The latest entry in the “who will be in the next Trek movie” saga is the casting of Pavel Chekov; the youth-targeted, Beatles-reminiscent navigator.
Anton Yelchin is supposedly under not-so-well-kept-secret negotiations with Paramount.
With a name like that, how could he not be cast?
Yes, because Chekov should TOTALLY be at the Academy with cadets more than ten years his senior.
He’ll be playing the plucky street urchin who runs into Kirk and Spock and is thus enticed to drop his no-good ways and join Starfleet.
I could totally write this script. :)