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Fellow Trekkies, lend me your pointy ears! I bring good tidings! Turns out that there will be a new Star Trek movie, set for release in 2008. J.J Abrams, director of Mission Impossible III and creator of Lost, is on board. This movie will be the 11th in the series and will be about Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock and their early years at Starfleet Academy. Nimoy and Shatner have not been approached though. I wonder why they chose to make another movie about old school Trek? Why not one about Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise or my favourite, Next Generation? I guess it’s because veteran Trekkies are now highly paid computer geeks in tech firms, while n00b Trekkies are fanboys living in their mother’s basements. I guess that’s why Nemesis did so badly. It was a decent movie. I still haven’t gotten over Data’s death. Now if I could only explain Enterprise? Or perhaps its because the movies featuring the original crew made more money?

Whatever the reason, this attempt by Paramount to restore the once glorious franchise to its former glory may backfire. If it’s a winner, those predicting the doom of Star Trek will be silenced and Trek fans can rejoice once more. If it’s a stinker, Star Trek will be relegated to the scrap heap of sci-fi, a mere shadow of what it once was. I think that Star Trek is worn out, that Berman and crew have been stuffing so much Trek down the throats of fans that they simply don’t have an appetite for it anymore. But if they’re gonna go along with the new movie, I hope it’s the former.