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Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman Talks Star Trek Canon in New Video Interview

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By GustavoLeao / 16:44, 27 August 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman recently sat down with Fox Movie Channel's "Life After Film School" series and spoke about being the co-writers of the upcoming Star Trek movie.


They discuss how challenging it can be to deal with the weight of the Star Trek canon which is over 40 years of continuity of television history and why they decided to set the movie storyline at the beginning of The Original Series era and why they decided to tell the story of the original crew first meeting. Here is an excerpt.

"Our version of Star Trek is not exactly a prequel." said Orci "It is in some ways and you will have to see it to label it exactly. Canon, that is a word that was invented for Star Trek, meaning, does it fall within the continuity of this forty-year puzzle. But it was amazing when we went back to look at Star Trek,  no one had ever done the story about how the original crew came together."

"[...] there's five thousand hours of Star Trek and no one ever covered how they all met [laughs]." Orci continued "So in a way that was liberating in that no one had stated how that happened exactly. And because we had been fans truly-who knew all those years sitting in front of the TV watching Transformers and Star Trek that we weren't wasting our time. It was all tax deductible. It was daunting, but we thought, if we can't do it, the no one can! No, not exactly. But it was like we had been called to duty and it woudl have felt cowardly to back away just because ‘it has been forty years, what can we do?'" 

"We, at first, we were scared -- not because we didn't think it was worthy, it was we didn't think we were worthy of it." said Kurtzman "So, it became kind of about thinking, "Alright, well, god, if we're going to do this, what did we really love about it?" What inspired us when we were kids, and how do we get back to that feeling, and what was that feeling about for us? Ultimately, I think it was very much about Kirk and Spock and that bridge crew, that was a big part of it. So, what got us through the fear was the excitement of that opportunity, which really comes probably once in a lifetime."

You can see the interview here.

Thanks to TrekMovie.com and 'TRexx' for the transcript.



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By: Bean (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 23:12:52 on Aug 27, 2008

I've read some pretty ridiculous nitpicks and complaints about this movie so far. I mean REALLY out there kinda whining, trying to find anything wrong with it.

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I never said they shouldn't. But it's refreshing to hear the real reason.

But this takes the friggin cake. Even Scorned himself couldn't come up with such an asinine complaint.

You're actually whining about WHY they picked a prequel?? Who the hell cares WHY they wanted to do the origin.

The REASON for them doing a prequel doesn't make a lick of difference at all. The movie is going to do well or not based on the MOVIE ITSELF. Not the motives the writers had for doing it in a particular time frame.

And one last thought, doing a prequel doesn't give them any free passes as far as continuity goes to begin with. Look at Enterprise, the biggest complaint about that series were the continuity issues. It was a prequel that was set LONG before this one. They're not copping out. Copping out would be if they introduced a brand new crew post Picard. A crew with no history to respect, no character traits to keep in mind etc.. As far as continuity goes, it'd be a hell of a lot easier to do that than a prequel.

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RE: OMFG by jimbtnp @ 02:24:57 on Sep 01
RE: OMFG by Keoki @ 05:49:49 on Aug 28
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By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 23:00:31 on Aug 27, 2008

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But it's refreshing to hear the real reason.

The whole tenor of your posts is that it's some sort of copout for them to use the origin as a story.

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