In an interview with MTV news, the cast of 'Star Trek' talks about how they took cues from The Original Series.

'We made this movie from a place of respect and from a place of celebration for what came before,' new Spock Zachary Quinto says.

Virtually all the castmembers — from Simon Pegg to Karl Urban to John Cho — have expressed their love for the original cast. And, while they realize that the new movie's space-diving, special effects and sexiness would have been impossible for the classic "Trek," they knew that ignoring their predecessors would be as suicidal as confronting a Borg with phasers set to stun. (source MTV News)

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