THE PEOPLE INVOLVED
Star Trek X is being written by John Logan, a screenwriter who scored an Academy Award nomination for co-writing Gladiator.  He is working under the supervision of longtime Trek producer Rick Berman, who will again oversee this production while juggling Voyager and Series V.  All of The Next Generation's cast is expected to participate, with Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner already confirmed to appear.

THE PLOT
The details of the movie's plot are still a tightly kept secret.  What is known is that the film will involve a central villain in the tradition of Khan who will be interested in cloning.  It also features, to some extent, a Romulan presence.  The Romulans will be undergoing some kind of surprising change in the movie.

Offers John Logan:
"Picard needs an adversary or a foe that is up to his level. That's why James Bond should always fight Blofeld; that's his adversary," says Logan. "We hope this adversary will be every bit as memorable not only for who he is, but how and why he behaves as he does."

"There will be lots of little things that fans will recognize," Logan says. "I want to put in a lot of cool stuff that no one in the main audience will understand, but fans will see and get it right away. One of the best parts about writing this is that I get to do things with the races, the characters and the homeworlds that I've always wanted to do."

THE STRIKE
Star Trek X has been in a holding pattern: more or less ready to enter production, the main reason for the delay in production is the looming Actors Guild strike which threatens to halt production all across the entertainment industry.  Because both the Screen Actors Guild and the industry are holding fast to their positions, a compromise to avert the strike seems unlikely by the May deadline.  As a result, tons of films have been rushed into production so that the studios will have a backlog of films to release in case of an extended strike.  A few months ago, Star Trek X was considered a "'tweener", a film that could either be rushed into production or saved until after the strike is resolved.  Paramount didn't rush X into production and it will now be saved until after the SAG contract talks are over, whenever that might be.  As a result, Star Trek X won't hit theaters until sometime in 2002.

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