Chris Pine as Kirk
That’s the set of the new (old) Enterprise. Okay the costumes jive (note mini-skirt and boots!) but the rest seems a bit too “updated”.
Abrams did feel Trek’s design aesthetic — which for him is largely defined by the lo-fi original series — needed a dramatic upgrade if the drama was going to be taken seriously.
…(the Enterprise bridge is) now blazingly white and glistening with light and glass. Apple Store, anyone? ”People would joke, ‘Where’s the Genius Bar?”’ says Abrams, somewhat defensively. ”To me, the bridge is so cool, it makes the Apple Store look uncool.”
—From Entertainment Weekly (click to read full article and minor plot spoilers)
My initial gut reaction was “Cool!” Pause. “Wait a minnit…” Not sure how this will play out but so far, I’m liking what I’m seeing, with reservations.
6 thoughts on “Ruh Rohh, or JJ Abrams Goes Sickass on Fanboys”
I disagree…Star Trek thrives on reinvention. I do agree however, if you’re referring to idiotic remakes of classic films like The Women, or The Omen, or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I consider Star Trek a universe where anything is possible…infinite something in something something, as Roddenberry used to say…
…seriously tho, I’m glad someone is finally getting into Star Trek’s head and fucking with it.
But don’t fuck with shit unnecessarily, I say.
I would think that you, andrew, would welcome remixing of any kind. Remixing is where new ideas come from.
Okay I know we’re talking about a Hollywood movie who’s soul purpose is to make money, and to jump back in time to the origins of a franchise is the norm these days (thanks, Lucas!) but there is a definite culture to this story.
Like Elvis, it’s making the leap from dead horse to mythology, right before our eyes, purely because of the massive fan base.
i have nothing good to say about this, so i’ll say it loudly and often.
are there no more new ideas left? is it really necessary to rehash and rework crap that has been made and remade, remade some more, parodied, mocked, satirised, had endless slash fiction written about, filmed (there were what, seven or eight films?), rendered in animation and put on stage? there are cartoon strips, records, porn, probably a few musicals (whether canon or not), theme bars and likely a stagnant heap of other miseries with which i have no familiarity. the originator and some of the primary actors are all dead – please, if you’re really a fan, let this creeping corpse die for the final time.
we get it – space is infinite and it’s possible to have endless adventures there. you’d never know it from the plodding, predictable, formulaic, grinding slop that gets slightly reworded (and redecorated) every few years as the unimaginative meanderings of the moralising bipeds from planet tightass. don’t these dullards ever stop? will they yet again encounter other bipeds who have strange, rubbery facial augmentation or futuristic mylar clothing? oh boy! i bet there will be a lesson to be learned!
admit it – we’ve seen more radical changes in the conservative party over the past five years than we have in the entire existence of the star trek universe. don’t give these twats any money and they’ll stop serving up shit.
I think it could be cool… as long as they don’t go after V’ger.
Yeah, Captain Kirk in certain shots looks WAAAY to young. Like in your posted pic, McCoy looks a good 15 years older. Odd.
Quite excited for this now.
Yeah, why is Captain Kirk like 12 years old?