J.J. Abrams: 'Trek felt camp and silly'

J.J. Abrams has said that he never felt that the original Star Trek TV series gave him "a way in" to the programme.

The director of the new prequel movie told The Guardian that he was a much bigger fan of The Twilight Zone when he was younger.

Abrams said: "Star Trek always felt like a silly, campy thing. I remember appreciating it, but feeling like I didn't get it. I felt it didn't give me a way in.

"There was a captain, there was this first officer, they were talking a lot about adventures and not having them as much as I would've liked. Maybe I wasn't smart enough, maybe I wasn't old enough."

He claimed that his previously mentioned limited knowledge of the show and its movies could have been an asset when making the new picture.

Abrams said: "I didn't want to become a student of Star Trek. I felt that was actually one of the few advantages I had. I was trying to make a movie, not trying to make a Trek movie."