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Chris Pine Says Star Trek is Going to be Sexed Up for a New Generation of Fans 

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By GustavoLeao / 06:29, 20 November 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

E! Online posted a brief interview with Star Trek star Chris Pine, the new Kirk, in which he talks about some of the scenes from the movie's new trailer. Here are few excerpts of the article. (beware of minor spoilers)

Pine revealed he has a love scene with actress Rachel Nichols, who plays an Orion, in one of the movie's two love scenes.

Pine also said that the much buzzed about scene in which Zoe Saldana takes her top off will get a lot of attention. "It'll become famous," Pine said of the striptease.


"It's trying to be sexed up for a new generation that really isn't used to seeing Star Trek," he added. "It's a whole new beast."

More from Pine can be found here.



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By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:39:32 on Nov 21, 2008

I'm really glad you have a kid and all, but I think it's really presumptuous of you to think that your decision to procreate means Star Trek can't be edgy. If you make Star Trek for kids, only kids will want to see it. Which means they won't plunk down money when they're adults "twenty years" from now. Which is why this Star Trek isn't necessarily for small kids. "The show" you're holding up as the standard aired from 1966-69, and it was always treading on thin ice with the censors even back then. If this movie's sex comes across as gratuitous, that's another matter, but I think it's a little naive to insist a movie competing in 2009 conform to the standards of the nineteen sixties. Find a babysitter and take a date. Star Trek is not JUST for kids.

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RE: Star Trek is for Kids by metdvls @ 18:37:25 on Nov 21
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By: Archangel (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:55:07 on Nov 21, 2008

Because nothing on TV or in movies contains depictions of physical intimacy in any degree, and kids these days know nothing of these bizarre physical acts.

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RE: Star Trek is for Kids | Report this post to moderator
By: Raptor10001 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 08:24:20 on Nov 21, 2008 | Edit History (2)

First off, this statement made by Pine has been blown way out of proportion.

This movie is meant to be a 'reinvigoration' of Star Trek and the sex appeal is one of the many facets of trek that the creative team is balancing to create this movie, as stated in many interviews. Whether or not they pull this off is yet to be seen, and a single shot from a trailer that is meant to get a GENERAL AUDIENCE excited for the film doesn't mean it's porn-trek.

Secondly, there is no way you can argue that the writers of previous iterations of trek wrote the sex-appeal to be 'above the heads of children'. Yes...some of it was more so innuendo, but you can't ignore the COUNTLESS scantily clad women from all iterations. In TOS most of them would dance in a what would be considered at the time to be leud. Remember when TOS was made...based on that I would consider it to be the most baudy of all iterations of trek. Save for the decontamination scene in ENT.

As we have now learned, the context of the scene is meant to be comedic, in a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time kind of way, and we probably don't see any real nudity anyways...the movie is pg-13 after all...

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