Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> GeneK wrote:
>> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
>>> "There hadn't been this kind of action in a `Star Trek' movie before."
>>
>> If abrams is suggesting that he's going to do the same
>> thing to Star Trek that he did to MI, i.e., turn a series
>> whose plots involved complex intrigue into a slam-
>> bang action pic with lots of big explosions, then this
>> is *really* not encouraging.
>
> Why?  TOS got sold to NBC as action-adventure.  Any limitations on
action 
> were not due to writing but due to cost.  Roddenberry didn't have the 
> budget to show entire civilizations or wars between whole civilizations,

> so the scripts were written to have a few token alien characters stand 
> there and explain what was going on (e.g., "Let That Be Your Last 
> Battlefield").


Indeed. All these people that moan on about "Roddenberry wouldn't have
done 
that." Well Roddenberry did have the vision, but as far as a writer or 
producer goes he was mediocre at best. GR didn't give a damn about 
continuity (or canon) in his own ST universe, if it would make money (or
he 
thought it was a good idea) he'd do it. One just has to look at TMP and
the 
first season of TNG to see that.
Lucas is also a good example of how to ruin one's own franchise.

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