XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: joecool@home.net   
      
   On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:15:34 +0100, "EvilBill"    
   wrote:   
      
   >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   
   >   
   >Or do a DS9 follow-up movie to close some of the loose ends.   
   >   
   >Like whether Bajor ever *will* join the Federation.    
   >   
   >--   
      
   There are literally dozens of potential story lines with a basis in   
   ST:DS9.   
      
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