I figured the well ran dry for Star Trek some while back, but it seems Paramount thinks they can squeeze more money from the name by, essentially, getting any old SF story and slapping Star Trek on it...

Erik Jendresen: “When they first approached me, I wasn't really interested. But they said, 'What if we could approach this as a blank slate, and here's a notion.'”

Jendresen Talks "Star Trek XI" (March 10th, 2005) - Dark Horizons