Star Trek XI, greenlighted according to KTLA morning news.

[BigGuynRusty]

Does anyone have any inside info on this?
Can only find old info on the web.
Any Paramount folks here?

BGnR

[The Grim Ninja]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/0...index.html

[Zoidberg]

J.J. Abrams (sp?) to direct. "When Kirk Met Spock..." at Starfleet Academy is apparently the storyline.

[Paul F.]

I hate to say it.. since I've been a Star Trek fan my whole life...
But It's time to put a fork in this movie series. It's done...

The last three movies have been uninspired, and felt like everyone from the writers on down were just going through the motions.

If they make it, I'll watch it... of course.

[mrthuse]

http://www.trektoday.com/news/210406_01.shtml

[Zoidberg]

If anyone asks me (and they never do), they need to do a Toho with Trek (Toho, which owns Godzilla, has put the big guy to pasture for the next 8 to 10 years, at which time they'll revive the series; they've done it more-or-less twice before).

If they have to start a new film series, I'd personally like to see an "After Enterprise/Before TOS" series, set during the time of the Romulan War. New characters -- maybe the Robert April/Christopher Pike days on the ENTERPRISE (1701). I still think Ray Liotta looks a lot like Jeffrey Hunter.

And FWIW, the final ep of ENTERPRISE (I basically stopped watching the series sometime during S2) should have ended with Archer, as an old man, christening the NCC-1701 USS ENTERPRISE. You could have had him at the launch, shaking hands with Robert April (the "shakedown cruise" captain) and, as the camera pulls back out of the dock window and across the saucer of the 1701, you hear the admiral saying, "Admiral Archer, I'd like to introduce you to the ship's new science officer, Mr. Spock..."

A good possibility for a series that got dropped was the "Captain Sulu Adventures", set in the timeframe almost immediately after UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Such a good episode of VOYAGER that was. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671003...6?v=glance&n=283155

I know, I'm a big nerd. FWIW, here's the Star Trek Wiki: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page

[PeterB]

Zoid, there were rumors that that was one proposed ending for Enterprise-- the christening of NCC-1701 under the command of Capt. Robert April (to be played by Eugene Roddenberry, who looks a lot like his father), with a passing of the torch from a very old Adm. Archer. I wish they had done that ending, instead of what was actually done.

Myself, I think they should wait longer before attempting another movie. If it fails, that's really the end of the franchise. And I think they still haven't learned their lesson, that if they rush to make something, it won't necessarily be good. Part of the reason TNG worked was because people were expectant-- they really wanted something post-TOS... that's not the case right now. But of course, this is studio execs we're talking about here, and all they see is dollar signs, and they don't mind killing the goose to get the golden egg.

"When Kirk met Spock" is too hackneyed... the "Academy Days" idea has been bandied about for a long time, but it would too easily turn into "90210 in space", where it's just an excuse to have attractive young actors doing a soap opera in space.

If they were to do something more with the franchise, I would prefer something along the lines of a post-Voyager, 29th century Federation time-travel squad type of story. Something where they have to go back in time to maintain the integrity of the timeline. That gives them infinite possibilities in terms of actual storylines. And I would do a TV show, NOT a movie, as the movies tend to be too "cut and dry".

[Grumpyguy]

let trek rest for awhile.

Second, when it is revived, Manny Coto needs to be part of it, since the eps he directed of Enterprise were excellent.

Berman/Braga should not be allowed near anything Trek.

The next series or movie should be a reimaged TOS. As we saw in Enterprise, the 60s Enterprise and sets still hold up well.

The academy idea sounds like another snoozer. Nemesis blew, Insurrection blew, First Contatct was decent, and Generations sucked horribly.

It was like they hired people to write and direct Trek who had never watched TOS or they hated TOS. Thus the suckiness : )

No one who is not a fan and who isn't versed in everything Trek should be allowed near the director's chair. Nemesis was proof of that....

this is how it should start:
http://www.fourmadmen.com/mirror/~wpthom...ailer1.mov

[Zoidberg]

Berman/Braga should not be allowed near anything Trek.

Amen to that.

Generations sucked horribly

Had they asked me (and they didn't), I would've shelved the YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE story and saved it for the first film. Instead of the 1701-C coming through the rift, it would've been the 1701-A.

(I wrote a neat little story synopsis for a college class back then, when I first saw YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE and realized it was a big oversight not to wait. It was an excellent episode, but it could've been *the* Trek movie and an excellent way to hand over the baton, as it were.)

[Zoidberg]

Grumpy, that was a great little movie. I love that tag line: SET SAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 2006. Wonderful!