Boldly Going

Winona Ryder has been cast as the Vulcan mother of a young Spock (to be played by Heroes’ Zachary Quinto) in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie, set to be released on Christmas Day 2008.

Little is known about the story other than it’s supposed to chronicle the Starship Enterprise crew’s early days at the Starfleet Academy.

Chris Pine (Just My Luck) will play Capt. Kirk, Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) will play Scotty, Karl Urban (The Bourne Supremacy) is Dr. McCoy, and Eric Bana will play the villain, Nero.

Ryder, who’s on the comeback trail, recently finished production on The Informers and The Last Word. She appeared in The Ten last summer, has Sex and Death 101 in the can, and is in pre-production on Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

Photo: Vogue.