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Bob Orci Answers Questions From Posters at TrekMovie.com

I actually find that quite disturbing. Entertainment value takes precedence over character consistency, emotion and a reasonable reaction?

Yeah, but only for the last five thousand years or so.

For an overall script, absolutely. For a scene of a few seconds?

Depends on how egregious it is. Spock's reaction disappointed me because I thought it undercut the character as he was being established (assuming one is unfamiliar with him, previously), but it was not awful.
 
Somehow, I do not think the movie going public wants to see the 6 HOUR movie it would take to have every fanboy question answered onscreen.
Personally, I am thankful we got a great 2 HOUR ride which is making enough money for more Trek from Paramount. :techman:

I nominate the canonization of Bob Orci to sainthood for putting up with all the fanboys' questions.

Strawman argument, I never said the movie should be six hours nor should every little nitpick being addressed. The fate of the entire Vulcan species is not a minor nitpick or a fanboy grief, it's a serious part of the plot and should be addressed in as complete a manner as time allows. It's sloppy writing, plain and simple.
It is YOUR OPINION that "It's sloppy writing, plain and simple."
It is MY OPINION that it is a fanboy complaint, plain and simple.

No, you changed my statement from being reasonable and based on observation to something rather indefensible.

Straw Man:

Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

Sorry, that is what you just did, opinions or not.
 
I really don't get what's so hard to grasp concerning the Vulcans. They've been in space for a long time, long enough to spawn their own off-shoot civilisation (the Romulans). So they probably have founded a number of colonies. But the question is: how Vulcan are those colonies?
A significant part of Vulcan culture and tradition seems to hinge on locations (e.g. Mount Seleya, the Forge, the katric ark), so naturally it would change for Vulcans living off-world permanently.
Just look at our own world. Australia, New Zealand and Canada were all Britsh colonies once, but if Britain was destroyed tomorrow with only 10.000 survivors, wouldn't the Brits be right to think of themselves as endangered?
 
People were really that bothered by the movie not spending more time on the Vulcans? :confused:

yeah, actually. The Vulcans were my favorite species in Star Trek and the book "The Philosophy of Star Trek: The Wrath of Kant" makes them seem even better.
 
here are the vulcan questions that were answered..

KATRIC ARK

Jason: …what were the Vulcan’s doing in the ark — praying? Why no contact/no escape ship?



BobOrci: Bingo on the Katric Ark [in reply to Tim Thomason who stated "I bet the Vulcans (and Amanda) were doing something with the katras in the “Katric ark” while awaiting a rescue ship.']

Robogeek: Why doesn’t Spock Prime try (or even want) to fix/restore the timeline, and save Vulcan?”

BobOrci: Two reasons: The RED MATTER Device is destroyed, so even if he wanted to go back in time, he can’t.

Secondly, our story is not based on the linear timeline of Einstein’s General Theory of relativity upon which most movies about time travel are based (like say, BACK TO THE FUTURE, or TERMINATOR, both of which I LOVE). The idea of a fixable timeline has been a wonderful staple of sci-fi since the 50’s, but in reading about the most current thinking in theoretical physics regarding time travel (Quantum Mechanics), we learned about the speculative theories that suggest that if time travel is possible, then the act of time travel itself creates a new universe that exists in PARALLEL to the one left by the time traveler. This is the preferred theory these days because it resolves the GRANDFATHER PARADOX, which wonders how a time traveler who kills his own younger grandfather would logically then cease to exist, but then he’d never be around to time travel and kill his grandfather in the first place. Quantum Mechanically based theories resolve this paradox by arguing that the time
traveler, in killing his grandfather, would merely split a previously identical universe into a new one in which a man who is his grandfather in another universe is killed in the new one. The time traveler does not cease to exist, although he is no longer in his own original universe (where he is now missing). Or something.

To summarize above on the time travel issue, going back in time is the equivalent of stepping into a parallel universe, according to current speculations based on Quantum Mechanics.

Starfleet and Spock, basing their decisions on this theory, would see that their is NO SUCH THING as “rectifying” the situation in a MULTIVERSE.

… and finally, my ace in the hole, a TEMPORAL PRIME DIRECTIVE.


he dosnt say it but seeing the results of tasha yar going back in time
and how badly that turned out could have made prime spock cautious..
might save vulcan and lose three other worlds.

444. boborci - May 18, 2009
25. Joshua - May 18, 2009
QUESTION:

What are the ‘fates’ of other canon Vulcans such as Tuvok, T’Pol, Saavik, and Spock’s half-brother Sybok?

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Undetermined by current canon. We’ll see!

