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Even if this movie is a financial success STAR TREK has now lost its soul.
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Nov 21 | Photos of TNG actors Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn at the premiere of Frakes' new TV movie The Librarian Curse of Judas Chaliche, can be found at IF Magazine.
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Nov 19 | A four-minute preview of the upcoming Star Trek Phase II episode "Blood and Fire", written by David Gerrold, can be found at YouTube.
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By GustavoLeao / 15:12, 21 July 2008 / Feature Films
More excerpts of the interview conducted at last weeks TCA press tour in Los Angeles with Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are online at The Deadbolt.
Why are you drawn to dark subject matter?
ABRAMS: It is funny. You know, looking at Trek, which has - there is some real weird and dark stuff that happens in it. But the truth is that Star Trek is so optimistic. There’s an optimism to Star Trek that is to me one of the things that was most appealing about the idea even of doing the movie, which is - while there is darkness that must be in contrast, and while there is real obstacle and an incredible villain and it’s terrifying and weird and creepy and scary and gross and all of the kind of things that you’d expect from this crazy sort of adventure, it’s also got a huge heart and a wonderful kind of family at the core of it. So while there are weird things that happen in Lost, Alias, and certainly in Fringe, something like Star Trek is ultimately, as I believe is the case with Fringe as well, a hopeful story.
There is no question that there is incredibly weird stuff that happens and people get tortured and hurt and the villains are evil and mean, but it’s part of defining who the good guys are. I think at the end of the day there are a lot of movies out there that are incredibly grim and very cynical and I don’t think that certainly Alias or Lost - and I can tell you with Fringe - these are stories that are ultimately very much about the people, totally humanistic emotional stories and good prevails. I’m always turned off by stuff that is too cynical and dark.
Was it a little surreal when you were on the set [of Star Trek] for the first time?
ORCI: Insane.
KURTZMAN: Yeah, it’s beyond - it’s like you’re in a dream.
ORCI: Out of body.
ABRAMS: It was weird.
More from Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman can be found here
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There's an optimism to Star Trek that is to me one of the things that was most appealing about the idea even of doing the movie, which is - while there is darkness that must be in contrast, and while there is real obstacle and an incredible villain and it's terrifying and weird and creepy and scary and gross and all of the kind of things that you'd expect from this crazy sort of adventure, it's also got a huge heart and a wonderful kind of family at the core of it.
Most excellent. Of the innumerable things Abrams could've said about how "cool" this movie will be, his first few points are the most critical for a story with conflict: Contrast, obstacle, and villain.
There's no such thing as "Good vs Bad", there's only a contrast between moral agendas. Even then, contrast isn't actionable without a perceived obstacle on one side or the other. These sparks ignite a championship between mutual villains (e.g. Kirk vs Kor).
This can apply to both forbidden love and war. (Spock is aghast at how Kirk and McCoy can openly admire Khan in TOS "Space Seed.")
Even while framing his thoughts during off-the-cuff Q&A, Abrams comes across as compatible to the Star Trek universe, minus Rick Berman's gross misconception about a future Utopia.
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