Not to be confused with “young adult Kirk”, who will be played by Chris Pine, word from Coming Soon is that J.J. Abrams has cast 11-year old Jimmy Bennett to play an even younger version of James T. Kirk in Trek 11. I guess this means we’ll be delving deeper into Kirk’s past than originally thought. What’s next, a fetus Kirk?

Entertainment Weekly recently caught up with unknown actor Mister Chris Pine, who will be blowing up pretty soon once J.J. Abrams’ Trek 11 arrives on the big screen. Pine is at Sundance to talk about some movie no one will see (it’s a Sundance movie, come on), but managed some Trek questions, too.

With “Cloverfield” set to open tomorrow, and along with it, your first look at the Star Trek 11 teaser trailer, Moviefone has jumped the gun and given us our first look at J.J. Abrams’ version of the U.S.S. Enterprise (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below).

If Jennifer Garner wants to do a cameo in your movie as a Klingon, wrinkly, prune forehead and all, why would you say no? That’s the question that has to be asked of J.J. Abrams, the mastermind behind the upcoming Trek 11, and former boss of Garner during their Felicity and Alias days. In an interview with MTV, Garner jokingly pleads for a cameo as a Klingon in Trek 11. Or is she? (Jokingly, I mean.)

What a weird piece of casting for you Star Trek fans out there: writer/director Tyler Perry, most famous for putting on make-up and playing a sassy, angry black woman, will be playing the head of Starfleet Academy in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Trek 11 reboot, or so says UGO.

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Among the casting of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 11, the one I found a little suspect was Karl Urban, who will be playing a (younger) version of Dr. Leonard McCoy, the crotchety medicine man on the Enterprise. Urban seems too old for the role, but then again, I guess McCoy was always the oldest character on the show, wasn’t he? Now Urban has talked about his role on Trek 11 with Sci Fi Wire.

Anyone who is even mildly interested in science fiction has probably heard all the stories about William Shatner acting incredibly desperate to get himself a cameo in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Trek 11 movie. It’s getting a little sad, actually, but then again, we are talking about William Shatner here, and looking sad hasn’t exactly been something he’s shied away from. Now comes news that, Yes, maybe, Bill as Kirk might happen in Trek 11. Maybe.

I swear, I didn’t start the site to focus entirely on Star Trek 11, and to tell you the truth, the Trek series isn’t even my favorite of the sci-fi universe, but it just so happens that lately we’ve been hearing a lot about Trek 11, including these tidbits about the upcoming film from one of the movie’s writer, Roberto Orci, who says that the character Spock is integral to the story.

A while back, the guys over at AICN reported that J.J. Abrams, the writer/director of the upcoming Trek 11, was going to be using the Guardian, the time travel device from the old Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”, as the means by which some unsavory Romulans travels into the past to kill Kirk. I think it was also posted on IESB, though who got what first, I don’t know, and I don’t really care right now. Now sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison, who wrote the original episode story, says that isn’t true, and he’s kind of mad about it.

Heroes star and now young Spock Zachary Quinto swung over to the offices of Entertainment Weekly to let them see his arched Vulcan eyebrows (pictured left, bigger image below), plus an accompanying article that is mostly about how long it took to put on the Vulcan ears, or as Quinto says, “‘the biggest earlobes you’ve ever seen.”

Well okay, so it’s your very blurry first look at actor Chris Pine in uniform as a young Captain James T. Kirk from the upcoming J.J. Abrams’ Trek reboot. Website JFXonline claims that it is indeed Pine as Kirk, but um, your guess is as good as mine if it’s true or not, that could be a girl for all we know, the image quality is that poor.

It’s been known for a while now that the guys writing the Star Trek 11 script, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (who are also responsible for “Transformers”), have turned in their draft, and now it’s up to J.J. Abrams and Paramount to get the ball rolling on their end — re: production. Now via the New York Times, we know a little bit more about the script Kurtzman and Orci turned in. Well, okay, we still don’t know THAT much, but we know now more than we did previously. Which wasn’t very much, except that Star Trek 11 would be a prequel of sorts.