Remember the "Save Enterprise?" campaign? That was kind of pathetic... anyone that actually watched Enterprise would what a bad idea that was... Although, isn't it interesting that when Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were jettisoned that the quality of the show mysteriously improved substantially? The number of times T'Pol got a rub down dropped too... anyway, when the show stopped just shy of 100 episodes, it seemed as if Trek was in for a bit of a rest... which seems only fair given the fact it's been working since the late 80s without one.

Of course, just as Paramount was assuring us that all the sets had been burned down and that Threshold had ensured Braga would be launched into space for his sins... we hear that J.J. Abrams is going to test his mettle on a new Trek film. Best known for his shows, Alias and Lost could he be the man to revitalise the fallen franchise?

The short answer is no. While he's not said anything concrete about the plot it seems likely that there is something to the Star Trek Academy rumours... and that might just be horrible. You don't butter up fans as much as he's done unless you're planning on kicking them in the genitals and what could be more enraging to fans than a young Kirk and Spock, raiding the girl's dorms at the Academy.

It really hasn't been long enough... and while there are surely blubbering fanboys - aren't there always? - who pray at the altar of William Shatner every day that there will be a return to the screen, it seems as if the public will probably be jaded about the film... Nemesis was a bit of a disaster at the box office and pretty much everything after TNG was on a downward spiral of ratings... by the end of Enterprise, only three people and a cat were watching... which is a shame, seeing Jonathan Frakes look as if he'd been living on paint stripper for a month was funny... but if Enterprise showed us anything, it's that you can't move forward by looking backwards. An obvious lesson but Abrams may not have learned it.