XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: sky.diver@moonbase.alpha   
      
   In article , Stan Jensen   
    wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Frakes is going to need International Rescue himself, because I predict   
   the Thunderbirds movie is going to BOMB bigtime. It'll do worse than   
   the original Thunderbirds movies forty years ago, compared to their   
   respective budgets.   
      
   > "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."   
      
   So why the hell even use the Star Trek universe? Probably because he   
   doesn't have enough original ideas to fit on the head of a pin. Still   
   trying to tap the one fanatical faction that will fill the theaters at   
   least for one weekend.   
      
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