Star Trek XI: Most likely TOS-era

[evil_genius_180]

I didn't see anything about this in the forums, but I want to see it there, so I'm doing it.

Supposedly, the next Star Trek film is supposed to be set in the year 2010 and deal with the Eugenics Wars. It's going to be filmed in Australia. This is the only good source I've been able to find right now:

http://www.trekweb.com/articles/2005/07/22/42e1880605171.shtml

So, if anybody knows of any other sources, even if it's just a rumor site, please list them below. This one little source is barely enough to wet my appetite and I want to know more. Thanks in advance.

[evil_genius_180]

Ok, I realize the last little rumor post was a year old, but Trek fans feast your eyes on this baby hot off the press:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=35587

It would appear that the producers are going a slightly different direction.....

[evil_genius_180]

So, am I the only one over here that wants to talk about this thing? C'mon, I know there are Trek fans here with opinions. You think it's going to be the best movie they've made? You think it'll be a huge pile of monkey dung? Let's talk about it.

Here, just in case you need another source with the lowdown about this thing, here's the best one:

BREAKING NEWS: J.J. Abrams to Produce/Direct "Trek XI" (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/15891.html)

There, direct from the source.

I personally think the movie has potential, though it also has a chance of being the worse thing since Highlander 2. (Sorry to Highlander 2 fans, but that was garbage. I mean, he killed the big immortal and won the prize. THE END. This does not count the Highlander TV series, as that happened before the first movie.)

So, somebody respond. If you think ignoring me will make me go away, you are sadly mistaken. :tongue:

[skyhawk223]

The first question that came to my mind was who will play younger versions of Kirk and Spock?

[evil_genius_180]

Ah, those questions came to my mind as well. Also, will the person who plays Kirk speak in that ridiculously overdramatic fashion in which William Shatner speaks? Remember, that came in handy in The Paradise Syndrome, so you can't just dismiss it.

I can't think of anyone that's out there right now that would really fit either role. But, I'm sure they're still a while away from casting, the director just got assigned, the script still needs to be written. It will be iteresting to see who the pick, though. :D

[Alisa]

I'm excited to see another trek movie. This one looks interesting. I would really love to see ones with the DS9 / Voyager crews, to see what happened after those series.

[evil_genius_180]

I'm with you on that one. I'd also like to see one with the Ent crew and the Romulan wars. Also, I hope they develop the early idea for doing the Eugenics Wars into a future movie.

[Alisa]

If they can get some good writers, there's SO much subject matter they could develop from things that were started in the various series..

One thing that worries me..the new one is 11 - and I seem to recall that the odd number films never did well..and weren't as good as the even ones - let's hope this will break that trend!

[evil_genius_180]

Actually, Nemesis was #10 and it sucked it hard at the box office. I personally loved it, but it did the worst out of all of them. I think that's why the powers-that-be got some fresh blood in for this one.

[Alisa]

Good point. I have to say that I've never seen a trek show or movie that I really HATED ;-), but Nemesis certainly wasn't my favorite.

It definitely will be interesting to see what the MI crew does with the Trek universe.

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, I want to see M:I III. That looks sweet. Really, the Trek movie that is in the bottom of the barrel is STV, that one went off the beaten path a little too much. My all-time fav is STIV. That was my first experience with Trek when I was a kid and it's still the best. :D

[Alisa]

I think my 2 favorites were II and IV. The humor in IV was just wonderful - as well as the relationships between the crew that made the show so wonderful (that quality was definitely missing in the first movie). I wasn't crazy about V, either...maybe tied with I for my least favorite. Of course, least favorite is relative - I'd still rather re-watch almost any Trek movie than many others. :->

I don't tend to go to the movie theatre other than for new Trek movies, so will look forward to catching MI III when it comes to HBO or Showtime.

[evil_genius_180]

Usually I wait for movies to hit DVD before I watch them. Movie theater prices are way too high these days.

I like Star Trek TMP, especially the Collector's Editon DVD with the CGI in it. Though, I do love 4, where they let their hair down some. 2 was great also, especially in the space battle area. Insurrection was also fun with the humor, especially after serious FC. (that battle scene in FC needed to be about 20 minutes longer, though :D )

[Alisa]

Let's hope the new movie will live up to some of these greats!!

[evil_genius_180]

Apparently the idiots at StarTrek.com are even more stupid than we already knew they were. They released the story about J.J. Abrams to do the next movie a little prematurely. And the story about doing the film on Kirk and Spock is apparently a bunch of felgarcarb. (did I spell that right, Warrior?)

