News Paramount confirms BOTH films still in development

[Noname Given]

If your going to let the Kelvin universe just wither on the vine, and do Nothing with it.. no movies, no TV, no comic, books, etc.. then just do a book or something to "Merge the timelines" back to Prime and be done with it..

Or perhaps just leave it be as it is - and if/when they feel they have a story concept that a Studio feels works, go with it.

I don't get the need some fans have to merge everything into one timeline to rule them all. If there's one constant in Star Trek it's that Star trek has never been 100% consistent within itself.

 

[BillJ]

I'm confused as to what is gained by merging the timelines?

 

[The Overlord]

Well, Paramount has had a couple of high profile bombs lately, with both Gemini Man and Terminator Dark Fate losing them money, maybe they will go back to Star Trek, because the latest Trek movies did not bomb this hard. If they lower the budget for these Trek films, they could be profitable.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm confused as to what is gained by merging the timelines?

There is a belief which says that any travel to a different time or travel to a different timeline / dimension sets up a dangerously unstable condition which absolutely must be "fixed" by the end of the episode / movie, so that everything can go back to being the Here and Now that Everyone Knows It Ought to Be.

Because:
* TOS always did it that way (except when it didn't.)
* All of Star Trek has always done it that way (except the times when it hasn't.)
* Gene Roddenberry's Vision™ (Shush. Don't argue.)
* Some other very logical reasons which I cannot at this moment recall. But there were some. Really!

Not to "fix" the condition by merging the timelines and restoring everything to Rightness would be Wrong. I have been assured many times that this is so, by those who assure me that they know what they're talking about (and who further aver that any other way of looking at it is clearly mistaken.)

 

[Khan 2.0]

Well, Paramount has had a couple of high profile bombs lately, with both Gemini Man and Terminator Dark Fate losing them money, maybe they will go back to Star Trek, because the latest Trek movies did not bomb this hard. If they lower the budget for these Trek films, they could be profitable.

With Dark Fate looking to be a notable lower box office to previously it looks like the last 3 Terminator films will now mirror the JJ Trek trilogy worldwide box office wise (ST09/TS late 300m..STD/TG mid 400m...STB/TDF early 300m)

Now Terminator and Transformers are risky bets they'll probably have to do something with Trek

 

[F. King Daniel]

With the merger, I don't think it's up to Paramount anymore and Kurtzman says he has the next 5 years of Trek mapped out and it's all TV/streaming.

 

[BillJ]

With the merger, I don't think it's up to Paramount anymore and Kurtzman says he has the next 5 years of Trek mapped out and it's all TV/streaming.

Until someone tells him to make a movie. He has bosses, just like everyone else. Besides, there's no indication that Paramount has lost its ability to make the films.