eating lunch with The Brigadier and there’s a nice moment where the Master gleefully hypnotised Percival – making him think of the ‘good old days’.

The serial is a great example of a disguise adding to the character rather than undermining his menace – the fact that he seems unable to muster a Greek accent to save his life makes him much more likeable.

A PDA sequel The Quantum Archangel sees the Master – under the guise of Branko Gospodar – a Serbian Businessman (and yes, that is Serbian for “˜Master”) not learning any lesson’s from the events of The Time Monster while brazenly attempting to both kill off the Chronovores, by cutting off their food supply the Lux Aeterna, and revitalise his withering old Trakenite body using the very same power source.

The translation trend continued on in the PDA novel series with Police Inspector Lemaitre in Last of the Garderene (French) and Estro in Legacy of the Daleks (Esperanto).

3.Professor Yana – Utopia

Finally, all it took was for the Master to rewrite his entire DNA signature just to get a disguise that actually worked.

Professor Yana is a tormented man. Carrying the hopes of the human race on his shoulders and haunted by the ever presence sound of drums (not to mention the terrible coffee) his race for the prize is hampered by the conditions he finds himself on Malcassairo.

But all is saved when the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrive and unwittingly break the perception filter around the Master’s Fob watch – leading to perhaps the most exciting ten minutes of television ever for anyone who holds a candle for the great Doctor/Master conflict of old.

Derek Jacobi, who had previously played an android version of the Master in the BBC webcast series Scream of the Shalka, plays the kindly, warm Professor beautifully – making his betrayal of Chantho all the more heartbreaking, and his reveal deviously malevolent.

2. Harold Saxon – The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords

The layering of Saxon into each episode leading up to Utopia was still as clumsy as ‘Bad Wolf’ but thanks to the massive impact of the Master’s return, everything was forgiven.

This time Harold Saxon – the Prime Minister who was (satire alert!) all style and no substance – didn’t rely on the Master’s actual hypnotic effect on people (which was hit and miss most of the time) but instead used the Archangel Network to create a physic matrix around himself – making him irresistible to voters.

That’s not the only old school trick the Master kept. His disguise was now explicitly designed to gain entry to the upper echelons of power albeit with the same amount of care for the details and with just about the same level of patience with his own schemes as before.

Saxon also has the same level of charm and charisma that Delgado brought to his persona; Saxon had to be a convincing, if fraying at the edges, to work.

The line maybe very thin between the Master and Saxon but it’s definitely there, even if it’s a a little too meta to be as engaging as it could be.

1. Rev. Magister – The Daemons

Kicking off a trend of adopting direct translations of his own name – in this case Latin – the Master dons the guise of a ‘rationalist, existentialist’ priest in this classic Barry Letts era serial.

Roger Delgado is the epitome of cool, charming evil – there’s something deeply malevolent in seeing him dressed in robes and a dog collar – its one of the more successful attempts by the Master at taking on a persona rather than using another character in the show as a disguise – a trait that affected the Anthony Ainsley era.

If his own magisterial red robes weren’t so indelible it would have been disappointing to see him back in his… normal appearance.

The Doctor and his companions land on a spaceship orbiting a distant and mysterious world, where a human crew lie frozen somewhere between life and death. The planet is the Sense-Sphere, home of the Sensorites, beings of immense intelligence and power. Unable to leave, the Doctor and his companions must deduce the Sensorites’ intentions: are they friendly, hostile, or frightened? And what is the deadly secret at the heart of the Sense-Sphere?

As you’d expect this 6-parter is a bit padded out but when the main plot is on show it moves at a fair pace. Now when I say fair though I don’t mean lots of shoot-outs and violence, I mean the story progresses with an intelligent tempo. Following on from rather over-rated The Aztecs it’s a real sci-fi story with plenty of atmosphere, some nicely realised aliens and solid set construction. It’s a dialogue driven piece rather than effects bonanza full of firsts such as Susan’s telepathy and the Doctor mentioning his home planet etc.

The cast are solid and suitably stiff-upper lipped and though Hartnell does fluff a few lines here and there he does give one of his most rounded performances. The rest of the regulars do well and the Sensorites themselves, though bizarre creations are actually very effective, even if they resemble rotting, bearded fish.

Extras:

Commentary – Toby Hadoke moderates this entertaining gag-track that has contributions from actors William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Joe Greig, Martyn Huntly, Giles Phipps, director Frank Cox, designer Ray Cusick and make-up designer Sonia Markham who each appear on a rotation sort of business. Hadoke helps jog along their memories of the recording of the episodes and gets some real pearls of information from them. Well worth listening to just to hear Hadoke’s infectious enthusiasm.

