menuBarBack
Beam Up News | Join | Your Account
Home
Advanced Search
boxBottom
News Tribblets
boxBottom
Stardates Calendar
News Story

Features

Abrams Cohorts Emphasize Respect for Mythology in Trek XI, Say Script Will Contain Old and New

Features

By Steve Krutzler / 17:07, 7 June 2006 / Star Trek: Nemesis

TrekWeb reader Christopher Allan Smith (MotherFraker) sent in the following report about Star Trek XI:

Recently, Jeff Goldsmith, Senior Editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, interviewed Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 after a screening of the movie in May sponsored by the magazine. In the magazine's podcast, dated May 26, the duo gave the clearest indication yet of their plans for Star Trek XI.

Below is a word for word transcription of everything they said when asked about their pending Star Trek work. To this listener, it's the clearest indication yet they are not re-imagining (as this listener had hoped) but building on the current canon. Enjoy.

Question: I know you can't say much, but is there anything you could even tell us to interrelate you pick a starting point so vast and so rich as Star Trek?

A: There are pockets within the universe, and we know the mythology well, and we are fans of the novels that happen between the movies and all that kind of stuff, which aren't even counted as part of the mythology sometimes and we do know that there is a space to begin to see a lot of the origins of a lot of the things we know and we're going to start there. We're very mindful of being totally true to the mythology and totally true to what's come there, and in a way try to embrace the fact there's such a rich history to it that this is not a case of trying to come in and be so clever that you're going to reinvent everything. It's a case of coming in and using the stuff you know is great and you know really works and not violating anything that's come before it.

Question: So, are we able to say that this is going to be with characters we know or new characters which preceed the characters we know?

A: It will be a bit of both, I think. It will be both.

Link to magazine: http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/current.html

iTunes info: Go to Podcasts, Search for Creative Screenwriting, Episode
Dated May 26, 2006.
Podcast Timestamp 38 min. 33 seconds.



More Top StoriesComments
Nov 24Cover and Info for Star Trek Movie Adaptation Comic Book1
Nov 24Scott Bakula on Why He Played the Role of Captain Archer in Enterprise4
Nov 24Leonard Nimoy Talks About Star Trek XII and (Not) Watching New Movie with Shatner0
Nov 23J.J. Abrams and Chris Pine Talk How Gratifying That Star Trek was Well Received, Working with Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek XII2
Nov 23Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.0
Story Archives...Browse:   

Talkback

35 comments Post New | Help
View:

RE: TNG | Report this post to moderator
By: zak (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:12:36 on Jun 08, 2006

There can be severe limitations to "timeless" characters - one is that they tend to have to stand still and often become cliches - as viewers don't want them to change or grow. Worse, I doubt vierwers would accept much change or growth in any of the TOS characters - especially Kirk and Spock. So,much as I truly love TOS and its characters, I really disagree with you here. The characters in TNG were richly developed and always seemed to grow some.

I think that exploring the TOS world yet again, can't help but feel somewhat redundant. Obviously we disagree.

Of course,I'd be happy with any new ST venture. But, you can't stay with TOS forever, and especially now, when ST is at a kind of junction, I think it would be a mistake to go back to TOS. For ST to live and prosper, it has to go beyond TOS again as well as beyond TNG. But since TNG did go beyond TOS already, going back to TOS again is ... just not going to be easy at all.

TNG obviously sprang from TOS, but it did an incredible job of making things interesting from a whole new perspective. (To be honest, I'd rather see either Voyager or DS9 characters over TOS - even though I liked TOS greatly).

I think, even if successful, a re-looking at the earlier age of TOS and worse, at Kirk and Spock once again, wouldn't do the future for ST any good at all. If there's to be a new TV series one day or even a succession of films,I think those are going to have to build on the world that TNG left, and not go through TOS (where we already know pretty much how things are going to turn out by the time TNG comes around)

I respect your point, but, I definitely see things differently.

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top
RE: TNG by the quickening @ 15:13:56 on Jun 09
    RE: TNG by Mardus @ 09:41:16 on Jun 19
    RE: TNG again by zak @ 22:58:52 on Jun 09
       RE: TNG again by the quickening @ 04:59:43 on Jun 12
Promenade










TrekWeb Merchants
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.ca
Amazon.de
Barnes & Noble

Get Firefox!
Privacy Policy | About Us | Legal Notice | Contact Us | | Get Firefox!
© 1996-2009 TrekWeb.com and Steve Krutzler. All rights reserved.