By now, everyone has probably heard about Paramount’s plans to revive the Trek franchise with a new movie, which will be produced by J.J. Abrams (of Alias and Lost fame). I’m fine with that–I think that Trek needed some new blood, but the problem is that with the new blood, was the promise of returning to old ideas: the movie puportedly will focus on Kirk and Spock in their younger years, at Starfleet Academy.

This kind of seems like asking for trouble to me–how in holy hell are they going to get anyone to play those roles that’s going to live up to Shatner and Nimoy without resorting to doing impersonations of them? Me, I’m skeptical.

As for longtime Trek-runner Rick Berman, I’m kind of glad he’s not involved–he helmed the ship true for a while, but at the end he’d led it astray. By the end, it was as if Trek was stuck in a Menthar booby trap.

But anyway, since this Kirk/Spock plot was “leaked,” Abrams has since come out denouncing the idea as being untrue. (Can’t find a relevant link at the moment.)

Now, I’ve seen this sort of thing happen quite a lot over the years. At first, I thought that it was just rabid fanboys hearing a rumor then spreading it like wildfire over the internet, but now I’m not so sure. Could Abrams have deliberately leaked such an idea to see what fan reaction would be like? That way, if the reaction was bad (as it has been), he can step forward to deny the rumors and say that was never the plan to begin with? If so, it’s kind of sneaky, but hey, I’d rather he float his dumbass ideas out this way then have to see him kill Trek for good with such a stinker of an idea.