Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

Today we are talking about Star Trek, the 2009 film directed by J.J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orchi and Alex Kurtzman.

I'm joined by the bound on screenplay team, Trisha Rand.

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Brian Bittner.

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And Alex Coyotes.

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Okay, so we are continuing our kind of accidental trek through the film year 2009, where two weeks ago we did an episode on Up in the Air, which we kind of talked about as being like the last 90s film almost, where it's, you know, it's a drama.

It's a rom-com.

It's just like it's a normal movie.

Like whatever Groundhog Day was, it was doing that.

And we stopped making those movies in 2009.

But what we started doing in 2009 was this kind of soft reboot thing where they decided we're going to make a new Star Trek film.

It's going to have the original characters from the original TV show.

And it's still going to feature like an old version of some of those characters.

But we're going to recast it.

It's like new people playing the younger versions of themselves. but it's not entirely outside of the world of the original. It was like a

whole new experiment thing, and we can dive into the details of how they tried to navigate all of that.

But it was really interesting revisiting this film, because I was kind of obsessed with it when it came out.

Alex and I are Star Trek fans, but we both come at Star Trek from slightly different angles a little bit, which we'll talk about.

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