Vigilance said:Right, but he has also said, repeatedly, that he was a huge fan of the original series. What is it about everyone who works on Trek having to establish their bonafides? No one asked Christian Bale how big a freaking Batman fan he was, and the movie was fine.
Right, the script was written by his two close friends, who are also writers and producers on his TV Show lost. He was already attached as a producer at that point, and had a lot of input on the script before it was written.
He just waited to commit himself to direct. But this has been his movie since day one.
JJ Abrams is the REASON for the movie. It was the studio's desire to work with him, and his passion for this movie, that we have to thank for it being made in the first place.
Everyone all along as stressed that it is not a remake. It's a story starring Kirk and Spock set in the TOS era that we haven't seen, in the established continuity, by a creative team with a passion for Trek.
It's also being made by a director and writing team with a enough juice, that for the first time in several decades, serious blockbuster type money is being spent on trek. They've cast a great young Spock from one of the hottest shows on TV, and gotten Nimoy on board.
And you're freaking "Wary"?
We should be freaking dancing. A real director, and a real writing team got a big-budget trek movie out of a studio that wanted to let the property lie fallow for a decade.
If that doesn't make a trek fan happy, or at least something better than freaking "wary", we obviously don't freaking deserve a movie.
Nimoy has read the script and has great things to say about. He also is the one man who has walked away from money for Trek in the past, because he didn't like the script (he turned down a part in Generations, for example).
Sure it could be dumb. But it's hard to see what else we could ASK from the movie at this stage.
Anyway, call me an optimist. I'd rather look at the very hopeful signs we've seen so far and be hopeful, rather than trying to be as pessimistic as possible so I don't need to endure the stinging pain of disappointment later on.
An actor does not need to be a big fan of a character to do it justice but I would hope the writers and producers were fans so that they actual get what the fans like about the show.
Besides that was a joke about being a Star Wars fan mav be you are to young to remember the good natured feud between Star Wars fans and Trek fans back in the 70s. I was playing homage to that.

You know I have watched so many of the shows I enjoy made into movies or reboot TV series and most of them have just sucked. Mission Impossible 1 they make Phelps the bad guy.

I am such a trek fan that I a pain in the butt kind. I know canon and it bugs me when they make major changes Morrus posted on CM the SAG report of what they are looking for in actors and some of it makes me go huh. First of all the main characters are going to be around the same age. About mid 20 early 30s. My problem with that is both Bones and Scotty were older and had a history because of that. They describe Bones as danger seeker.

Kirk was special because he was the youngest captain in Starfleet well now he is joined by the youngest chief medical officer , youngest head engineer. What 's wrong there are no actors in their middle 30s early 40s who would like to be in Trek? Or did a plague wipe out all the older people in the Trek Universe so its left to the younguns to run the ship.

Stuff like this makes me just go okay not sounding like something that will interest me so I am going to take a wait and see attidue.
As a member of one of the longest running BSG club formed way back in 1978 I was very disappointed that they went with a reimagining of the show. I have read the script of the reboot and it was great. It took the show in a darker direction was also going to be going with a different type of cylon a human/cylon cyborg. We would have goten to see how the characters had evolved after 20 years. Tigh was supposed to be a harder worn out Commander of the Galactica, Apollo had been missing for years, The colonist had given up looking for earth and had settles against the military's advice on a planet leaving the Glactica in orbit to protect them but slowly over time not giving them the material and supplies they needed to be kept first rate. Then the new hybrids show up.
It does not matter that I watch and enjoy the new BSG that is the one I would rather have been watching.
As for bitching and speculating on an internet board about something new coming out its what fans do. Just look at all the 4E threads.
