Abrams Reviving Trek

Paramount has hired Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams to write, direct and produce the 11th Star Trek feature film, aiming for a 2008 release, Variety reported. Damon Lindelof, who co-created Lost with Abrams, and Bryan Burk, who produces Lost, have also been tapped to produce the yet-to-be-titled feature.

The project will be co-written by Mission: Impossible III scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. It will center on the early days of original Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first space mission, the trade paper reported.

Can Kirk and Spock be Academy roomates? There might also be bizarre hazing rituals....

Probably everyone knows this, but the term "slash" comes from K/S.

eta: Argh. X-posty....

Who would they get to play young Kirk and young Spock?

I hear that William Shattner will still play Kirk and they are going to use camera tricks to make him look younger. Also, he will be doing the soundtrack.

I hear that William Shattner will still play Kirk and they are going to use camera tricks to make him look younger. Also, he will be doing the soundtrack.

With James Spader as Spock.

And Lili Taylor as T'pau.

Plus Spock has a robot dog. To help teach him what it means to be human.

I might actually watch that pairing! They crack me up on Boston Legal.

I hear that William Shattner will still play Kirk and they are going to use camera tricks to make him look younger. Also, he will be doing the soundtrack.

Oh man. If that were true, I would go see it.

I've heard the new CGI tribbles will be amazing....

I now want someone to make a film called The Preposition. And have it be a thriller, about grammar.

I now want someone to make a film called The Preposition. And have it be a thriller, about grammar.

It'd probably be a thriller that left you hanging at the end.