The official Star Trek Movie Forums are open for business and they are just as boring as the trailer was. Of course, I signed up and will spend time there, but I have seen hundreds of fan sites with nicer looking forums than these.

They are promising some rumors and clarifications. Time is show whether the forum will be worth my time.

I hope the posts are more imaginative that the site is.

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Paramount has launched the strangest site I have ever seen to garner interest in a film. There are 4 cameras that you have to focus for yourself on the shipyard building the Enterprise.

If you and to turn the dials for yourself visit, NCC-1701.com.

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In a recent interview with MTV Movies Blog, Matt Reeves, the writer/director of the upcoming J.J. Abrams monster flick Cloverfield said:

The teaser trailer is so thrilling, in fact, that Reeves admitted to having some difficulty stifling his inner fanboy. “That’s what excited me about seeing the trailer, was that I thought ‘Well, this does look completely different and new,’” he marveled. “But while having all the stuff that will make fans of ‘Star Trek’ still feel fulfilled (MTV Movies Blog).”

How am I suppose to feel about that? Clerks was a completely different and new, and it had enough Star Wars in it to satisfy this Star Wars fan, but it was not a Star Wars Film!

I really want to hold off my judgement about this film I have not seen until I do actually see it, but to interview a guy to tease me about a teaser trailer that does not come out until next month for a movie that will not com out until next December is a bit ridiculous. But it worked, because it got me to talk about their stinkin’ movie. Nuts to you Magillicutty!

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The Spirit of Gene Roddenberry rose up and tried to return Star Trek to its core values:

As the Writers Guild of America strike goes on, “Trek Day” has been declared by the WGA for Monday, December 10, to picket outside the main Melrose gate at Paramount Pictures — and supportive Star Trek fans are being asked to take part as well as writers, directors, crew and actors from any incarnation of Gene Roddenberry’s world from the past 42 years (STARTREK.COM)

It will be interesting to see if any of the actors, writers, or the director of the up coming prequel will take part in the demonstrations. I doubt that they will, but I hope to be delightfully surprised. With the strike on going, and the rewrites on the script canceled because of the strike, the new film is a true product of the WGA action (for better or worse).

I am just pleased to see a little social conscience out of a franchise that had been reduced to little more than cliched action films. The Great Bird smiles on this. May the writers win their demands and prosper.

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In a recent interview with BBC, Stuart Baird director of Star Trek Nemesis said:

I know the fans take it hugely seriously. I took it very seriously to give you two hours of entertainment, with as much bang for your buck, and thrills, spills, emotion, and humour. That was my task, and not to get too precious about it(TrekWeb).

What Mr Baird does not understand is that Star Trek is not just a franchise to write in, Star Trek is the mythology that many SF fans grew up with. The characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy were not just people I watched on TV, they were role models who taught me what it means to be a responsible person.

Gene Roddenberry is responsible for the morality and ethics I still live my life by. The philosophy of IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination) is the cornerstone of how I see the world. It is the philosophy I try to promote in everything that I do. My personal character was shaped by the logic of the Vulcans and the honor of the Klingons.

Star Trek is not just a group of characters that it is fun to watch, they are the archetypes that taught many of us how to live. These characters to us are like the Greek heros, or Beowulf. They are part of our culture. We are upset when we see our culture misrepresented and misused in an attempt to make a profit. It is even worse when that scheme fails.

I do take Star Trek too seriously, but these are the stories that taught me how to live. I do not like to see them denigrated. I would think that would be easy for people to understand.

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Yes, yes, I have become very obsessed with the new Star Trek flick lately… it is after all the movie I most feared… I just hope Kirk does not throw a kegger… Kirk and Spock in college indeed…

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J.J. Abrams announced that the first draft of Star Trek XI is done.

