Comments on: Orci & Kurtzman: Balancing geekery and nongeekery

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:44:33 +0000

#48 John Gill

Is that something from a Trek episode i’ve somehow missed over the years. Great! What’s the episode called? Bring on the “Meshuggener”!!!

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:40:47 +0000

#48 John Gill

“Meshuggener”?…what the hell is a “meshuggener”?

By: Xai

Xai — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:39:27 +0000

#47

What explosions?

By: Tim Handrahan

Tim Handrahan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:33:39 +0000

It’s Kirk and Spock! It may be Shatner and Nimoy in a guest appearance! Best of all……TREK IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John Gill

John Gill — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:17:05 +0000

46. Anthony Pascale – June 25, 2007
the writers have said all the right things…even to satisfy the purists
so can you all just move on…or must you keep staring at the trees?

Sorry, that is a bizzare thing to say. I don’t listen to people who “tell me what I want to hear.” Satisfy me with substance, not rethoric.

The get them to address our questions directly. You said you had connections to them…or at least one of your contributors did. If we really are “off base” then why don’t they address those issues and show us. Let’s see those interviews that have been promised to you.

It is obvious that a segment of fans do not want “BattlesStar Trek” or “Mission Impossible Trek…”

I personally think it is possible to make the fans happy and gain new audiences. Yet, people here think I’m a meshuggener for asking that the fans be fed along with…well, we really don’t know who this new audience is.

Want to see a good remake…look at Peter Jackson’s King Kong. It is a damn good remake of the Original that update and remains faithful to what is King Kong…can’t really say the same for the 1979 version or its ill fated sequel “KING KONG LIVES.”

By: Redshirt

Redshirt — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:32:48 +0000

Its the smartest interview they had. Its a shame after nearly 20 of these Interviews they have said the most dumbest irritating things that would put thier immediate predecessors to shame.

If they can pull out a great story and not get too fanwankie on it they might have a shot. You have to convince the critics and the audience.if you have neither your pretty much dead.

People have to me more intelligent to believe explosions and fast paced senseless action do not make a Trek movie. Or are we?

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:10:56 +0000

the writers have said all the right things...even to satisfy the purists

so can you all just move on...or must you keep staring at the trees?

By: Cygnus-X1

Cygnus-X1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:44:57 +0000

“That’s all. Canon is nothing. Story is everything.”

And, how compelling is the story going to be if it contradicts its own premise?

If the events of the Trek Universe didn’t matter, then, they should give the movie a different title, and the characters different names, and just tell a story that wasn’t a chapter of the Trek saga.

Imagine reading The Two Towers, and, and coming to a scene that contradicted a previous scene from The Fellowship of the Ring. How much fun would that be?

The otherworldliness of Middle Earth would go *poof*, to some degree.

By: Shadow6283

Shadow6283 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:23:42 +0000

41. Hon. David Kulessa-

…are you just agreeing with me, or what?

No.

By: John Gill

John Gill — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:06:39 +0000

Writing Star Trek is one of the closest things to making a “period” or historical fiction film except its set in the future.