A number of active astronauts and veteran astronauts are protesting last summer's blockbuster film, Star Trek, saying the film is Hollywood hokum, portraying space travelers as renegades while failing to represent details about space travel accurately.
The criticism highlights the delicate relationship between "Star Trek" and the nation's space program. NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden says the film is "authentic" and "very compelling" and has recommended it to his staff. But the government says it pulled its "Star Trek" production assistance at the last minute in 2007, saying that the film's makers were shooting scenes that weren't in the screenplay submitted to NASA, including a sequence that the government believed portrayed astronauts wearing red uniforms unflatteringly. The film's producers dispute elements of the account.
People have been particularly polarized on the issue, objecting to comments by some that Star Trek was gritty, realistic and the best space movie ever.
"I think that's disrespectful to the men and women who are in space RIGHT NOW. It was Dumb. Dumb!" commented one opinionated moviegoer.
Others were not as put off. "Frankly, I don't care if it's accurate or not. It's gritty, suspense-filled and has a captivating story. If some of the details aren't quite right or if some of the details - or characters - are exaggerated from how things are in real life, so be it. I didn't expect the film to be a documentary when I went to see it. What I went to see was a captivating story set in space.
And that's what I got," said Destructo, mayor-for-life of Destructoville.
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