‘On the one hand, for people who love Star Trek, the fix that they will get will be really satisfying,” Abrams said. ”For people who’ve never seen it or know it vaguely, I think they will enjoy it equally, because the movie does not require you to know anything about Star Trek. I would actually prefer [that] people don’t know the series, because I feel like they will come to it with an open mind (STARTREK.COM : Article).”

Ugh… why do I need to have an open mind? Gerrold may have convinced me that a rework of The Original Series might be a good thing, but with the writer and director of some of the worst TV shows and movies I have ever seen tell me I am going to need a open mind… I am worried all over again.

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My hero, David Gerrold recently did an interview with the Courier Mail on his thought about the original Star Trek Series.  First, he explained the two factors that he believes lead to the success of the original series:

“First, we had such a remarkable cast…  Gene Roddenberry picked three very, very good actors and they fit together so beautifully,” he says.

“And then the second thing is, the context of Star Trek is that here’s a world where everybody is respected and everybody has a place in this world and people are all big enough to handle their problems, and so they focus on problems of a much larger scale and challenges of a much larger scale (Courier Mail).”

I have to agree.  I think the phenomenon of Star Trek is that we fans really do want to live in that world and try to live in accord with the values we see in the series.  The vision of a world where people are free from their relatively petty problems to delve into the deeper meaning of life and justice resonates within us.

Gerrold also points to the creativity of the original series:

“And they would come up against new people and new planets that would challenge their definition of themselves, it would make them ask the question ‘what does it mean to be a human being? What are we up to here?’ And I think that was part of the appeal of the show: we’re discovering not only what’s out there but what’s inside ourselves, and that the final frontier is really the human soul, not space – space is just where we’re gonna meet the challenge,” Gerrold says (Courier Mail).

Gerrold hit the nail on the head.  I know the stories that I enjoy writing most are the stories that did into why people are the way they are and why they do the things they do.  The potential of the soul is truly the final frontier.

News that the next Star Trek feature film… will revisit a young Kirk and Spock is heartening for Gerrold.

“If it were my choice I would reinvent the original series,” he says.

“Wipe the blackboard clean and you go back to Kirk, Spock and McCoy and the Enterprise, with new actors to find different interpretations of the characters. And I think there’s a possibility, just as we’ve see different interpretations of Superman and Batman, maybe that’s how Star Trek is gonna survive (Courier Mail).”

Well… I like the new Superman.  I think the creator of the new Batman should be horsewhipped until they beg for forgiveness.  And while the new Battlestar Gallactica is technically brilliant, the story is so dark I want to kill myself at the end of each episode… I just stopped watching the series.

Like any good myth, I know there will eventually be new versions of Kirk and Spock, but the brilliance of Star Trek was the optimism and adventuresome nature of the characters and the setting.  If it were to loose that it would become Voyager or Enterprise, and suffer their fate.  Gerrold opened my eyes to the possible benefits of a remake, but I would prefer to meet new characters in the time of Kirk and Spock.

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I love Star Trek, and I always will. I pray that it will one day be freed from the purgatory it has found itself. So, this is a hard subject for me, but I can’t stay quiet anymore about the upcoming Star Trek film.

Let’s start from the beginning: 4.21.06

I didn’t whoop for joy. I bit my nails and hoped that the worst would not happen, but Abrams’ words did make me feel better… and then…

Matt Damon told SCI FI Wire that he’s open to assuming the role of Capt. James T. Kirk in the proposed 11th Star Trek movie, but denied previous rumors that he is already in line for the iconic role, which was originated by William Shatner. “If the script was good, I’d do it,” Damon said in an interview while promoting his latest film, The Good Shepherd. “But, yeah, I heard that [rumor]. I think J.J. Abrams or somebody said that at [a] press junket or something, and it got picked up [by the media and Star Trek fans] (SciFi Wire).”

And let me guess, Ben Affleck will play Spock?

Ok, it is all just rumors right now anyway, but I am getting really nervous about all this. At least if they hire Damon, he is too old to play an academy Kirk. That’s it. I have played in the rumor mill. I’m out.

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