Comments on: OMG: J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek to be Influenced by Star Wars!

By: swarez

swarez — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:46:38 +0000

The actors they chose for the roles are very well known actors but just not A-List movie stars.

I’ve enjoyed the ST movies far more than the series, I loved First Contact and I truly love Star Trek The Movie, such a great fucking film.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:19:26 +0000

There’s a new Star Trek movie coming?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:21:58 +0000

I think they didn’t hire totally well-known actors because most of the heavy-hitters would be too old and – much more importantly – too expensive.

By: chris pine

chris pine — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:20:55 +0000

Yes, we need another star trek. The trekies are again and it’s embarrassing seeing 50+ year old fogies dressed up like Klingons. Bring on the reboot for a new generation of young trekkies.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:02:55 +0000

“Star Wars doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t feel like Star Wars anymore, so some other property might as well capitalize on it.”

Great comment, Rian!

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:59:44 +0000

Star Trek is not a dead horse! But if it was, it might blow a dead bear (in animal heaven). (Yeah, I know. Jay doesn’t think I’m funny either.)

It took a Star Trek post from Sean to get Henrik commenting again.

Star Trek is a commercial entity rather than an artistic endeavour nowadays. There was a time when you couldn’t make contemporary social comments on dramatic television without cloaking the story in the guise of science-fiction. (Battlestar Galactica clearly shows that it’s still possible to have artistic integrity in a science-fiction show, though.)

Henrik, if Abrams and company were concerned only about getting an audience, then why didn’t they hire well-known movie stars for the primary roles? Or were they simply following the Hollywood mentality of hiring unknowns for the well-known primary roles established by other actors, and major stars for the new or lesser-known secondary roles?

I wonder if J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek does poorly at the box-office, then how long will it take before someone tries again? Personally, I think it’s a mistake to try to broaden Star Trek’s appeal. Only a small percentage of the population will ever “get it.” Perhaps that’s an elitist thing to say, but it’s what I believe.

(Man, I should save this material for my Treknobabble column. (Honestly, Henrik, that wasn’t an intentional plug to get an audience.))

By: Rian

Rian — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:40:26 +0000

I say let Abrams make Star Trek as Star Wars-ish as he wants. Star Wars doesn’t feel like Star Wars anymore, so some other property might as well capitalize on it.

By: stevie_boy

stevie_boy — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:51:05 +0000

Totally agree with Reed Farrington. The various Star Trek series are so different in their own right that I find it hard to even lump them together into one doughy, homogenous mass that apparently “needs more Star Wars”

Unfortunately with the recent (and awful) Enterprise series, Star Trek more than ever has the stereotype of being tame, boring and political. Unlike previous Trek movies, hardcore fans of the franchise are hopefully only going to make a minority of the audience. Simplifying, and adding more swashbuckling fun to 09 Star Trek can only be a good thing

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:06:42 +0000

Star Trek is one of the few american entertainment inventions worth fighting for. If only they had gotten artists to create this new movie rather than the people who wrote Transformers, my heart and morals would be completely behind this. As it stands, all that I have heard seems like marketing, and the people behind this seem more concerned that they will get an audience, than they seem concerned that they will give the audience what it needs to get.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:40:43 +0000

Do we really need another Star Trek? Beating another dead horse!

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:18:38 +0000

Star Trek blows dead bears.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:11:19 +0000

paul, I love the Original Series (OS), but even I have to admit that there wasn’t much fun and adventure in it. The OS had the occasional fun episodes like The Trouble with Tribbles and A Piece of the Action (gangster planet). But the humour was mainly forced throughout the OS, with Bones and Kirk needling Spock. The limited budget made it kind of hard to have much adventure. Adventure was limited to fist fights and chases on papier-mache planets.

As for bringing Star Wars into Star Trek, Deep Space Nine (DS9) had the Defiant which maneuvred like the Millenium Falcon. DS9 had the Star Wars like space battles with the Empire-like Dominion, but dealt with the ramifications of war, something that the Star Wars movies do not deal with.

I think Star Wars needs a little saving right now after the lacklustre performance of Clone Wars. They should have Darth Vader and the Empire discover the Star Trek universe through a tear in hyper/warp space in a Star Trek vs. Star Wars movie. And get Paul W.S. Anderson to direct!