Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

ToolPackinMama wrote:
> Led4Aces wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 9:54 am, "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> GeneK wrote:
>>>> "Steven L." <sdlit...@[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").
>>
>> Shouldn't we be thankful that Star Trek did not become an action/
>> adventure show? I am. 
> 
> Hoo boy.  Star Trek was an action/adventure show.  Oh yes it was.  Don't

> be ridiculous.

Two words:  ****RTLESS KIRK