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Date Posted: 06:40:36 11/16/08 Sun
Author: Gina
Subject: Re: Star Trek Movie
In reply to: Julia N 's message, "Star Trek Movie" on 22:33:07 11/15/08 Sat

I've seen pics and I'm not sure quite how I feel about it. For me, one of the problems with the later Trek movies set in that time period, while Next Generation was airing, although written all right, were hard to watch because of the staging. How do you make it look 300 years in the future, yet make it look like the past of Next Generation? It requires even more of a suspension of disbelief. Now I watch TNG and think, all that stuff, the touch screens, the massive computing power in small devices, communicators, hyposprays...we actually have everyday working models of these now. It doesn't even look futuristic anymore. So how do you make it seem like in the future with Kirk, Spock and McCoy, yet not look far more technologically advanced than Voyager and ST: Nemesis, which was the most recent 'future' Star Trek'? Stories are stories and characters are characters, but the 'reality' of the Federation and Star Fleet are equally as important. Will it attempt to be a 'serious' Trek movie, or will it almost become a parody in the manner of the Brady Bunch movies?

I'm not sure, regardless of the good intentions of the creators (not Braga and Berman, thank god) will be enough to make the functionality of the movie work. Will the stories and characters be enough to make their surroundings...their 'reality'...unimportant?

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[> [> Re: Star Trek Movie -- Julia N, 15:18:45 11/16/08 Sun [1]

For one thing, they have 21st century-like motorbikes and cars in the movie, which I don't recall being shown in other Star Trek movies. That was part of why I was put off. It seemed too close to today's technology.

However, I have heard from everyone involved that everyone is going to be happy. The trailer did not convince me of this but I am willing to be convinced.

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