Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman spill a few 'Star Trek' sequel beans

Want to know which writing team in Hollywood is getting personal invitations to every power lunch, every mansion party, every billion dollar bar mitzvah? Well after writing the best reviewed film in 2009, (Star Trek) as well as writing the movie that may knock The Dark Knight from the number two spot on the all time biggest money-making movies list, (Transformers Revenge of the Fallen - current box-office: 201 million domestic in five days!) Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are the golden pens in Hollywood this Summer. Add JJ Abrams to the team and we've got a trinity of filmmakers that are pretty much going to be doing whatever project their little million-dollar-makin' hearts desire to for the next ten years. And these three guys definitely want to do Star Trek 2. And you better believe that Paramount wants them to do it as soon as humanly, (or Vulcanly depending...) possible.

First draft for the new film is scheduled to be finished by this coming Holiday season. As far as the plot is concerned we don't really know just yet. But the subject of villains did get brought up in a recent interview with Collider.com:

"The exploration sci-fi plot where the unknown and nature itself is somehow an adversary or the villain model. That’s an active discussion we’re having right now. In terms of thinking about more than one movie, we want the movie to be self-contained in a way, but we’re discussing the idea of having a couple of threads where if the second movie works, you could pick up into a cohesive whole. No thread more exciting and shocking for me when in “Star Trek III” you realize that Spock grabbed Bones and downloaded his Katra into him. When I saw “Star Trek II” I was like, “What’s going on here?” and two years later, you’re watching it and you’re like “They’re geniuses! They’re geniuses!” So we’re trying to think is there a version of that but again, “Star Trek II” does not rely on that thread, even though it turns out to be a thread. So we’re thinking in those terms.”

So nature's the villain? Well it worked for Al Gore.

As for JJ Abrams Directing the new film? He hasn't said peep just yet. But he did say this:

"It's about that kind of feeling, like 'oh my god, I can't wait to do that!' I won't be walking away from Trek in any way in the next film. I feel too lucky to be a part of this thing to say goodbye to it."

Which is: Fine. Excellent. Brilliant. Safe. Remember that Abrams will be re-teaming up with super-sprinter Tom Cornelius Cruise, (not his real middle name in case you were wondering - I just like the ring it has) for Mission Impossible IV which he's also completely indecisive about Directing as well.

So expect a new Star Trek 2 script by Christmas with "Universal Warming" as the head villain. Which, if that's the case, you could also expect the new Enterprise to be a Galaxy Class hybrid - fuel efficient to the nuts, deadly quiet when you run her under Warp 3, and ugly as the ass end of aKlingon Targ.

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