{"id":7494,"date":"2009-10-13T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2009-10-13T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:14:50","slug":"abrams-deleted-scenes-clarify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/10\/abrams-deleted-scenes-clarify\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams: Deleted Scenes Clarify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference last week, the topic of discussion for <strong><em>J.J. Abrams <\/em><\/strong>was <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams&#8217; remarks are now available in a six-part video series posted online, where he talks about everything from pre-production, to deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes work on <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Regarding a controversial scene, where Kirk and Spock meet up in the ice cave,\u00a0 Abrams explains how this meet-up makes sense after all. &#8220;There are elements in the special features and deleted scenes that address the storylines, the logic of it,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;For example, one of the things that people had issues with was &#8216;Oh COME on. Kirk is going to run into an ice cave and he&#8217;s going to run into Spock like that? That is the dumbest thing ever and&#8230;unlikely.&#8217; But, there in the scene, they&#8217;re in the cave and there was a sequence that was cut from the movie where Spock speaks to that and he talks about how this is sort of the timeline&#8217;s way of trying to repair itself and it&#8217;s as much about fate as anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alex and Bob&#8230;made it [the film] about inevitability,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;They made it about how Kirk and Spock&#8230;the movie is about this family that nothing will keep apart and it&#8217;s about that kind of friendship that will endure anything. So there was a kind of genius in taking the most unlikely moment, a coincidence that I would never in a million years buy and hang a huge lantern on it and say that is fate. 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