Via Trektoday: Jendresen Talks Trek XI

Erik Jendresen, who is working on the proposed eleventh Star Trek feature film, announced that he has completed a first draft of a screenplay, Star Trek: The Beginning and turned it in to executives at Paramount Pictures.

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Jendresen also confirmed longtime Star Trek executive producer Rick Berman’s previous statements that the film would not incorporate any existing Star Trek characters. “This would take place just a couple of years after the end of the events in Enterprise but well before the original series, and it would look at the inciting incident that started everything,” he said. “We’re looking at a very small group of men and women…there are a couple of ships, including a principal ship, but this is not a traditional captain and crew of a starship story in the least.”

The fact the Berman is still in charge means that all optimism should be checked at the door.

And I find it ironic that they are now thinking about doing what I have long argued should have been the basis for Enterprise: the founding of the Federation.

Maybe they should entitle it Star Trek XI: The Search to Reclaim Lost Opportunities

of course, the film that I’d like to see made is:

Star Trek: Don’t Worry, Berman’s Been Sacked.

I shan’t hold my breath.