Abrams resolved if his character was accompanying Nimoy's, it would have turn out to be a movie about the resurrection of Kirk, and not about introducing the new variations of the characters. Abrams' wife Katie was frequently consulted on the script, as had been Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof's wives, to make the female characters as potent as possible. Abrams' grandfather, as effectively as the physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin (William Thomson).