Comments on: Abrams Picks Chambliss as Production Designer for Star Trek XI

By: eliyahu

eliyahu — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:45:17 +0000

oh well one small step for j.j. abrams and co’ one giant leap toward trek destruction…
please why paramount(or whatever branch of viacom which trek films belongs now) abuses a corps? guys we “trekkies/trekkers/star trek fans wont suffer anything…. if a trek film is about the “beginning” we had 4 seasons of “enterprise” and we liked only 3 out of the 4 (guess which season we didn’t like…) wasn’t that enough a clue for you????
“q’apla” any way until 2009 lots of things might happen (like iran take control the midlle east and likewis disasters…)

By: Trevok

Trevok — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:52:44 +0000

I stated I believe Paramount Execs don’t care one way or another how they react to Trek VI idid not say I agree with them. But if you spend some time reading postings here why would they bother catering to existing fans. Better to bring on a new fan base that isn’t wrapped up in its own little petty greavences. TOS is the only Trek Everything else sucks.
Next Gen is great but Voyager suchs. Bah Hum bug. Get a life people.
LLAP.

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:38:42 +0000

“Trek needed fresh production talent from about 1993. It’s a warning to anyone creative that, no matter how big you are, a franchise like Star Trek is bigger. You can influence its journey, but you don’t own it and can’t run it forever – if you try to, you’ll lose control and wreck it!”

I agree Dom…’93, I think…is when I started bitching.

Even back then, I was saying it’s the fact they were keeping the same people around that was problem. People get bored, people get writer’s block….it’s just a fact of life.

But, that’s when it’s time for a change.

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:36:10 +0000

Contrary to myth, Probert didn’t design the TMP Enterprise in a vacuum.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:27:07 +0000

The best Star Trek design ever made was done by Andrew Probert. He started of doing the refitted Enterprise from TMP and later the Enterprise-D, another jewel in starship design.
And weren’t the sets of TNG just marvelous? Sleek, clean, bright design. A real vision of a positive future.

Bring back Probert for Star Trek XI!

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:04:25 +0000

Funnily enough, I’m tempted to pick up Enterprise season four, if it’s cheap enough, just to see some elements of TOS get put into modern TV Trek for story reasons rather than the patronising ‘Gosh wasn’t TOS primitive: people like that could never work in Starfleet now!’ way they’d been portrayed before!

Trek needed fresh production talent from about 1993. It’s a warning to anyone creative that, no matter how big you are, a franchise like Star Trek is bigger. You can influence its journey, but you don’t own it and can’t run it forever – if you try to, you’ll lose control and wreck it!

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:38:14 +0000

Enterprise should have started with Season Four…then we might have had something. Season Four was decent…would have been a good starting off point for a TRUE prequel.

But, alas, it was not meant to be…

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:36:55 +0000

I think it’s possible to keep the familiar sets and STILL put your own creative stamp on it. There’s lots of room for improvement with the old sets…just update a few things and voila! Good as gold.

I hope they don’t try to completely reinvent the wheel. I’d would like to see settings that look to be true precursors to what we saw in TOS…so what if it’s a little retro? I’d rather it be retro than all ultra contemporary like, say, the sets from Enterprise. To me, that look didn’t fit at all.

TTM

By: Doug Mappin

Doug Mappin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:51:47 +0000

Every production crew wants to put their own creative stamp on the projects in which they are involved. That said, having seen how stunning the TOS sets looked on the “ST: Enterprise” episodes “A Mirror Darkly pts. I and II” it would be a crime to completely discount the original look.

On another topic, I still think it was a crime to have cancelled ‘Enterprise.’ Paramount should never have aired the program on UPN, a network totally unsuitable to a TREK audience.

By: SithMenace

SithMenace — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:26:47 +0000

Dom, exactly. Everyone needs to go to this film with an open mind. Yes, this is going to be a different version of Trek, but that doesn’t automatically make it bad, there’s a very talented team of people behind this movie, and they’re fans. I know alot of people are upset about the recast, but in 15 years or so there will probably be debates about which actors were the better Kirk and Spock. I guess it’s just human nature to fear change before ultimately embracing it.

Senya, the only point I’m trying to make is that people shouldn’t condemn it before they even know anything about it. Everyone is entitled to have their favorite, but this movie has the potential to change alot of minds about what their favorite is. People that are vowing to not even see the film may end up saying “Wow, I never even considered they could do something like this with Star Trek “. All of the fans will never be happy at the same time, but what’s wrong with the possibility of liking this as much as the other incarnations? Could this movie be bad? Sure, but I’m not going to condemn it before I see it just because it’s not exactly what I think it should be. Remember, Abrams wasn’t assigned to this movie, he asked for it, which means he cares about it, he WANTS to do it. That IMO is the most important aspect.