Well, according to the usual hypole from journalist headlines Abrams
"talks StarTrek". In reality there's very little in this news item from
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J.J. Abrams Talks Star Trek July 16, 2008
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For the past several months getting any information out
of the always enthusiastically secretive J.J. Abrams camp
about his re-launch of the classic Star Trek series for
the big screen has been about as easy as getting light
out of a black hole.

But when ComingSoon.net cornered Abrams at a big
Hollywood event this week, we were surprised that he
seemed finally ready to reveal a few tiny, tantalizing
hints about his version of the final frontier, as well
as his feeling about the franchise and his film's old
school standard bearer ­ and we didn't even have to pull
a phaser on him.

ComingSoon (CS): You've said that you didn't start out
as an uber-fan of "Star Trek," but you quickly became a
fan. Can you talk in general terms about what you fell
in love with about the whole franchise?

JJ Abrams (JJA): I fell in love with the relationships
between the characters. I fell in love with the
characters. The idea of ­ it's so funny because you hear
something so often and it loses it's meaning. But "space,
the final frontier" ­ if you actually consider space as
uncharted territory there's something about the idea of
these people, because any ship flying by isn't going to
get you excited. It's who's on the ship that matters.
I feel like these characters actually going out into
that nothingness and finding something is great. Having
lived with it now and gotten to know the characters and
worked with amazing actors who portrayed them, it made me
fall in love with that notion, that idea that for some
reason never struck me the way that "Twilight Zone" did.

CS: Are you ready to talk about the Jennifer Morrison
character? There's been a lot of speculation and
confusion as to exactly who she's playing.

JJA: She is so great. I'll just say that she plays
Kirk's mother. She's awesome. Great.

CS: Does the film feature many flashback sequences?
We also know that Winona Ryder is playing Spock's
mother.

JJA: Yeah, most of the movie is not - I wouldn't call
them flashbacks, but she's in a great sequence and is
so good. I love her.

CS: What can you say about about working with Leonard
Nimoy?

JJA: It was really just a dream experience, working with
him. He is everything you want him to be. He's funny and
incredibly thoughtful and was surprisingly open and
receptive to direction. He's just got an amazing wife
and family and working with him was literally... Like
the other day we were doing some ADR and he was there
and because we weren't shooting anymore I was standing
there and I just looked at him while he was doing his
thing. I wanted to burn it into my head. It was so great
to get to work with that guy. He's just an amazing man
and is terrific in the movie.

CS: Is he a major presence in the film?

JJA: Yeah. I think he's a major presence in any scene
he's in. He's terrific.

Star Trek opens in theaters on May 8, 2009.