"Star Trek" fans across the Internet -- including my good pal Jordan Hoffman at UGO -- are dismayed this morning to read the news that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks will produce the Alex Kurtzman's feature directorial debut. This comes only days after the news that the accomplish filmmaker will also be working with Kurtzman and his writing partner Roberto Orci on developing a TV adaptation of the comic book series "Locke & Key." The reason this is upsetting for "Star Trek" fans is simple: the duo, among their many other commitments, are also in the process of scripting the sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot.

Kurtzman's pitch, which he wrote with Orci and documentarian Jody Lambert, has nothing to do with space aliens, fringe government divisions, giant transforming robots or anything similar. The story follows a twentysomething man who is given the task in his father's will of delivering $150,000 in cash to a sister he didn't know existed and her son. He decides to keep the money but makes contact with this lost family members, without revealing who he actually is. The script was written six years ago; Kurtzman pulled it out in a bid to break free of the geek-driven trends set by his past work, Vulture reports.

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