This is grand news indeed! After teasing us with the best idea to happen in the Star Trek franchise in the last decade, J.J. Abrams has finally made it official.
Yahoo News says:
After months of speculation, “Mission: Impossible III” director J.J. Abrams has signed on to shoot the next installment of the “Star Trek” feature franchise, sources said late Friday.
“Star Trek XI” revolves around a young James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, chronicling their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first space mission. The previous film in the series, the 2002 box office bomb, “Star Trek: Nemesis,” was directed by Stuart Baird, and starred Patrick Stewart.
Now I am ALL FOR this idea of a franchise flashback. Now if the rest of the rumours are true, then this will be a reboot of the series, abandoning all that we know and love about Star Trek, keeping the magic and wonder that made the series fun, and starting over for a new generation.
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner we already in talks to be involved and it sounded like it wouldn’t just be a cameo, and I would love to see an aged Spock and Kirk make a desperate jump back in time to change a moment in history and have it all changed from that moment forward. They already came back to save the whales, but didnt alter history. Its time for something in Star Trek to not work out as planned. They can make a mistake, and that would clear the slate to start over, with no history, no future to adhere to, and no Tribbles.
Its already worked wonders for Battlestar Galactica. Could this mean a revitalization of the Trek franchise?
I hope so!