Abrams Objects To Inaccurate Reporting On Trek XI (http://www.trektoday.com/news/260406_02.shtml)

[Alisa]

Thanks for the update!

[evil_genius_180]

At least somebody appreciates all the work I did to find this on a thread on another site's forum and steal it. :D

[Alisa]

Lol!!!

[ada]

Lol!!!


it will be time !!!!!!! :sleep:

[batboy853]

well, the thing with nemesis was that it was released at bad time.

i mean lord of the rings III was realeased the next week, so that gave it a bad shot :arrow:

but i am pumped about the new movie, how ever i would have rather have seen the romulan war trilogy. that was also what rumors were saying six months ago.

[evil_genius_180]

I was deployed to Afghanistan when Nemesis came out and didn't know how it did until recently, but I like it. Fortunately, about a week after I got back from Afghanistan, it came out on DVD and I bought it. :D

I'd rather see the Romulan war or Eugenics war myself, but who knows what they'll do with it. After all, Abrams just got signed and doesn't even have a script yet. He's only hinted about how he may go with it.

[evil_genius_180]

I just hope to hell this is viscious rumor with no basis on factual events at all.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=320544

[morganzacd5p]

Oh Dear God!

On the one hand, I have a deep dislike of him. But on the other, i like to give actors a chance to play a character.
Maybe.

[evil_genius_180]

About the only good thing that might come from Affleck playing Kirk is our assurance that he will in fact be able to speak in that stupid manner that Bill made popular. :alien:

[djw1971]

I'm new here, but have been throwing this topic around on another website. This premise with Kirk and Spock in their academy days was first introduced by Harve Bennett years ago, and was completely shotdown by the powers that be. I could see something like this as a tv movie or possibly even a new series, but I just cant see it making it as a feature movie.

[evil_genius_180]

Welcome. Yeah, that sounds like something Harve would have come up with, he and William Shatner co-wrote ST5, need I say more. That's fine for a TV show or TV movie (hopefully on cable so I don't have a chance of accidentally catching it) but I agree that they need something better for a big screen flick. This idea of Harve's is like Star Trek meets Saved by the Bell.

[djw1971]

If I remember correctly without digging out old magazines, he originally wanted to do it as a tv movie, and have it start out with Shatner and Kelly reminiscing, and then go from there. Like I said, it would definitely make a good tv special. I've been trying to think of something they could do that would be awesome, but nothing really spectacular comes to mind right now. All the series have pretty much covered everything they've done over and over...and I dont feel Enterprise would really make for good movie material. If they wanna go into the past, they should come up with something really original instead of going back to the same characters. At least in my opinion

[evil_genius_180]

Romulan Wars

Eugenics Wars

'nuff said. :alien:

[evil_genius_180]

OK, I know I haven't updated the news recently, but that's because I haven't been able to find much more than scraps. Here's what I've got right now:

Lost executive producer Bryan Burk is on board now (big surprise) and he's saying that the Starfleet Academy story with Kirk and Spock leaked too soon, dismissing the notion. Unfortunately, he didn't exactly deny it either. *shudders*

Here's a link to a full interview with him:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=36261

That's about all I have right now. I know it's not much, but that's because the updates on this are harder to find than details on the Vulcan mating rituals. :tos:

More later. (hopefully)

[moovok]

I think we need something totally different. A Starfleet Academy story or anything with Kirk and Spock would just be picky, like which actors should or shouldn't, etc. I think they need something fresh, something different and something with new people (if they're adamdant that they won't be bringing back the TNG cast, etc.)

[evil_genius_180]

That's what I was thinking. Something new would be great, but I'd love to see the TNG cast do another movie. Plus, with Riker captaining the Titan and Worf in the XOs seat on the Enterprise and Data dead, there's room for more characters and new plots. I think it's just that they decided to call it quits but really didn't think about what they could do. I know Patrick Stewart hinted that there might be another TNG movie on the Nemesis DVD special features and he sounded like he wanted to do another. I mean, let's face it, TNG and TOS were the most popular Treks and the TNG cast is still young enough to do another movie.

[Beaver]

Um... you did watch the specials didn't you?

If you did you'd know that Commander Martin Madden is the XO of the Enterprise, NOT Lieutenant Commander Worf...

Watch the extras again and look at the deleted scenes :)

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, I watched the special features and deleted scenes aren't officially part of the movie. Only what's in the movie counts.

In his wedding toast, Picard talks about training his new first officer. He looks right a Worf and says to the crowd, "You all know him. He's a tyrannical martinette who will never allow me to go on away missions."

