• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Star Trek 2009 script

Will check it out when time permits. BTW, did you post this in the Movies XI+ Forum as well? That's probably where it belongs. (Just a friendly tip. ;))
 
I read this awhile ago. It's fascinating how after failing to save Romulus, Spock opens a second black hole and goes back in time on purpose in this version.

I also loved Kirk's tantrum when he realizes he's been stranded on Delta Vega...
Kirk: SONOFABITCH-BITCH-BITCH! THERE'S NOTHING HERE!!! YOU NECK-PINCHING MOTHERFU--!!
 
I know it belongs in the other forum, but I posted it here because this is where I usually am at, and that's just what I wanted to do...just being honest. :)
 
I've got no issue with it. Just don't be surprised if it gets moved to the XI+ Forum by a Mod, is all I'm sayin'.
 
I read this awhile ago. It's fascinating how after failing to save Romulus, Spock opens a second black hole and goes back in time on purpose in this version.

I also loved Kirk's tantrum when he realizes he's been stranded on Delta Vega...
Kirk: SONOFABITCH-BITCH-BITCH! THERE'S NOTHING HERE!!! YOU NECK-PINCHING MOTHERFU--!!

I had read about this script and read about a few different things, but until now, I've never read about Spock opening a second black hole in order to escape. Also the Nero and Ayel dynamic was surprising.
 
Good lord. It's so full of curse words it's nearly unreadable. I'm surprised I haven't read the word "hella" yet. I don't think I can sit through this this just to find some extra lines.
 
^ Yeah, I was reading some of it, and the amount of profanity just in the "stage directions" is unbelievable. Do Hollywood writers really talk that way?
 
^ Yeah, I was reading some of it, and the amount of profanity just in the "stage directions" is unbelievable. Do Hollywood writers really talk that way?

That's the same thing I thought too. Maybe that's the new "this ain't your dad's old Star Trek" attitude now with these movies. The only thing I don't understand is why would "stage directions" be written into the script that way?? By the way, I don't know how much you're in to reading scripts, but I found an alternative script for Nemesis a few weeks ago too. Great read. Very interesting. Admiral Janeway would have much more screen time in that version too.
 
I imagine a screenplay that wasn't produced in-house by people familiar with one another (these were Bad Robot writers working for a Bad Robot producer/director) would be less profane.
 
What do any of you care about the profanity? It's not like any of it showed up on the screen. You just got the big ass explosions and all the great HOLY SHIT moments that made you all piss your fuckin pants with glee and shout, "Jesus 'Tittyfucking" Christ!" at the screen. The profanity in the script was just a little extra hyperbole intended to get the effect across. Why not? It wasn't a novel, it was a screenplay. None of you were intended to read it in the first place.
 
^ Because it shows quite a level of immaturity and lack of professionalism on the part of the writers which, IMHO, does come across in the film. And you do nothing to help your argument by taking it a step further by moving beyond off-color language and into just plain vulgar and offensive remarks.
 
I read the script a while back and had the same thoughts. Very immature, sloppily written, and kind of a chore to read. I'm amazed the film turned out so well.
 
^ Because it shows quite a level of immaturity and lack of professionalism on the part of the writers

Or, perhaps they did it intentionally, because if someone had bootlegged this script online during filming (as did happen with "Generations", "First Contact", "Insurrection" and "Nemesis"), or even excerpts, many people would have dismissed it as not-the-real-deal.
 
^ That's possible, but knowing the mindset and maturity level of modern day Hollywood, and the level of intelligence in the material that it produces, I'm more inclined to think that it's just the way they write.
 
On the other hand, I'm rather pleased to see Diane Duane's cthia get mentioned in there, albeit in passing.

The implication seems to be that Spock Prime only creates one black hole, a small one that he intends to go back in time with--as opposed to the bigger one he intended to fire into the supernova, which Nero's torpedo attack prevents him from doing. So Hobus supernova is never actually stopped in this version, and the TNG timeline ends in fire!
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top