In what one can only presume is J.J. Abrams’ desire to fulfill a personal dream, the creator of “Alias” and “Lost” (and let’s not forget “Felicity” and “What About Brian?”) has signed on produce and co-write the new “Star Trek” flick…
…and all I can say is, it’s about freakin’ time someone at Paramount got their head out of their arse and assigned someone to a “Trek” project who might actually successfully revive the franchise.
I mean, I’m a “Trek” fan from way back…ever since I saw “Who Mourns For Adonais?” (the episode where the crew of the Enterprise meet the god Apollo) at my cousin’s house in Roanoke, VA, when my age was still in single digits…but the last feature film, “Nemesis,” was crap. And it didn’t have to be, man. They had John Logan, the guy who wrote “The Aviator” and “Gladiator,” do the screenplay…but, then, director Stuart Baird decided to make it into an utterly lame action flick. Dude, it’s only a little about the action, and a lot about the characters.
Fortunately, Abrams and his “M:I 3” co-writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, are teaming up again to do the “Trek” script…but no-one seems sure what it’ll be about. Initial reports said the script “will center on the early days of seminal Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission,” but that claim seems to have fallen by the wayside. (At the very least, it’s not mentioned on the official Star Trek website.) But lord knows Abrams has a universe of material to work with; in addition to the original series, he’s got “The Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine,” “Voyager,” and “Enterprise” at his disposal…and with someone of his reputation at the helm of the film, it’s very reasonable to suspect that he could get just about any member of the “Trek” illuminati to return if the script utilized them well.
Whatever J.J. and his compatriots come up with, I’m already laying odds it’ll be right up there with “Khan.” And that’s a hell of a limb for me to crawl out on, since “Khan” is my favorite movie of all time…
