Comments on: After Tearing Into Fans, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Screenwriter Roberto Orci Deletes Twitter Account

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

just watched Star Trek Into Darkness last night on DVD. Amazing movie. It captures the spirit of the original show. Anyone who says otherwise it an idiot and doesn't know movies. Into Darkness was visually amazing as well. I liked how they flipped the script on the original Wrath of Khan

By: Kevin A.

Kevin A. — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

There is a reason he gets to write films and we don't; he swallows.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

These guys from the Lost brat-pack are getting really annoying. Can't they be limited to tv?

By: JenT

JenT — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Boys Boys, Size does NOT Matter, when talking about Pure Joy, of getting to Live in a Country where Going to the Movies is, nearly Every Weekend, if one can afford it or just waiting for the DVD to rent for a buck!
Now all I want to know is…Will there be at Least one more Star Trek? If So I think us Fans, that ALLOW YOU the Movie Makers to make a better living than Teachers or Firepeople,,,etc.
STOP Fighting & PRAY to Whatever God you Choose, because there may be NO Time left to see any movie!
Lastly, I am Disabled & can get better so NOT to Live off you Tax Payers, come find me, 7 minutes & I'll "Pitch" enough to Earn a Living to Get Better & OFF Disability!
7minutes is way WAY less time than all this Fighting!
"Always Leave them thurston4more" Jen Thurston, Tulsa, OK
Super Natural Blessings to ALL!

By: KTB

KTB — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

I loved ST:ID. I'm not a Trekkie so I don't know history and canon enough but the reboot has been very entertaining to me. This latest caught me off guard emotionally too. I didn't expect to be all torn up in a sci-fi/action film I knew the main characters weren't dying. That support being shared, it would have been better for Orci to not get as defensive, arrogant and rude as he got. Although, I understand his emotions here since I come from a fandom and know how fans can get when expressing themselves online. Sucky situation that he could have controlled better but I'm really just looking forward to the third film in this series.

By: Jasmine K

Jasmine K — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

The movie guy usually gets the flak for being a pr*ck. But fans can be the arrogant di*ks as well. They have egos the size of a football stadium without ever having taken a shot at trying the hard stuff. They don't struggle to cut it in the business, they don't risk the pain of rejection, they don't plough through dead-end walls to hit upon a new idea, they just have nothing at stake. Internet fans are often the equivalent of paper tigers. Roaring from a safe distance.

By: TC Kirkham

TC Kirkham — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

As a longtime Trekker, I have to say that ST:ID was a great film. But….it could have been even better had Orci, Abrams, and company found a way to do the same story with original characters instead of falling back on more of the old ST universe. That having been said, though, I did like what they did with the sly nods to the original ST:TWOK – a bit of clever slight-of-hand…and Zachary Quinto doing the "KHANNNNNNN!" bit was priceless….

And for the record, how any self respecting group of true Trekkies/Trekkers/Trekists could take a "worst" poll and NOT have it be topped by either "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" or "Star Trek:Nemesis" is beyond me…both of those are just AWFUL all the way from beginning to end…

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

This guy's got issues. I saw him speak in conjuction with a few others during a series of seminars (business of the business, how you made it, what's next, etc etc, waste of time). He had this tightly wound nerd energy (not in a good way) and was very dismissive of his colleagues. At one point I though he and Glen Mazzara were going to go at one another but they kept it civil. Warped perspective and delusions of grandeur for sure. A network hack elevated to the realm of feature writing and now he thinks he's somebody. In fact he is somebody but now he's masterminding a character assasinstion…on himself? Such is the nature of things, I suppose.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

I REALLY loved that movie – both of them. The cast is excellent, the story lines are great, the action is riveting, and the effects are mind blowing. There is NOTHING that would suggest that the StarTrek franchise is broken; quite the opposite. I am looking forward to the next movie AND the next series. In the words of Captain Picard, "Make it so!"

By: DAVID PENASCO MALDONADO

DAVID PENASCO MALDONADO — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

A coward and a talenless hack… You're a winner, Roberto!

