What are the challenges behind the new series? What�s the philosophy behind how that looks?

It�s a challenge in the sense that all of us who have worked on Star Trek for so long have a certain five finger exercise of our bag of tricks (sic), that we�re used to doing in order to create environments for a) the Star Fleet Command personnel, and b) all the aliens.

Coming back to our own future, we�re going back in Star Trek time. We�re still a hundred years from the present but we�re much closer to the present than Kirk and Spock were to our present, so everything is more identifiable with what we see as our immediate future in NASA and in science in general.