{"id":5421,"date":"2009-02-19T05:49:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T04:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/orci-and-kurtzman-star-trek-vs-star-wars\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:54","slug":"orci-and-kurtzman-star-trek-vs-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/02\/orci-and-kurtzman-star-trek-vs-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Orci And Kurtzman: Star Trek Vs. Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-writers of <i>Star Trek XI <\/i>have figured out Star Trek&#8217;s missing ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/\">TrekMovie.com<\/a>, <i>Star Trek XI<\/i> Co-writers <b>Roberto Orci<\/b> and <b>Alex Kurtzman<\/b> feel that although a Christmas release for <i>Star Trek XI<\/i> would have been fine, the movie is strong enough to be a summer hit. &#8220;Obviously we were comfortable for Christmas, because that was its niche,&#8221; said Orci. &#8220;But we all feel it can sustain what it needs to sustain in the summer. One of the things we said early on is that <i>Star Wars<\/i> and <i>Star Trek<\/i> are always the ones being compared to each other by certain people. Why is <i>Star Wars<\/i> able to surpass all of that even though they&#8217;re all in space and some characters are similar? It just felt like <i>Star Wars<\/i> had a little more rock and roll than <i>Star Trek<\/i> had.&#8221;<!--more-->That &#8220;rock and roll&#8221; was the &#8220;missing ingredient&#8221; that was needed to improve <i>Star Trek<\/i> according to Kurtzman. &#8220;We figured the missing ingredient for this one was it needed a little rock and roll. And if we succeeded in doing that, I think it will meet the summer expectations. <i>Star Trek<\/i> was essentially a submarine naval battle, except in space. <i>Star Wars<\/i> was flying down the trench of the Death Star at the speed of mach 70,000 to shoot a little bullet into a hold. The experience as a viewer you have is different: there&#8217;s a speed I think associated with that experience. To my mind, there was no reason they had to be mutually exclusive. Obviously you have to be very true to spirit of what <i>Star Trek<\/i> is and you cannot violate canon, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t have some of that as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2009\/02\/18\/orci-kurtzman-star-trek-needed-a-little-rock-and-roll\/\">here<\/a>. The full interview was taken from SciFiNow, which can be ordered from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/item_show.php?itemID=1048&#038;action=maglist\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-writers of Star Trek XI have figured out Star Trek&#8217;s missing ingredient. As reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2465,2466,8601,2467],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-kurtzman","tag-orci","tag-star-trek-xi","tag-star-wars"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}