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J.J. Abrams: 'Trek felt camp and silly'
Published Thursday, May 7 2009, 14:32 BST | By Mayer Nissim

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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."
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