Here's some welcome news to kick off the week. Given that many of us have now devoured the film numerous times on disc, questions have inevitably been raised about when we can expect to see Star Trek 2/12/whatever you want to call it. And it seems that Paramount Pictures has now answered that question.

The studio has earmarked June 29th 2012 as the day for the next Star Trek movie, making first claim on that summer's big release dates. There was early speculation that a sequel may be turned around in two years rather than three (the former being the pattern that the Iron Man and Transformers films appear to be following), but it soon became clear that that would be a fairly big ask.

As such, we've got to wait another couple of years yet, but at least we know what date to ring in our diaries. Not that, er, 2012 diaries are on sale yet. Small flaw in our plan, that...