If Madden is his new XO, why is Picard looking at Worf? And who on the ship even knows Madden? In the deleted scenes, he introduces himself to Picard. That doesn't sound like someone anyone on the ship knows, or Picard would know him. Lastly, he doesn't sound like a tyrannical martinette.

What probably happened was they decided to keep the XO's spot in the established family but it was after they shot the scene with Madden. So, since they hadn't shot the wedding scene yet, they nixed that scene and did that thing with the toast. Then they put the deleted scenes on the DVD (why not, they went to the trouble of shooting it) and it came along. It looks like it was cut early because there aren't even any special effects like bridge noises or anything. :D

[evil_genius_180]

Please bear in mind that I put very little stock in what those jackasses over at TV Squad report, and I hope this is not an exception:

MATT DAMON TO PLAY CAPTAIN KIRK (http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/22/damon-cant-play-a-young-kirk-can-he/)

I have absolutely nothing against Matt Damon, I usually enjoy his performances, I just don't see him as Captain Kirk. Anyway, that's the lattest, er, gossip. :tos:

[evil_genius_180]

www.startrek.com today released a preview of the newly completed poster for Star Trek XI, which leads to the natural conclusion that it will in fact be a TOS-era movie. For the full article, read here: Star Trek XI Movie Poster Revealed (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/19575.html)

For some reason, probably because somebody screwed up, I couldn't get the full-sized poster to load, but I did get the desktop backgrounds to load. I'll try later to get the poster to load. Hopefully, they'll have it fixed.

[juise15]

well even paramount doesnt know what the story is going to be about. Mike Okuda told us to look at startrek.com and see something cool soon.

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, a lot of people (including me) jumped the gun over that poster startrek.com released, assuming it's a TOS movie. However, upon further reflection, I realized that all it really has is the Starfleet emblem on a yellow and blue background. Every show and movie except Enterprise has had that emblem and all have had blue and gold colors.

A bunch of people over at SFM have been crying about this movie and what they should and shouldn't do. That's pretty funny since the movie doesn't even have a script yet.

[Alisa]

Just a thanks for keeping us posted on the movie - I know I'll probably like it no matter what era it is, but I'd like to see another TNG movie or even one with DS9 or Voyager. The idea of completely different actors isn't as appealing to me..

[morganzacd5p]

I read through one of those manifestos some guy from the studio wrote about restarting the whole series (same characters different univers). And I kinda liked where he was going with it. Kinda like Clasic battlestar vs. New. Look how well that turned out

[Cryptie]

Personally I am tired of Trek going backwards instead of fowards. They should have allowed TNG 6 movies then went on to DS9 etc. They sure do want to kill this franchise off don't they? After watching the last 2 TNG clunkers, I won't be watching this crap.

[morganzacd5p]

I too would have liked to see a DS9 and Voyager film, but they would have had to do them sooner. The cast is getting kinda old. Personally I would like to see an Elite Force/ ST: Invasion film. Just throw a hazard team on the Typhon and go.

[evil_genius_180]

Boy, I started a crap tornado over here, didn't I? :evil:

Cryptie, I can see you didn't like the last 2 films, but those not doing well can be blamed on Rick Berman, who is now fired from Star Trek. The new guy, J.J. Abrams has a hit TV show (Lost) and also did MI3. His vision is the revitalization of Trek, not going in the same direction as Berman. So, whatever he does will be nothing like the last 2 films at all.

I, for one, feel we should start over on page 0. Jim Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang on the Enterprise 1701 (no freakin' letters) with a brand new take on the classic, like morganzacd5p suggested. They should revamp the ship, uniforms, tricorders, everything to be more inline with the 21st century. I love the classic and would love to see a fresh take on it. That way, it can be sort of one of those "hey, we screwed up and we're bit enough to admit it, so we're cutting our losses and starting over" things. Then, if the movie does well, they should do a TV series with that cast based on that movie, as if the movie was the pilot.

Though I do think this new movie is ill-timed. They really shouldn't push a new movie our way until at least 5-10 years after the finish of Enterprise, so we have time to miss Star Trek.

[morganzacd5p]

I, for one, feel we should start over on page 0. Jim Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang on the Enterprise 1701 (no freakin' letters) with a brand new take on the classic, like morganzacd5p suggested. They should revamp the ship, uniforms, tricorders, everything to be more inline with the 21st century. I love the classic and would love to see a fresh take on it. That way, it can be sort of one of those "hey, we screwed up and we're bit enough to admit it, so we're cutting our losses and starting over" things. Then, if the movie does well, they should do a TV series with that cast based on that movie, as if the movie was the pilot.


