According to Empire, J. J. Abrams has stated the information about Star Trek XI was released without the consent of anybody actually involved in the production. It seems that he is producing a Trek movie, and ‘has the option to direct it’, but isn’t saying anything on what it will actually be about. He doesn’t rule out the Kirk and Spock story, but there is hope again.

chad
writes, To the great relief of fans everywhere,
Rick Berman will not
be involved with the next Star Trek movie.
Just confirming what was strongly implied by last week’s
news.

According to Variety, J.J. Abrams (director of Mission: Impossible 3) is at the helm of the next Star Trek movie. The movie is to be another prequel, this time dealing with the first mission of James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock. Damen Lindelof and Bryan Burk, producers of Lost, will also be working on the project.

I find it hard to believe they could do any worse than Berman and Braga… is this the new life for Star Trek that the article claims, or just an attempt to cash in on the prequel success of the Star Wars movies?

Amazon.com has cut the price on the first three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. It’s down about 1/2 from the original list.

Next Generation

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Deep Space Nine

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

chad
writes, I don’t really to do a full writeup, but I
though this
article would be of interest to bureau42
readers. This is primarily of interest on the
business side, but it does mean that new management
may be changing the plans for the future of the
franchise.

rickyjames writes, George Takei, aka Sulu of Star Trek : TOS, is now one of the “continuing regular gang” on the new Howard Stern / Sirus satellite radio show. A mere 40 minutes into the show, Takei was discussing his first gay experience… I don’t think it’s news that Takei is gay, but the fact that he’s shilling for Stern might be amusing to some. But, heck, let’s face it, he does have one heckuva radio voice.

Apparently that’s what the Comcast-owned tech channel is trying to do. This is part of a larger rebranding effort on G4’s part to snag the male geek audience. No word on if this means Sci-Fi will lose TOS and Spike will lose TNG. More from Sci-Fi Wire.

It’s been all over and frankly, I just don’t believe it. Not that powers that be aren’t that stupid, it just doesn’t make any sense. Only we few geeks even know about the whole Mirror Universe concept and I doubt that Paramount will attempt anything with that narrow an audience. Here’s the original story from Ain’t it Cool News.

Update: Paramount has quashed the rumor, but has confirmed the existance of a Star Trek script that is being looked at by the studio.

Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, Superman Returns) has mentioned an interest in picking up the torch (from where it currently lies, sputtering a silent death) and making the next Trek movie. It’s obvious the man knows how to direct Patrick Stewart!

No joke people. One-half of the wonder twins is quitting the Trek game, at least for the “foreseeable future.”

I’m actually choking back tears of joy.

Some choice quotes from the article:

“There will be a lot of fans cheering about that.” – Umm, so you knew you sucked and yet did nothing to improve anything?

“Star Trek was very good to me.” – And yet you refused to return the favor? Bastard.

“…there just comes a point where I’m not sure what else I would have to give.” – Which translates into: “I’ve got nothing left to rip off.”