Tom Cruise visits Trek set

February 23rd, 2008 | Category: Celebrities

Don’t you just love the web? News traveling so fast, ideas extrapolated and speculated upon based on the simplest of facts. That said, here’s a sweet little tidbit that I found amusing. Tom Cruise was spotted on the Los Angeles set of the new Star Trek feature film. He reportedly was visiting writer/director JJ Abrams. The two men, you’ll recall, collaborated on Mission Impossible 3.

This exclusive, courtesy of JFXOnline, revealed that Tom stuck around the set for a couple of hours. Prior to that sighting, there had plus been talk final fall that Abrams had wanted to enlist the superstar to

construct a brief cameo appearance in the revamped Star Trek opus, telling the story of how creator Gene Roddenberry’s original characters came to be. How Captain Kirk made it out of the Star Fleet Academy (in The Wrath of Khan he said he cheated on his Kobyashi Maru simulation test), as well as the first duration Kirk met the half-Vulcan, half-human Mr. Spock.

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Original post by Allison Waldman