Yes... Trek, as is, was good for its time, when it was created. However, back then Mr Roddenberry couldnt have forseen the extent of the changes in our world. And since the new series (TNG, DS9, VOY) had to work of the history established in the first, those diferences caused it to become less and less realistic for us. If the new writers sit back, look at series that have pulled it off right (Firefly, Battlestar), they could create something great.

...then again it could end up a pile of monky crap! :chocchip:

[Cryptie]

Evil, Im an old time Trekkie from way back just to let you know. I grewup with TOS then got hooked on TNG. Berman had his hands all over the last 2 clunker TNG flicks. I'm fussy about Trek. I dont take any bone they throw my way and I dont think the fans should settle for second best. They need Patrick Stewart to takeover the franchise or someone like him who would go forward. Berman is the one who wants to keep going backwards. ENTERPRISE the series sucked. Dont get me started lol. I have a very long rant about what Berman did to Trek over the years. :)
Too bad the fans dont bycott this next film and say enough is enough with this going back in time. Trek is about the 24th Century is it not?

[evil_genius_180]

OK, back to my point. Berman has been fired. Given the boot, the ax, sacked, canned, cashed his pink slip. Whatever you want to say. He will never have anything to say about Star Trek again.

[morganzacd5p]

(in best Homer voice) WOO-HOO!!!

[Cryptie]

Yes but, the damage Berman did is already done and can't be undone to the franchise. He had control far too long and should have been fired long before DS9 aired. And I doubt he's suffering because of it. He'll just move on to other soaps since, thats what he did to Trek over the years, turned it into a boring soap opera.

I dont understand why they dont make movies out of the Trek novels?

[evil_genius_180]

Yes! Movies out of Trek novels. Excellent idea. :D I can think of many I've read that would look great on the big screen. Just none of William Shatner's ego trip novels, those are horrible enough to read without making a movie.

[Cryptie]

I was thinking along the lines of TNG novels. I've read most of those. ;)

[evil_genius_180]

Dark Mirror or Q Squared are a couple I'd like to see done because both deal with alternate universes and both would require some cool special effects. I like Dark Mirror better than what they did with that universe on DS9.

[morganzacd5p]

Voyager had some good ones as well

[Cryptie]

Dark Mirror or Q Squared and Imzadi would have all been good choices for movies. I liked Q Squared better though anything with Q in it is my fave or anything with the Holodeck is also good. Anything but time travel!!!

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, Q Squared is one of my all-time favorite Star Trek books. I like the different universes and the way Peter David neatly answered the question of whether or not Trelane was a member of the Q Continuum. Even though it's not technically canon, it should be.

[Cryptie]

All they are gonna do is throw us another milk dud with unknown actors. I want another TNG flick!!! Q-In Law was funny as hell too. That would have made a good Q story! ;)

[evil_genius_180]

I forgot all about Q-In Law! That's an awesome book. Especially when Q gives Lwaxana some of his powers. Ah, good times. :D I've felt for years that we needed a Q story on the big screen and you're right, Q-In Law would be perfect.

I know on the Nemesis DVD, Patrick Stewart sounded hopeful that they would make another TNG flick. Sure, they sort of wrapped things up in that movie, but they also left a door open for a sequel. For one thing, I wouldn't have minded seeing some of the Titan, at least until I saw the winner of the design contest at www.simonsays.com. That thing was horrible, it was just a huge kitbash. (trying not to rant off topic, trying not to rant off topic.) :mad:

[Cryptie]

I hate the Strange New Worlds crap. I dont like the fact the editors pick who they know, probably did that with the design contest too.

[TheMightySpud]

Firstly, thanks for posting the link for the Titan winner, I totally forgot about that contest.....and well, I'm appauled by their choice of winner if I'm honest. But that's a thread for another time. :)

I'm going to go back to the Poster discussion.......

Just looking at the poster, it's easy to see that the movie will be TOS. Only TOS and the Movies had that emblem (with the star in the centre of the arrowhead) and the TOS Movies didn't have the Red/Blue/Gold uniform designations. Plus, and I admit, this one is a little bit of a stretch.....if you look at the logo, it's got the same 'fabric' texture as the blue and gold, and TOS was the only incarnation that didn't have a metal Pin logo. So with all that, I'd stake every penny I own, that this will be a TOS movie.

