Because it looks like there really will be another Star Trek move, Star Trek XI to be exact:
As more and more revelations come out of this years Comic-Con here’s some news that we all wanted to know was true as the rumours have been flying around for ages, Star Trek XI will be with us in 2008 and here’s the poster to prove it.
JJ Abrams who has had a hit this year with the Tom Cruise vehicle Mission:Impossible III is on board as producer and writer, although it?s not been revealed yet if he will direct or allow someone else that honour. Recent internet rumblings have suggested that he will write a story that goes back to Kirk and Spocks academy days, but these have been denied in the past.
Star Trek on the big screen has been a disappointment for a long time. The last truly spectacular Trek movie was Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Since then, the movies have been disappointing to say the least. Maybe things will improve in new hands.
H/T: Outside The Beltway:Gone Hollywood and Wizbang Pop!
Check out the teaser poster below the fold
July 25th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
“First Contact” was not in any way disappointing.
July 25th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Only the last one really blew of the ST:NG movies.
You wonder what they will do with the franchise, since going to the future means more about the Federation Time Corps (time travel, the last refuge of science fiction writers who have exhausted their plot lines). The end of the Enterprise series pretty much took care of any movies there, which is too bad as a Trip/T-Paul marriage would have been interesting to explore further. ST:TOS and the Enterprise-C story pretty much filled those holes as well. Voyager is also a done deal, so I am not sure where the franchise has room to expand.
Science fiction is, at its best, an exploration of human nature as it is unfolding currently. The Roddenberry, et al world seems to have been fully explored.
What I would like to see is a good treatment of the Heinlein world. Verkhoven could do Friday justice, provided he had a hard core RAH fan as executive producer to not let him go to far. He might also do justice to Lazaraus Long, although he would have to go for more intelligent plot lines. LL might be a better mini-series than movie. Of course, most SF movie studios are looking for comic book or video game tie-ins. I am not sure RAH is good for any of that.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I guess I’ll join in the nerd fest here. I have that poster adorning my computer’s desktop already, it looks fantastic filling up a computer screen.
Michael Bindner: They can do two things with Star Trek right now. They can move into the future (DS9 may have some life left to do a movie, even though regathering the entire cast may be a challenge), or they can further expand in the times that are unfilled in television or movies, which is what ST XI is supposed to do, taking on the Starfleet Academy days of Kirk and Spock. A while back, there was some talk of doing a story line on the Romulan Wars that preceded the founding of the Federation. With good writing, Star Trek has a lot of potential left.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Kip,
You’re right about First Contact, probably should’ve been more generous about that one. Generations and the rest, though, were disappointing….and I was really hoping the last one would’ve been better than it was.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Gotta agree with Kip about First Contact; I think it rival Wrath of Khan as the best of the big-screen efforts. And Nemesis was a good denouement for the TNG storyline. I’ve been a ST nerd ever since watching ST:TOS re-runs after school on Channel 21 from Harrisburg; this year; my family’s Christmas present to me was the entire Enterprise series. I’ve got a house full of ST nerd: a wife and two sons who are junkies for it.
And as for Undiscovered Country: what have you been smoking, dude?
July 25th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
James,
Don’t get me wrong. Wrath of Khan is the best Trek movie ever.
And I’ve already made my apologia about First Contact. To the extent that I’d go back and revise the post if I felt it necessary.
The reason I liked Undiscovered Country is the writing. Am I the only one who didn’t catch the Shakespearean references that seemed to be there like every 15 minutes ? It was directed by the same guy who directed Wrath of Khan, and it shows. The only thing that sucked is that Yeoman Rand didn’t have a speaking part.
Also, to the extent that it was intended to be the grand finale for the Original Series cast, it was a fitting end…..much more fitting than the tragedy that was Generations.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Ehhhhhh, OK. Yeah, the Shakespearean references were great, and I got ‘em. But then they got to be a caricature, with the Christopher Plummer character. It just seemed too full of itself by that time. Don’t get me wrong: I liked it. I just think “truly spectacular” is waaaaaay over the top.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:26 pm
There is so much left to be told and explore; I can believe some of you are already given up. I want to see a Borg Civil War, a Titan TV Show, The return of Voyager taking the lead of flag ship as they try to save the federation from braking apart do to the Romulans taking the main office of the federation the right away and everyone else been mad about it.