Star Trek Sequel May Contain Pointed Modern Commentary

/Film ^ | September 15, 2009 | Russ Fischer

[EveningStar]

OK, so JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and a talented cast (to whom, if things are really fair, a lot of the credit must be given) successfully rebooted Star Trek. Obviously there will be another film, and if nearly thirty years of films in the franchise have taught us anything, it is that making a crappy Trek film is all too easy. So what next for the series? More Shakespeare? Or something else? Based on recent comments, it sounds like Star Trek 2 (or whatever it will be called) could get all sorts of modern, at least from a thematic standpoint...

[KevinDavis]

A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[FortWorthPatriot]

But first he has to take a tour of the galaxy so he can apologize for every bad thing the Federation has done...

[Question_Assumptions]

The original series had adults in charge, with episodes warning about putting kids in charge (Charlie X, Miri, And the Children Shall Lead, The Way To Eden). Missing that lesson in the post-60s world, it's now cool to have the kids in charge. As much as I liked the new movie (and I really did -- the living up to your father's example and Pike as a leader helped a great deal there), it does still remind me of the younger SG-1 team parody from the 200th episode of Stargate SG-1.

[bushpilot1]

Mom “Linda is on the phone”

Me “I am watching Star Trek”

[Borges]

Science Fiction has always dealt with allegory of various sorts. The original ST Tv show was a comment on Race Relations and Cold War tensions.

[x]

Now more relevant than ever.

[bvw]

I’m pretty sure Gene Roddenberry never would have described it as “pointed modern commentary”. That’s Obama-talk.

[xp38]

He was more fun as the Riddler

[Lazamataz]

If they are making a pointed modern commentary, it will be about how anyone who opposes communism is a racist.

[Seruzawa]

On other words, Hollyweird people simply can’t stop themselves from moralist preaching at the general population... between their visits to divorce court and rehab.

[eddie willers]

Believe it or not, but I managed to make it the whole year or so it took for “The Sixth Sense” to make it to DVD.

But of course the whole point of that movie was the trick ending so I knew to avoid anything that smelt of a discussion of it.

[Grig]

How about this: the President of the Federation is in league with the Klingons (or other hostile power) seeking to overthrow the Federation. The Enterprise must go up against the whole rest of the fleet (with the help of the USS Limbaugh, USS Palin, USS Beck and USS Fox to expose and stop their plot.

[Rodamala]

I laughed out loud at this comment someone left at that link:

So... The Federation's in a recession.

Great.