J.J. Abrams Wants You to Know He Could Have Directed Episode VII

Even the thickest of lunkheads (read: yours truly) could see Star Trek owed a lot to Star Wars.

J.J. Abrams admitted during the press tour of the Enterprise restart he was more into lightsabers than phasers as a kid. Take what worked for Luke Skywalker and apply it to James Tiberius Kirk. It might not stand for the principles of Gene Roddenberry, but it worked.

This wasn't lost on Disney as Abrams revealed to Empire:

"There were the very early conversations and I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn't even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I'd rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them."

Since Abrams did his Star Wars thing on Star Trek and presumably Into Darkness, it's for the best.

If you're reading this (and I know you aren't), stop wasting everyone's time and announce the Episode VII helmer already, Disney.