herb solow reviews star trek

the producer of star trek TOS, herb solow, tells us what he thought of the latest film, on BBC news:

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'i entered the theatre and the star trek world with a mission: to determine if this new star trek beginning had done justice to the future we invented.
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many questions were foremost in my mind. in this 'prequel' would i find a world that could have existed before we created and developed it? would i meet our real characters before we invented them? would they grow into the characters i 'hired?'
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read his thoughts here.