Rebirth in America

In the conference room of DreamWorks.

"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and other DreamWorks staff were listening carefully to the world background of "Star Wars" constructed by Alex. They listened so engrossed that the original purpose of the meeting was forgotten.

This meeting was originally intended to sign a contract with Gene, and DreamWorks would purchase the "Star Trek" script he wrote.

Alex likes to call this story "Star Trek" rather than "Star Trek". Although the latter translation is more appropriate, the first thing he came into contact with was the cartoon called "Star Trek".

One thing he has to do now is to combine "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" and put them under the same framework. Combining the stories of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the Enterprise with the Jedi, lightsabers, the Force and the dark Sith Emperor, it becomes a magnificent, strange and changeable future interstellar world.

The first thing to be determined was the greetings and blessings from the Vulcan tribe. That classic gesture and blessing was quickly accepted by Jean and others. They also imitated Alex and made gestures saying: "Continue life and prosper!"

"It can be said that "Interstellar Travel" written by Mr. Jean is a story about mankind's initial entry into the interstellar stage. At that time, human power was still weak, and there were many races in the universe that were more powerful than us. At this time, The story should highlight the human spirit of adventure and optimism!”

Alex's words were clearly approved by Gene, who nodded in agreement after hearing it. Gene said: "That's true. When I originally wrote this story, I only had a vague feeling that I wanted to write something different from other science fiction stories. Now after listening to Alex's words, I am really sure Keep in mind what you want to write!"

Morris was not concerned about this, he was more concerned about how to set up the story framework. He said: "Then how to introduce the Jedi Knights and lightsabers that Alex you mentioned? Could it be that all of a sudden humans will Have superhuman strength?"

Alex shook his head with a smile and said: "Of course not. We all know that the development of human society is actually divided into two major paths: material and spiritual. The development of human science and technology can be regarded as the development of material civilization, and in the story of the Jedi Knight The light and darkness, the Force, the lightsaber, etc. can all be regarded as the results of the development of human spiritual civilization."

As he spoke, he picked up chalk and marked a node on the back third of the timeline: "The development of science and technology has naturally led to the development of spiritual civilization. After human beings entered the interstellar stage for thousands of years, they finally Spiritual civilization has also developed to a stage of qualitative change. Naturally, during this period, we also absorbed the essence from the civilizations of other alien races, learned and understood the development of another path..."

The force!

He wrote this word on the blackboard. There was no such word in English. He explained: "The so-called force is the mysterious force that exists in the universe. It is equivalent to the 'qi' in Chinese Taoism. If we explain it in scientists' terms, the force is the spiritual energy of all life. It is the dark matter of living beings. It cannot be observed with scientific instruments. You can only use your spirit to sense and discover it. Then you can drive it through learning."

The more Gene listened, the more excited he became. Originally, he only wanted to describe the story of human beings encountering various alien races on the road of technological development. He would tell the story of the protagonists exploring the galaxy, finding new worlds, and encountering new civilizations. At the same time, he would also help Spread peace and understanding.

But after listening to Alex’s new content. Suddenly, he felt that another line was missing in his story, which was the spiritual development of mankind. When a person's power can match the power of a country, what kind of social civilization will it look like at this time? The national society originally built on material foundation and scientific and technological civilization will inevitably be destroyed and rebuilt by this huge force.

confusion!

Yes. Human civilization developed from initial chaos to order, and then from an ordered society to a state of chaos. What goes around comes around. The never-ending cycle!

"This, this is the law of the development of the universe!" Gene jumped up from his seat excitedly, feeling as if he had touched the edge of truth.

Alex shrugged his shoulders and didn't care what the other person was thinking. Instead, he wrote out the historical records of "Star Wars" that he remembered and marked some key settings. He said: "What I ask is that you find a way to integrate these two somewhat different stories into a whole! As for the manpower, I will arrange it! If you don't understand anything and need to ask me, then Just give me a call or come directly!”

After saying that, he handed the meeting over to Morris to host, and then left DreamWorks! His time is precious and cannot be wasted on such trivial matters. Although integrating "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" is something he has wanted to do for a long time, it is just a bad taste of his.

These two sci-fi films, both of which have been praised by later generations, have their own grand cosmic views and world views. If they were adapted and integrated before filming started, it shouldn't be difficult.

What Alex wants is to build a real and believable future world. If you want to shoot an interstellar science fiction film, you only need to look for some historical events, story backgrounds, and character settings. After the rigorous setting by Gene and the screenwriters of DreamWorks, this framework will definitely be able to withstand repeated twists and turns.

In the following months, or even a year and a half, Gene led more than a dozen of his subordinates to repeatedly modify and set the settings. A complete framework was built for the world background that Alex wanted, and then they continued to add content to it. During this period of work, the first TV series of "Star Trek" was filmed.

The filming location was still chosen in the desert of Nevada, where there is a DreamWorks Studios, which is also the Ape City where the Apes series of movies was filmed.

Today, it has become a tourist attraction for many orangutan fans. Although it's remote, it has an interstate highway nearby. For Americans, most of whom own cars, it just costs some gas money.

Many hippies and Dharma wanderers like to go to this city of apes. They like to visit a place that looks like a civilization on another planet. When Alex was designing, he built the city from a practical perspective. It is not a one-time set, but a building that can be used for many years.

