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St.Louis Jewishlight.com posted an exclusive interview with Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy, in which he talks about his photography career. Nimoy also talks briefly about his return to the role of an older Spock in J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek movie.

"I will be acting in a new Star Trek movie, that is going to be filmed later this year and early next year, the first acting job I have accepted in 15 or 18 years." he said "So they need me to came back once more to play the character of Spock, in a sort of prequel to the original story." He agreed the project because he liked the director and script. The acting role that first made him famous has persisted in his life. "I am still strongly identified with it, no question about it, and there will be a surge again because of this new movie. I took the job because it is being directed by a very talented young director, J. J. Abrams, and he has writers working with him that have don e a wonderful job of capturing the essence of Star Trek. So I am happy to be back doing it. I will always be identified with Spock, no question, but I am happy to say I have been able to gain more and more acceptance of my photography."
 
The full interview can be found here.



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By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:11:06 on Oct 31, 2007 | Edit History (1)

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By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:38:16 on Oct 31, 2007

Not only is Nimoy coming out of long retirement to be a part of this project, but he's predicting a surge in Star Trek popularity as a result of this film. I think this marks the first time in Star Trek history that, upon first reading it, Nimoy didn't have a problem with a Star Trek movie script he didn't help write.

Nimoy's vocal and positive assessment of something I haven't read myself is the strongest case for being optimistic about this story. The "Vice President" of Star Trek is laying his credibility on the line, uncharacteristically, and that wouldn't be the logical thing to do unless it was a good gamble.


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    By: Yesterday's Lemmiwinks (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:40:44 on Oct 31, 2007

    Egg zacked lee. This man is not a media/attention addict. He came out of acting retirement (save the occasional commercial) to do this. He's no fool.

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    By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:29:20 on Oct 31, 2007 | Edit History (1)

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    Not only is Nimoy coming out of long retirement to be a part of this project, but he's predicting a surge in Star Trek popularity as a result of this film. I think this marks the first time in Star Trek history that, upon first reading it, Nimoy didn't have a problem with a Star Trek movie script he didn't help write.

    Nimoy's vocal and positive assessment of something I haven't read myself is the strongest case for being optimistic about this story. The "Vice President" of Star Trek is laying his credibility on the line, uncharacteristically, and that wouldn't be the logical thing to do unless it was a good gamble.

    I agree this is probably an indication the script is very good indeed.

    The fanbase will still reject it if it takes too many liberties with the canon. And as some of the responses below indicate, much as some fans tuned out Enterprise based upon its concept alone, so too has Trek XI already alienated a faction of the fanbase.

    IMO, the film needs to draw in casual viewers and even non-fans if it is to be successful. The Trekkie fanbase is simply too fractured and undecided in terms of what is "good Trek" and also too tied to canon for it to support the film by itself.

    I've said this before -- I wouldn't wish the job of producing a new Star Trek film on a dog, and it doesn't matter if it's a prequel or something taking place post-Nemesis.If this was a film featuring a brand new Starfleet crew 20 years after Nemesis you'd have people bitching that it doesn't feature the TOS crew. Now that it does have the TOS crew you have people bitching that the film is looking backwards. And then there's the people who want another TNG, or a DS9, Voyager or Enterprise film, all playing tug-of-war. Kobayashi Maru.

    News flash: the film takes place in the 23rd century. Even as a prequel it's still looking forward because by my watch it's Oct. 31, 2007 which is the Twenty-FIRST Century.

    IMO if the film tanks that will probably be the end of the Trek franchise, at least in terms of film or TV, because no one is gonna bankroll another $200-million Star Trek production or multi-millions TV series if the fanbase can't make up its mind what it wants.

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      By: Yesterday's Lemmiwinks (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:43:14 on Oct 31, 2007

      +3 Rationality

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    By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 17:20:23 on Oct 31, 2007

    I agree with you that Mr Nimoy approval and praise of the script is the one thing that makes me a bit optimistic about this movie. It is not much, but makes me feel good about Abrams movie.

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    By: pctech45 (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:10:29 on Oct 31, 2007

    If it is indeed a prequel I'm not going to see it. I think most of you know why. I'm not interested in prequels, retelling a story that has already been told. I've said it before, I'll say it again, Star Trek should move forward, not backward.

