Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

mrpemstar <mrpemstar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 21, 10:56 am, "Kweeg" <kw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > GeneK wrote:
>> >> "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>> "There hadn't been this kind of action in a `Star Trek' movie
>> >>> before." 
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>> >> 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.
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>> > Why?  TOS got sold to NBC as action-adventure.  Any limitations on
>> > a 
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>> > were not due to writing but due to cost.  Roddenberry didn't have
>> > the budget to show entire civilizations or wars between whole
>> > civilizations, 
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>> > 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").
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>> Indeed. All these people that moan on about "Roddenberry wouldn't
>> have don 
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>> 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
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>> thought it was a good idea) he'd do it. One just has to look at TMP
>> and th 
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>> 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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> You are wrong on 2 points.
> 1. This was not a venture about MONEY. This was a life long dream of
> Gene's, he was inspired by many s/f writers and had input from many of
> them in the 60's. So if you are gonna blame bad writing solely on
> Gene, you are mistaken.
> 2. Yes he DID CARE about his Star Trek universe, there were many
> copywrite lawsuits when he was alive of people infringing on HIS
> CREATION. There are many "unabridged" novels about Star Trek and Gene
> made sure they were noted as so...
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Unabridged? You mean "complete and unedited"?
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