Trying to find any reliable info on Paramount's next incarnation of "Star Trek" is pretty difficult, but the newly-hired producer J.J. Abrams dropped just a little bit of info while chatting with TV Guide. So there's something to keep us geeks listening...

From TV Guide: "TV Guide: It's been reported that the film will focus on Kirk and Spock's early days and include their meeting at Starfleet Academy. You've said that was not entirely accurate. What parts are?
Abrams: I think we have an incredible story, but we've sort of promised each other we wouldn't talk about the specifics yet. But I can say that we're actively working on it, we're in the middle of breaking the story, and it's coming along great. I'd be happy to start sooner than Paramount thinks, but not a moment before it's ready.

TV Guide: Why the shroud of secrecy?
Abrams: It's way premature. Anything I say, people will read into it and make assumptions. But we have an incredible beginning of a really dramatic story, and it very much honors the canon of Star Trek. On the other hand, it won't be like anything you've seen before."

Click here for the full interview, which also touches upon the topics of "Alias," "Lost," and TV sci-fi in general.