I'd say a really bad fanfic. It desn't strike me as a porn star name.
Erik Jendressen's script
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Nah... Porno names seem to have more to do with body parts...
It was a movie I would have loved to have seen. Jendressen said Berman wasn't involved with the film. He was going for a new beginning with Star Trek that wasn't tied to Enterprise and was a more gritty and back to basics of Star Trek. I think a planned out trilogy would have been a rich, epic story and at least fresh to what we are getting. I really hope that Paramount might consider releasing this as a Direct to DVD movie. I am curious to read the script. But it seems we will have to do with the Romulan War Book Trilogy instead. Maybe when they come out the script will be put up online so we can compare ideas.
Someone mentioned about Space War movies been over. I don't think so if we go by the box office of the most recent Star Wars movie.
Trek Movie Report had said they interviewed (or were going to interview) him about the script but that was a few months ago and I haven't seen anything on it.
Someone mentioned about Space War movies been over. I don't think so if we go by the box office of the most recent Star Wars movie.
Trek Movie Report had said they interviewed (or were going to interview) him about the script but that was a few months ago and I haven't seen anything on it.
And you would know this how...?
Wouldn't you like to know?
I did interview him and I think I have a very clear idea of what his movie would have been. It seems like it could have been a good Trek XI, but I think Abrams Trek will be even better (and bigger).
It is true that Berman had almost nothing to do with it, Jenderson met him only once and it was just a courtesy.
With Jendreson at the helm of the script, I have no doubt that it would have been a good movie. Berman wasn't really involved in it, but from the sounds of it I don't think that the movie would have been the best way to bring ST back into the mainstream. A full-on war movie seems to dark in terms of content, and the Romulan war setting superficially has too much continuity baggage for a non-fan audience. Abrams' film has a certain mass-appeal to it that I'm betting Paramount thought Jendereson's script lacked.
I'd be interesed in reading the script but overall i wasn't that impressed with the plot or title. I don't understand why they didn't just use the Enterprise crew since itvwoukd seem to make sense to have this be a Ent movie. I agree that Tiberius Chase is a horrible name. Would like to read that interview as well.
Admiral Young
Admiral Young
I am not sure what TrekMovie is doing interview-wise with Erik, but SyFy interviewed him several times before, during and after the script-writing process.
I am not sure how well the pages will render because we have not checked past news stories since our redesign, but you can see the past stories of Jendresen on the site, but here is the first interview he did more than two years ago with us:
http://syfyportal.com/news422352.html
The entire story concept was real good. It was meant to be at least a two-part story with a satisfying yet cliffhanger ending to the first part. It was set post-second-to-last epiosode of Star Trek: Enterprise, but I believe it was before the events depicted in the final episode.
It would NOT include the characters or the ship from "Enterprise," and very much did involve the Romulan War. More or less, Earth gets surrounded by thousands of drone ships that were about to attack the planet. It was not quite clear to the humans where the ships were from, but the Vulcans on the planet did know.
The main character, Tiberius Chase, was I believe the grandfather of Kirk (or some sort of great uncle, I can't remember ... but it's supposed to be where Kirk gets his middle name from). He was a test pilot for the Federation, and was supposed to be taking a Warp 6 test or some warp drive test flight through the solar system, but the lead admiral had his son do it instead.
In the middle of a test flight (they did many of them) was when the Romulan drone ships showed up with the mother Romulan ship controlling them. They were hiding behind the moon initially, and suddenly showed up.
Before the attack could begin, the admiral's son -- who also was Tiberius' best friend -- kamikazes his ship into the mothership, destroying it, leaving the drones inert, but shielded.
Earth goes into a panic because the planet is surrounded by drones, but they aren't doing anything. The Vulcans say that it would take a year for the Romulans to send another ship, so Earth starts to gear up. Tiberius is able to get off planet, and he commandeers a transport ship he has learned was nothing more than a decoy of a second Warp 6 engine. He practically takes the crew hostage, but they begrudgingly work for him when they find out they don't have a choice and they go to Romulus. Of course, it takes a while to get there.
One of the more interesting twists to this story was the fact that Tiberius' father was a follower of Col. Green, and that the xenophobic organization he was running ends up moving to Antarctica. It's through them that we discover that the Romulans aren't after the humans ... they are after the Vulcans. It's something that the humans never really get at first, because they have no idea of who the Romulans are (outside of the minimal encounters on "Enterprise") or their history.
Overall, I thought it would be a great story. It was far more grittier than we saw before, and Jendresen had a great consultant in Star Trek history and such to help along to make sure that the story followed as close to established canon as possible (I think he cussed up a storm when he had a cool battle planned out, only to be asked where the nuclear weapons were, since it was a throwaway line in "Balance of Terror.")
I do ask that you please not judge the script or the story without reading it. The dialogue was very strong, and the story was entertaining, and would appeal to a wider audience. It did get away from the whole comfy exploration model, yes, but I think that model of science-fiction has come and gone anyway.
I am not sure how well the pages will render because we have not checked past news stories since our redesign, but you can see the past stories of Jendresen on the site, but here is the first interview he did more than two years ago with us:
http://syfyportal.com/news422352.html
The entire story concept was real good. It was meant to be at least a two-part story with a satisfying yet cliffhanger ending to the first part. It was set post-second-to-last epiosode of Star Trek: Enterprise, but I believe it was before the events depicted in the final episode.
