Rick Berman, executive producer of all "Star Trek" films and series since 1991, denied to Sci-Fi Wire the validity of the Net rumors that suggest Paramount Pictures disliked his concept for a new movie, was sending him back to the drawing board and put "Star Trek XI" on the back burner.
Berman previously described it as a prequel film set in the era before UPN's "Enterprise", with a new set of characters not previously seen in any Trek incarnations: "Unless there is something going on that I am not familiar with, the rumors are totally fictitious. Absolutely neither statement, that something has been scuttled and that I have been asked to redevelop something, is true."
Berman went on to say "The status of the next film is it's in an early state of story development, and the Paramount Motion Picture Group will announce personnel and whatever elements of the project when they see fit. If the project does develop as planned I think, of all the Star Trek movies I've been involved with and the previous regimes have been involved with, this one will undoubtedly have a larger scope and budget. It's a very ambitious project, and I'm hoping that it will get the support to come to fruition".
Thanks to 'Gustavo'.
