Roberto Orci Offers Star Trek 2 Update
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For the first few years Sarek and Amanda shared an illicit love... one they were afraid wouldn't be understood by society at large.
For the first few years Sarek and Amanda shared an illicit love... one they were afraid wouldn't be understood by society at large.
Well, it'd kind of hard to hide that relationship with a bun in the oven.
(facepalm)
My mistake, I suppose. For some reason, that number was stuck in my head....
My mistake, I suppose. For some reason, that number was stuck in my head....
(facepalm)
My mistake, I suppose. For some reason, that number was stuck in my head....
No mistake... I like the illicit love angle.
I can't believe I just read that Amanda had a "bun in the oven". 
*murmer* "Enlightened" Trek fans... *murmer*
And the worst part is--the point in that Brilliantly Impassioned Monologue was totally lost in one little mistake....
And the worst part is--the point in that Brilliantly Impassioned Monologue was totally lost in one little mistake....
I can't believe I just read that Amanda had a "bun in the oven".
Test tube, nuclear fussion lab, plot device from Star trek book #235235235, etc. Take your pick.
We loved Grace when I was at school, especially that hideous soft focus they used to try and glam her up.
Any blurrier and she'd have looked like a Tholian. Mind you, we never saw Janice and the Tholian in the same room at the same time...
We loved Grace when I was at school, especially that hideous soft focus they used to try and glam her up.
Whitney is less than a year older than Shatner. The next installment is going to concentrate on developing and furthering relationships made in the rebooted movie. There were a few ideas thrown around a few months ago, concerning a focal point. Gary Mitchell was one of them. I nix this one. We won't see a God-like GM but we just might see a flash of a knocked up Carol Marcus by GM.
Another idea centered around Vulcans. I'm thinking it's a possibility but it will be quick. The third idea was centered around Pike but not necessarily the Talosians. I think he will be the focal point. The crew of the Enterprise owes much to him in his sacrifice, and I think the they will become very loyal to him, and the lengths they are willing to go to, for him. Add the Klingons, and the next movie is going to blow some socks off. Did anybody listen to the writer's comments on the additional DVD?
She's half Scalosian.
Any blurrier and she'd have looked like a Tholian. Mind you, we never saw Janice and the Tholian in the same room at the same time...
I think the A-plot is a tough call. I'm hoping they can work in a way to use Carol somehow.
The B-plot involving T'Pring or some other variation is easier to presume. Spock and Uhura can't just be left to coast along, basking in their love. Bringing in his fiancee and dredging issues of racial purity, his obligations to his species etc, will allow them to do this. It has the double whammy of using established TOS characters and backstory to excite the nerds, and it is a convenient way to involve Sarek and (I hope) T'Pau.
The B-plot involving T'Pring or some other variation is easier to presume. Spock and Uhura can't just be left to coast along, basking in their love. Bringing in his fiancee and dredging issues of racial purity, his obligations to his species etc, will allow them to do this. It has the double whammy of using established TOS characters and backstory to excite the nerds, and it is a convenient way to involve Sarek and (I hope) T'Pau.
They should give the Giotto role to a female actress. BSG did it with a main character and I think most people like it. Giotto's role was very, very small, so I think only a few hardcore Star Trek fans will complain. This way we would have another female character and we wouldn't have to give Rand a different job.
Yeah, this is a rebooted timeline, not the twilight zone.
I don't see how she can play anything other than an antagonist bit part. At this point she was just a lab tech at Starfleet.
If T'Pring is in the next movie, I will bet that Stonn did not survive and all that is left to her is to be the hero's wife. And I would look to Uhura to have a say in that.
As for the A-plot, I think Pike "lost" something very important to him, and the mission is to find "it."
But, see, "sign this PADD" is, dramatically, a really lame excuse to begin with. It's like including an unusual amount of bathroom scenes just to give the janitor a few extra lines. If you're not above making up excuses anyway, you shouldn't have any trouble coming up with one for the security chief (assuming, of course, that they actually need one; Doctor McCoy sure doesn't, and at least one of the stations on the remodeled bridge is probably a security console).
The advantage of security chief, however, is that it's easier for her to contribute in a way that is directly meaningful to the plot and not just as moral support or friendly advice.
Technically the entire crew--with the possible exception of Bones--is on the young side. This could be explained by some tradition of Starfleet policy: new recruits train together in blocs and go to their first assignment together (like DS9's "Red Squad") and then ship out together on their first assignment under the command of the officers responsible for their training. In a way this is already sort of established in TWOK, where Spock is seen taking charge of Starfleet academy and even overseeing the training mission on the Enterprise. Bones asks "Wouldn't it be easier to just put an experienced crew back on the ship?" which to me implies that the trainees in question were being groomed specifically for the Enterprise' next five-year mission, and Saavik--potentially--for the role of Captain.
Flexibility isn't always a good thing, especially in a movie series. You might find time to exploit those opportunities in TV series where you sometimes have to come up with fluff material just to fill a story gap anyway. But in a major motion picture, when the editor has to figure out what to keep and what to cut, the first scenes to go are going to be those cute little zinger-dialog moments that don't really impact the major events that cause the story to take shape. This is why alot of the Kirk/Gaila dialog was cut, and why the entire Rurapenthe scene wound up getting compressed into fifteen seconds of dialog.
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