Everyday I get more and more confused by just what kind of movie we’re going to be seeing when it comes to Star Trek XI. They are casting far too young for the crew to believably be the actual crew of the Federation flagship, but I don’t see how the film can take place during the “Academy Years” if they insist on following the Star Trek canon (which they claim they are doing), because the entire bridge crew of the Enterprise did not go to high school together.
Regardlesss, Anton Yelchin (“Alpha Dog”) has been cast in the role of Chekov in the new film according to Dark Horizons.