By: FCT

FCT — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Orci is right. The 2 New Star Trek movies were both the best of the franchise, the most lucrative and the best reviewed. People love to crap on whats popular and unfortunately the internet has given trolls the voice to speak their meaningless drivel.

By: usuck

usuck — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

wow… Transformers, Star Trek, and Cowboys and Aliens,….you sure told them…..

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

The guys should have just made the Godard case: The best critique of a movie is to make a better movie.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Fuck this guy seriously but come on, what the internet was at when Star Trek Nemesis came out? You didn't give a shit anymore, and now you clearly do! So that's something right?

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Sad that a guy who is ostensibly be living the dream is still essentially a desperate nerd in search of approval, and when he doesn't get it, he lashes out. I do think that many of the trek fans are being as bad as he is, but it's really no excuse either way.

But I have to say, voting it the 'worst in the franchise' — what criteria are these folks judging this movie on? Sure the script is not page to page incredible, but it actually has a real statement it's trying to make, sticks to it's themes, and is very, very well made. So to a point, I see his frustration — I really don't know what would make these guys happy, and they are unbelievably petty and viscious — i'm pretty sure if they found themselves in Orci's position, many of them would be as much of a sad, desperate jerk.

By: d

Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Yeahh… pretty sure he's kidding about G.W. being one of his heroes.

By: SunPapushi

SunPapushi — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Wait, he's a 9/11 truther and George W. Bush is one of his heroes? How does that even work?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

The fact that Dubya is Orci's hero says it all really. What a moron.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Anyone who describes their audience as petulant children really needs to have a good think about what they're doing in this business. Then signing off declaring GWB as his great and beloved hero? How on Earth this guy ever got hired is beyond belief but then nothing surprises me in this game any more.

By: Mam

Mam — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Fucking trekkies i hate them

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Between firing off on Trek fans and his whacky conspiracy theories (911 truther, believing the government is hiding evidence of aliens), I think deleting his account is a pretty good thing for his career.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Star Trek Into Darkness blew. Orci is one of the most overrated writers in the history of Hollywood. Transformers blew, Watchmen blew, and the first Star Trek was good because it was Star Trek modernized and glossed over in action. It would've been successful no matter who wrote it. Star Trek Into Darkness might as well have been written by the corpses of the writers that wrote the original series and The Wrath of Khan. "As I love to say, there is a reason why I get to write the movies, and you donât.â Answer to that is because you are owned by a corporation, don't question anything, don't think originally, and used your so-called writing-skills to rape my childhood. Fuck him and his Twitter account.

By: WillSmith

WillSmith — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Can't wait to see what this guy is going to do with Star Wars.

By: Restore the timeline

Restore the timeline — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

Both of the new Star Trek's are the biggest injustice to the franchise ever. The name Star Trek should not ever have been associated with these movies, and they really should not been passed off as ST. I consider those involved with the reboot and anything that propagates this ridiculous alternate timeline to be toxic and will not support them or any other projects (related or unrelated) that they are a part of.

Those who carried on after Roddenberry passed away made mistakes, yes, but they never pulled such an immature dick move like this guy. Furthermore they also never went around with backhanded insults to the canon or fan base like the directory did.

Do the right thing guys. Go back to Paramount, convice them to end this disasterous run, and put everything back they way it was before you got your filthy hands on it.

By: Trek fan

Trek fan — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:05:09 +0000

I agree with many people's view that this isn't trek, galaxy quest, Star Trek and Star Trek into darkness should be on a list on there own. Heck it's not even sci fi, the science from the original cannon has been stripped away, but as a blockbuster it was good. Just see it of the send up of TOS that it is and keep its cannon in its own universe leave it off the memory alpha website and other trek sites, Star Trek online is there for Star Trek fans and Star Trek renegades might be the tv show everyone is waiting for. Just enjoy the films but leave your brain switched off, and don't think of them as Star Trek 11 and 12 because they really aren't.