Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci Talk Star Trek January 13, 2009 11:58 pm
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FirstShowing.net has posted the first of a two-part interview with Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Here are some excerpts:
First Showing.net: In relation to Star Trek, whose idea was it for the story to take place as a prequel?
Roberto Orci: We came to that independently. Certainly that was Alex and my instinct. The first time we ever heard what Paramount wanted it was the same. I’m not sure if they got it from us or we all arrived at that conclusion simultaneously.
Alex Kurtzman: The other thing was that in looking at Trek in its glorious history, it just shocked us that the story of how the bridge crew came together was never told. It was referenced in bits and pieces but it was never told and it’s only kind of the most epic big bang story that you could possibly tell in Star Trek. So it felt to us like if we were going to bring something new to the table, that that was the place to start. It just always started with Kirk and Spock for us. It was always about Kirk and Spock.
Orci: And even though I loved “The Next Generation,” one of the reasons we felt that Star Trek possibly had passed us by is we never imagined that anyone would want to go back and take on the original Star Trek again. We thought no one would ever go for that and we were not interested in doing sort of the next- next- next- next- next generation. The idea of doing a new crew had already become an old idea and the new idea really was going back to the original crew.
Read the rest of the interview here.
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