456. Boborci - May 18, 2009
38. Capt Krunch - May 18, 2009
Question:

1. Vulcan…red sky or not?

2. I beleive, based on the Star Trek Chronology and episodes, that this is the right time frame…
In the Deadly Years 1967…or 2267 Kirk states he is 34 years old…if he was born in 2233 when the Kelvin is destroyed…this would be correct timeframe…Can we assume that the Enterprise is being built 2245..the established launch date? since we see her in action for the first time in 2258?

3. And lastly….why in Iowa and on the ground?

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1.) Red sky is seasonal.
2.) A good assumption.
3.) The behind the camera reason related to our goal to connect a general audience to the idea that Star Trek is real and grounded (literally). The idea was based on a fan made picture we found on the internet depicting the USS ENTERPRISE in a shipyard. Alex and I showed this image to JJ, and he locked in on its value immediately.

From an in world story perspective, the idea is that Goerge Kirk’s death caused Starfleet to commemorate his sacrifice with the Riverside Shipyards.

We’ve heard the complaint that it is inefficient to build a space ship on the ground, but we figured that any ship that can literally cross the galaxy by warping space and moving faster than light is surely able to what the space shuttle can do — and that is, get into space easily.

. Boborci - May 18, 2009
134. Adam - May 18, 2009
QUESTION:

Vulcans, their culture and their planet have obviously had a huge influence on the Federation since it’s inception. From science, to art, to mysticism, Vulcan has always been as much apart of Federation culture as Earth. With Vulcan destroyed in this parallel timeline, will the Federation unfold in a way that it should, or will it become something completely different, completely… Human? And don’t say “you’ll have to wait and see.” I want to know your opinion on the matter.

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i would say that there influence will absolutely still be felt, perhaps more so as the Federation rallys around the remaining Vulcan colony to assure they are safe going forward.


859. boborci - May 19, 2009
384. Pete359 - May 18, 2009
QUESTION:

Awesome movie first of all.

Now with the Vulcan Elders, you had them in the Katric Ark. Someone already asked and you confirmed that they were doing “something” with Katras. Would this be retrieving the Katra of Surak and other maybe Vulcans? So does Sarek now have Surak’s Katra? Was there a thought to have one of the other Vulcan elders carrying the Kir’Shara?

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Yeah, exactly!


the whole thing even though no more questions will be answered is still at
trek movie com
 
Re: Boborci seemingly settles Vulcan debate

Major Spoilers Below















From over at Trekmovie:

359. boborci - May 18, 2009 21. That Nutty Fanboy - May 18, 2009
QUESTION:
While probably somewhat of a nitpicky question/observation by the Nutty Fanboy here: What happened to off-world Vulcans? The lines in the movie indicate 10.000 survivors overall, which seems rather low for a space-faring species - especially that very likely have off-world colonies.. or was the 10.000-line pointed towards survivors escaping Vulcan itself?
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True. Let’s just say then that the 10,000 does not count off worlders!

Awesome, i was wondering about that myself. Cool of Orci to do this in my opinion :)
 
thanks, pookha for posting this. otherwise i would have missed it entirely.
[posting with no caps in your honor because i really appreciate this contribution. its not easy for me... the ocd part of me wants to go back and correct everything i just wrote... lol :rommie:]
 
:)
actually i do it because it is more comfortable for me.
short fingers that sometimes feel unhappy.
not really trying to emulate ee cummings or archy and mehitabel.
;)

i think they are planning over at trek movie to collect all of orci's posts and break them down according to topic.

but with vulcan being a big discussion topic here i thought people would appreciate them.

the bad part was some just wouldnt let go of the time travel parallel stuff even though it had been addressed.
 
It is a cruel irony that Vulcan is destroyed by a time traveler with a vicious weapon given how the High Command reacted to the Xindi attack and Archer's claims of visitors from the future. I thought it was an interesting parallel.
 
to me the most ironic vulcan was destroyed by an descendant of vulcans who refused to see the danger of unbridled barbaric passions and refused to follow the path of surak.


i am really interested to know how romulans reacted .

it could cause a major reflection and shift in their society.
 
I actually find that quite disturbing. Entertainment value takes precedence over character consistency, emotion and a reasonable reaction?

Yeah, but only for the last five thousand years or so.

For an overall script, absolutely. For a scene of a few seconds?

You know, in TNZ, people like Dennis are far outnumbered by people with a more linear approach to the new Star Trek movie. Even though I do like the movie, you can rest assured he doesn't represent most people there. That is the place for real discussion about the new Trek movie.

J.
 
Yes, J is correct, I too liked the movie, but in TNZ there are a couple of threads dedicated to a wide range of opinion and robust discussion. I hope some of you sign on for it.
 
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