Word broke at WonderCon today that some or all of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation may show up in the new prequel movie being done by JJ Abrams. LR reports that they should appear in the first few, opening minutes of the movie.
If what we’ve heard up till now about Abrams’ new Trek is true, then this is both ironic… and logical. Word is that JJ’s movie involves a time travel plot, in which an elderly Spock, living in the time period of Captain Picard and company, travels back in time to save a younger version of James Kirk. It’s ironic that the Next Gen cast appears in the movie, because rumor has it that Abrams’ movie is a setup to launch the Trek universe into an alternate timeline, and alternate timeline in which the Next Gen cast we’re familiar with probably wouldn’t exist. By appearing in the movie, it’s as if the Next Gen crew is complicit in their own destruction.
Still, if true it’ll be great to see them on screen one last time. Any excuse to get Brent Spiner back in his Data makeup is a good one.
UPDATE! It looks like Latino Review may have fudged a few facts in their report, in order to generate hype for their site. The folks at TrekMovie attended the same event and they say LR’s report is inaccurate, and that they’re absolutely certain no one from Star Trek: TNG will have any sort of appearance in the upcoming Star Trek movie.
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