Star Trek Into Darkness Features Equal-Opportunity Nudity, Says Director

During a new interview with News Network Australia (embedded below), Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams said that while Zoe Saldana’s Uhura gets to do quite a bit in the upcoming film, he feels that the Star Trek franchise (and the rest of Hollywood) still have a ways to go in their portrayal of female characters.Still, he told the interviewer, it’s not as though she was being treated differently because she’s a woman; Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, John Cho and others also take second position behind Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.And, after all, when it comes to on-camera flesh, there’s just as much Chris Pine in his underwear as there is Alice Eve. So everyone can be happy about that.”It’s critical to me and it’s true that when I wrote the pilot for Alias, or Felicity or Lost that female roles be as important as any other role,” Abrams said. “But I think in Star Trek, while Zoe gets to do a couple of pretty cool things that are way above and beyond what you ever got to see in the original show…there needs to be more of that and more of her.”He added that his approach to Star Trek, which has historically gone out of its way to depict a vision of humanity more at peace, is a bit less exuberant than previous creators, but that shouldn’t be confused for negativity.”Gene Roddenbury’s Star Trek was created as this bright future,” Abrams said. “I feel like I’m not quite as wildy optimistic as he is. That’s not to say I’m not an optimist because I believe I am, but what I love to embrace is a more tempered, realistic and romantic view of the future.”