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December 2, 2002

Trekweb recently held an interview with Nemesis writer John Logan. Many things were discussed, including his feelings about the ending of Nemesis. Below is a snippet, but beware, spoilers lie ahead!

“It was incredibly interesting, being a STAR TREK fan as long as I can remember,” Logan told TrekWeb recently at the New York press screening for STAR TREK NEMESIS. “My introduction to TREK was literally Captain Kirk on his first voyage, not even syndication, the first run when I was a kid—and I completely fell in love with it and I’ve remained sort of unapologetically a STAR TREK fan all my life. Then the opportunity to work on this came about when I met the great Brent Spiner and I had sort of a minute’s hesitation thinking, ‘is this mixing business with pleasure?’ I’m very professional about my work but I have such affection for these characters in the story, how am I going to be able to be objective about it? So I had some hesitations.”

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“I take it very personally, very deeply because my intention all the way along was to write a movie for the fans,” Logan told TrekWeb. “I think that’s why they hired me, because I’m a fan, I have a responsiveness to fans and what they want and how they respond to things. If the fans reject this movie then I will feel awful; I will feel like I failed at my job. If the fans like the movie and the general audience doesn’t, I don’t care because I’ve done my job. I was trying to write a movie for the fans, predicting how they might respond to certain things. We make radical choices in NEMESIS and certainly we push the envelope on certain things and that was our intention from the very beginning but, being a fan, I know I respond to the same things that any human being responds to when they are being told a story. They want to be challenged, they want to be provoked, they want to be entertained, they want to feel sweep and grandeur.

To read more, click on the link below:

http://talk.trekweb.com/articles/2002/12/02/1038805295.html

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