It would NOT include the characters or the ship from "Enterprise," and very much did involve the Romulan War. More or less, Earth gets surrounded by thousands of drone ships that were about to attack the planet. It was not quite clear to the humans where the ships were from, but the Vulcans on the planet did know.
The main character, Tiberius Chase, was I believe the grandfather of Kirk (or some sort of great uncle, I can't remember ... but it's supposed to be where Kirk gets his middle name from). He was a test pilot for the Federation, and was supposed to be taking a Warp 6 test or some warp drive test flight through the solar system, but the lead admiral had his son do it instead.
In the middle of a test flight (they did many of them) was when the Romulan drone ships showed up with the mother Romulan ship controlling them. They were hiding behind the moon initially, and suddenly showed up.
Before the attack could begin, the admiral's son -- who also was Tiberius' best friend -- kamikazes his ship into the mothership, destroying it, leaving the drones inert, but shielded.
Earth goes into a panic because the planet is surrounded by drones, but they aren't doing anything. The Vulcans say that it would take a year for the Romulans to send another ship, so Earth starts to gear up. Tiberius is able to get off planet, and he commandeers a transport ship he has learned was nothing more than a decoy of a second Warp 6 engine. He practically takes the crew hostage, but they begrudgingly work for him when they find out they don't have a choice and they go to Romulus. Of course, it takes a while to get there.
One of the more interesting twists to this story was the fact that Tiberius' father was a follower of Col. Green, and that the xenophobic organization he was running ends up moving to Antarctica. It's through them that we discover that the Romulans aren't after the humans ... they are after the Vulcans. It's something that the humans never really get at first, because they have no idea of who the Romulans are (outside of the minimal encounters on "Enterprise") or their history.
Overall, I thought it would be a great story. It was far more grittier than we saw before, and Jendresen had a great consultant in Star Trek history and such to help along to make sure that the story followed as close to established canon as possible (I think he cussed up a storm when he had a cool battle planned out, only to be asked where the nuclear weapons were, since it was a throwaway line in "Balance of Terror.")
I do ask that you please not judge the script or the story without reading it. The dialogue was very strong, and the story was entertaining, and would appeal to a wider audience. It did get away from the whole comfy exploration model, yes, but I think that model of science-fiction has come and gone anyway.
It makes no sense in making this an "Enterprise" movie then, and especially now.
The show got cancelled because of low ratings ... how would that translate into a feature film franchise?
Paramount was looking for then, and is looking for now, something that could sustain itself at least four movies, if not more. Why do you think that J.J. Abrams has the SAME directive as Jendresen did to make the cast young?
The show got cancelled because of low ratings ... how would that translate into a feature film franchise?
Paramount was looking for then, and is looking for now, something that could sustain itself at least four movies, if not more. Why do you think that J.J. Abrams has the SAME directive as Jendresen did to make the cast young?
number6
Vice Admiral
What makes you think he has a "directive?"
According to all the info published to date, JJ Abrams signed his picture deal with the provision that he'd get to make his Trek movie. There is nothing about any of these stories that would imply that he had any such directive from Paramount.
According to all the info published to date, JJ Abrams signed his picture deal with the provision that he'd get to make his Trek movie. There is nothing about any of these stories that would imply that he had any such directive from Paramount.
I'm certainly glad that we're getting Abrams' take rather than Jendressen's - the commercial potential is far greater, for one thing. 
Ummm ... because he does.
That's right ... and Paramount has absolutely no input in what has been a multi-billion-dollar franchise for them? I think not. Paramount has ALWAYS been quite involved in the Trek franchise (why do you think Rick Berman was there in the first place? He was Paramount's man meant to counter Gene Roddenberry in protecting PARAMOUNT'S interests).
The studio directive is to be younger. Paramount wants a film franchise to last a long time, not just be a couple of movies and peter out. They want the Enterprise. They want things that fans are most interested in.
In the whole Series V development process, Paramount was open to all ideas, as long as they involved a starship with the name "Enterprise" on it. That was their directive for the series and it was very much intended for the series to take over the movie franchise from TNG (although Paramount thought that TNG would last a little longer at the box office than they did).
I don't work in this business without contacts, just like anyone else who also is in the business. Paramount's eye is toward longevity, and you're not going to get that with actors who are going to be too old to continue in a decade, especially with Paramount's current plan of a movie every three to four years.
There is nothing about any of these stories that would imply that he had any such directive from Paramount.
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UWC Defiance said:
I'm certainly glad that we're getting Abrams' take rather than Jendressen's - the commercial potential is far greater, for one thing.
Well, based solely on the concept alone (since we don't know much more), I'm with you on that. Having Kirk and Spock on the Enterprise ... it's practically what Paramount wanted in "Star Trek: Enterprise" and now they're able to get it thanks to the fact that rebooting has become very successful since the planning days of "Enterprise."
If it was Jendersen's script, I imagine it would be a straightforward war drama, devoid of any of the higher concepts of sci-fi like time travel and godlike cloud beings. And I'm cool with that. Any use of stuff like that usually screams "reset", as Trek has demonstrated over the years. I bet Jendersen's script must have dealt with some very real things and I doubt the Federation would emerge with its hands clean in the end.
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