Jesus wept. Proof, my dear friends, if ever it were needed, that Hollywood is utterly, totally intellectually redundant.
The Star Trek franchise will get a shot in the arm following last year's cancellation of spin-off TV series Enterprise with an eleventh cinema outing for the Starfleet chaps and chappesses.
According to the BBC, citing New Variety, the new movie will centre on the early days of Spock and Kirk at the Starfleet Academy.
For the love of all that is holy, can someone, anyone, please, you know just once, come up with an idea that doesn't involve flogging another hackneyed sci-fi franchise to death with a feeble, pathetic prequel cash-in?
Is it too much to ask? Is it really? I mean come on - what's next? Star Trek 12: Picard with hair. Star Trek 13: The Voyage of Kirk's dad's sperm up his owl one's gooter. Star Trek 14: Spock's old man gets a twitch in his buttocks.
You bunch of uninventive, gormless twats.
Just so you know, follow up interviews seem to have debunked this rumour. There will be an 11th movie to my knowledge, but this is not the plot line.
David Rodgerson
dave,
thanks for that. another story i heard said that this script (the academy prequel) has been knocking around hollywood since the late eighties. an even fouler rumour contained the truly heart-stopping suggestion that ben affleck would play the young kirk.
i have been sacrificing several chickens a day to prevent this horror from befalling us.
to be honest, i think star trek is dead in the water. the last three tv shows have been mediocre at best and nemesis was an uninspiring mess of a movie. something radical is needed to save the franchise. especially in light of how superb joss whedon's firefly was.