J.J. Abrams
Filmmaker J.J. Abrams has admitted that the Star Trek sequel will tackle modern day issues and problems.
The Lost creator rebooted the Star Trek franchise earlier this summer taking audiences right back to the beginning of the Enterprise's story.
With the new young cast of Chris Pine, Zachary Qunito, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg and Karl Urban the movie was a huge box office success.
There was an immediate talk of a sequel and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are back on board to pen the script.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times the Abrams said: "The ambition for a sequel to Star Trek is to make a movie that's worthy of the audience and not just a second movie that feels tacked on."
"The first movie was so concerned with just setting up the characters - their meeting each and galvanizing that family - that in many ways a sequel will have a very different mission."
"It needs to do what [creator Gene] Roddenberry did so well, which is allegory. It needs to tell a story that has connection to what is familiar and what is relevant.
"It also needs to tell it in a spectacular way that hides the machinery and in a primarily entertaining and hopefully moving story.
"There needs to be relevance, yes, and that doesn't mean it should be pretentious. If there are simple truths - truths connected to what we live - that elevates any story."
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