Star Trek: Time After Time
"We really admire Nicholas Meyer's classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," said Orci to this interviewer. J.J. Abrams nodded vaguely. "Especially the bit with... that guy, who, uh, does that thing," Abrams elaborated.
"He's referring to Ricardo Montalban's indelible performance in the title role," Orci explained as he pointed to Abrams' cue cards. "In any event, we were inspired to make this film very much in the manner of Meyer's classic. But we're not content to stop there. We want to also replicate his earlier success story, Time After Time; this time re-invigorated and re-vitalized - but not rebooted - in a Star Trek format. We believe it will satisfy fans of both franchises. "
"Yeah." concurred Kurtzmann. "What he said."
Orci continued: "We'll be reconciling the canon of the previous entries in the franchise, Time After Time, and the classic MGM spectacle Forbidden Planet which many fans include in their personal 'fanon' as precursor to Star Trek which we toally respect - using time travel." When asked how they were going to do this, he explained: "Temporal adjustments to cosmological constant. You can't tell me that doesn't work; because we're, we're the authorities now on how things work in the universe of Star Trek now."
"Time travel." Lindelof mused. "It's science fiction. When you're producing a science fiction movie, you can travel backwards in time. Into the past. Wow. That's pretty high-concept, you know? Out there. But it's important to blow stuff up too."
