Brace Yourself: Move Star Trek XI Rumors
SyFyPortal has an interview up with Erik Jendresen was given the task of writing Star Trek XI: The Beginning, a script Jendresen says was the victim of "regime change" at Paramount. However, while the project may have been stalled, it's not necessarily dead.

Jendresen explains that the concept of the film is to fill the "void" between the end of ENT and the beginning of TOS by focusing on Kirk's progenitor, Tiberius Chase. The film would then be the first of a trilogy centered around the formation of the Federation.

”There is a producer at Paramount who has been championing this and the notion that we have the opportunity to plug the gap with this trilogy," Jendresen says.

We'll have to see.

http://scifi.about.com/b/a/257329.htm

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has run the gamut of Gene Roddenberry's universe. The last series, "Enterprise," went where no "Trek" has gone before, basing its premise entirely on the original Enterprise and its crew, taking us back in time rather than forward. "Star Trek XI: The Beginning" was primed to follow suit with the series, but with "Enterprise" having fallen far short of hopes attached to it, it is almost a harbinger of trouble for the eleventh "Trek" film.

Writer Erik Jendresen told SyFy Portal that while enthusiasm around the project was high because of the exciting premise, the chance to tell the story behind the events that started the Romulan War, the movie is now stuck in studio limbo. Jendresen does not seem happy about the stall, commenting that they were going to finally cover the untold tale. "We [had] a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from 'Enterprise' all the way out to the future."

The latest installment in the movie franchise was intended to be a trilogy that could be likened to the hype and cult level of the "Star Wars" prequels. The three films were to take place in the chronological gap left between the years 2164 and 2233. It would have followed the ancestor of James T. Kirk, Tiberius Chase, through the Romulan War in all its excessive violence that supposedly would have been too graphic for "Enterprise," which would put Jendresen right in his element since he also wrote "Band of Brothers" for HBO. Also, out of the bloody and horrific war was to emerge the United Federation of Planets.

But, why the past tense? This project is trapped in production stasis, but it is far from being officially dead. Though, Jendresen gives the impression that this may as well be the case. The real status of "Trek XI" rests in the hands of the new command at Paramount. The former co-president of the studio David DeLine had been leading the prequel movement. However, once Jendresen finished the script, there was a new woman by the name of Gail Berman steering the ship, leaving "The Beginning" lost in the shuffle. Neither Berman nor Paramount is abandoning the trilogy proposal, but they are trying to explore all their options for the next step made by one of the largest franchises in entertainment history.

The last "Trek" movie to hit theaters, "Nemesis," pulled in $67 million worldwide. Since that was back in 2002 and this is first time in a long time that the franchise can't claim at least one running television show, another "Trek" film is sure to be on its way soon enough. Whether or not it will be "The Beginning" is just too soon to tell. But, the concept of this trilogy is different and significant enough, delving into an untapped region of this universe's history with Kirk's ancestor leading the way, that it may be the smartest way to invigorate the existing fans and beam up some new ones.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_8315.html

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Star Trek XI Status, or Lack Thereof &nsbp; &nsbp;
  Written by Scott Collura  
  Friday, 14 April 2006
 
  Star Trek has been dead in space, so to speak, pretty much since the release of that last mediocre Next Generation feature film in 2002 – what was it called again? Yes, Enterprise continued to limp along on UPN until last year, but watching that show was generally akin to tracing the last moments of Khan before he blew up the Genesis device: the anti-matter was leaking, the blood was pouring, and the cheese factor was at 11.

Yet even after the cancellation of Enterprise and the poor box office performance of that last Next Gen film, Paramount persisted in trying to keep the franchise afloat. A script for a proposed eleventh film was commissioned, with Erik Jendresen (best known for his Emmy-winning work on HBO’s Band of Brothers) coming in to pen the tale, a prequel to the Kirk era of Star Trek but a sequel to Enterprise. The project was announced, but there was very little by way of follow-up on the status of the script.

Now, however, genre site SyFy Portal has nabbed an interview with Jendresen this week, wherein the writer reveals that the film, titled Star Trek: The Beginning, is pretty much a no-go for the time being.

“[It was a] classic case of Hollywood regime change,” Jendresen says, obviously referring to the ascension by exec Brad Grey as the big man at Paramount. “A project is greenlighted by one regime, and by the time it’s delivered, there’s a coup d’état. … Essentially, what’s being said is true. This [project] is ‘dead’ because it’s not moving forward. It’s like a shark. It has got to keep moving or it’s dead.”

The scripter still hopes that the film will come to be made at some point, and he says that there is a producer at Paramount who has been championing the project (though one hopes it’s not Rick Berman, who’s the producer responsible for driving Star Trek into the ground in the first place). Still, the film sounds like it could be interesting, with its depiction of the founding of the United Federation of Planets and the often-discussed Romulan War.

“The notion was to do a prequel to the original series and fill that void [between Enterprise and Classic Trek] with, ostensibly, a trilogy,” Jendresen says. “Three films, which all would deal with Kirk’s progenitor, a man by the name of Tiberius Chase.”

Ah jeez. Does that mean it’s Kirk’s grandfather or something? Suddenly, not so interesting.
 
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3563/2/

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tar Trek Not Dead Yet?
Posted Apr 14th 2006 4:09PM by Mark Beall
Filed under: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, RumorMonger, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, Remakes and Sequels

Remember the "OMG NEW STAR TREK" versus "Star Trek is on the trash heap of history" rumor debate flying back and forth a few months ago? Suggestions on the possible plot of a theoretical new Trek movie flew fast and loose, and denials of particular plots, new movies in general, and the entire existence of the Star Trek franchise came almost as quickly. Eventually the dust settled and we learned, well, mostly that the people in charge just aren't sure they feel comfortable with a new Trek flick. And so the hopes of many a dedicated fan were dashed.

As it turns out, a pretty solid plan was in place for a new Star Trek installment, according to its writer Erik Jendresen. Jendresen has recently said he did indeed complete a draft of a film called Star Trek: The Beginning, which would "take place between the end of the series and the original adventures. He says the idea was being positioned for a possible trilogy, and would in some large part center around the Romulan Wars from Trek mythology." However, a power shift at Paramount apparently left the project without many supporters, and it now dwells in the land of the unknown.

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/14/star...k-not-dead-yet/

enterprise was a **** up, acknowlodge it was a **** up and don't try and cover it up with a trilogy thats trying to make a **** up seem like it was not a **** up. It's like trying to cover bullshit with toffee and calling it a sweet, everyone knows it's just bullshit

uhmm i don't even listen to rumours. rumours are made by panicking damsels in distress.. i just  and see if there is going to be another movie

that will be soooooo bad it not ture! :omg:  :cry:

LOL! How do they want to realize this???!!  

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22789

This seems to be the script for the movie. Originally coming from the 80s' it will be changed in some aspects.