Hi, I really don´t doubt Karls acting quality, as I wrote in a reply above, I do believe that he could play anyone he wants. It´s just...."sighs"... well, it might be more my personal view than anything else... For me Karl is the hot, slashable guy about whom I get to read in every second slash story and I do enjoy those! McCoy on the other side... at home in my bookshelf I have over 70 Star Trek novels. I´ve seen the movies, the series, been there done that. Star Trek is like a religion. Well, and you don´t mix religion and slash! :( Ah well....and they have Eric Bana signed up to play the villain! I mean, how will I be able to concentrate on Trek? And where are the good old times, when most of the Trek actors weren´t so goddammed good looking?! "sigh"