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Post #350495

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Hunter6
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Abrams is Destroying Star Trek like Lucas has Destroyed Star Wars
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Date created
25-Mar-2009, 12:45 PM
skyjedi2005 said:

Hunter6 your forgetting that the best Trek film of all was directed and Helmed by someone who was neither a fan nor well versed in trek lore, Nicholas Meyer.  Remember Bennet and Meyer were brought outside of trek after the motion picture to breathe new life into trek.

 

No, I did not forget Nicholas Meyer.

Nicholas Meyer and Gene Roddenberry were real alike in their visions of Star Trek.

Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek was Horatio Hornblower, but on a starship. 

Meyer described his script as "'Hornblower' in outer space", utilizing nautical references and a swashbuckling atmosphere.[8](Hornblower was an inspiration to Roddenberry and Shatner when making the show, although Meyer was unaware of this).[26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II

 

Also Nicholas Meyer's ST: II was more like the swashbuckling TOS then ST:TMP.

Nicholas Meyer did not need to know trek lore because he got what Star Trek was about and it showed.

 

 

JJ Abrams is NO Nicholas Meyer and it shows.