MTV.com’s Josh Horowitz sat down with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writers of the forthcoming Jason Abrams-directed Star Trek feature, and sifted through the general emptiness of their project. The fact that Trekkies — a fanboy sub-culture that stretches back nearly 40 years, for heaven’s sake — are still hanging in there and supposedly revved up about this new Trek pic is something that’s gone beyond the realm of a cultural curiosity/embarassment. The thought of tens of thousands of people out there who are still into memories of Kirk, Spock, Scottie, Bones Chekhov, Uhura….the mind reels.
