The writers, directors, and producers behind the "Star Trek" reboot guard the secrets of the upcoming movie like it's their own Prime Directive. Mention anything that could reveal a plot point -- like say, moments with Kirk and Spock's mothers -- and they immediately employ defensive maneuvers.
"The what? What flashbacks?" writer/director J.J. Abrams asked. "I never said flashbacks."
"We didn't say there were flashbacks!" teased writer/producer Alex Kurtzman.
But that didn't mean they aren't willing to give something up -- in the spirit of diplomacy, of course. Plot and character development might be off limits (they all refuse to answer the question, "Where does the movie start" except Abrams, who teased, "In the fu-ture") -- but gadgets aren't. "We intentionally don't talk too much about the story," said producer Bryan Burk, "but there's all the gadgets you could want. No replicators," since they originated in "Next Generation," "but there's warp speed and transporter beams and tricorders and communicators and everything you could want. All the gadgets." Read More...
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