The folks behind the latest Star Trek film celebrated Monday night, as they marked the release of their DVD release, but some of the folks there were keen on knowing stuff about something else: Lost. After all, executive producer Damon Lindelof was around, and even if we all know he wouldn't exactly spill details about the final season which airs early next year, it helps to squeeze whatever can be squeezed off him, right?

"All I can say is that we've spent the last five years answering the question, 'Were you guys making it up as you go along? Do you know what you're doing?'" he told TV Guide Magazine. "It's a great comfort to know that in about six months people will stop asking us that question. They're basically say 'you were making it up as you go along,' or they'll go 'wow, you really had a plan.'"

So, again, what exactly do they plan to reveal in season 6? "The questions that count will be answered, and the questions that fans don't want answered won't be answered," Lindelof said in a separate interview with E! Online. "But I think what they're looking for is a real sense of resolution, particularly on a character level. Who's going to live? Who's going to die? Who's going to hook up with who? Why were they all brought here in the first place? Was it arbitrary? Is there meaning behind it? That's the kind of stuff [we] have to answer, or [we] should prepare to get rocks thrown at [us]."

I have rocks prepared, because at this point of my Lost watching I don't really care about the first few questions. But I digress.

He's not even telling who's returning when ("I've heard rumors that Ian Somerhalder is coming back even though he's working on Vampire Diaries" sounds funny because his return was more or less confirmed) but he admits the show will wrap up storylines for everybody, dead or alive. "I do think it's safe to say that that final season of the show in a lot of ways is a curtain call for all the actors who kind of made these iconic performances and we're hoping that a lot of them come back for one final appearance," he said.

He also hinted at a possible explanation of what that smoke monster really is as early as the sixth season premiere. "If you do not see a dinosaur by the end of the season premiere of season six I think it will be safe to conclude that the monster is not a dinosaur," Lindelof said, referring to Regis Philbin's the-smoke-monster-is-a-dinosaur theory. "But that's not to say that you won't see one. I'm just saying you will know."

Apart from that, Lindelof returns to the usual we-won't-answer-everything card. "What we don't want to do ... is explain what our intention was," he said. "At a certain point, it does''t matter what our intention was, and we want the fans to vigorously debate certain aspects of the show. Some things will be very conclusive, other things people will think are more conclusive than we meant them, and some will be more ambiguous than we meant them, but it wouldn't be Lost if five years from now people weren't still arguing over what they wanted it to be."

By the way, the folks at ABC have revealed the first official poster for Lost's final season. Sure, we've seen it before, and it isn't really much, but now we get to look closely at the characters on top. It's pretty much everybody except for Walt. Well, sure, Malcolm David Kelley is all grown up, so that probably explains why Vincent is there--maybe the dog represents the (former) owner. And look, Locke's got his back against the camera...

- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
(Images courtesy of ABC)