There's five stages to milking a cash cow. You can squeeze and get gold (the high point), milk (the good times), water (the dull spots), shit (the shark has been jumped), and blood (painful continuance). The "Star Trek" franchise passed blood somewhere around the turn of this century and yet the powers that be are still squeezing despite many ardent fans (including myself) lining up with shotguns to put the poor beast down whilst the good memories are still there.
Well you have to give credit to Rick Berman and co., they don't know the meaning of the word quit. Despite both external and internal pressure to haul their asses off the franchise, they're still speaking up about plans to do a 'prequel' movie and confirmed some new details to the latest <em>Star Trek Communicator</em> magazine which have since appeared over on <a href="http://trekweb.com/articles/2004/07/08/40ee07cc1a12b.shtml" target="_blank">Trekweb</a>. Have those hatchets ready:
"Berman for the first time says that the eleventh STAR TREK film will be a prequel set before the time of 'James T. Kirk', but that it will not be related to the fifth television series "Enterprise"". Brannon Braga went onto say that why there'll be no mention of the Romulan Wars in "Enterprise" in its upcoming fourth season is that "there's also a prequel feature in development regarding the Romulan Wars, so we might have to stay away from that". The show instead will wrap up its 'Temporal Cold War' storyline and drop further hints about the founding of the Federation and the Eugenics War.
Thanks to 'Cailian', 'Gustavo' & 'Gareth'
