The problems of making Films and Television

Well, one of the things about having movies and television stories running at the same time is that when we decided to put Worf onto Deep Space 9, it became somewhat tricky to get him back onto The Enterprise for the next movie. Even in the film that, that we're about to start shooting in October, we have to explain how Worf has found his way back onto The Enterprise. Last time he had to get leave from Deep Space 9 for a specific reason and now, at the end of Deep Space 9, Worf was sent off to be a diplomat on the Klingon home world. So, in our new film, we have to find a way to get him back on board The Enterprise again. Thats alwaysa tricky thing and always a little bit fun.

The new film is being written by a wonderful writer named John Logan, who wrote, among other things, Gladiator and the HG Wells' Time Machine film that is being shot right now. He is one of the very hot and really talented writers in Hollywood who has always been a Star Trek fan, and he has written a story that's, quite a knockout. It deals with the Romulans, and a group that we have never seen before, the Remans, which are the people who live on the neighbouring planet to Romulus. It's a remarkable script, and it's pretty much locked down - we're starting the budgeting phases and selecting a director all in the next month. The movie will go into pre-production in July, and then we'll start shooting in October for a release sometime in 2002.