Kurtzman Promises No 'Galactica'-Style Reimagining

[Vic 17]

Upcoming Star Trek film will take advantage of the 'road map' already in place, writer says.

By Michelle

June 26, 2007 - 10:34 PM

Like his writing partner Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman has been busy publicising the new Transformers movie and is talking about Star Trek as well.

 

"Each project comes with different challenges," Kurtzman told Voices from Krypton. Asked about how he felt about writing the screenplay for the next Star Trek movie, he added, "It is an honor to be part of it now and to inherit that mantle, but I feel like we couldn't have been doing that without the instruction that everyone else has given us."

 

Kurtzman also said that he appreciates the "road map that has been laid out" for himself, Orci and director J.J. Abrams, assuring fans that their script for the eleventh Star Trek film would not attempt to reinvent the franchise like Ron Moore did with Battlestar Galactica.

 

"The thing that strikes you when you watch [the original Star Trek] is how unbelievably sophisticated those shows were for the time," he explained. "They didn't pander to anybody and in a way you had to catch up with a lot of the technology that was happening at the time." On top of that, the show was entertaining and "managed to have this very relevant social parable...it is making a comment on basic human relations and politics."

 

Episodes that accomplished all that, added Kurtzman, "are a miracle" and well worth looking at for inspiration: "You certainly couldn't imagine doing Trek without taking that into account."

 

The full interview is in four parts here and following.

 

 

http://www.trektoday.com/news/260607_04.shtml

[Kor37 9]

Thank Goodness he won't ruin Trek like they did Battlestar:Galactica!

[Gummy 0]

Thank Goodness he won't ruin Trek like they did Battlestar:Galactica!

You think that they ruined BSG? I beg to differ. I think that they made it better than the original.

However, I am glad that they're not doing this to Trek.

Some things are better left unchanged.

[Jack_Bauer 1]

This is very welcome news to me. Star Trek has too much history to just ignore it all. And I think it would just be lazy writing to start over since the Trek novelists work within the existing continuity all the time and tell very good stories. It seems that's what Trek XI will be like. But while still working within the existing continuity, they will have a stand-alone story that a non-fan can understand and appreciate which is extremely important to both the success of Trek XI and the longevity of the franchise.