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J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-sounds-juuust-great dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that Paramount has asked 'Lost' creator J.J. Abrams to direct a new 'Star Trek' film. The movie will be set at Starfleet Academy and will feature younger versions of James T. Kirk and Spock, chronicling their first meeting at the Academy and their first outer space mission. The movie is set for a 2008 release and will apparently be one of Paramount's biggest projects for the year."

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  1. Re:Desperation by xetovss · · Score: 3, Informative

    Picard was never captured and tortured by Romulans. In the episode when Picard, Crusher, and Worf infiltrated a suspected Cardassian research base Picard did get captured and subsequently tortured by a Cardassian and asked how many lights there were however.

  2. Re:Desperation by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Informative
    DS9 was defintely the most well-written, sophisticated series of the bunch. It's not surprising, considering it was the baby of Ronald Moore (who would go on to create what I consider the best damn scifi series ever, the new Battlestar Galactica).

    -Eric

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  3. Re:You know .... by UnanimousCoward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, I was too embarrassed to bring up the Pike thing first, but now that you've spilt the beans:

    My first reaction was to ask Abrams whether he knew who Christopher Pike was. My second reaction was that the Trek franchise thinks that the hardcore fans have either died off already or won't make a big stink (because they've become so disillusioned about the whole franchise) about the fact that Tiberius and Spock could in no way have overlapped at the Academy.

    What a crock this movie will be--built on a premise inconsistent with the origins. But since when did that stop anyone...

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  4. Re:I'd rather have... by hal2814 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "not adjusted for inflation:"

    Here'a a list adjusted for inflation (in 2005 dollars):

    1. Wrath of Kahn $158M
    2. Voyage Home $186M
    3. Undiscovered Country $104M
    4. Generations $95M
    5. Search for Spock $140M
    6. First Contact $111M
    7. Motion Picture $232M
    8. Nemesis $45M
    9. Final Frontier $81M
    10. Insurrection $81M

    Old Crew: $133M per movie (not counting TMP since that's kind of unfair)
    New Crew: Not a single movie that hit's the old crew's average though First Contact only missed the average by $22M. FC did commendably beat out the Undiscovered Country.

    Now that's not even adjusting for ticket prices that have outpaced inflation so the older movies will probably have even more of an edge is you adjust for that too. I just used an inflation calculator.

  5. Re:Desperation by farrellj · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was just a Babylon 5 rip off...read the history!

    ttyl
              Farrell

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