    It'll tank.


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      By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:44:57 on Oct 31, 2007

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      I'm not interested in prequels, retelling a story that has already been told.

      A prequel is not a retelling of a story. It is a brand new story about familiar characters as they once were.

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      I'll say it again, Star Trek should move forward, not backward.

      Then I'll say my part again: moving "forward" means moving forward creatively and establishing fertile soil in which future franchise endeavors may bloom. Sticking to an already rambling linear timeline post-Nemesis would be "franchis-icide." At this terribly low point for Trek, it would try the patience of an already cynical general public and it would be begging fans to once again fall in love blindly when all they want is their first love.


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        By: John Calvin (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 06:34:14 on Nov 01, 2007

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        A prequel is not a retelling of a story. It is a brand new story about familiar characters as they once were.


        Then I'll say my part again: moving "forward" means moving forward creatively and establishing fertile soil in which future franchise endeavors may bloom. Sticking to an already rambling linear timeline post-Nemesis would be "franchis-icide." At this terribly low point for Trek, it would try the patience of an already cynical general public and it would be begging fans to once again fall in love blindly when all they want is their first love.

        Very well said. I agree.

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      By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:30:27 on Oct 31, 2007 | Edit History (1)

      Quote from pctech45:
      ...retelling a story that has already been told.


      That describes a rerun or remake, not a prequel.

      Were your definitions valid, there'd be no point in watching the upcoming BSG Razor, which focuses on an untold prequel story of Battlestar Pegasus and Admiral Helena Cain.

      A period story moves our understanding forward. There is no backward in this process.


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        By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:28:36 on Oct 31, 2007

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        Were your definitions valid, there'd be no point in watching the upcoming BSG Razor

        And in the Trek world it would invalidate "The Menagerie", First Contact, even "The Inner Light." There are many more.

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        A period story moves our understanding forward. There is no backward in this process.

        Bravo. It also moves the narrative "forward."


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      By: Capricorn Two (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:03:06 on Oct 31, 2007

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      I'm not interested in prequels, retelling a story that has already been told.

      I understand what you are saying but this not a retelling - as much as we have been told.

      Abrams & Company, in one of their interviews last year, said that (and I am paraphrasing) that there are holes in the canon and they are dropping into the canon, things we have never seen. And obviously - from what we are told - if true - is that it is a prequel in terms of 'coming before' what we saw - but we got some flash-forwarding and flashing backing going on here (yeah - sounds like LOST's storytelling).

      Overall - audiences have told Hollywood that prequels work if the stories are told well in other films. And if they are re-igniting the franchise - where to start than where TOS began - which we have not seen in canon.


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        By: pctech45 (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:08:27 on Oct 31, 2007 | Edit History (1)

        Well now you've told me something I haven't seen before. If the movie is a "story telling" or sorts, or if it fits in the canon of the franchise, then I will give it a chance. If it's anything else, I don't think I'll be able to.

        Thanks dude.

        Blasted double posts, sorry!


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        By: pctech45 (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:08:23 on Oct 31, 2007

        Well now you've told me something I haven't seen before. If the movie is a "story telling" or sorts, or if it fits in the canon of the franchise, then I will give it a chance. If it's anything else, I don't think I'll be able to.

        Thanks dude.


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      By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 17:24:27 on Oct 31, 2007 | Edit History (1)

      I used to think like you and to tell the truth I am also not interested in prequels and reboots. Not my kind of movie. Not my kind of Star Trek. But lets wait for more information and plot spoilers before we decide to see or not see the movie. Lets wait and hope for the best.

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        By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:41:48 on Nov 01, 2007

        I think JJ probably is betting that people are tired of the TNG/technobabble stuff that star trek had become. This a way to re-introduce the old to the new and the new to the old. I am not against a prequil but I will say I am concerned this story is once again going into the familiar territory of time travel. I have my fill of that! Still, like you said Gustavo, I will wait and hope for the best.

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          By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:22:37 on Nov 01, 2007

          Yeah, the time travel / alternate timeline rumors really scared me LOL

          And also, I am not a fan of prequels and I am not a fan of J.J. Abrams. But like I said in another message, I trust Mr Nimoy and since Mr Nimoy praises the script and the talent of J.J., so there is still hope.

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