Star Trek XI Dumped
Category: Films, Science Fiction, Television
published March 11th, 2006
Dreamwatch magazine is reporting rumors that Paramount may have dropped the proposed new Star Trek movie. A few months ago reports started to circulate about Star Trek XI, which would be based on a script by Erik Jendresen. Now it seems that proposal has been dumped, at least according to Doug Mirabello, a personal assistant to Trek producer Rick Berman.
Reports on the development of the new Star Trek movie were fairly detailed, the title was to have been Star Trek: The Beginning and it was to feature a brand new cast and crew.
Dreamwatch also claimed that there are now no plans to have Patrick Stewart reprise his role from Star Trek: The Next Generation in any new movie projects, contrary to several previous reports.
It seems that Paramount is currently very down on the Star Trek franchise. With the financial failure of the last Star Trek movie and the perceived failure of Star Trek: Enterprise, the studio is reluctant to take another risk with anything Star Trek related.
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5 Comments ... Have Your Say!
Harcort (Profile) March 16th, 2006 -
IMO, the folks at Paramount have missed the boat on telling Star Trek stories.
ST is about the future. That’s why Enterprise didn’t work and why NG did. NG took us beyond Kirk and Spock. Very few of us had any romance with looking to see how Kirk and Spock got there. And having to forgive Kirk and Spock for not having all the cool effects that a presumably earlier era show did?
And they had a hint. When DS9 “went back” to the Tribbles episode the one truly weak part of that episode was the way they glossed over how Klingons could look so different after just a hundred years or so of evolution. Whorf said, “We don’t talk about that.” Well that was fine and a funny throw-away line - once. But to have a show where the future looks less advanced than the past show after show? Very hard to take.
And the last movie - I think it would have been a smashing success if they hadn’t killed off Data or any of the other crew that we came to have great affection for. They almost blew it when they killed of Spock in Wrath… You’d have thought they’d learned their lesson. But no. They have to do “art” instead of tell a good story.
You want to kill of a main character? Do it in a different universe - not Star Trek.
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JNS (Profile) April 5th, 2006 -
MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THE TERRAN EMPIRE! SHOW PEOPLE WHAT THE WORLD COULD BE LIKE IN THE FUTURE. THE ORINGINAL SERIES DELT WITH CURRENT EVENTS OF THE LATE 1960′S, AND IT DID IT WONDERFULLY. SHOW PEOPLE WHAT WE COULD BE LIKE IF HITLER WON WW2, IF WE LOOSE THE WAR ON TERRORISM. MAKE STAR TREK EVIL! AS A FAN I LOVED THE EPISODES IN THE MIRROR UNIVERSE, BECAUSE THEY WERE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT TREK WAS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU WANT TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION IN TODAYS FAST PACED SOCIETY YOU HAVE TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX.
JNS - CANADA
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seely (Profile) May 2nd, 2006 -
I heard on a fan site that the new Star Trek XI movie is back on. The cast will incude Matt Damon as young Kirk, Ben Affleck as Spock and Christian Bale as a young Bones McCoy.
The story revolves around a young James T. Kirk as he enlists in the newly formed Star Fleet. At the academy he meets a young intern, Leonard McCoy. They end up serving their first mission together. Its on the USS Omega, where they first encounter a science officer named Spock. Some kind of trouble ensues and the senior officers on the Omega are injured or killed. Kirk, Spock and McCoy are thrust into action.
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July 23rd, 2006 -
Star Trek XI…
A new Star Trek movie will be released on 2008. Read this news. Since ST: Enterprise was cancelled, my fervor to Sci-Fi was gone. Now it is coming back. And the official website of XI. On imdb page, it says Matt Damon acts as Captain James T. Kirk. It …
March 14th, 2006 -
And is it any wonder that UPN is going down the tubes.