Abrams to helm Trek 11

CNN reprots today, based on a Daily Variety report from last Friday, that J. J. Abrams, director of Mission: Impossible III, is set to direct the eleventh Star Trek film. The movie is aimed for a late 2008 release, and apparently Paramount is going with the "Kirk and Spock at the academy theme." I sure hope they don't mess this up as badly as Berman and Braga messed up continuity with Archer and company—I don't recall any indication that Kirk and Spock knew each other at the academy, nor that they would even have overlapped there.