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By: DirectorSloan (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:01:45 on Jul 01, 2009

I have one request and it's not really a script request, but some explanation might be in order. From a visual effects point of view, I've always looked for two things in the Star Trek movies
1. The bridge - While I'm not a gadget geek. I just really like a sleek looking bridge with lots of gizmos. JJ didn't disappoint. I would say use the same sets or maybe even dress them up some more and you're fine. Really nothing to do on this one.
2. Engineering - Should look really "glitzy" and impressive. If the bridge is the brain of the Enterprise, this is her heart. It's what powers her. I'm not bashing the look of the engine room, but to second the sentiment that someone who said the engine room looked like a brewery. I'll just say that after seeing the engine room I was in shock and awe that the ship could leave space dock, much less travel faster than the speed of light. Could we dress up the engine room for the next go around? Please? Maybe just a little? Write it in as installing a prototype or new and improved propulsion system. We know in the movie that in JJ's movie, that was the maiden voyage of the Enterprise from Pike's comment during departure that the newest ship deserved more pomp and circumstance for her first voyage than could be afforded given the current crisis. So unless the next movie takes places many years after the current movie, a significant refit along the lines of TOS Enterprise to TMP Enterprise might be hard to explain.

Just my personal wish list.

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By: Captain's Blog (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:19:46 on Jun 30, 2009

But I fear a rush job.

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By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:55:41 on Jun 30, 2009 | (3)

First: What a waste the interviewer made of an opportunity to make a suggestion to the writer's face.

Last: Since everyone's doing it, and since the writers are asking for it: here's my advice for the next one:

The one thing that most impressed me about this movie, and it's not a "thing", but an idea, is how many layers of meaning there are to every scene, every line and to the movie's basic concept as a whole. Some no doubt were happy accidents which bloomed only in the minds of a few lucky audience members. But others were clearly the result of hard work on your part, Abrams' and others. The action was unbridled fun. But the layering is what will keep me watching it for years. Buried messages were pointed at ears open enough to hear them and became fundamental plot points to those with eyes big enough to see them. Some referenced the fans themselves. Even some, the Jewish people ("Hail the USS Truman", who's namesake made possible the state of Israel, on their way to the genocide of a race embodied by the role Nimoy played--a Jewish actor). The multi-leveled meanings of "cliffhanger" and "no-win scenario." Planet Vulcan and Spock Prime as existential surrogates, not only for the old time line, but for the old fanbase!

Continuing: We, my fellow "Vulcans", are an endangered species. But we'll grab what we can of our "culture" and will preserve it "over here". And in the wake of our experiences with, and our reverence for, this great idea: "Star Trek", we'll pass it on to the "next generation" with a blessing not "usual" for a fanbase so protective of what they love: "Good Luck".

That's the stuff great movies are made of.

Dear Mr Abrams, Mr. Orci, Mr. Kurtzman, et al.,

Do that again, please.

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