Ask J.J. a question at Memory Alpha

[gaghyogi49]

I thought I'd let everybody know about this:

We at MA have been given the chance to ask J.J. Abrams 20 questions. Everybody can post one question until next Sunday, when admins Shran and I are to pick the 20 best questions which will then be emailed to J.J. Abrams. You can even win a prize, if your question is among the 20 selected ones and is then randomly picked by wikia.

There's more info here:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Ask_J.J._Abrams

Jörg

 

[Borgminister]

Why did you rape my childhood??

 

[Captain X]

Here's one, and I mean it in all seriousness: why did you do a reboot instead of an origin story like you said you would?

Here's another one: why did you redesign everything instead of simply updating the designs, as so many fans have done before and pulled off so beautifully?

Seriously, ask him those, I'd be curious to see what his response would be.

 

[gaghyogi49]

Those are valid questions. If you want them to be asked, you have to post one of them at MA or send an e-mail to wikia. All the competition rules can be found at the aforeposted link on MA.

 

[gaghyogi49]

Hey Captain X! I had to remove your questions because only one question can be asked by each poster. Pick one question you would like to ask and then repost it at MA. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Kpnuts]

Why did you rape my childhood??

The exact same raping my childhood "joke" now joins:

- Boycotting
- Sombreros
- Badass Robau


in the list of "jokes" that stopped being funny after day 1, let alone day 365. Time to try some new material guys.

 

[Captain X]

Well, I asked the redesign one. Anyone else care to ask the first question I asked or the one about why he repeated a lot of the lame cliches he criticized himself?

 

[DaveyNY]

Not sure if I did it right, but I added a question also.

 

[M'Sharak]

I thought I'd let everybody know about this:
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Thanks for the heads-up, Jörg!

It looks already as if you've got some paring down to do to get it to twenty. I'll be interested in seeing which ones make the cut and how they're answered.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I just signed it. Here was my question:

Is there any reason why you didn't go all-out with the reboot - meaning, why did you feel you needed a reason for the reboot (in this case, Nero's time travelling)? Why not simply start the whole thing over from scratch, like the new Battlestar Galactica?

I hope I worded that right. And in my own defense I do think it's a valid question. Nero could still be in the film; I'm just not seeing how the time travel was necessary. Is it just so they could get a Nimoy cameo?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'm boycotting this movie because Badass Robau raped my childhood while wearing a sombrero.

 

[urbandk]

Here's my question:

Why did you agree to take on this project when you knew you would face so much withering criticism no matter what you decided to do?

 

[Australis]

My question should be:
Why are you even bothering to answer these questions when you know that idiot fans are going to give you seventeen different types of shit over stupid little nitpicky things?

My next should be:
How do I get to write for you?

I'll think about what acceptable question to ask.

 

[Aragorn]

Wasn't there someone involved in this movie who got asked stupid question after stupid question after stupid question from a poster here? And then that poster got pissed off when -- even though his first like six questions were answered -- the seventh one went ignored?

I sure hope that poster doesn't know about this Q&A with Abrams.

 

[Bill Morris]

I don't want to ask the fox about chicken theft, but I do feel that making a solid, character-driven 24-century film with a fresh cast would have been a better strategy for the future of the franchise, while still producing profitable results for such a film in the short term.

 

[yakueb]

I'm boycotting this movie because Badass Robau raped my childhood while wearing a sombrero.

while constantly shouting about nacelle droop.

 

[stonester1]

I'm boycotting this movie because Badass Robau raped my childhood while wearing a sombrero.

And shouting, "THE WOMEN!"

 

[Bad Atom]

I'm boycotting this movie because Badass Robau raped my childhood while wearing a sombrero.

...and blinded you with constant lens flares in the middle of an Apple store?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

making a solid, character-driven 24-century film with a fresh cast would have been a better strategy for the future of the franchise...

Yeah, the studio could have pissed away money they'd never see again by doing that. Then maybe the government would bail them out.

 

[FlyingLemons]

Wasn't there someone involved in this movie who got asked stupid question after stupid question after stupid question from a poster here? And then that poster got pissed off when -- even though his first like six questions were answered -- the seventh one went ignored?

I sure hope that poster doesn't know about this Q&A with Abrams.

That might have been Roberto Orci who, I have to say, has the patience of a saint, dealing with cries of "NOT CANON!" repeatedly from various people and answering back in an often amusing way. Given that he's a big Trek fan, I wouldn't be surprised if he's hanging around here either lurking or posting behind an alias so as to avoid canonistas.

I don't want to ask the fox about chicken theft, but I do feel that making a solid, character-driven 24-century film with a fresh cast would have been a better strategy for the future of the franchise, while still producing profitable results for such a film in the short term.

Nemesis showed that the 24th Century universe has gone as far as it could with a cast anyone really cared about. Anything more involving a 24th Century timeline without a cast and characters that people just didn't know would have flopped. Hell, even Berman felt he needed to change his Trek XI film's setting...