Star Trek XI - What We Know

Jean Lucy writes "TwitchGuru has an article outlining in detail what is known about Star Trek XI. The film is in the early stages of production, led by J.J. Abrams (creator of Lost), and the movie will most likely be a prequel featuring Kirk and Spock in their younger years. No word of Matt Damon to play Kirk, though..." From the article: "As reported in early September, even former Star Trek actors are saying that CBS has kicked Rick Berman off the Trek bandwagon. This helps to allay the fears of those who say that 'they' will screw up this movie as 'they' have been doing for the past several years. As Anthony Pascale put it to me, however, 'There is no they any more. Everyone who has worked on Star Trek previously, from the top executives at the studio to the guy who sweeps the floor on-set, is gone. There's now a totally different production team running Star Trek. This is what people have been asking for now for years.'"

New Trek Comics

[tverbeek]

For those who can't wait until this movie comes out (or who may not want to think about it), there's an alternative in the meantime: upstart comics publisher IDW has announced that they'll be launching a new ST:TNG comics series in January (loosely tied to the series' 20th anniversary next year), with TOS and perhaps other Trek titles coming later. More details here. [newsarama.com]

I don't care about young Kirk!

[avalys]

Just because they've replaced the production team doesn't mean it'll be any better. And if their best idea is to churn out a freaking prequel, I'm betting these people will be no better than who they're replacing.

Re:CBS?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Here's the story- if you can follow it [wikipedia.org]

Basically, CBS created Paramount, which split off back in the 1970s, which was eventually aquired by Viacomm, which got swallowed back up by CBS.

Since corporate splits and mergers rarely make sense to me- go read the wikipedia article instead.

Re:Brokeback Enterprise

[frogstar_robot]

That's funny but it is generally agreed that Spock is the pitcher and Kirk is the catcher. After all, Spock is MUCH stronger than a human.

Re:CBS?

[Dr_Barnowl]

This is why I am so glad that we in the UK have at least one major media outlet that doesn't always have to think of the bottom line - the BBC.