The writing duo of Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman are a hot commodity in Hollywood these days.  Working on "Aliens & Cowboys" plus the new "Hawaii Five-O" television show and several other projects on top of writing the sequel to J.J. Abrams's "Star Trek" has the writers' days "regimented by the hour".  According to an interview MTV News at SDCC Orci & Kurtzman are spending time on their various work sets writing the next installment of Star Trek.

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With the flurry of Star Trek XII production start date rumors (now it looks like later than January 2011), Zachary Quinto confesses that he "Can't Wait To Get Back" to work on our favorite franchise. In an interview with MTV News, Quinto talked about the possibility of January 2011 start date " I know there are sort of erroneous reports that we're going back in January — not true, as far as I know."

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Bruce Greenwood was in attendance for the premiere of his new movie " Dinner For Schmucks" and let slip the filming date for Star Trek XII.  Hollywood.com was there for the exclusive interview and asked Bruce what he knew about the sequel and whether or not we would see Captain Pike's return.

Is there anything that you can tell us about Star Trek 2?

I just know that the plan is to film it in January, more than that, I don't know. 

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Star Trek XII is hot news on the interwebs, well the want for news on Star Trek XII is hot news on the.... you get the idea.  Both Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban have been chatty about the subject recently.  Zoe told Inquirer.net that she's expecting a phone call about the filming dates sometime soon.

"Within a month, we'll have specific filming dates for Star Trek 2. So we have to do whatever we have to do before the Enterprise comes calling."

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In the latest round of non-news for the upcoming Star Trek sequel, Nestor Carbonell (who we loving refer to as Batmanuel) says that he would "be thrilled" to play Khan in the next movie.

"Well, it would be tremendous, it would be amazing," Says Carbonell. "I know that ['Lost'] has already opened many doors for me, and that's the great thing about this business, that you never know which job you do will help you out with other jobs. This show has given me and my family so much, so if that were to happen, it would be tremendous."

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With little info trickling out about J.J. Abrams's next installment of Star Trek and despite the half-way done claim by Zoe Saldana, it seems work is beginning on Star Trek XII.  In a recent interview with IF Magazine, J.J. reveals that about the progress of the next movie, as well as Leonard Nimoy's continued involvement with Fringe.  Check out the interview excerpt below.

iF MAGAZINE: How hands-on are you with FRINGE these days?

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Those hoping for a 2011 release date for the sequel to J.J. Abrams "Star Trek" have to wait a bit longer.  Paramount announced a tentative June 29th, 2012 for the opening of Star Trek XII.  As reported by ComingSoon.com, it's the only movie scheduled for that time frame so far.  We're pretty excited that Paramount and Bad Robot didn't decide on a quick turnaround.  The sequel needs time to be made right.  Plus, we're pretty sure that J.J., Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman have lots on their plates.

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According to a report from Wonderwall.msn.com, The Shat and J.J. recently "did lunch" at Spago (we made that last part up) and talked about The Shat returning to Trekdom.  Hmmm, we love The Shat, but we're not sure who we feel about shoehorning him into Star Trek XII. 

What do you think?  Leave your comments below.

William Shatner is in talks to return to the world of Star Trek, despite attacking director J.J. Abrams for leaving him out of his 2009 blockbuster prequel.


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Harlan Ellison and his dispute over "The City on the Edge of Forever" episode of TOS is a story of Star Trek lore.  In fact, Harlan recently settled with CBS / Paramount over the issue of unpaid royalties for an undisclosed sum.  Now, the famous Scifi author has made it clear on his web bbs. (yup, we said bbs)

As reported by ComicBookMovie.com, Ellison wrote...

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