Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman writers of the new Star Trek have reveled some of the plot details of the film on the Fox Movie Channel show, Life After Film School. The the story follows Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, as he goes back in time to stop the Romulans from killing a young Captain James T. Kirk before he boldly goes where no man has gone before, kinda like The Terminator only with Spock.
This gives JJ Abrams breathing space to do his own take of the franchise without ignoring what has come before, so its a prequel, reboot, sequel all rolled into one.
