XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: quake2lives@gmail.com   
      
   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.    
      
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