Given all the casting rumours surrounding the next Star Trek film, I have begun to have my doubts that it will, in fact, concern the Starfleet Academy days of Kirk and Spock. Not only are all the rumoured actors at least as old as the original actors were when the TV series began, but it hardly seems likely that so many members of the Enterprise‘s bridge crew would have worked together ten, twelve, however many years in advance.
Now IGN.com adds a new element to the mix: If J.J. Abrams does go ahead with a story set during Kirk’s and Spock’s days at the Academy, then Harve Bennett — who produced four of the earliest movies and proposed an Academy story that was ultimately turned down in favour of The Undiscovered Country (1991; my comments) — might want a piece of the action.
Whatever the reason, IGN.com’s “insiders” reportedly said the film will be “more of a ‘first adventure’ for Kirk and Spock rather than their first meeting,” and will “explore their first mission together.” Which, if true, raises all sorts of other questions — such as to what extent the new film will blend in with those early episodes.
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