ToolPackinMama (philnblanc@comcast.net) wrote:
: ToolPackinMama wrote:
: > Led4Aces wrote:
: >> On Apr 21, 9:54 am, "Steven L." earthlink.net> wrote:
: >>> GeneK wrote:
: >>>> "Steven L." earthlink.net> wrote...
: >>>>> "There hadn't been this kind of action in a `Star Trek' movie before."
: >>>> If abrams is suggesting that he's going to do the same
: >>>> thing to Star Trek that he did to MI, i.e., turn a series
: >>>> whose plots involved complex intrigue into a slam-
: >>>> bang action pic with lots of big explosions, then this
: >>>> is *really* not encouraging.
: >>> Why? TOS got sold to NBC as action-adventure. Any limitations on
: >>> action were not due to writing but due to cost. Roddenberry didn't have
: >>> the budget to show entire civilizations or wars between whole
: >>> civilizations, so the scripts were written to have a few token alien
: >>> characters stand there and explain what was going on (e.g., "Let That Be
: >>> Your Last Battlefield").
: >>
: >> Shouldn't we be thankful that Star Trek did not become an action/ ...