The idea of mobile communication devices, computers that could scan all recorded knowledge and self-opening doors were definitely fantastical and a bit silly. Star Trek was an obviously possible future: faster-than-light spaceships, a unified world government and the capability to transport people by unstitching their molecules and atoms, and then reassembling them, were clearly within our reach. Star Wars was "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away". When Alec Guinness replied to Mark Hamill's question "You fought in the clone wars?" "Yes, I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father", tens of thousands of kids with glasses went away thinking, "What were the clone wars?" (When we found out in 2002, we were mostly disappointed: imagine all those years of imaginative investment reduced to pallid CGI).Īt the same time, deep in the Scottish Borders, I was watching reruns of Star Trek. Things had happened before the tale we were being told. I am of an age, roughly, with Abrams, and remember obsessing about that Roman numeral.
One shouldn't read too much into this confluence of East Coast intelligentsia and West Coast free-thinking, given that the genuinely significant event of his childhood was the 1977 release of Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope.
Abrams was born in New York, in 1966, and raised in Los Angeles, with both his parents working in the industry he now bestrides.
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