"Star Trek" NEW Motion Picture Prequel Confirmed!

“”Star Trek” NEW Motion Picture Prequel Confirmed!”

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright April 21, 2006

“Star Trek” fans! Time to celebrate!

Scifiwire/scifi.com reports that Variety reports and confirms that an 11th “Star Trek” major motion picture has been green lighted for production, targeted for a 2008 release date!

The new film promises to please and deliver big time to “Star Trek” fans, daring to “Boldly go where no man has gone before!”, featuring a storyline that focuses on the early days of fan favorites, beloved “Star Trek” original characters….

….James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, and will provide insight into their back story, as we get to see how the two inseparable comrades from the planets Earth and Vulcan respectively, first meet at Starfleet Academy, become colleagues and friends, and their very first mission together in the far reaches of space!

J.J. Abrams, “Lost” Creator and the Director of “Mission Impossible III” will write, produce, and direct the new “Star Trek” film, which does not yet have a title. The film, in keeping with the entire “Star Trek” film and TV franchises, will be a Paramount Motion Pictures production.

“Lost’s” co-creator Damon Lindelof, and producer Bryan Burk will re-team with Abrams to help helm the new “Star Trek” movie.

The announcement of the “Star Trek” prequel film shows that the “Star Trek” brand is still a powerful force, despite last year’s cancellation of one of OUR favorite TV shows, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, due to low ratings, which aired on the UPN Television Network and boasted stellar writing, storylines, and a talented ensemble cast of beloved characters, starring actor, Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer, and OUR favorites, Commander Charles “Tripp” Tucker (actor, Connor Trinneer) and Sub Commander T’Pol (actress, Jolene Blalock).

Just remember that the original “Star Trek” TV series, which was broadcast on the NBC Television Network, was ALSO cancelled due to poor ratings, and look at the firmly rooted seeds that that very first series planted, to emotionally resonate so strongly with fans worldwide, for some 3 decades now, resulting in the mammoth, multi-billion dollar “Star Trek” franchise that includes an endless list of blockbuster major motion pictures and successful television series spin-offs!

In the illustrious words of Mr. Spock, when it comes to the amazing adoration that fans continue to have, supporting and continuously reviving the “Star Trek” franchise, and now, hearing such positive and wonderful news of this new “Star Trek” film, “Live Long And Prosper”!

Sources:
“Variety”
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35587

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By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright April 21, 2006