Well I'm surprised for two reasons: 1-that they have decided after all to go ahead with a new ST movie and 2-that Paramount still trusts B&B.
Not long ago there was some news to the effect that the "brains" at Paramount, whose movies haven't faired that well at the box-office for the last couple of years, had decided to stop "playing it safe" and wanted to take more risks instead or re-using "safe" formulas. I wonder how Trek could be tied into this.
"No captain kicked ass, took names, outsmarted the machines, and then scored the babes like the Kirkmeister" -Liquidator Queeg