Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Interview with JJ Abrams

By: Ashlyn Bok

Ashlyn Bok — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:01 +0000

I’m aware of this already, but nevertheless there was clearly several useful pieces that finished the image to me, many thanks!

By: J Greene

J Greene — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:58:46 +0000

The new story is great! waiting until 2011 for a half done sequel will kill it. No Matter how long it takes create a Great sequel!!! Im a huge fan of Will Shatner, if his presence in the sequel kills the story then he shouldnt be present. If it is possible by way of tempral lineage crossing into this new time line or something exceptional like that, he would be a welcomed addition to the time line even if temporary. Possibly changing his role would enable his presence “long lost grand pa to James Kirk” etc. (since dad is gone) Please no matter what, as to the story line, KEEP IT POSSIBLE!!! dont take away the chance that it might come true. Thats what I love the most about the whole story. When an episode tread on thin ice making us ignore the extreme impossibility of the story, that hurt the story line. DO NOT MAKE A NEW SCIENCE! real scientist have been motivated by this story for years because it was not to far out to be achievable. Thanks for a great new track for Star Trek! I only hope my kids get as much from this as I did growing up.

By: Holger

Holger — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:53:20 +0000

100 JC: I’m not so worried about everyone forgetting the prime timeline. I’m more worried about an increasing number of fans emulating JJ’s utterly annoying and arrogant deprecation of the Trek legacy, the previous TV shows and movies, and the diehard geek-Trekkers. This is already showing in this forum.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:49:15 +0000

Does this mean everyone will forget about the events in TNG and NCC-1701 D and E? Please don’t lose the primary timeline!

By: greeneyedlady

greeneyedlady — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:02:07 +0000

Went to see this with my 15 yr old son. Being Star Trek addicts we felt it was our duty and expected to be ok with it at best. I have never clapped and cheered at the end of a movie in a theatre before!!! You did it. You came up with a storyline so creative and brilliant that you gave yourself years of material to work with, and a young, engaging and talented crew. We just finished watching all of the seasons of Voyager together (the sixth time) and will be starting TNG next week ( fifth time). Do us all a favor and give us a brilliant series with this crew and keep us all going – our sincerest thanks and appreciation!!!
~ oh and how we loved Bones and Scottie and Chekoff too!!! brilliant

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:11:29 +0000

Being a huge Trekie lover from 1965 TOS through to the last Enterprise series I had to see the new movie last night , loved it 10 stars out of 10 ..I just couldn’t wait to see it on Blu-ray in my own Home Cinema this time.Can’t wait for the sequel to the prequel…
After watching William Shatner on his own show “raw nerve” on youtube and having this same statement from JJ Quote:- ” especially with Mr. Shatner saying he did not want to do a cameo, it became this whole thing that would literally be a reinvention of our reinvention. It is just too hard “. Read to him ..He stated he never was asked by JJ or anyone to do a cameo for the new movie ,mmmm puzzling why JJ never got back to us and explained ..But i agree with JJ in this new Brilliant 2009 movie William as the older original Kirk just wouldn’t have worked .
Personally I hope Bill (William ) gets back into shape,losses a little weight ,which means will have him around a little longer(good for his health),after all we’ve already lost 3 of the TOS crew and he makes a huge appearance in JJ’s sequel 2011.

By: PMDC

PMDC — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:47:57 +0000

I love the new movie, although I agree that it’s not perfect. I’m also very grateful to the entire team of people who made possible showing again to the general public how Star Trek is great.
Having said that, I must also say that I am bothered at how some people are treating everything that came after TOS.
The other day I watched an Abrams’s interview where he said that he had gotten lost at everything that came after TOS and that with this movie he wanted to go back to the ‘essence’ of Star Trek. Now, the ‘essence’ of ST is something very subjective. I’m 27 and I grew up watching TNG, that great show that had such a huge positive impact on who I am today. Hell, I even learned English watching TNG tapes when my local channel run out of episodes in Spanish (I’m from South America living in South America). For me, and I guess for many people, the ‘essence’ of ST is TNG –the same is true to fans of the later shows- and for us what came before is what made possible what we love the most.
Please let’s not forget how TNG had such a great success, how it took Trek to a peak at the end of its run, how it made possible the later shows and had also a great movie with great reviews (First Contact).
Now, I love how the classic characters are back all reloaded and possibly with greater adventures still to come but there is a lot more to ST than the original show! I realize how the franchise reached a low point in recent years and it’s wonderful A PART OF IT is back but please don’t forget that there is a lot more great ST. If Mr. Abrams, as much as I admire him for all his work, and many others never watched the rest of ST, I feel sorry that they are missing a great part of the ST universe that IS ALSO GREAT but I believe that it is wrong to portray Star Trek as just something that was once great and then became ‘too confused and lost’ them on later years. Star Trek has always been great in all its incarnations but with different degrees of success!
Now, please don’t get me wrong, I love what they have made with this movie. Actually I never thought I would see the classical characters back, specially like this, and it’s great they are back in this new parallel reality but even this movie would not have been possible if the rest of the incarnations -for me especially TNG- had kept the ST universe alive for so long.

By: Troubled Tribble

Troubled Tribble — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:16:57 +0000

#71. Spot on. My dad and I went to see it last night and that is the first thing I said. It would be great to see them start going on the actual mission. No more “Save the Earth/Romulus/Vulcan/Kronos, etc. Let’s go meet somebody new. I wouldn’t even mind if they rehashed some of the TOS episodes. These could be fresh and unpredictable now with a new timeline. Tell me that the Doomsday Machine couldn’t be a kick ass movie! Or the Organian treaty, Khan’s still out there floating frozen in space you know. The list is endless… you could have some completely new stuff mixed with cool amounts of what we know should happen. Just please, at least for a while, let’s spare the only ship in the quadrant close enough to save Earth thing. If I remember correctly, the entire 3 year run of TOS they never once got called back to Earth. (Assignment Earth was a history mission, Tomorrow is Yesterday and City on the Edge of Forever were accidents.) Let’s see our guys out there on the fringe of known space. Seriously, how can they even still use the tag line “Where no man has gone before” when in 40 years they only place they usually go is back and forth between Vulcan and Earth, which is the space equivalent of driving to work and back. Not very ‘exploratory’. As much as The Final Frontier blew goats, at least they tried to go somewhere, albeit somewhere stupid. ;-)

That said, this movie set the stage and it rocked! Easily the best made, most fun Trek ever! Maybe one of the best Sci Fi epics ever. Will see it again and no doubt I will buy the DVD!

By: urbandk

urbandk — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:47:07 +0000

no Shatner please! love him, but just no.

By: Holger

Holger — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:19:04 +0000

Let Rorschach express my attitude:

JJ Abrams to Rorschach who is watching TOS.

JJ: Uh, you want me to reinvigorate this for you?
R: No need. Fine like this.