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Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Steven L.Steven L. Date: Jul 29, 2008 21:11
ToolPackinMama wrote:
> We don't need a darker Trek - that has been tried. ENT was bloody
> dismal. Not only did they never actually turn the lights on, not only
> was there no color on the entire mopey old ship, but the stories took
> virtually everything in the Trek universe and basically dirtied all of it.
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> Here's a fresh idea: how about a Trek movie that is not bleeding awful?
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> Is the idea of a fresh faced and eager young Captain Kirk at the
> beginning of his famous career something that ~needs~ a darker spin and
> tone?
I don't think young Kirk's story will be dark and foreboding. But he
cannot set the pace for the entire Trek XI movie, since in the movie,
he's only an Academy cadet and (toward the end) an ensign on his first
space assignment. He doesn't even end up on the Big E; as you know from
TOS, he had other assignments first.
Instead, the more senior characters appear to be Spock and Pike. And a
movie that centers around them is going to necessarily be a more serious
movie. The Spock-centric episode "Journey to Babel" had a very serious
tone in dealing with Spock's family conflicts. The TAS episode
"Yesteryear" was tragic. And in "The Menagerie," we saw how
angst-ridden Pike is.
So Trek XI is likely to build on those themes: Family conflicts, and
angst-ridden.
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