{"id":5620,"date":"2009-05-09T02:21:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/kurtzman-and-orci-creating-the-star-trek-story\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:45","slug":"kurtzman-and-orci-creating-the-star-trek-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/05\/kurtzman-and-orci-creating-the-star-trek-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurtzman And Orci: Creating The Star Trek Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Star Trek XI<\/i> Co-writers <b>Alex Kurtzman<\/b> and <b>Roberto Orci<\/b> explain the reasoning behind some of the events in <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>. (Spoilers)<\/p>\n<p>As seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/\">Firstshowing.net<\/a>, the two writers chose a solution that gave them more room to write a story, unhampered by forty years of Trek history. &#8220;Our solution frees us from canon and allows many more sequels in which you don&#8217;t have to be bound,&#8221; explained Orci.<br \/><!--more-->Kurtzman spoke the themes of <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>. &#8220;Destiny and fate are bringing these people together, even in a different timeline,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The character of Nero was partly inspired by Khan. Both Khan and Nero believed that someone (Kirk and Spock respectively) destroyed their lives, and each turned to revenge as a result of their anger.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important things for the writing pair was to get <b>Leonard Nimoy<\/b> on board for <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>. Kurtzman and Orci were surprised by Nimoy&#8217;s emotional response to their pitch. &#8220;He definitely came into the meeting appropriately skeptical,&#8221; said Kurtzman. After giving their pitch, said Kurtzman, &#8220;We all looked at each other and&#8230;and then after that, he was very quiet&#8230;and he started welling up and he said &#8216;You have to understand, this is very emotional for me. I haven&#8217;t considered doing this. I mean, I&#8217;ve been asked and I&#8217;ve said no.&#8217; He was responding emotionally to a lot of the ideas we were having&#8230;He was very surprised, I think; he was taken aback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek XI Co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci explain the reasoning behind some of&#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],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-kurtzman","tag-orci"],"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\/5620","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=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}