Among the casting of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 11, the one I found a little suspect was Karl Urban, who will be playing a (younger) version of Dr. Leonard McCoy, the crotchety medicine man on the Enterprise. Urban seems too old for the role, but then again, I guess McCoy was always the oldest character on the show, wasn’t he? Now Urban has talked about his role on Trek 11 with Sci Fi Wire.

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“The movie is very, very faithful to the spirit of the original series and the characters that were created in the ’60s,” Urban told the magazine.

Urban (Doom) said that his McCoy “is the lovable, irascible humanist that he has always been [and] a good friend of Jim Kirk [Chris Pine].”

But Urban added that “J.J. is going to reinvigorate this franchise in a fresh and exciting way.”

I guess we’ll see if Abrams succeeds at that come December 2008, when the film opens.