So Is That What Spock Is Doing?

There may finally be a reason behind why fans cannot get a straight answer from the producers of the upcoming "Star Trek XI" on whether or not this will be a reboot. And that reason seems to be coming from a trusted old source: Ain't It Cool News.

Longtime contributor Moriarty shared some tidbits of what he heard could be the driving force behind the "Star Trek XI" storyline, and why there seems to be room for Leonard Nimoy and not William Shatner.

The next Star Trek film apparently will deal with an alternate timeline. And no, not Spock with a goatee, but something that "Star Trek: Enterprise" as a series tried to do but failed.

"Picture an incident that throws a group of Romulans back in time," Moriarty said. "Picture that group of Romulans figuring out where they are in the timeline, then deciding to take advantage of the accident to kill someone's father, to erase them from the timeline before they exist, thereby changing all of the Trek universe."

Apparently the Romulans choose the man himself, Capt. James T. Kirk. Why wait for him to fall off a bridge 100 years in the future when he can be taken out now, the Romulans reason.

That leaves Spock in a peculiar position because somehow he knows about the change, and is able to try and put it all back ... but it's not perfect.

"Evidently, the plan is to use this second timeline as a way of rebooting without erasing or ignoring canon," Moriarty said. "These new voyages of the Enterprise, they're taking place in whatever timeline starts with this story."

Moriarty shares some of his personal opinion, and the line blurs between speculation and the rumor report, but there are also indications that Vulcan could be blown up, and like The Doctor, the Vulcans that are left -- like Spock -- are the last of their kind.

"I'm not telling you that anything I said above is 100 percent set in stone," Moriarty said. "I don't think [J.J.] Abrams is far enough along for that to be the case yet. But they are considering some really crazy reinventions, on par with some of the choices Abrams was making [on his draft of] 'Superman.'"

Talk about this story