Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Tim Jones and Mike Johnson; with artwork (and cover) by David Messina, this second issue of the Star Trek XI movie adaptation includes some cut scenes.

Young Spock’s woes at school with intolerant classmates is detailed in the comic, including a cut scene where his mother Amanda argues with Sarek about Spock after Spock gets into a fight with taunting boys at school.

Meanwhile, young James T. Kirk has his own woes. His mother is away in space and life with his uncle becomes intolerable for Kirk’s older brother, who runs away.

Star Trek Movie Adaptation #2 will be thirty-two pages in length and will cost $3.99.

The pair will work on an adaptation of Locke & Key, a comic series written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. Locke & Key is set in the village of Lovecraft and is the story of the Locke family, who move to their estate (Keyhouse), after the murder of the head of the family by a deranged high school student.

Keyhouse has “fantastic doors” (opened by special keys) “that transform all who dare to walk through them,” including a door that turns one into a ghost after walking through it and a black door that must “never be opened.”

The estate is also home to a “hate-filled and relentless creature,” Dodge, “that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all,’ the black door.

Kurtzman and Orci will produce the product through their development deal with DreamWorks.

Kurtzman and Orci will bring in show ideas, create their own projects (with or without others) and recruit writers as part of the deal.

“We’ve been pursuing this deal for quite some time,” said 20th Century Fox TV Chairman Dana Walden. “They would elevate any type of development. But they were very thoughtful about the kind of commitment they were making. They didn’t want to overpromise.”

“We’ve been excited about going back into TV, but wanted to wait until the feature side of our company was on its feet,” said Kurtzman.

“One of the things that drew us back to TV was the idea that we could do the kind of stories that we’re not known for in features,” said Orci. “From sci-fi to procedurals to medical genres, those are all the kind of shows that we love.”

The deal with 20th Century Fox begins on March 1.

Racing Dreams is the story of three young Go-Kart racers who compete in the World Karting Association’s National Pavement Series. The racers have dreams of becoming NASCAR racers when they grow up.

Kurtzman and Orci won’t be writing the adaptation themselves, but will be overseeing Racing Dreams. Dwayne Johnson and his wife Dany Garcia, who produced the documentary, will be executive producers. A writer will be hired this week.

The two writers covered familiar ground but also spoke about the next movie, including setting, villains and pressure to make a good movie.

One comment may set some fan fears at ease. The duo doesn’t want to be repetitive in their storytelling. “We would never do a remake,” said Orci.”

As for the timeframe of the movie, “it will be some time in the five year mission,” said Orci. “But that is a question. Should we pick them up immediately the next day or should it be later, we are still discussing that.”

Plenty of talk has centered around the villain of the next movie, and the pair spoke about the importance of the villain. “I think our idea on this is that the first of any series is about them [the crew] coming together or the formation,” said Kurtzman. “I couldn’t really tell you what Jeff Bridges was doing in Iron Man, but it doesn’t matter at all because it is all about Iron Man becoming Iron Man. Whereas I think sequels are very much about the villain. Because while [in the first one] the villain serves to bring the crew together, the second one I think has to be a true challenging of what that family is about. That is why Wrath of Khan was so amazing. Khan tested each one of them and ultimately asked for the ultimately sacrifice, and that is why that movie held up so well.”

Writing the sequel is more stressful than writing Star Trek XI was. “Frankly I feel more pressure because we were so confident when we came up with the idea of how to bridge canon, and yet free ourselves from canon,” said Orci. “Now we have no excuses for anything, now we are free. Now we don’t have the benefit of low expectations.”

“It is true,” added Kurtzman. “I feel much more pressure.”

Back in October, it was announced that Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were working on a remake of the classic Hawaii Five-O series for CBS, teaming with CSI:New York Producer Peter Lenkov.

Today word comes that Hawaii Five-O is a go. Kurtzman, Orci and Lenkov will all be executive producers on the updated version of the show which may center on Steve McGarrett’s son Chris, who succeeded his father as head of the branch of the Hawaiian State Police.

The original Hawaii Five-O was centered on an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police headed by Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord) and answerable only to Governor Paul Jameson, played by Richard Denning.

The show ran from 1968-1980 and was instantly identifiable by its opening sequence and music (composed by Morton Stevens) and “Book ‘em, Danno,” a phrase often used at the end of an episode when it was time to arrest the bad guy(s). “Danno” was Danny “Danno” Williams, played by James MacArthur.

