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Posted: 16:31:30 on November 12 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

In the new issue of Britain's Star Trek Monthly, both screenwriter John Logan and producer Rick Berman weigh in on the tenth big screen TREK adventure, set to hit U.S. theaters a month from now. Logan talks about developing the initial idea for the film and his early pitch sessions with Berman:

"I said, 'I know who the villains are - the Remans, Romulus and Remus! It's the shot of the bird of prey with the two planets - there's Romulus and there's Remus. We've never seen Remus, we don't know what Remus is, let's use Remus'," the A-list Hollywood writer recalled for the magazine (excerpts via TrekGalaxy). "He loved that idea, once he knew what it was. So I'm really proud that I was able to go into the Trek mythology and add a part about what the Romulan Empire is."

Logan says the movie may have a lot of action in places, but his script came down to risk-taking with the characters and writing an emotional story. "Rick was shocked when with my first pitch I said, 'I think this thing has one exterior action sequence, and everything else is on ships or on planets. I think it's a very tightly contained story about the individual characters we're choosing to play with'," he says. "I guess finally, specifically in terms of Trek, I think the smartest thing that was ever done in a Trek film was when Nick Meyer gave Captain Kirk glasses in Star Trek II and said, 'These characters are not just stuck in that world that we're so used to from the TV show.'"

As for the "final journey" question, Logan says he tried to write NEMESIS with enormous respect for the STAR TREK franchise and sincerely hopes an eleventh film is on the horizon. "I'm a fan and I'd like to write Star Trek XI. But I think maybe because I'm a fan and I respect the characters and the world so much, I believe I treated them with dignity and with a certain nobility about recognising that perhaps this is the end of this particular story. And if that is the case, I would be saddened, but I believe we do it with panache and with grace."

Also in this issue, Rick Berman gives the most up-to-date status report on the film yet: "Nemesis is done and finished and locked up," he says. "We screened the completed, mixed answer print last week for the studio, and they could not be more pleased. Veteran Star Trek composer Jerry Goldsmith did a remarkable score, and so we're finished. Digital Domain has done more than 500 opticals for us. We have more opticals in Nemesis that we've had in any other Star Trek movie, 30 to 40 percent more. You don't get to see everything until the very end because you're still finalising things, but when all is said and done, the work they did is extraordinary."

Check out more excerpts from the interviews at TrekGalaxy: Berman | Logan. STAR TREK NEMESIS beams into theaters December 13th.

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