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   Berman Talks New Trek Film   
      
   Rick Berman, who has been shepherding the Star Trek film series, told SCI   
   FI Wire that he has had "very, very early" talks with Star Trek: The Next   
   Generation star and director Jonathan Frakes about a new Trek movie, but   
   one that takes the franchise in an entirely new direction. "I spoke to   
   Jonathan about a half an hour ago," Berman said in an interview July 20 at   
   UPN's fall press preview in Los Angeles. "He's in Japan, and he's coming   
   here [because] his film [Thunderbirds] is premiering Saturday here in Los   
   Angeles. There are very, very early conversations going on about a film   
   project. But they're so early that it's really kind of silly to talk about   
   it now."   
      
   Berman added that the movie would not center on the Star Trek: The Next   
   Generation crew, as have the last several movies. "The movie that we're   
   having very early discussions about would have nothing to do with any of   
   the characters that have ever existed on any of the Star Trek series,"   
   Berman said. "It would be an entirely new setting and an entirely new set   
   of characters, and it would take place prior to any of the series,   
   including [UPN's Star Trek:] Enterprise."   
      
   In the wake of the disappointing box-office performance of the last Star   
   Trek movie, 2002's Nemesis, there has been little movement on a new Trek   
   movie, and Next Generation cast members have said they are ready to hang it   
   up.   
      
   If Berman's idea comes to fruition, it would mark the first Trek movie not   
   based on a television series.   
      
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