it does seem that with the success? of DISCO, the return of PICARD and the Primeverse that the Kelvin movieverse has become redundant (esp with the movie quality FX/sets etc of the streaming series) and the collapse of ST4 and Tarantino seemingly losing interest in his movie, and the ongoing silence/rumours abut this guys movie suggests that the studio isnt that fussed on even doing another movie .. I mean they must think 'well a Trek film is only ever going to pull in 400m absolute max and it'll cost at least 130m to do it so kind of whats the point now everything is expected to do a billion dollars to be seen as a hit'
I dunno, prime timeline stuff is more redundant to me than exploring a completely new and unpredictable universe where you have more narrative freedom, and aren't trapped by established canon. In that, I feel like kelvin trek is the gold mine and Paramount is the luckier one, but I concede they may not get it or take advantage of it like others would've done already. And yet, they still are the ones who have, in my opinion, the trek iteration with more potential.
Truthfully, even if Paramount is concerned about trek not having the box office results of other franchises, it still kind of is the only franchise they have right now that can make money. So I don't think they'll never make other trek movies, but we aren't allowed to know what is happening behind the scenes. It's true, however, that they wasted too much time. Their laziness and mismanagement isn't necessarily indicative of the franchise's potential or success, thus whether kelvin trek is redundant, though.
I guess for fans of current TV trek the kelvin movies might feel like an 'extra' right now but the bigger, diverse, audience of movies isn't necessarily the same audience of the shows so their needs may not be placated by getting trek on a streaming platform only. Besides, I find it more likely you have kelvin trek fans who watched discovery&co because they are fans of the more recent movies, than fans who exclusively watch only the shows.
I get what you may suggest here, though. When it comes to quality, tv has improved a lot in terms of budget and there is a feeling by some that movies released the old fashioned way are redundant. This hardly is an issue, if it's one, related to trek only though. Using that logic, marvel&co shouldn't make feature movies either but they do. Take disney/star wars, Baby Yoda is super popular right now but how many people actually watched the Mandalorian? I'm a star wars fan but even I watched it mostly because of the memes about cute baby yoda lol
It's a spin off not particularly linked to the movies but still, I feel there are aspects you can understand only if you watched the other stuff otherwise you will only see a show about a guy with a helmet who adopts a cute baby alien (which is a totally valid reason to want to to watch it, btw). I feel it's still the audience of the movies that is more likely to want to watch the TV spin offs than the reverse.
I don't want the movies to be 'episodic' like they kind of got under the Next Gen crew, but keeping them in their own continuity means that the movie-makers and TV people have the freedom to be truly creative, without worrying about stepping on each other's toes.