“We’re going to start probably in April once the writing on Lost is done,” he said. “Trek will come out in 2012 at some point, so we’ve still got a little bit of time, but we’ve been talking about it. We just haven’t been writing.”

No word yet on when production on the sequel would begin.

In other Star Trek XII news, J.J. Abrams couldn’t resist a chance to joke about the subject of the next Star Trek movie while on the National Board of Review. “I have to admit, the [sequel] is really all about the Gorn (Green lizard-like aliens from the original series episode Arena). We just thought it would be fun…to go Gorn.”

“Yes we have some ideas about that,” said Abrams, referring to Star Trek XII. “We’re working on something right now with that and again, you know, it’s early stages.”

Co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category for their work on Star Trek XI.

Adapted Screenplay Nominees:

• Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman for Star Trek XI
• Scott Cooper for Crazy Heart
• Nora Ephron for Julie & Julia
• Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air

Kurtzman and Orci released a statement after the announcement. “We’re friends who started writing together 20 years ago, so to be honored by our peers for a story about friendship is an amazing gift. We’re wildly grateful to all the closet WGA Trekkies for their sci-fi love.”

The winners of the WGA awards will be announced February 20, at a gala ceremony at both the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theater in New York City.

Roberto Orci spoke about Star Trek XII, including his take on the possibility of appearances by Khan and/or William Shatner.

For those with opinions on where Star Trek should go next, take heart, Orci admitted that he reads what is said by fans online and sometimes he takes their suggestions. “I read all the feedback, because I’m a fan and I frequented the sites as well, as a fan,” he said. “So I’m not going to stop now.  You know?  So absolutely.  I mix it up and I read all the opinions and, you know, they must affect something.  You can’t read stuff and not have it affect you somehow.”

Orci also spoke about the possibility of a role for Shatner in Star Trek XII.  Shatner recently accepted a Scream Award for J.J. Abrams, leading to speculations that Shatner might be in the next Star Trek movie. “Well, we wrote a scene for him in the first one, and I got outvoted in terms of where it ended up,” said Orci. “I’ll write another one and we’ll see what happens.”

Talk about the sequel seems to inevitably come around to Khan. Orci would say definitively if Khan would appear or not. “…even if we do Khan, or not, we’re trying to approach the story as just what’s best for it, and then can that character become Khan or not, you know,” said Orci. “You’re not trying to rely on previous knowledge or love of it, so you almost want to strip all the names away and just come up with the emotional forces and the scientific forces that are going to come into play, and then start letting the details kind of bleed in.”

Internet rumor has come up with a possible actor to play the role of Khan. Nestor Carbonell, pictured below, who plays Richard Alpert on Abrams’s Lost, is the name being mentioned. Time will tell if Carbonell will have a role in Star Trek XII, or if it’s merely rumor. At this time, it’s not even certain that Khan will be in the sequel.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci felt that it was important to have Nimoy on board to help make the transition from Star Trek to rebooted Star Trek. “We couldn’t have made the movie without Leonard,” said Kurtzman.

Kurtzman explained why they needed Nimoy. “We knew early on that so much of what was going to be required in re-imagining Star Trek and also in staying true to everything that came before it, was going to hinge on Leonard, in a way, blessing us moving forward. Also, in a way telling the audience that it’s okay. ‘You can make this transition now, I’m here to help you.’ We knew without him we were never going to be able to have a movie.”

“We didn’t agree to do the movie until we had the idea that we could get Leonard to be in the story,” said Orci. “That’s going to be a way to do both pleasing old fans, and having him the soul of Star Trek the plot reason for the changes.  We knew that his blessing, it wasn’t until we hit upon that, that we said ‘Okay, now we might know how to do this.’ It was pivotal for us.  We couldn’t have done it any other way.”

The writers were a bit nervous when it came to explaining what they had in mind for Spock. “Pitching the fate of Spock, to Spock, was a bit unnerving,” said Kurtzman. “It’s like ‘And then your planet blows up. Huh? You like that?’ said Orci.

But Nimoy, although not saying ‘yes’ right away, liked what he heard, and that was enough for Kurtzman and Orci to continue what they were doing. “He didn’t commit right away but he gave us the confidence to move forward knowing that he liked a lot of the direction that we were going in,” said Kurtzman. “I think that both creatively in hearts what we wanted the movie to be, and what the movie became could not have happened without his okay.”