Looking For Peter – This quite brilliant documentary from Toby Hadoke tries to discover who on earth was Peter R. Newman, the man behind The Sensorites. Little is known about this talented chap, a quick Google of his name reveals that he wrote for Doctor Who and is given different dates for his death! Without giving too much away Toby does his best to uncover exactly who he was and why he seemed to disappear after writing Doctor Who. I won’t spoil it for you but it’s a very well made piece about a man only his family seemed to know about.

Vision On With Clive Doig – Ahh, the music used here is that from “The Gallery”, the soundtrack that accompanied viewer’s pictures during that classic TV series Vision On, the show in which Doig directed. But this is about vision mixing and Clive Doig was one of the best who worked on the first few years of Doctor Who. Far too short at only seven minutes or so, Clive describes his time on the show and how no one would have guessed at how successful Doctor Who would become.

Secret Voices Of the Sense Sphere – This extra unravels the mystery of some strange voices that appear during the story. Again if I tell you it would spoil it though many of you probably will guess but it’s a great chance to hear Clive Doig again.

Photo Gallery – A compendium of snaps from the production of the story accompanied by some rather creepy sound effects. One for die-hard fans.

PDF Materials – As you’d expect there’s the usual Radio Times listings here but as a real bonus we get to see the Original Design Drawings from the story.

Info Text – Watch with this one as once again it uncovers some real gems of information.

Coming Soon – A smart and polish piece of promotion for the forthcoming Revisitations 3 box-set.

The Sensorites is one of the stronger stories from the first series and has been cruelly over-looked for too long. Yes, it’s not exactly the greatest adventure or the most action-packed but one worth investing your time in even if you’re not much of a fan of the black and white era.

Released on January 23rd, you can buy your copy of The Sensorites from Amazon for just £12.99!

Sometime however, life can get in the way and books can get left by the sideline until we manage to fix them into our busy schedules. This is exactly where the Galaxy Quick Reads initiative comes into play and they’ve once again enlisted the help of the Doctor.

These specially designed books are shorter than the usual novel and are designed to encourage adults and children alike to read more by simply and brilliantly being more accessible on short bus rides and train journeys.

2012 starts the year off for Doctor Who fans with an exciting new adventure featuring the Doctor, Rory and Amy up against a Weeping Angel as it cause havoc around modern day London. Read on to find out more…

‘No one from this time will ever see that girl again…’

The Doctor, Amy and Rory round off a sight-seeing tour round London with a trip to the theatre. That’s when things start to go wrong.

The Doctor wonders why so many young girls are going missing from the area. When he sees Sammy Star’s amazing magic act, he thinks he knows the answer. Sammy’s glamorous assistant disappears at the climax of the act – but this is no stage trick.

The Doctor and his friends team up with residents of an old people’s home to discover the truth. And together they find themselves face to face with a deadly Weeping Angel.

Whatever you do – don’t blink!

With a well known Doctor Who author, a popular monster and an exceptionally low price, you’d be shooting yourself in the foot not to pick this up as soon as it hits the shelves. If this story is anything like the other Quick Read Doctor Who books such as I am a Dalek or Made of Steel then you’re going to be missing your stop on the way to work or school…

Written by Jacqueline Rayner, Magic of the Angels will be available in all good bookshops from today priced £1.99, and you’ll also find it in print and Kindle format on Amazon
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Calmly but assuredly Clarke has been collecting accomplishments along his pathway to this ‘next level’ over a short but by no means limited career.

Firstly there’s Doctor Who (well he’s peaked right there, surely?), during which he found time to write an episode of Torchwood (Combat) and Kidulthood, the non-patronising portrayal of a group of 15 year-olds growing up in London. He’s he’s also written and directed a sequel, Adulthood as well as co-directing and writing 4.3.2.1.

Now however he’s leaving the galaxy altogether and embarking on a voyage to explore strange new worlds and seek out new career opportunities in the sequel to 2009 reboot of that other classic sci-fi franchise, Star Trek.

Speaking to the UK Community Channel (via TrekMovie.com) Clark remained tight lipped about anything too specific about Star Trek XII (to give it its full Roman name) but did share a few details about the audition process, where he was when he heard that he’d got the part and gave a few impressive answers in a Trek based quiz.

Click play to see the full interview.

Rumours have it that Clark will be playing ‘a family man with a wife and a young daughter’ which, if they are the most outstanding features of a character that could travel to the far reaches of the universe, tells you everything about what his motivations could be.

Kirk himself Chris Pine told PA that the British invasion – consisting of Clarke, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2) – have all mixed in nicely with the family Trek.