Speaking to Variety, Abrams said, “We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new Star Trek film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take Star Trek into areas that you’ve just never seen before.”
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Producer JJ Abrams
Over the past several years, there has been plenty of speculation on if and when Chris Pine and the team would retake their stations aboard the Enterprise, in what had been called by many, the potential Star Trek 4.
There was some thought that a whole new crew might be brought in with storylines involving the familiar characters fans had come to know and love being floated around, as well as some ideas centering around a spate of new characters ushering in a new ‘franchise’ within a franchise. Possible directions the project might have taken included Quentin Tarantino running into a Eugene Roddenberry sized brick wall petitioning for his take on a gangster themed feature based on The Original Series episode “A Piece Of The Action”. Noah Hawley had his own take on where he thought the future of the series lie, but delays and possible chaos behind the scenes at Paramount contributed to him moving on to other projects.
ViacomCBS, now Paramount Global as of Tuesday, has given no indication as to what we might expect to see played out in the new feature. There had been reports of a script involving Chris Hemsworth back in his role as Captain Kirk’s father George S Kirk, avoiding his inevitable tragedy. While rumors had persisted that salary negotiations between Pine and Hemsworth had derailed these plans previously, the momentum behind a project like this could be enough to smooth things out.
While everything is rumor until we hear it confirmed by someone involved with the project, this is the news many fans have been waiting to hear. The Kelvin Timeline is what current cinematic Trek is. To a whole generation of fans, these are the movies they grew up with, and this is the crew that pops in their heads when someone mentions Star Trek.
Whatever crew first pops into your head, or whatever starship you see yourself Captain’ing in glorious battle, advancing the Kelvin Timeline is good for Trek, and good for the fans.
Even if a Voyager movie would be better.
Let us know what you think in the comments.
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I think another film will be entertaining and I certainly enjoyed the others despite their flaws.
And remember; were it not for ST:09 I doubt we’d have the resurgence of Trek content we have now, including the very existence of STO that many of us enjoy.