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Wired.com Q&A: Trek Nation Director Scott Colthorp on Star Trek, Optimism and Dissed Fans
Documentary Trek Nation, Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry and Scott Colthorp’s philosophical peek into the sci-fi franchise’s enduring cultural appeal, has yet to touch down in theaters. But from its desire to be the anti-Trekkies to its all-star interviewees like George Lucas, J.J. Abrams and Patrick Stewart, the movie is approaching warp factor geek.
In an e-mail interview with Wired.com, Trek Nation director and executive producer Scott Colthorp (pictured above right, with Roddenberry) discusses Gene Roddenberry, J.J. Abrams, terrorism, humanism, Trekkie nerds and more. Set fandom phasers on suspension of cynicism.
IDIC (Part 1)
Above: My interpretation of the IDIC symbol – (from Trek Nation)
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; “beauty,” he said, “is unity in variety. Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience.”
The Cage
The Cage – later reworked into the two-part episode The Menagerie – was Gene Roddenberry’s pilot episode of Star Trek’s original series. You will not find Kirk, Bones, Scotty, Sulu or Uhura in this pilot. Jeffrey Hunter plays Captain Pike, a quiet, introspective type – nothing like the swashbuckling, hormonal Kirk that would follow.