Erik Jendresen completed his script for the major motion picture “STAR TREK: The Beginning,” which would be film number eleven in the 40 year old franchise. Paramount said no. We all thought, “I guess that’s it until some other time down the road.” Well, that’s not necessarily so.

In an interview with SyFyPortal Jendresen says that his proposed script is not “dead Jim” even if it’s true that execs at Paramount have made no public decision about moving on with the franchise at this time.

Jenderesen told the Portal that his STAR TREK script got caught in the crosshairs of the “classic case of Hollywood regime change… A project is greenlighted by one regime, and by the time it’s delivered, there’s a coup d’etat.”

The regime change he speaks of was the recent coming onboard of Gail Berman to replace outgoing Paramount co-president David DeLine, one of the casualties of war in the recent Viacom split.

Gail was still trying to get her new seat warm by the time the script came along so her take on it isn’t yet known. What is known is that she is reevaluating Trek’s future and she does recognize just how important the 40-year franchise is to Paramount, not only from a financial standpoint, but from a PR one as well. That kind of assessment is refreshing after a decade of the opposite.

Jendresen’s idea is for a trilogy of movies beginning with number eleven and at this time it isn’t known for sure if Paramount is seriously considering his input or deciding in a whole other direction for the much loved STAR TREK universe.

Jendresen feels a trilogy is awfully important to fill that large gap between the end of “STAR TREK: Enerprise” and the beginnings of “STAR TREK: The Original Series, or Kirk’s days. He would like to fill that void with a 3-picture deal that would completely answer in movie format, so as to make it official canon, the ultimate formation of the United Federation of Planets, the full development of Star Fleet, the rise in tension between that new Federation and the Klingons which was at its peak by 2233, and most importantly, addressing the Romulan War and its fallout which existed all the way until “STAR TREK: Nemesis” and Captain Jean Luc Picard’s 24th Century era.

“So the notion was to do a prequel to the original series and fill that void with, ostensibly, a trilogy,” Jendresen said. “Three films, which all would deal with Kirk’s progenitor, a man by the name of Tiberius Chase.”

The goal of the trilogy was to begin to establish reasons “to form the United Federation of Planets, a reason to have this deep-seated desire and mission statement to go boldly where no one has gone before.”

But all of those lofty ideas were put on hold after the top brass shakeup at Paramount. “By the time the script was delivered, DeLine was gone and new personnel were in place. And since the project moved into the inactive status, it was easy for others with connections to Hollywood to declare the project dead, even if it really wasn’t, Jendresen said. “Essentially, what’s being said is true, this is ‘dead’ because it’s not moving forward. It’s like a shark. It has got to keep moving or it’s dead.”

But fans must remember that this is science fiction, and nothing is ever truly dead in scifi, just ask Spock.

”There is a producer at Paramount who has been championing this and the notion that we have the opportunity to plug the gap with this trilogy.” Jendresen said, (but not giving out the producer’s name). “We have a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from ‘Enterprise’ all the way out to the future.

It should also be indicated that the ultimate intention here was to craft a story that would not only completely satisfy the fans, but just as importantly, bring new people into the franchise.”