Although many have suspected it to be the case for months now, it's finally official: J.J. Abrams will be directing Paramount's planned reboot/prequel of "Star Trek".

Abrams has long been involved as a producer on the newest installment of the Trek film franchise, but his helming wasn't confirmed until this week reports Devin, my favourite sub & chub over at C.H.U.D..

Also confirmed is that the film isn't scheduled to hit until Summer 2009, a year later than reports had previously indicated.

Speculation has that the delay is due to giving the writer's sufficient time to develop the script.