According to published reports, J.J. Abrams is not exactly a big fan of the Star Trek franchise. I think the director has even admitted that he doesn’t plan on making his Trek reboot movie conform to what we already know about the characters. Which may explain why the first 30 seconds or so of this bootleg trailer for Abrams’ Trek 11 doesn’t look anything like, well, Trek. Plus, later in the trailer, Spock puts the neck choke on Kirk, and I may be wrong, but Uhura flashes us her bra in a disrobing scene. Yup. This ain’t your father’s Trek, kids. Behold, the first full-length trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 11 in bootleg form.
So, Entertainment Weekly has your first look at the U.S.S Enterprise as envisioned by J.J. Abrams and company for their upcoming Trek reboot, Trek 11, which finds the familiar Enterprise crew in their younger, more carefree days. The Enterprise in the picture looks, well, like the Enterprise. I think. Is there really all that much difference between this one and the one we’re familiar with? I don’t know, I’m not that big of a Trekkie. I guess this one kinda looks better. I think. Anyways, see for yourself and decide.
The boys and gals at Entertainment Weekly have gotten themselves a very nice, long, detailed article in an upcoming issue about J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek 11″, including the stunning (?) revelation that Abrams wasn’t even much of a Trek fan growing up. This may, if you will, explain Abrams’ reaction to William Shatner’s demands to appear in the latest Trek movie (aka the reboot). The article also has a ton of new images from the movie, including our first real look at Eric Bana as Romulan bad guy Nero, and the U.S.S Kelvin starship.
I’m not what you would call a really big Star Trek fan, or Trekkie. (Or Trekkers, as I know some of them like to be called.) I mean, sure, I watched almost all of the Voyager and Next Generation episodes, but that’s because I just like sci-fi in general, and there wasn’t a whole lot of sci-fi on TV back then. (Or at least, big-budget sci-fi TV, anyways. I don’t even want to think about stuff like, say, Time Trax, etc.) So when news broke that William Shatner would NOT be in J.J. Abrams’ Trek reboot, fans were up in arms. I personally didn’t mind all that much, as I was never one to appreciate, as it were, Shatner’s acting style. 
Look, kids, it’s our first look at Simon Pegg as Scotty from J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie! Well not really. It’s just Simon Pegg looking like Simon Pegg, but with the Trek emblem and artwork around the image, he’s “officially” Scotty. Kinda. Anyways, if that’s enough to get your engines revving, then you’ll love these new Trek 11 character posters that Paramount has just released online to the masses. Yup, real Star Trek-y. If you like that sort of thing, I mean, what with the movie still a year away. I still think the Pike kid looks like a deranged, “serial killer next door” type with that pose…
After seeing that Federation insignia thingie for so long, we finally get an actual poster for J.J. Abrams’ rebooting of the Trek franchise — plus our first official looks at four of the movie’s main characters — Chris Pine as Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and Eric Bana as evil Romulan badass Nero. Check out two versions of the poster below. By the way, is it me or does Chris Pine as Kirk looks, er, kind of evil? Hell, he looks even more evil than Bana’s Nero in these posters!
Does Michael Bay plan to jam 20 robots into “Transformers 2″? Maybe, according to the movie’s writer, Roberto Orci, who made a little post over at producer Don Murphy’s 
One-half of the writing team behind J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek 11″ was at the 16th Annual Grand Slam: The Sci-Fi Summit in Burbank, CA over the weekend, and ScreenRant had a guy there who jotted down some notes. The primary speaker was writer Roberto Orci, who co-wrote the Abrams movie with his partner Robert Kurtzman, who wasn’t there. Orci answered a lot of questions about how the film was handled behind the scenes, but not so much about the plot, only to say that it was written with Leonard Nimoy’s Spock in mind, that if he hadn’t sign on, they would have had been in trouble.
This is, of course, just a rumor, but it’s fun to think what kind of jokes we could all come up with should Tom Cruise (pictured, left), a self-professed fan of the Star Trek franchise, and of Leonard Nimoy’s Spock character in particular (huh, wonder why that is?), actually joins the case in a brief, uncredited cameo, as he’s wont to do in other movies. MSNBC reports that Cruise, a friend of Trek 11 director J.J. Abrams, recently visited the Trek set in hopes of meeting Nimoy, but that he won’t be doing a cameo. Or at least, that’s what they want us to think.