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Posted: 20:42:38 on May 04 2002
By: GustavoLeao
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

The latest issue of Star Trek Monthly magazine, just out in the UK, features the fourth of a regular set of interviews with Trek executive producer Rick Berman. In the interview, conducted recently by journalist Ian Spelling, Berman talks about the status of the tenth Trek feature NEMESIS, the proposed release date of the film, the FX work being done by Digital Domain, and the future of the Trek film franchise. Here are some excerpts :

Q : Where are things at on STAR TREK NEMESIS ?

Berman : "We're done shooting. We finished on schedule. 9 March 2002 was the last day of production and Stuart Baird is starting to wade through the assembly and the cut. We're also working daily on keeping the visual effects schedule up to date. The sequences that have visual effects in them have to get to Digital Domain on the right days so that everything gets done in a timely fashion, so to speak. There are hundreds of effects shots."

Q : There were rumors that some of the actors were called back for some additional shooting. Is that true ?

Berman : "That's absolutely not true. I love those stories. A few of the actors had to come back to do green screen portions of sequences they had already done. In other words, if you do a sequence that involves visual effects, you will shoot 90 percent of it on the set and then some of it has to be shot against a green screen. That's done on a different day. Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn were both involved in the last days of shooting, which were the green screen days."

Q : A lot of the Star Trek actors, from across the various shows, have expressed interest in seeing and participating in a Star Trek film that encompasses as many shows and characters as possible. As a producer, does that idea intrigue you ?

Berman : "We'd be talking about forty to fifth people. I like taking these movies one step at a time. I don't think The Next Generation family is necessarily ready to hang up their space suits yet, but future films involving characters from numerous series, including ENTERPRISE, is something I've definitely thought about."

"My guess is that if The Next Generation features turn into something else, if we begin doing films that aren't strictly about The Next Generation crew, then we'd probably incorporate not so much the casts of different shows or ships of the different series, but specific characters from the different series that could be integrated into one film. This is something that has been thought about, but not thought about to any degree because we're right in the middle of shooting a movie with The Next Generation crew."

You can read the full interview here at the Trek Galaxy website.

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