JJ Abrams on Star Trek Sequel

Ok, so I feel like I should go on the record and say I was NEVER a Star Trek fan. I hated it with a passion, in fact. I thought it was stupid and didn’t understand why so many people liked it. Then I saw JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie. And suddenly I got it. I realized what it was supposed to be. I realized the majority of my hatred was aimed at anything that was done AFTER the original 60s series. When I watched this movie, I realized what that the movie did what Star Trek always did. It brought sci-fi down to our level and commented on social issues and things like that. That’s where all of the other series failed (aside from the terrible special effects). So now there is word about JJ Abrams having a sequel in the works, but he’s already saying he won’t rush it. Here’s what he had to say in an interview with Scifi Wire.

“The ambition for a sequel to ‘Star Trek’ is to make a movie that’s worthy of the audience and not just another movie, you know, just a second movie that feels tacked on. 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. it needs to do what [the late 'Trek' creator 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 — that’s true with any story.”

Couldn’t agree with him more. Here’s hoping that the new film doesn’t take forever to come out and that it rocks even harder than the first film did.