XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: joecool@home.net   
      
   On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:14:22 +0100, "Jaxtraw"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Stan Jensen wrote:   
   >> Berman Not Part Of Trek 11   
   >>   
   >> Longtime Star Trek writer and producer Rick Berman, who joined the   
   >> franchise at the feet of creator Gene Roddenberry, will not be   
   >> involved in the proposed 11th Trek film, to be directed by Mission:   
   >> Impossible III helmer J.J. Abrams, SCI FI Wire has learned.   
   >>   
   >> A Paramount spokesperson confirmed that Berman-who started with Trek   
   >> under Roddenberry in 1987 as a writer and producer on TV's Star Trek:   
   >> The Next Generation - -would not take part in Abrams' film. "J.J. is   
   >> also a producer, and Rick Berman is not involved in any way," the   
   >> representative confirmed over the weekend.   
   >>   
   >> It will mark the first time that a Trek project has not had Berman's   
   >> creative input in more than 18 years. Berman produced and co-wrote the   
   >> last four films and co-created the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise,   
   >> Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; he also wrote,   
   >> contributed story ideas to or produced all Trek incarnations since the   
   >> original series. Berman's last film, Star Trek: Nemesis, tanked at the   
   >> box office, and Berman's last series, Enterprise, was canceled by UPN   
   >> after only four seasons because of poor ratings.   
   >>   
   >> The new Trek film will be written by Abrams and his M:I III writers   
   >> Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who worked with Abrams on the Alias   
   >> series. The new Trek film will reportedly go back to the first meeting   
   >> of James T. Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy and deal with their   
   >> first missions into space. Orci and Kurtzman previously wrote for TV's   
   >> Xena: Warrior Princess and co-wrote the films The Legend of Zorro, The   
   >> Island and the upcoming Transformers: The Movie.   
   >>   
   >> Berman has previously said he wasn't sure about the future of the Star   
   >> Trek franchise, but always hoped to revive and be involved in the   
   >> franchise somehow.   
   >   
   >Not relevant, I guess, but I wonder what type of uniforms and production   
   >design we'll see. If they've got any sense they'll go back to bright colours   
   >and TOS style. But my guess is they'll try to do something cool and put   
   >everybody in black or something.   
   >   
   >I think this is going to be shit. A silly action movie that's only Trek in   
   >that it contains nominally, but otherwise unrecognisably, character names   
   >from the series.   
   >   
   >Really, I'm just sick of this whole idea of prequels. Prequels are a rubbish   
   >idea. Let's stop boldly going backwards in time, and just give the whole   
   >damned thing a rest until there's a hunger for it again.   
   >   
   >Ian   
      
   While I kinda liked ST:E, I agree with your opinion on the   
   entertaining value of prequels.   
      
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