news rumors alternate timelines uhura quote actress zoe saldana haven has reportedly been offered the role of uss enterprise communications officer lieutenant uhura in jj abrams' star trek movie via ign according to trekmovie the deal is not yet final and one outstanding issue may be related to her schedule starring in the james cameron sci fi mega movie 'avatar' which is still in production sources indicate that 'avatar' will be doing location shooting starting in october and 'star trek' is slated to start shooting in november the site points out that saldana has a connection to j j abrams as she was in two episodes in the recent abc series 'six degrees' produced by abrams and fellow 'star trek' producer bryan burk meanwhile aicn claims that the plot for the new trek film deals with alternate timelines a group of romulans will reportedly go back in time to kill off james t kirk and the elder spock must do what he can to prevent that incident and change the timelines back from