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   Berman Denies Trek Rumors   
      
   Rick Berman, executive producer of all Star Trek films and series since the   
   death of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, denied to SCI FI Wire the validity   
   of the rampant Internet rumors that suggest Paramount Pictures disliked his   
   concept for a new movie, was sending him back to the drawing board and thus   
   had put a proposed Star Trek XI on the back burner. "Unless there is   
   something going on that I am not familiar with, the rumors are totally   
   ficticious," Berman said in an interview. ""Absolutely neither statement,   
   that something has been scuttled and that I have been asked to redevelop   
   something, is true."   
      
   Reports have circulated that Paramount was unhappy with a proposed new Trek   
   film, which Berman has previously described as a prequel film set in the   
   era before UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise, with a new set of characters not   
   previously seen in any Trek incarnations.   
      
   Asked to provide an accurate update on the status of a new Trek next film,   
   Berman replied, "The status of the next film is it's in an early state of   
   story development, and the Paramount Motion Picture Group will announce   
   personnel and whatever elements of the project when they see fit. If the   
   project does develop as planned I think, of all the Star Trek movies I've   
   been involved with and the previous regimes have been involved with, this   
   one will undoubtedly have a larger scope and budget. It's a very ambitious   
   project, and I'm hoping that it will get the support to come to fruition."   
      
      
   {my note: Berman really has no clue as to what's going on. With a new head   
   of Paramount - and basically *nothing* good coming out of the studio - most   
   of the honchos will be shown the door int he next few months. And before   
   you flame me, that's always the way it works with major studio changes. So   
   don't blame me.)   
      
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