Do you think they'll keep making Abramsverse movies after #3?

[drt]

They still earn tens of millions each year from all the TOS, TNG and other series' stuff. CBS wants to capitalize on it. The Abramsverse movies, especially the 2nd one, haven't made that much money in the end at all. So CBS wants to play it safe with the prime universe, a universe no one will be against they feel.

They earn tens of millions per year with little to no investment. They may swallow pretty hard when they see what it actually costs to keep up with shows like Game of Thrones and Walking Dead.

A space-show is going to be even more expensive than either of those, particularly to the quality of modern productions, which probably means they'll want to go with more of a sure bet.

That likely rules out a 25th century show, as audiences lost interest over time in DS9/VOY, so probably don't care about a continuation of any of those story lines.

Leaving them with the two most popular properties, TOS and TNG, so my guess is we'd get a reboot of one of those shows (probably TOS, since there seems to be more general interest in that era).

 

[Set Harth]

Wasn't Remus most likely destroyed as well?

Since the entire system was engulfed and Remus was less than the distance to our moon away from Romulus, it's toast too.

So you assume, but, Trek 2009 speaks repeatedly and exclusively of Romulus being destroyed, never mentioning Remus, and thus we see the enormous plot hole Bad Robot can't be bothered to even try addressing. See what I mean?

I just figured they didn't mention Remus because pretty much nobody gives a crap about Remus.

 

[F. King Daniel]

And that they only used one time?

They apparently used it a second time, to beam onto the Narada from Titan.

Personally, I think warping to Q'onos in 2 minutes flat stretches the dramatic license a bit more than 4 days.

IMO the problem isn't with the trip to Kronos ( which allows a somewhat indeterminate amount of time given the film's editing ) but with the return trip to Earth ( which happens at Ludicrous Speed ).

A quick look at speed/distance in the Trekverse:

 

[Set Harth]

24 hours??? Whoever made that has got to be kidding...

 

[Mudd]

Yes in the sense that future movies will be based on these movies, stories and members of this cast rather than on oldTrek.

That said, I expect that Bad Robot's core team will move on after the next one. Paramount will hire new people to carry nuTrek forward.

 

[F. King Daniel]

24 hours??? Whoever made that has got to be kidding...

Weeeeeeeell, it's "one day, one bloody day!" since Scotty resigned. There's a possible indeterminate amount of time between the jump to warp and McCoy's "At least we're moving again" (similar to the trip to Vulcan in ST'09, where somewhere between Kirk being sedated and Sulu saying "engines at maximum", McCoy had time to change into his Enterprise uniform and change the unconscious Kirk too) - it's possible the Vengeance was trailing the Enterprise until the vicinity of Earth where they planned to overtake and attack.

 

[CorporalClegg]

What I find most absurd is that people actually care. It's freaking magic. All of it.

 

[BillJ]

A quick look at speed/distance in the Trekverse:

This misses the 997 light-years the Enterprise is suppose to be able to cover in roughly 12 hours in "That Which Survives".

 

[mos6507]

What I find most absurd is that people actually care. It's freaking magic. All of it.

If anyone is expected to care about such details, it's Star Trek fans, at least the fans before the influx of casual JJ fans.

there's no evidence whatsoever that CBS is making a prime universe Trek series. Or any Trek series, for that matter.

That doesn't mean things won't turn on a dime. I remember how adamant the JJ faction here was that Trek 3 would get greenlit and Orci would get the director's chair. Hollywood is unpredictable.

 

[CorporalClegg]

If anyone is expected to care about such details, it's Star Trek fans, at least the fans before the influx of casual JJ fans.

Fine. Then do so with equal prejudice.

 

[BillJ]

If anyone is expected to care about such details, it's Star Trek fans, at least the fans before the influx of casual JJ fans.

Fine. Then do so with equal prejudice.

+1

 

[Wildman]

Seeing it is an alternate universe, the stars are the limit of story telling since Canon won't really be into play - they can establish new canon for this new universe.
I'd say as long as the box office stays good, they will keep making them.

 

[Mudd]

If anyone is expected to care about such details, it's Star Trek fans, at least the fans before the influx of casual JJ fans.

Fine. Then do so with equal prejudice.

+1

I've been a fan since 1966 - I know all of this stuff and don't give a fuck. Anyone who "expects" otherwise has a problem.

 

[drt]

A quick look at speed/distance in the Trekverse:

This misses the 997 light-years the Enterprise is suppose to be able to cover in roughly 12 hours in "That Which Survives".

That means it would take the TOS Enterprise about an hour at maximum warp to travel the ninety-odd light years that Enterprise stated was the distance to Kronos.

 

[Set Harth]

There's a possible indeterminate amount of time between the jump to warp and McCoy's "At least we're moving again"

But it's implied to be a very small amount of time. Otherwise, why would McCoy have waited so long to make that comment?

 

[Kemaiku]

Which is consistent with Into Darkness, so yeah they just went to warp 11.1 or whatever it was like they did in the episode, problem solved.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

For the question, it depends on how the next film does. If it's successful, then there will probably be a fourth film.

 

[Set Harth]

Which is consistent with Into Darkness, so yeah they just went to warp 11.1 or whatever it was like they did in the episode, problem solved.

So "maximum warp" isn't really maximum warp?

 

[JWPlatt]

Which is consistent with Into Darkness, so yeah they just went to warp 11.1 or whatever it was like they did in the episode, problem solved.

So "maximum warp" isn't really maximum warp?

The physics read the script.

 

[Ovation]

Which is consistent with Into Darkness, so yeah they just went to warp 11.1 or whatever it was like they did in the episode, problem solved.

So "maximum warp" isn't really maximum warp?

The physics read the script.

As was true during the entire run of TOS (including movies). So nothing out of the ordinary for Star Trek.