TCA: Fox’s ‘Fringe’ won’t be impenetrable, Abrams promises

J.J. Abrams learned a lesson from “Alias.”
It hit him when he was at a friend’s house one day and an episode of the ABC spy vs. spy drama was on television. Abrams, the show’s executive producer, couldn’t follow what was going on.
“Literally, it was impenetrable,” he said.
So for [...]

As reported by io9, Saldana did several things to prepare for her role as Uhura. “[I used] reference pictures, speaking to Nichelle Nichols, talking a lot to J.J. [Abrams],” she explained. “After I met Zach Quinto and Chris Pine, that changed a lot, talking to them. For some reason, Zach’s Spock and Chris’s Kirk brought [...]