Cards on the table. I think Star Trek (2009) is great fun, and it moves at such a pace that the plot holes don’t really bother me.
Star Trek Into Darkness basically fouled its own nest with the Khan stuff and seemed determined to prove everything that your average Outposter might say about JJ Abrams was correct. This is a shame, as like most of his movies, it was absolutely beautiful to look at.
I actually enjoyed Star Trek Beyond attempting to get a bit more sci-fi, dirt bike and Beastie Boys aside.
So unlike some, I wouldn’t have been apoplectic with rage at another Kelvin-verse movie. It looked like it came close several times. There was talk of a franchise capper featuring the return of Chris Hemsworth as Kirk’s dad.
With the recent Paramount and Skydance merger, could it now actually happen? It is known that the new regime sees Star Trek as a prime IP and one that needs to be supported.
In an interview with Collider, the Kelvin-verse Spock himself, Zachary Quinto, has indicated that the merger could make the fourth movie happen, and he would be here for it:
“I would absolutely love to do another Star Trek movie. I don’t understand why we haven’t done one yet, but hopefully now that the Skydance and Paramount merger is moving forward, Skydance was the financier of all the Star Trek movies that we’ve done so far, and have been great partners in those films, and I would love to revisit it. I think all of us would.
It’s been 10 years since we made the last movie, and nine years since it came out, and I do think that it would be a really wonderful way to close that chapter of the story and the characters that we’ve all come to love and come to enjoy inhabiting as much as we have. I think it would be really wonderful. I actually just emailed J.J. this week to say, ‘Hey, this would be really exciting.’ I think fans would be really open to it and really welcome a final movie.”
Paramount had hired The Flight Attendant series creator Steve Yockey to write a fourth Kelvin-verse movie as recently as last year.
Meanwhile, on TV, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds looks like it will end with a fifth season, with the third just concluding. Starfleet Academy is set for next year, with Star Trek Discovery long since canceled.
