J.J. Abrams Live Chat at Trekmovie.com on 1/25/2008

[T'Bonz]

He'll learn from this. Next time he'll be set up better.

Chats can be a pain to manage.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Huh? That's a confusing way to organise such a chat. How are we supposed to see Abrams answers with all these random comments in between?

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Zeppster said:
It's complete disaster about 60 comments of random chat and no JJ.

There's actually about 700 comments (some of them quite good) in TWO different threads on trekmovie.com
EDIT: I'm sorry Zeppster...I get what you are saying now...mea culpa

 

[Urgent Sky]

Forget it. I'll check back later after the dust has settled.

 

[ancient]

Well, it was bound to happen.

Abrams: 1

Idle chatter of fans telling eachother to shut up and let Abrams talk: 100+

Number of questions that Abrams needs to get through before answering stuff in the new thread: 600+

 

[Ro_Laren]

The site looks confusing. It's hard to tell what questions have been answered. Am I the only one that is confused?

Answer my questions JJ!

 

[Trujew]

JJ - January 25, 2008
12. Josh - January 24, 2008
What was the greatest challenge you faced when you first decided to take on Star Trek?
This may not be a fair answer, but there were two greatest challenges: the first was getting a handle on the vision of the future. The fact that most of the tech that we use in our everyday lives seems modelled after — and actually more advanced than — TOS, made it tricky to find a way to make our movie’s world far more advanced than where we currently are, and yet also consistent with the original show.

The other challenge was, obviously, casting. How in the world were we ever going to find actors who can fill the shoes of that remarkable original cast? It was tough in theory and harder in practice. We couldn’t — and wouldn’t have — gone into production with a cast that simply didn’t WORK.
With the amazing efforts of April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg (our casting directors), we somehow did it. This cast is massively talented and smart as hell and funny and dedicated and completely inhabiting these roles. You will see. Kirk f’n LIVES. Spock is HERE, right now. I can see him. Uhura and Bones and Chekov and Sulu and Scotty are ON THE BRIDGE and they are wonderful.

In short, WHEW.

 

[Trujew]

ZQ - January 25, 2008
155. The Vulcanista - January 24, 2008
FOR ANY CAST MEMBER (or anyone else, for that matter):

What’s your favorite on-set moment so far? Best on-set prank? (Answers expected to be spoiler free, of course!)

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

Definitely the first time Leonard and I were both in costume at the same time for the wardrobe test.

JJ = JJ Abrams
ZQ = Zachary Quinto

 

[cmdr_forst]

What compels random folks to post comments asking/demanding everyone else to stop posting? There must be a dozen or so of those one after another...

 

[Zeppster]

He makes a good point on the technology now being more advanced in some ways. Like some of the buttons and screens used in ST we are probably more advanced. We basically already have some things that are touch screen type things sort of like TNG introduced but we are probably more advanced then even that in some ways.

 

[Trujew]

207. EREHWONNZ -
FOR MR. ORCI,
Q: HAS WRITING FOR THIS FILM BROUGHT YOU ANY NEW REALIZATIONS OR INSIGHTS ABOUT TREK, ITS STORIES, OR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED TO BRING IT TO LIFE?

A: Writing this film with my high school chum Alex Kurtzman has reminded me how solidly constructed the original paradigm for Star Trek really was. Our job was to just do our homework. We not only went back to our favorite episodes and books and movies, but we also read graduate level dissertations about the meaning of Star Trek. It was like going back to Star Trek school, and it made us appreciate Trek even more, which I didn’t think was possible.

 

[Jon1701]

It does seem to be settling down a little now.

 

[Roger Wilco]

There have been 5 questions answered so far I think, these two are the latest ones:

124. ZQ - January 25, 2008

155. The Vulcanista - January 24, 2008
FOR ANY CAST MEMBER (or anyone else, for that matter):

What’s your favorite on-set moment so far? Best on-set prank? (Answers expected to be spoiler free, of course!)

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

Definitely the first time Leonard and I were both in costume at the same time for the wardrobe test.

130. roberto Orci - January 25, 2008

207. EREHWONNZ -
FOR MR. ORCI,
Q: HAS WRITING FOR THIS FILM BROUGHT YOU ANY NEW REALIZATIONS OR INSIGHTS ABOUT TREK, ITS STORIES, OR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED TO BRING IT TO LIFE?

A: Writing this film with my high school chum Alex Kurtzman has reminded me how solidly constructed the original paradigm for Star Trek really was. Our job was to just do our homework. We not only went back to our favorite episodes and books and movies, but we also read graduate level dissertations about the meaning of Star Trek. It was like going back to Star Trek school, and it made us appreciate Trek even more, which I didn’t think was possible.

 

[Arlo]

They really screwed the pooch on this. The staff should have just posted JJs answers into the body of the article. "Live chats" don't work.

 

[Ro_Laren]

^ I didn't know that members of the cast were also answering questions...

 

[Trujew]

THE GANG - January 25, 2008
N33. hairy_canary - January 24, 2008
Do you follow what fans are saying on the internet at all?

A: Not really. We never take time to find out what fans on the net are thinking. Thanks for asking.

 

[T'Bonz]

I have a clean copy up, posting as the questions are answered.

 

[Zeppster]

Still have a few people trying to ask a few questions.

139. THE GANG - January 25, 2008

N33. hairy_canary - January 24, 2008
Do you follow what fans are saying on the internet at all?

A: Not really. We never take time to find out what fans on the net are thinking. Thanks for asking.

 

[Jon1701]

No answer to my "Will the doors swoosh?" question, or whether Simon Pegg will have a moustache yet.

 

[Tralah]

Yikes! I'm surprised they thought they could do this via an open chat where anyone can spam anything, but I'm glad to hear it's calming down. Thanks a bunch for those of you posting the questions and answers here! I can't access the chat since I'm at work, and boy is it a slow work day.