There’s very little known about this upcoming movie which will star nobody from the original Star Trek cast, Star Trek Next Generation, or any other spin-offs. Even after the trailer you won’t be able to figure out what the deal is with this movie, other than there’s a new USS Enterprise, involves space somehow, and comes out in December 2008. But does it?

It actually doesn’t come out this year at all, in fact it comes out as a summer blockbuster on May 8, 2009 — well over a year from now. It chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk (portrayed by Chris Pine) and Kirk’s fellow USS Enterprise crew members. You may have seen Pine in… well… nothing that I have personally seen. Spock is played by Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana plays “Nero”, Winona Ryder portrays Amanda Grayson, Zoe Saldana is Uhura, Karl Urban plays McCoy, Bruce Greenwood is Christopher Pike, John Cho is Sulu, Simon Pegg is Scotty, Anton Yelchin is Chekov, and Leonard Nimoy plays a tribble. Ok, he doesn’t, but he does make some appearances in the movie, kind of how David Hasselhoff appeared in the recent Knight Rider movie on NBC and handed off KITT to “Mike Traceur”. I can only hope the new Enterprise has a LED light chaser like KITT. That would be cool.

chrisTHIS has the con, starting May 8, 2009, only in theaters.