Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on Developing the Star Trek XII Script

According to a new interview at SciFi Wire, Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are saying that they don't have anything pinned down for the Star Trek XII script yet.

In fact, they commented directly about Zoe Saldana's 'halfway done' remark that she made from Comic-Con.


"She's so generous," Orci said in a group interview at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., where he and Kurtzman were promoting Fox's Fringe. "She thinks so much and so highly of us. We had about a 15- [to] 30-minute discussion with the whole gang and went our separate ways. We're still in the re-reading and taking-it-all-in phase before we actually sit down and start designing it."


Developing a worthy sequel to this year's generally acclaimed and certainly lucrative Trek reboot will take much more time, Kurtzman said. They have to exhaust every possible idea to find the best ones.


"We take nothing for granted at this point," Kurtzman said. "We're only going to do it when it's really right."


The discussions include brainstorming classic Trek missions, which could be revisited with a new timeline established thanks to Spock and Nero's time travel. Even generating new ideas brings up past Trek episodes, Orci said.


"Even when you pitch stuff, sometimes someone will be like, 'Wow, that's like that one episode,'" Orci said. "So even in trying to stay away from it, you can crash back in there."


Orci went on to detail the collaboration between himself and Kurtzman, director J.J. Abrams and producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk. "We're going to come up with the story together, obviously, in consultation with J.J. and Bryan," Orci said. "Then we're going to write it up together, the story. Also Damon, and then Alex and I will go write the script."

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