When Star Trek was at the height of its popularity, though now you’re more likely to be talking about what that polar stand was doing in Lost or offering suggestions for new superpowers for characters in Heroes than quoting from the long running.  that one of the most recent purveyors of entertaining modern television, the creator of Lost JJ Abrams, has been drafted in to breath new life into the Star Trek franchise almost forgotten after the failure of its fifth series incarnation, Enterprise.

This will be the 11th entry into the movie series of Star Trek following the disappointing box office performance of the final Star Trek: Generations film Nemesis, seven years ago. That helped put to rest an “odd-numbered curse” which had supposedly meant every odd numbered movie tend to be weaker than their even-numbered counterparts. Paramount, the major Hollywood studio behind Star Trek, will be hoping its spend of an estimated $150million on this project, thus making it the most expensive Star Trek movie ever made, will further lay to rest the curse theory. Opting for a franchise reboot, as is the trend for many long-running series being resurrected to strike box office gold after a barren spell, the executives seem to be on to a winner.