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Damon Lindelof Says Movie Centers on Relationship and Conflict Between Kirk and Spock

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By GustavoLeao / 13:23, 28 February 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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TrekMovie.com posted the first part of an exclusive interview with Star Trek movie producer Damon Lindelof. Here are few excerpts.

TrekMovie.com: I know you are on the Trekkie wing of the court


Damon Lindelof:
Just for the record the true Trekker is Bob [Orci]. I would say that on the spectrum of Trekkers, on a scale of 1 to 10, Bob is about a 7 and I would be somewhere in the 5 neighborhood. And Bryan [Burk], JJ [Abrams] and Alex [Kurtzman] would be somewhere in the 1-4 range varying. I have seen all the episodes of The Original Series and am a huge fan. Plus pretty much all the episodes of Next Generation and then I sort of floundered in the Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise era. I have seen all the movies, of course. But I would not hold myself to the high standards of Bob Orci.


TrekMovie.com:
Well he has read the books too


Damon Lindelof:
Yes that's true so he is even outside canon.

TrekMovie.com: As a Trek fan. What do you think is the essential component of Trek that will make to audiences today even though it is a forty year old franchise?


Damon Lindelof:
What has always been appealing to me about it - aside from the sense of exploration and the wonder of waking up in a job and never know what you are going to find that day as opposed to the monotony of it all. What always has been awesome about Trek for me, and what makes this movie great, is the idea of this real team of people. This iconic crew of people and each person has their own function and they all  interrelate with each other in interesting ways. And the center of the movie is the relationship and conflict between Kirk and Spock. The reality is, when we are on the set...when they are all together - Scotty and Uhura and Spock and Kirk and Chekov and Sulu and Pike...that you go ‘wow' This is what it is all about...the crew.

The full interview can be found at TrekMovie.com



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By: Dingo's Kidneys (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:10:45 on Feb 29, 2008

This guy Damon is really a class act. He really does seem to care what his viewers think and enjoys hearing from them. He doesnt come off as your typical Hollywood egomaniac.

When does this guy sleep? How do you cram in 5 eps of LOST while working on the most anxiously awaited film of the next year?

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By: IamKirok!!! (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:31:11 on Feb 29, 2008

I hate that, with the death of De Kelley, and the marketing of this new film, that everyone from JJ Abrams on down is conveniently forgetting that strength of Star Trek was the TRIO-Kirk, Spock and McCoy.

McCoy kept them both in check,and, in Nimoy's words, represented humanity. And watching the old epsidoes, I see that even more today. Too bad.


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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 16:41:18 on Feb 28, 2008

It appears that, while in the Academy, Kirk and Spock were more rivals than friends. Just a guess.

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    By: VoR (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:08:41 on Feb 28, 2008

    It seems like they really "get" Star Trek. It is about those great characters facing conflict together and how they interact. I love TNG, but for me, that McCoy/Spock/Kirk thing will always be my favorite aspect out of all of Trek, and the TOS shows were the best.

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      By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 17:58:45 on Feb 28, 2008

      I jusst saw yesterday STAR TREK V THE FINAL FRONTIER (yes, I like this movie, even with the awful FX and the anti-climax, so go figure) and the movie really shows the Kirk / Spock / McCoy friendship in all its beauty. Wonderful stuff from the Shatner and Loughery script.

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        By: The Magrathean (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:41:39 on Feb 28, 2008

        The camaraderie between the big three was very well highlighted in that movie (and in my opinion, is the only great thing about that film).


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          By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 18:58:18 on Feb 28, 2008 | Edit History (1)

          The Magrathean, I dont like to disagree with you (and millions of fans) but I think there is a lot of great things about Star Trek V :

          -the Jerry Goldsmith musical score

          -the beatiful cinematography of Andrew Lazlo and the location shooting

          -Laurence Luckinbill wonderful performance as Sybok

          -the powerful scene in which Sybok shows to Spock and McCoy their pains - perhaps one of the best acting scenes of DeForest Kelley in the movie series

          -Todd Bryant performance as Klaa - a young, ambitious Klingon

          -Kirk's talk that "he will die alone" and Spock telling him "you was never alone"

          -the humor on an Enterprise in which nothing works

          Well, as you see, I like the movie and it is one of my favorites. I hope some day, Mr Shatner can produce a "remastered" version of the movie, with upgrade new FX, to replace the awful FX by Bran Ferren and Associates. Nuff said'.

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            By: steveleenow (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 08:59:18 on Feb 29, 2008

            I agree. It's a shame that they didn't let Shatner do a director's cut with updated FX when they released the special edition of it a few years ago.

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            By: ata26679 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 01:00:09 on Feb 29, 2008

            Hi guys. I'm a long time reader, first time poster at TrekWeb.

            I didn't used to like Star Trek V very much when I was a kid, but it sort of grew on me through the years each time I watched it. I agree with everything GustavoLeao said. It has recently became one of my favorite Star Trek films. Another thing I like about it is that it carries on the Trek tradition of universal diversity. This time, it delivers a message about religion. Notice when you watch this film that despite all of the cultural differences between the humans, vulcans, klingons, and romulans in the film, they all believe in some form of God, and they all work together when they are faced with the possibility of finding God and their culture's idea of Heaven. I'm also pleased that "God" turned out to be some kind of alien and that the producers didn't attempt to make a "Starfleet Finds God" story. Instead, they used the characters to explore the religious aspects, and then made the revelation that the entity was not God, but instead a hostile alien, and the entire encounter wound up bringing the Federation and the Klingons closer to peace.

            Moving on to the original topic of this thread, Star Trek XI and the relationship between Kirk and Spock...

            I was thrilled to see the announcement that Jimmy Bennett would be playing a young James T. Kirk. I've seen him in several other films, and he's one of the best child actors in the business right now, in my opinion. I am looking forward to seeing the various time frames in the next film and seeing Kirk at differnt stages in his life, since there doesn't seem to be much reliable canon information on Kirk's background. James T. Kirk is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time, and the more I can learn about him, the happier I'll be.

            I originally thought that since Jimmy Bennett was 12, and in the eyes of Hollywood producers could probably play a 13 or 14 year old, I thought that the scenes he would be in might be about Kirk's experiences on Tarsus IV, but as I reviewed the info I could find about Kirk and Tarsus IV, I found that to be unlikely, considering another child actor was cast as Kirk's brother, and there's no mention of Kirk's brother being with him when he witnessed the horrors on Tarsus IV. I then figured that Bennett's scenes would probably be about an 11 or 12 year old Kirk growing up in Iowa, possibly as he is preparing to move to Tarsus IV.

            When the announcement was made that another 12 year old actor would be playing Spock, I got this idea about the two of them meeting as children, and their friendship building from there. But apparently, that isn't the case. I guess they meet for the first time at Starfleet Academy...?

            In any event, I really think that this will be a great film. When I first heard about it and heard that it was being described as a "reboot" for the Star Trek franchise, I cringed, thinking "so this is how it will end". But as more details are made available, the more I like it, the more anxious I am to see it, and the more optimistic I am about Paramount's willingness to revive the Star Trek franchise rather than abandon it like they did when they canceled Enterprise.


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