Well, Star Trek XI, the motion picture is on it’s way. Paramount Pictures Corp, who owns all of the rights to all things Star Treky, has just officially signed J.J. Abrams to direct/produce the latest movie.

Fans of Star Trek will no doubt welcome the news about this new flick, and be grateful that neither JJ Abrams nor Brad Grey have come to regard the Star Trek body of work as an oeuvre complet, a tired franchise consisting mostly of retreads, a spent force having shot it’s bolt, rife with lame actors reading from screenplays cobbled together from previous Final Draft works by screenwriters whose main qualification seems to be a singular lack of imagination. ..Just kidding/perhaps.

Semi-seriously though, it seems that science fiction has run it’s course as a genre, largely because science has caught up with fiction, giving us cloning, quantum computers and the 5-blade razor…all that’s missing are aliens and and warp drive, and SETI is working on the former and NASA on the latter.

Abrams Takes Holiday ‘Trek’ - Hollywood Reporter, Feb 28 2007

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