{"id":725,"date":"2008-05-13T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-05-12T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:32:57","slug":"wil-wheaton-on-new-trek-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Wil Wheaton on New Trek Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/underwire\/2008\/05\/jj-abrams-dishe.html\">this Wired article<\/A> where J.J. Abrams claims that he is &#8220;reinventing&#8221; Trek with the new movie, Wil Wheaton offers his thoughts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about &#8220;reinventing&#8221; something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless supply of Jar-Jars and midichlorians. <\/p>\n<p>However! Ron Moore reinvented BSG, and it&#8217;s the greatest thing ever, so reinventing things isn&#8217;t automatically horrible. In fact, if the article had been titled &#8220;JJ Abrams promises thrilling effects for Star Trek movie&#8221; I&#8217;d be celebrating right now. Language is important, as they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wheaton&#8217;s official stance is wait-and-see, but part of the article he quotes makes it sound like Abrams is tone-deaf where the Trek mythos is concerned.  I envision a mass of fanboys on opening night, leaping to their feet and shouting, &#8220;Wait a minute!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2008\/05\/reinventing-uh.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on this Wired article where J.J. Abrams claims that he is &#8220;reinventing&#8221; Trek with the new movie, Wil Wheaton offers his thoughts. Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about &#8220;reinventing&#8221; something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}