So we’vebeen toldthat the author of next year ’s Star Trek reboot want to “ impart more Star Wars ” to Gene Rodenberry ’s bright - color vision of America ’s interstellar tomorrow . But what does that really mean ? We ’ve give it some thought and get along up with five way in which the crew of the Enterprise should pattern themselves after Luke Skywalker , C3 - PO and company .
Make Your Heroes Less Perfect . Rodenberry ’s future of human race was a utopian one – We had all transcend racism , bigotry and hate of almost every kind … we had evolved past the indigence for money , and worked towards the common advance of fellowship . We were , permit ’s be honest , really kind of dull ( Unless some outside force was making us harebrained / horny / whatever the plot expect that week ) . Star Wars ’s heroes , on the other hand , were much more blemished … and much more interesting . Whether it was Han ’s gambling debts , Lando ’s willingness to betray out his best friend for the good of his well - lit city in the sky or just Luke ’s incessant whininess , we could see ourselves in the characters , and that made it easy for us to care about them . So permit ’s see a Kirk that does n’t always salvage the day and get the fille , or a Bones that ’s the alcoholic that we always suspected him of being . Less Talk , More Action . Perhaps because of the show ’s budget , or perhaps because future humanity was so bloody diplomatical , Star Trek never really got into the whole exciting battle thing ( Even later attempts like the Borg attack in Star Trek : The Next Generation seemed half - hearted and irksome ) . Sure , they negociate to have a scuffle every now and then that get our pulses rush –
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– but imagine if that awesome Alexander Courage medicine was being used for something more exciting than prop - attend wrestling . There is no style that a Star Trek with more space battles and less seek to sit down down and talk thing through like grown - ups would be a unfit affair .
Ignore The Laws Of Physics . Okay , so Scotty kind of made a living doing that very affair on a unconstipated basis despite his protests , but this is n’t just managing to get that dilithium crystals back online a calendar week in the first place than look that we ’re talking about here . As Robert Loren Fleming once pointed out , George Lucas ignored scientific fact that said that there was no phone in the vacuum of space and became a multi - millionaire . JJ Abrams has proven that he ’s unforced to neglect realness in party favour of playfulness storytelling in Fringe , so I ’m looking forward to a Star Trek that takes full advantage of the possibilities of science fable to give us the most dramatically satisfying story ever . And if that means that we see multiple metre - move James T Kirks all existing in the same panorama to punch a elbow room full of Romulans , all the better .
Have At Least One successiveness That Will Make A Good Video Game . You know what I ’m talking about ; there ’s one in every Star Wars moving picture , whether it be pod - racing , speeder - biking through the forests of Endor or cutting Anakin Skywalker ’s leg off while lava bubble all around you . At its sound , the Star Wars serial publication does n’t just put you in the center of the action at law , it pull in you want to literally be the one doing all the action at law . There ’s no better direction to hit the nerd g - smear than invoke to our wish well - fulfillment fantasies so blatantly , after all . And what does Star Trek have to liken ? Nothing … yet . JJ , you hump what you have to do .
Put Uhura In A Metal Bikini At Some Point . And talking of nerd wish - fulfillment fantasies … As much as you may sigh and pretend that you ’re all appalled at such pandering , you sleep with you require to see it . Especially if she ’s chained up next toone of those fleeceable Orion slave girls .
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