Except for those areas that are being used for filming, other areas can be rented to tourists. People can live in the city in this movie and feel the unique environment and atmosphere. Even the permanent staff in the city are dressed like apes. It looks very much like being in an ape movie.

Hippies also brought their own ape suits, some were gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees, others were dressed as captured primitives or even futuristic beings.

As needed, DreamWorks also built a future city for mankind next to this city. It is also a city that is about to be inhabited, and several movies have been shot here. The "Star Trek" TV series was filmed here.

Different from the shoddy productions in history, the quality of DreamWorks' "Star Trek" TV series is better than the science fiction movies produced by some small film companies. Once launched, it immediately caused a viewing frenzy. The audience was deeply attracted by this interstellar science fiction film.

In order to build momentum, Alex asked the two comic companies in his hands to allocate manpower and start preparing some special issues of comics. Even though they were drawing two different intergalactic sci-fi comics. But they all strictly adhere to the background settings of Jean's story.

According to Alex's idea. It is like a tree, which can have various story branches that do not interfere with each other but are related to each other. Among them are the story of "Enterprise" and the story of the space station "Babylon 5". Various small stories are like branch branches, separated from the main trunk and growing independently.

It's amazing what this type of comic has accomplished. It created a different genre from American hero comics, which was interstellar comics. It has cultivated many interstellar comic fans. While they were waiting for the TV, they rushed to buy comic books of the same type to enrich their understanding of the interstellar world.

Marvel Comics and comic book companies clamored to continue drawing. They wanted to be empowered to be outside of hero comics. Open up a new comic market.

Of course there is no problem. They all belong to Alex's company and were authorized easily. Soon, in addition to hero comics, there was an interstellar science fiction comic in American comics.

This has never happened in Alex's history. He changed history and made history.

After the success of television and comics, DreamWorks followed up with the "Star Trek" movie. Originally, Alex planned to delay the film and did not want to release the movie so soon. In his opinion, the current animation special effects are too bad and cannot meet his expectations.

If we can wait until computers develop, maybe in six or seven years we will be able to achieve the level of computer special effects in the 1980s. However, he thought about it and felt that people in this era have not yet been baptized by the special effects of later generations, and some ordinary pictures can also make them excited.

DreamWorks' special effects team is already the most powerful in Hollywood. They are able to create special effects scenes that other film companies cannot do. The movie version of "Star Trek" was quickly completed and stunned audiences of this era on the day it was released. .

They looked at the real and fake special effects in the movie, and they were all stunned. Although Planet of the Apes itself has many special effects, it is actually very conservative. It pays more attention to the discussion of humanistic rationality.

As for the "Star Trek" movie, the future spaceships, various technological applications, and space war scenes are all eye-opening for people.

It felt like when Alex saw the liquid metal robot for the first time, he was so shocked that he forgot when the movie ended. After returning home, all that was left in my mind was the gorgeous special effects in the movie. Only when I went back and watched it again did I know the true meaning of the movie.

Although "Star Trek" was not shot by Alex himself, his influence is everywhere. Some small details in it, such as folding mobile phones, Bluetooth technology, sensor automatic doors, etc., appear more real and credible under his description. . Years later, when people used this type of technology, they were surprised to find that the same thing existed in "Star Trek" decades ago.

The predictions and impact of this series of movies on technology are so accurate and huge in the eyes of people decades later. But now, it is just a seed in Alex's hand, which has just been sown in the ground and sprouted young saplings.

"It seems that something is missing. Just TV, movies and comics are not enough." Alex thought to himself. He thought: "It must be expanded to all aspects, such as a Star Trek game..."

Speaking of games, Alex suddenly had the idea to integrate the story background of "StarCraft" into the framework he created.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems possible.

It is said that in the early days when humans entered the interstellar arena, a colonial fleet was lost in space. As a result, they encountered the Zerg and the Protoss in a certain star field!

In order to survive, humans must seize the mineral points in this star field and establish a defensive circle! Three different races started a fierce war!

When Alex told Jean and others about his new ideas, they also became interested in this small branch. In particular, the civilization styles of the three different races fascinated them.

“In this way, part of the content of early human space exploration can be completed!”

"That's great! Alex, where did your wonderful idea come from? Alex, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net Where did you get this wonderful idea!" Gene praised loudly. He found that using this timeline as the main line, the events were By branching, many interesting ideas can be added to it.

Morris also became interested in this small branch of the story. It seemed more compact, the conflicts were more intense, and it was more suitable for making one or two movies. He asked: "Alex, have you ever considered making this story into a movie? Write a script!"

Alex shook his head and rejected the idea: "Now is not the time, Morris! If we really want to make a movie about this kind of cosmic war, our current special effects level is far from reaching it!"

From his point of view, it is necessary to at least reach the level of special effects in the 1980s before filming such a movie. Otherwise, just let it go. However, drawing comics, writing novels, and producing peripheral toys can be started earlier.

These are trivial things, and Alex doesn't want to waste his time on them. However, after he helped Gene and others get some basic settings and story framework in place, he completely gave up.

The next thing he has to do is the animation part! He wants to take complete control of the Disney Company!