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By GustavoLeao / 16:23, 24 June 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis
TrekMovie.com posted the third and final part of their extensive interview with Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore. Here are few excerpts.
TrekMovie.com: Leonard Nimoy said he really didn't like the script from Generations and he felt that he didn't want to direct it, he didn't like the Spock role, so he denied that, and he felt the Kirk death was "gratuitous." So, do you think that...
Ron Moore: Well, I knew that. Leonard turned down the script, turned down the director's chair on the film and I knew he didn't like the script. It is hard to say at this point he was wrong. I think that Kirk's death in our minds was integral to the film because it was a movie about death. It was a movie about mortality. It was a movie about Picard reaching a certain age and realizing there are more days behind him than were in front of him. His brother had died, the Enterprise herself died, and this mythic hero would ultimately have a mortal ending as well. Despite realizing we are mortal, you still move on and you still live your life and you still try and the make the most of it. That is what the movie was trying to be about. I think-Brannon and I were not ready to write that movie at that point in our careers. Our reach exceeded our grasp. We didn't have the maturity and the seasoning as writers, and probably as human beings, to tackle something that grand and marry it to an action-adventure Star Trek film. So Leonard's instincts were right. He clearly put his finger - I didn't meet with him, but I remember after he met with Rick, Rick conveyed to us his reservations and why he didn't like it. He put his finger on the right problems. The Nexus was a problem. The Nexus was a difficult concept that we were never able to crack and Kirk's death didn't pay off the themes in the way we wanted it to pay off. At the time we were doing our best and we thought it would work. We believed in the project and were trying to make it happen, but we were also writing the TV series at the same time. In retrospect it is easy to look back and say ‘here are all the problems and here is where you went south' but at the moment we were all dedicated to trying to do the best movie that we could and we thought we had a good movie on our hands.
TrekMovie.com: Kirk dying in Generations is the public and, from what I understand much of the reason why William Shatner is not in the new movie. How do you resurrect someone and have it only be a cameo? There is a big call to resurrect Kirk and bring him back to life, to reverse what you did. What do you think of that thought?
Ron Moore: I think they are doing...as far as I am concerned they are doing Kirk, they are doing Spock. I don't know. I like Bill. I have nothing against Bill, but I don't know that there is a need to get beyond Generations in terms of Bill and bring him back in some thing. I don't know. I don't quite get it on some level why there is such a hew and cry to do that or not do that. It seems besides the point. They are going back to the beginning and starting over. They are bringing Leonard in and I sort of understand the desire to establish a tie between old Trek and new, but to me it just feels like a great opportunity to start over. I think the new movie will be more about the new Kirk and new Spock and the new McCoy than it is about ties to old.
TrekMovie.com: You had a chance to visit the set. How much did they tell you about the script and the plot?
Ron Moore: Virtually nothing...and I didn't really ask. I didn't want to know and it was the first time in a long time that I could approach one of these Trek things as a fan and I just wanted to preserve that. I sort of avoided looking at the teaser trailer for a long time and finally broke down and watched the teaser trailer. I was just there to walk onto a Federation Starship again after a long time and just enjoy the thrill of not knowing what the scene was and not knowing who that character in the corner was. I just wanted to be a fan again for a moment and not know too much on the inside?
More from Moore on the new movie and the TNG movies (plus an audio version of the interview) can be found at TrekMovie.
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