Tyler Perry gets to yell at Kirk in new film.
UGO is reporting that Tyler Perry has been cast in J.J. Abrams' new "Star Trek" film. Perry plays the (human) head of Starfleet Academy, which James T. Kirk is attending. Perry's isn't the first name to come to mind when casting for the best-known franchise in SF. Perry is famous for his role as Madea, and for his recent summer sleeper "Why Did I Get Married?"
Spoilers beneath this, so consider yourself warned ...
The rumor says Perry is overseeing Kirk's expulsion from Starfleet Academy as a result of his creative solution (i.e. cheating) on the
Kobayashi Maru test. UGO's informant says:
So young Kirk is standing in front of his peers (human and alien Starfleet cadets and officers) and facing immediate expulsion from the Academy. After hearing the charge from Perry’s character, Chris Pine-as-Kirk delivers a speech in the same vein as some of the classic Kirk speeches from the TV series. He wants to know how his cheating was found out, and it’s revealed that there was a witness to Kirk’s act. Kirk immediately demands to know who the witness was so he can face his accuser.
And that’s when Zachary Quinto-as-Spock stands up. Yup, he’s the one that ratted on Kirk reprogramming the Kobayashi Maru test and he’s the reason why Kirk is about to be expelled from Starfleet.
(Well, that's only going to spark the slash more.) Stay tuned as more information becomes available!