I will admit, that I'm very very very dubious about this movie, if the rumours are true, Kirk/Spock movie, but if you think about it, Shatner and Nimoy have been Kirk/Spock for 40 years. It's going to haveta be something very very special if long time fans are going to buy it.

I am so very very happy that Berman got canned. He screwed Trek like no one has screwed anything before, he has almost single handedly destroyed the franchise because quite frankly, he's lazy and expected everything to get by simply on the fact that it was Star Trek, and he seemed to refuse to take risks, he was content to sit back and let Trek sit on it's backside and let everything come to it, and well, it doesn't work like that. TV nowadays has matured to the point where the audience wants to be challenged to figure out what's going to happen next (Lost, Galactica to name but two) and that's where Trek needs to go.

And now, I've begun to rant, so I'll leave it there :)

TheMightySpud

[Cryptie]

From what I've been reading and from what I hear most of the old timer Trekkies like myself are saying about it, it WILL indeed be another bomb. This next POS will be the end of Trek as we Trekkies know it. Trek is and always was about the future, NOT THE PAST. They pissed off Kirk's fans by killing him off so now they comeup with something even more stupid to bring him back but leaving the actor out who plays him? That is just cheap of Paramount. You want to make it a Spock/Kirk movies then make the real actors portay their characters not some unknows that nobody will want to see.

I'm not afraid to rant. :biggrin:

I say boycott this clunker but, of course, no one will and thats why they'll keep making POS movies because fans will always go see it no matter what. :rolleyes:

[evil_genius_180]

All I have to say is, horrible movie or not; ALL 3 SEASONS OF TOS BEAUTIFULLY DIGITALLY REMASTERED ON DVD

*looks at DVD rack and smiles*

Who needs another movie when I can watch all of my favorite episodes whenever I want? :evil:

[tiberius2134]

I was shocked when I read Matt Damon was being considered for Kirk! Please no!

[richmerk]

The trend nowadays seems to be to remake old stuff.

Starsky and Hutch
The Dukes of Hazzard
Battlestar Galactica
Wild Wild West
etc.

I wish the next Trek movie would take us further into the future, not back into the past where we've already been. :(

[mav1234]

I think with this new film they're trying to re-energize the "beginning" of Star Trek. I read an article some time ago that said something along the lines of they believed Enterprise was too early and they needed to bring back the two characters that really made Star Trek great.

This is the first time in a long time there hasn't been a Star Trek TV series going in a long time, so part of me wonders if this isn't an attempt to start one up.

[bLuTm8]

Hi everybody :)

I dislike this time based concept, cloned from starwars: 1st the newest, then the past and so on...

For me this would sounds much better: 80 years after the return of the Voyager, the federation now have some new alliances with the delta quadrant humans, there comes the almost biggest apocalyptic scenery ever.

A new unknown race, familar with time manipulation, will rearrange/rebuild the whole galaxy. Stuff to integrate the timeship story from Voyager and so on....
Startrek 12 (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31791198/)

for the non germans:

"ST12: The end of time - Our future has always ending"


* sorry for my poor english *

regards blutm8

[KnightRider]

I was thinking about the prequel concept. There is an old Trek novel, The first Adventure, written by Vonda McIntyre. It tells the story of how the crew of the 1701 came together. Maybe J. J. Adams can borrow some ideas from that novel...

[evil_genius_180]

Hi everybody :)

I dislike this time based concept, cloned from starwars: 1st the newest, then the past and so on...

Or it could be based off a concept Gene Roddenberry first mentioned at a 1975 Star Trek convention. He said he wanted to make a Star Trek movie that would flash back to when Kirk and the gang first met at Starfleet Academy. The idea was revisited for ST6. It was supposed to allow the producers to save money by not having to pay William Shatner and the gang for more than a few scenes before and after the flashback but the idea was abandoned and "The Undiscovered Country" script was written.

I was thinking about the prequel concept. There is an old Trek novel, The first Adventure, written by Vonda McIntyre. It tells the story of how the crew of the 1701 came together. Maybe J. J. Adams can borrow some ideas from that novel...

That's an awesome novel. I have a copy of that one also. It also explains why some Klingons have brow ridges and some don't. It's a caste system, not the genetic engineering excuse they came up on Enterprise. (though I like that one also.) The Klingons that had brow ridges were a servant race to the Klingons without ridges. It would've been interesting to see that line of thought continued to the point where someone writes a revolt scenario where the Klingons with brow ridges kill their masters and take over. :biggrin:


The latest "leak" of the script is that it will be a movie with Kirk and the gang and it will be pre-TOS. Maybe at the academy, maybe later when Kirk first assumes command of the Enterprise. They're also rumored to be considering using the original Constitution-class, not some kind of hybrid, but that's just a rumor. As is usually the case, the movie and script are a closely guarded secret.

