> 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.
>>
>> Here's a fresh idea: how about a Trek movie that is not bleeding awful?
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> --
> Steven L.