MTV chats with Star Trek director and Star Wars fan J.J. Abrams about taking some elements of Star Wars and putting them into the new movie.
“That was the fun of it,” Abrams explained recently. “[I] was trying to combine both of those elements and make a movie that wasn’t like a Star Wars movie but felt that it had more pace and action than certain Star Trek movies had.”
Perhaps as a result, Captain Kirk is chased down on an ice planet by an enormous creature, Wampa-style. An early scene introduces Uhura at a bar populated by hard-drinking aliens. And in one key scene, the villain proves his ruthlessness by destroying the home planet of a key character.
“In our early conversations, [co-writer] Alex [Kurtzman] kept saying, ‘We have to put a little Star Wars into our Star Trek,’” remembered Roberto Orci, who wrote the film with Kurtzman. “It was our chocolate and our peanut butter, kind of getting into each other.”
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It was as if a million Trekkie voices cried out in terror then were suddenly silenced
I also liked the ‘Punch It’ reference in the film! nice touches…
Star Wars was, is, and always will be the best. Nothing comes close to its greatness. No comparrison. =)
May The Force Be With You.
Now that you mention it, Star Trek really did feel a lot like Star Wars … go figure
the thing is, i’m attracted to Star Trek because it feels very Star Wars. can’t wait for the movie.
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[...] If you’ve already seen the new Star Trek film by J.J. Abrams, you might have noticed a few homages to Star Wars. [...]
Star Wars was, is, and always will be the best.
Nothing comes close to its greatness.
They do a good job but, Star Trek feels very like Star Wars.
I wonder if J.J.Abrams is aware that one of the hard-drinking aliens in the bar – the silent one sitting between Uhura and Kirk – was incredibly similar to the legendary Morn from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (a recurring alien character who was always seen sitting and drinking in Quark’s bar, never saying a word, while everyone else was always commenting on how talkative he was).