Berman Talks About New Trek Film
From Sci Fi Wire:
“The movie that we’re having very early discussions about would have nothing to do with any of the characters that have ever existed on any of the Star Trek series,” Berman said. “It would be an entirely new setting and an entirely new set of characters, and it would take place prior to any of the series, including Enterprise.” (emphasis added)
Utter disaster looms. I can feel it. Star Trek is most closely associated with technology and the future (especially to the mainstream audiences which are necessary for successful cinema releases) and they keep pushing it backwards in time instead of forwards. What the? And this time there aren’t even going to be any characters anyone can relate to (even non-Trekkies know about Kirk and Picard).
1:15am (GMT +10.00) tomorrow 
“It would be an entirely new setting…” Could it not, then, be based upon a race other than humans, and still have the same aspects of technology and space and aliens? I agree, if that’s not the case, this movie will suck ass if it ever gets made.
Maybe they can just set it in present day, and make it a sequel to “Field of Dreams 2: They Made It, But No One Came.”
Cripes…
This guy just doesn’t get it, huh.
i don’t see any point to adding the “star trek” moniker to the movie if it’s not going to focus on anything currently recognised as being star trek.
berman’s done some good work in the past, but i think it’s time for him to move on.