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Roberto Orci Denies Details of AICN Negative Review, Again - Spoilers

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By GustavoLeao / 05:02, 7 January 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek movie writer Roberto Orci popped onto the Don Murphy message board and completely and specifically denied that the details on AICN negative review were true.

He said:

"No area 51. That makes no sense. The Earth KNOWS there are aliens. What possible meaning could an area 51 have?"

"No Kirk as bad student. We all know he's a genius."

"No protesters with signs about anything."

"Yes, there's great action, but we've said that in other interviews."

The original report is here.



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By: Reklaw (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:40:16 on Jan 07, 2008

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Orci should go mum simply because he tends to come across as a meat-head.

I don't think he comes across that way at all.

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Example: Orci has said it's difficult to write for characters that we know won't die by the end of the adventure. Such an uninspired scribe has no business penning for Gene Roddenberry's timeless triumvirate. Star Trek isn't about escaping death, it's about why humans aspire. The former is the stuff of video games, the latter is the stuff of sentient life.

While I agree that the Trek that Roddenberry was directly involved with often had other elements in addition to danger, the latter was never absent. What Orci was getting at is its quite difficult to write a sense of suspense into a work when the audience knows that characters within it survive. The audience's suspension of disbelief wears thin with foreknowledge. This is self evidently true - if we know everything must work out for the characters when the story concludes any element of struggle just seems trite. Although all Trek has faced this challenge (because we know regular characters are not going to get easily killed off), prequels with characters whose futures are known represent a bigger challenge along these lines.

But since this is so self evident, its apparent you are wilfully misinterpreting Orci in order to make your point. Let's just slam Orci and whomever else is involved in the new movie, right? Intelligent discussion be damned, let's just find fault in yet another contrived way.

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