[Taranis]

I hope they don't make a Hybrid of the Enterprise .. its a classic design .. the reworked cgi in the TOS that currently been worked on is as far as they should go ...IMO

[KnightRider]

I aggree. If they want to achieve the TOS feeling, they need to show TOS style.

[evil_genius_180]

I'd go redesign before I went hybrid, if I were them. 'Specially with the large amount of ST fans who don't like Enterprise out there.

OK, just to throw some fuel on the fire.

I just read at SFM that reliable sources say that J.J. Abrams is trying to get Tom Cruise to have a cameo in the movie as Christopher Pike. Whadaya think of that? :arrow:

[chimera46]

I just read at SFM that reliable sources say that J.J. Abrams is trying to get Tom Cruise to have a cameo in the movie as Christopher Pike. Whadaya think of that? :arrow:

Wow, that would be a good way to tank the franchise, and squander a lot of the budget on a cameo for a falling A-List actor when it should be spent on blowing stuff up and/or buying more green skin paint for the Orion Slave Girls.

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, it was just a dirty rumor anyway. Cruise's people set the story straight later, I just forgot to post that. ;)

[Kai]

according to the BBC Scotty could well be played by.... Simon 'Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz' Pegg... not a choice I'd seen coming.. but, since Pegg can act.... he could well be a good one...

[coldwaterwarlock]

"If you try to make everyone happy, no one will be." It's one of my favorite quotes, and definitely applies here. All that it will truly come down to is what the new ownership wants to take away from the whole thing. If they want a ST movie just to make them money, it'll probably be garbage. If they are trying to renew the franchise and leave the future open for more movies and shows... we can hope.

But by the sacred rings, I hope no Matt Damon and Ben Affleck either way!

[evil_genius_180]

Ben Affleck, as far as I know, was never officially tied to the project. He's mostly turning his sights towards directing these days anyway. I think he's going to do less acting and pursue that avenue. But what's wrong with Matt Damon? He's a good actor. As much as I love Captain Kirk, William Shatner is just an OK actor, not a good one.

As far as what they want to do, J.J. Abrams wants to revitalize the franchise. He's always wanted to do a ST movie or show and, now that he has his chance, he's going to do his best to make it good. Obviously, the powers-that-be at CBS/Paramount want to revitalize the franchise, otherwise they wouldn't have canned Rick Berman (Roddenberry's hand-picked successor) and hired J.J. Abrams, who brought his own production team aboard.

Either way, Trekkies will cry. They're crying already. Many of them, without even having seen what the movie is going to be about or even who is going to be in it (besides Leonard Nimoy and that dude from Heroes,) have already decided that it's going to suck. And the funny part is, they're mostly basing that off of what Star Trek became under Rick Berman and he has absolutely nothing to do with the project, so it's pointless to even compare the new movie to what was done before. But people always do that about new movies and shows. :rolleyes:

[sgreco1970]

heh one thing he could do to revitalize the franchise would be to release the iron-grip on fandom. Ever since they put copyright watchdogs at the conventions, stripped the internet of fan screen caps and sounds (thus destroying st:insv) and other perfectly legal, understandable yet narrowsighted moves, theyve helped fandom dwindle to all but the old guard. If they were smart, they'd return things to the way they were with fan-made props at conventions for sale and screengrabs littered all over the internet -driving fandom and keeping their properties popular and in demand. Oh well, hehe.

As far as this new film? Ive been saying for years they need to retell the originl series with a young, famous cast and big budget fx, much like BSG has done. About dern time. Spock's casting sounds fine, albeit it will be big shoes for any actor to fill, even McCoy's seems fitting. But Kirk? Eh, time will tell but so far he isn't jazzin me. All things considered, however, I can't wait to see this film and hope its good enough to spark many sequels. The only fear is, will it end up like Batman. "Gee, another trek film, cool! But hey, did you hear who's playing spock THIS time?"

[sgreco1970]

Chris Pine as Capt. Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Karl Urban as Dr McCoy, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Zoë Saldana as Uhura, John Cho as Sulu and Anton Yelchin as Chekov.

Christopher Pike will also be in the movie, his casting is not yet released.

btw, JJ Abrams, the director, is on strike with the WGA so production has ground to a standstill.