Star Trek 2 is set to be released on June 29, 2012, and writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are hard at work on the concepts and direction to take the sequel to J.J. Abrams’ reboot. Orci and Kurtzman sat down for an interview recently and spoke a bit about the ideas that they have for the sequel.

Orci says,

We would never do a remake….it will be some time in the five-year mission. But that is a question. Should we pick them up immediately the next day or should it be later, we are still discussing that.

Kurtzman shared his thoughts on villainy,

I think our idea on this is that the first of any series is about them coming together or the formation. I couldn’t really tell you what Jeff Bridges was doing in Iron Man, but it doesn’t matter at all because it is all about Iron Man becoming Iron Man.

Whereas I think sequels are very much about the villain. Because while [in the first one] the villain serves to bring the crew together, the second one I think has to be a true challenging of what that family is about. That is why Wrath of Khan was so amazing. Khan tested each one of them and ultimately asked for the ultimately sacrifice, and that is why that movie held up so well.

Both writers seem to be feeling much more pressure to deliver this time around.

Orci said,

Frankly I feel more pressure because we were so confident when we came up with the idea of how to bridge canon, and yet free ourselves from canon. Now we have no excuses for anything, now we are free. Now we don’t have the benefit of low expectations.