J.J.

So the biggest news about Star Wars since Lucas sold it is that J.J. Abrams is directing Episode VII.  Kinda weird because of the whole Star Trek thing but I think one of the factors in leading Disney to their decision might have been the trailer to Into Darkness.

 

 

 

Personally it kind of reminds me of Star Wars with a retro Star Trek look.  So I gotta say that he may very well be the best man for the job.  The only other one who may do a good job would be Joss Whedon so long as he has co-writers along with him and a strong production team to reign in the "Whedonisms".  Sorry, but those can get annoying.  Killing off half your characters?  Only having female characters because they're hot?

J.J. NEEDS to do two things though for his film(s):  Please, for the love of God stop shining the light in the camera and also stop SHAKING the damn camera! 

Sorry, I hate shakey cam.

But like with most things artistic, we have to just wait and see.  People were really excited that Star Wars was out of the hands of Lucas.  Since the prequels, Star Wars can only go one direction:  up.

Called it!

Yup.  Alice Eve is playing Carol Marcus in Star Trek II.

Alice Eve

So the trailer to Star Trek, Into Darkness is out and there's a lot of people going nuts over it.  I'm excited to, but we'll have to wait and see how it turns out. 

I DO like the look of both films, very modern in a retro kind of way, at least most of it.  I hope they fix a couple of minor details from the first.  The Enterprise Engineering for example looked like something from modern-day, nothing at all futuristic.  And the rest of the ship was too "bright" and had too much cgi in it.  But that's just me...

Now there's speculation as to just WHO Alice Eve is playing in the movie, since IMDB has no character name listed.  She was clearly wearing a blue uniform, speculating that she's a medical or science officer, so maybe she's Nurse Chapel.

BUT...

What if she's Carol Marcus?  The love interest from Star Trek II?  She was certainly the most interesting of all of Kirk's love interests, most of whom only lasted one episode.  Her character was underused and we barely only scratched the surface as to what the story of her and Kirk was.  Obviously they were in love, had a child and had an argument as to where that child should be raised.  It could have been a really interesting story and maybe the filmmakers of this new series felt the same.  To see the love story of James and Carol...

Then again she might be someone new.  I guess we'll wait and see.

Morgalla Inspiration: Klingons

I was a much bigger Star Trek fan in the past, especially growing up.  I was introduced to it by the Wrath of Kahn but I knew of the show and many elements of it.  I knew what the Enterprise looked like, I knew the Vulcan salute but there was something called "Klingons" which I found the name to be rather silly.

I went to a couple of conventions but never wore a costume or anything like that.  I didn't.  I swear, I never did!

Anyway...

As the movies and Next Generation moved on, the Klingons were "fleshed out", so to speak.  We found out more about them and even though they were also an advanced society technologically, many elements about them were still seemingly "primitive" to some, but I prefer the term "traditional".

Enough quotes.

The Klingon look appears rather barbarian-like.  It's like all of them wear metal and leather.  Klingons and demons are both violent and for them it's completely normal.  Demons take it to the next degree.  To them, violence is a normal way of life, the term "murder" is an alien term to them.  Klingons hit each other and to them it's no big deal.  Sure, this might seem normal to someone raised in that environment, but every family has its black sheep. 

Enter Morgalla.

I think Klingons were best during the Search for Spock and the Undiscovered Country.  At best, the Klingons are allies against common enemies like the Borg or the Dominion.  At worst, their conquerors who want to rule because they think they're superior.  That's when they were more interesting. 

 

Gene Roddenberry wanted the Klingons to be our friends when the Next Generation came along.  BIG MISTAKE.  The best I think we could hope for with the Klingons is a live-and-let-live attitude where they respect us for our strength but don't like us.  Humans merely tolerate the fact that they enjoy pain and don't bathe.

 

The demonic race of Hell would be more complex than just a warrior race that wants to kill with their own sort of hierarchy.  But it is their warrior nature, their superior attitude, their traditional look, these elements helped shape what demons in Morgalla's world would be like.