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ST09 "sticks to the rules" [minor spoilers] |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 03 October 2008
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 In an interview with Wired.com, Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman talked about how they approached writing Star Trek (2009). Orci is a life-long fan, while Kurtzman was “converted” when he saw The Wrath of Khan. Even so, for the two fans it was intimidating to be handed the metaphorical keys to Star Trek. Said Orci, “This was not something you go into lightly... Are we worthy?”
Partnered with JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, who Kurtzman says is a huge Trek fan, they went head first into the writing, agreeing right off to do a story with the original series crew, which Kurtzman said “limited the scope of where we’d be looking for story.”
Of course, Wired had to ask, “What’s it about?” And the writers, NDA-bound as they are, couldn’t answer clearly:
 Orci: It’s about how the original crew came together, which was never covered in its entirety by either the show or any of the movies. No one has ever told the story of how the Enterprise set sail.
Kurtzman: There are details in canon where the characters refer to their past but there are wide areas of interpretations and sort of blank spots where you go, “Wait, I understand this, but how did they get from here to there before they got to that point?” And that’s where you have some room.
Wired.com: While staying consistent...
Kurtzman: You have to remain consistent. You cannot break one rule of anything’s that’s gone before.
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Being that they are making a Star Trek film, Wired had to dig up the kind of dirt that destroys political careers: JJ Abrams is a Star Wars fan, not Trek, while the two writers are Trekkies.
Orci: In terms of fandom, yeah, and Damon too is a fanatic — we’re not going to drop the ball out of ignorance. Nobody can say that we don’t know Star Trek. There might be some things we do that people could question, where they go, “I hate them for some other reasons,” but they can’t say, “They didn’t know their stuff.”
And it’s controversial to even mention Star Wars and Star Trek in the same sentence, but Alex said, “We have to bring more Star Wars into Star Trek.”
Kurtzman: (joke-coughing) Original Star Wars.
Orci: Original Star Wars. I want to feel the space, I want to feel speed and I want to feel all the things that can become a little bit lost when Star Trek becomes very stately - which I love about it , but...
Kurtzman: Star Trek is often the space equivalent of sub battles, which is what makes it unique and different from Star Wars, so you can’t blow that away, either.
Orci: It’s somewhere between that the truth lies.
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[via: Wired.com]
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