Comments on: Orci and Kurtzman Reveal Star Trek Details In TrekMovie Fan Q&A

By: Eloy Mayeaux

Eloy Mayeaux — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:39:50 +0000

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By: Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:48:10 +0000

I thought this movie was great, the story the acting, and the special effects all came together in a tri-fecta of movie brilliance. As far as the storyline conflictions, like 7 warp cores, a white bridge instead of the iconic orange bridge, vulcan being destroyed, you have to as Doc. Brown put it “think fourth dimensionally” nero went back in time and showed up 15 minutes before J.T. Kirk was even born. Because of this the time line skewed into a tangent making it possible for anything to happen, because we are viewing the storyline in a completely different universe, in which an infinite number of possibilities and outcomes exist. The engineer who designed the propulsion system for the enterprise may have decided seven cores instead of one would be better, from a redudnancy standpoint it’s sound engineering. The designer who chose the color scheme for the bridge may have decided that chevy racing orange was more suited for the water pipes in main engineering than the walls of the bridge, and i think he was right. Star Trek has always had some really imaginative and deep storylines, that is why I love it and I think thats why it has been around for 44 years. So just because the prequel does not appear to add up to the sum of the rest of the star trek lore dont knock the movie, just give Mr. Abrams and his writers a chance to finish their take on the storyline, I am sure it will all add up in the end.

By: thomas tanner

thomas tanner — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:41:56 +0000

I want to know if the new Enterprise is more advanced than the original. It certainly does look like it but I want to know if it got a little boost because of the Kelvin’s scans of Nero’s ship.

By: MotionPicturesComics.com » News Around the Net

MotionPicturesComics.com » News Around the Net — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:23:18 +0000

[...] Speaking of Trek, here is a link to a lengthy, fascinating Q & A that’s been going on over at Trekmovie.com between Star Trek screenwriters Bob Orci & Alex Kurtzman and a number of fans who, like me, had lots of questions about elements of the new movie’s plots. I really respect Mr. Orci for engaging with the fans in this way — though I feel most of his responses are pretty flimsy. Check it out and see what you think. (UPDATE: Still MORE Q & A with Mr. Orci & Mr. Kurtzman can be found here!) [...]

By: rangerone314

rangerone314 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:16:35 +0000

18. Paulaner – Agreed. Yet, a credit system involves the concept of earning and spending. In First Contact, Picard clearly talks about a utopian society where these activities are irrelevant.

This is an easy one… 23rd century, they still have a credit-based, not money-based economy.

The development of replicators leads to the 24th century of people probably getting some base-allotment of energy to use (for food, clothing etc).

Even in TNG, there are clearly some people with more wealth (energy) than others (like the guy who collected things and kidnapped Data).

Even with huge amounts of energy, they can’t give everything away, so some system of credit/energy units would have to exist. Poor people would still have the basics & food & clothing etc they need. Rich people would get luxuries.

Otherwise, hey, I want my free Defiant-class vessel.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:52:58 +0000

As far as the movie goes it was well done, well acted. However you really skirted facts from the original series when you destroyed Vulcan and the death of Amanda. Though SiFi, you should have stayed true to the story lines and with this you completely negated the original show. To redeem yourselves you must have the story righted in the next sequel by working in the fact that Vulcan was not destoyed, nor his mom. A ressurection such as with Spock in ST3 might be possible, and without a correction I see a big fault with this story line.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:16:08 +0000

I liked the answer that Spock-Prime felt that his plan (to have Kirk rattle his Spock and assume command) would have a better chance of success than if Spock-Prime had simply talked to Spock himself. It makes sense that Spock-Prime would consider young Kirk to have a better chance of succeeding in the mission than young Spock would, that Kirk would make the better Captain, as he understands Kirk’s unique command abilities which I think Spock would recognize as superior to his own.

I really didn’t mind the Nokia and Budweiser bits. Retro always has its place, even in the future. Whether or not Budweiser exists as a capitalist entity then or not really doesn’t matter, a “Budweiser Classic” drink could exist either way. The Nokia system struck me as something that was already old… obviously not original to the car, but probably something someone retrofitted into the car somewhere along the line but still many decades old by the time Kirk was driving the car. That’s how it struck me, anyway.

By: T'Pol

T'Pol — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:20:38 +0000

#233: I’m afraid I was unaware of this other thread – and after reading Orci’s statements and the first few comments I must say, it changed my point of view a bit. I was unaware what MWI QM meant (Many Worlds Interpretation / Quantum Mechanics) and that in this latest movie we stepped away from the linear conception of time to one deduced from quantum mechanics.
As stated in this other thread, for me it wasn’t clear enough. Uhura stating we’re in an alternate reality is not enough to make it clear that we’re in an parallel reality.
But the most fascinating thing about this is, that the movie is not a prequel but a sequel – or both. ;) Well, let’s see where it leads…

By: Floter T Water

Floter T Water — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:17:30 +0000

Money/currency/credits aren’t necessary by the 24th century for people to live on, everyone has replicator technology and all the basic necessitates can be provided, Credits/ Latinum still exist and are readily used on colonies and occasionally used on Earth to acquire things people want, Picard said poverty was eliminated, and that humanity choses to better itself, also humans could still make profit from having businesses both on Earth or off world, I am sure working is strongly encouraged to help better society, but if someone just wants to live in a holodeck and live off of replicator rations they can as well. So while there is now set monetary system, Starfleet still needs to negotiate trade with other non aligned worlds for mining rights to Dilithum, Deterium and other no replicatable essentials to starship operation. So essentially the Federation is a somewhat socialistic culture, each member world having its own systems and providing the basics for general welfare but anything above that is still bought with various currency and there is still interstellar trade.

By: brad hall

brad hall — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:15 +0000

I saw the movie, and thought it sucked. What they did with canon, etc using time travel. Dumb. Hell Spock could have gone back in time, killed off Nero when he was a kid, and that would be that.