For someone who can't personally stand Star Trek I seem to be talking about it a lot on LJ at present...

It's been inadvertently revealed that Chris Pine has accepted the job as Captain james Kirk in the new Star Trek film about the Academy years of the Enterprise crew.

Pine To Go Where Shatner Went Before (IMBD Movie & TV News; 16th october 2007)

As an aside, was more interested to see they are making White Jazz (another James Elroy novel) into a film.

Anyway, to redeem myself I decided to also include the best thing that ever came from Star Trek (apart from Tribbles, I liked the Tribbles)