I felt so envious when I saw Marvel's schedule for the upcoming 10 years, I wish Trek would have something as ambitious... So I was thinking, what if Marvel (Disney) would buy Star Trek as part of their franchise..? The idea of a diverse crew aboard a starship, each displaying their own unique talents, already is Marvelesque in nature... Characters like Worf, Data, Spock, Seven of Nine, etc. are, in a way, superheroes already... What do you think..??
I think Disney already owns a more lucrative space franchise (Star Wars) and they'd probably lose money on trek.
No. I don't need to be beaten over the head with Star Trek. After the oversaturation of the 90's, I'm more than happy to have a film every three years with the occasional novel and comic mixed in.
Star Trek in a movie theater has always seemed like a franchise out of its element to me. It works better on television.
It evolved into a movie franchise when I was eight-years old. It works equally well for me on the small- or big-screen. Though as I'm getting older, I'm liking it more and more on the big-screen exclusively.
I've always thought that Trek movies should be bigger in scale, more action-oriented, and faster-paced than TV episodes, so Marvel (or rather Disney) produced Trek movies would have suited me perfectly. But I think it wouldn't have been a case of Marvel buying Trek but Disney acquiring a license to make Trek movies from CBS (so long Paramount, nice to have known ya).
If Disney made Trek movies, I think their content would be very similar to Abrams' version (after all, they did hire him to direct Star Wars VII following the critical and commercial success of his Trek revival). Although perhaps they wouldn't allow the direct "drone weapons are illegal and immoral" slam against the US government? Take away the legal quagmire between Paramount and CBS and there would probably be a Bad Robot-produced Trek spin off series running now.
It's not really a legal quagmire as it is just a case that one owns the right to make a new Trek series and the other doesn't. If supposed rumors are true, some people at Bad Robot may have forgot they were playing with other people's toys and got a reminder of that. We kind of live in an age now where the business aspect of the entertainment business (who owns what and who can do what) is becoming more and more a factor in some large IPs like Trek and the various Marvel superhero films (which makes any issues between CBS and Paramount look like a picnic, IMO).
If the ladies are as smoking as they seem to almost universally be in "agents of used-to-be-shield" - I'm up for that.
I'd love to see Disney take on Trek. Better marketing, better merchandising, more films, theme parks, etc. It's a total pipe dream though.
But would the material be good? There is nothing up there that matters if the material isn't worth watching.
After the 2009 movie proved that STAR TREK of old is out, then anything goes, now - and that's compelling to me. STAR TREK has always hawked "exploration of the unknown," now the franchise really gets to do it after half a century and it's about time, too. If MARVEL ends up owning this property, then yeah, I'll like it. What's come before is a foundation - and fortunately, a very strong foundation. Along the way, Gene Roddenberry's vision has left the rooms of STAR TREK vacant. Now, in its place are Fresh Ideas and Innovations in this particular brand of entertainment. And why shouldn't we be excited if another entity owns STAR TREK, eventually, even BAD ROBOT? They want our money and to get it, they're going to have to keep STAR TREK fun and timely and different. An equitable trade, if you ask me. Not too bad. Not too bad, at all ...
This scenario would mean Star Trek characters in Disney Infinity. So yes. It's not realistic for reasons mentioned upthread.
Or Kingdom Hearts, for that matter... Spock: I have been, and always shall be, your friend ... Sora, Donald, Goofy. Oh c'mon, now you're exaggerating; that scene where the Tribbles come in to help her clean up Quark's bar is classic.