Love him, hate him or don’t know a thing about him, Damon Lindelof loves to talk about the projects he’s involved with and many of those that he’s not, since he’s a big genre fan himself. The folks at Collider nabbed a really solid interview with him that covers a wide range of topics about Star Trek Into Darkness that’s well worth the read if you’re looking to get some idea as to the approach and the reasons why they’re looking at a Star Trek movie in this way. The two key take-away points for me about the concept behind it, without going into spoilers, are these:
“They’re in the 23rd century and these people are from Earth. The Earth needed to play more of a role in these movies, especially in the sense of giving the audience a degree of relatability. I think that in the same way that New York City becomes this anchor point for people in the Marvel movies; that’s Spidey’s stomping ground, that was the stomping ground for Tony Stark, that was the stomping ground for The Avengers, it’s New York. We wanted to do the same thing with Earth in the Star Trek movies.”
With a more relatable aspect, since they’re looking for more of a mainstream audience rather than the very fan oriented audiences that the final Star Trek: The Next Generation movies go, this definitely makes sense. The other part, one that will frustrate some but will please others like myself, is this one:
“The only Enterprise that were familiar with is where Kirk has been the Captain, nobody ever questions his judgment, he knows what he’s doing and occasionally gets in trouble, but he has the trust and love of everybody under his command. But there was a phase that preceded that and that’s the phase into which Into Darkness plays. So that’s very exciting for us.”
[Source: Collider]
