I’ve been looking for something to take my mind off the (pause for understatement) rough week I’ve been having…and good news about the direction of the revitalized Star Trek franchise is always welcome.
This is taken from Keith Topping’s lovely media blog:
JJ Abrams has hinted that his Star Trek sequel will reflect modern-day issues. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Abrams said that he is keen for the next Trek outing to offer up contemporary social commentary.
“The ambition for a sequel to Star Trek is to make a movie that’s worthy of the audience and not just a second movie that feels tacked on,” he explained. “The first movie was so concerned with just setting up the characters - their meeting each and galvanizing that family - that in many ways a sequel will have a very different mission.” He continued: “It needs to do what [Gene] Roddenberry did so well, which is allegory. It needs to tell a story that has connection to what is familiar and what is relevant. It also needs to tell it in a spectacular way that hides the machinery and in a primarily entertaining and hopefully moving story. There needs to be relevance, yes, and that doesn’t mean it should be pretentious. If there are simple truths - truths connected to what we live - that elevates any story.”
If this comes true, any worries I have about Star Trek heading down the road of Lucas-prequel-hell have been mollified…but keep your fingers crossed.
