{"id":5671,"date":"2009-06-01T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/star-trek-xi-breaking-down-walls\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:41","slug":"star-trek-xi-breaking-down-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/06\/star-trek-xi-breaking-down-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek XI: Breaking Down Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Star Trek<\/i> fans might have enjoyed the shows, movies and literature of their favorite series, but outsiders felt excluded from this world of <i>Star Trek<\/i> by the fans themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycomet.com\/\">Dailycomet.com<\/a>, people like <b>Chris Pine<\/b> felt excluded from the world of <i>Star Trek<\/i>. &#8220;I never wanted to watch <i>Star Trek<\/i> because I always felt alienated from <i>Star Trek<\/i>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I always felt it was not my world. It was the fans&#8217; world. The fans had built this kind of impenetrable wall around their beloved series.&#8221; <!--more-->With the release of <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>, Pine feels that has now changed. &#8220;J.J.&#8217;s come in and broken that wall down a little bit, and I&#8217;m hopeful <i>Star Trek<\/i> will be open to a whole new generation of fans,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Different types of people who never felt they would be fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Gene Roddenberry<\/b>&#8216;s son <b>Eugene &#8220;Rod&#8221; Roddenberry<\/b> agreed that <i>Star Trek<\/i> needed to be opened up, but for a different reason. &#8220;If you look at it from a business point of view, you want to bring in that whole new audience,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have to strike a balance, and I think J.J. did a damn good job at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Leonard Nimoy<\/b>, it was more a matter of revitalizing a franchise that seemed to be moribund. &#8220;After the first film, I felt that <i>Star Trek<\/i> was a beached whale, and the second movie put it back in the water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This film hopefully will do the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycomet.com\/article\/20090517\/BIGFUN\/905119895?Title=-Star-Trek-flies-again-with-unwritten-future\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek fans might have enjoyed the shows, movies and literature of their favorite series,&#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":[2409,2419,2446],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-nimoy","tag-pine","tag-roddenberry"],"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\/5671","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=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}