Should Paramount put a mid-budget Star Trek film into theaters?
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My feeling is that Star Trek tends to make better television than films and that all of the existing films are uneven in quality. They all have good bits: they all have bad. Some are better than others but none are unequivocally good. Why add another "okay" film to the universe when you could make good television instead?
I personally think that big screen trek is dead indefinitely. Regardless of how good any of the current or recent shows are, none of them have broken into the mainstream like the original TOS cast movies or even TNG. Any movie based on these shows is still gonna be a very niche product.
Looking back, I actually think the Kelvin movies were their last big shot at big screen success. And they blew it after the 2009 film (even though I enjoyed all three).
Looking back, I actually think the Kelvin movies were their last big shot at big screen success. And they blew it after the 2009 film (even though I enjoyed all three).
Movies should be big and loud, and act as a attractor to new people. Hey look at this movie! it has big badda booms! which the 2009 movie did do right, it attracted more casual fans and made Star Trek a bit cool, not super nerd.
Any future movie shouldn't be "For the Fans" it should be to attract new fans, be loud, have ship battles, fire fights etc.
Any future movie shouldn't be "For the Fans" it should be to attract new fans, be loud, have ship battles, fire fights etc.
Absolutely.
But enough about Oppenheimer.
We haven’t had a phaser fight in zero g in a Star Trek film a la FC in some time. Why not do that instead?
I do not get the spoiler?
Boimlenheimer?
think actor
I have seen Oppenheimer, but not the live action SNW crossover episode yet, so I am not sure what the actor looks like, especially if he did not have purple hair
Oh yeah!
I had type cast him as a comedy voice actor. I would never have thought that it was the same person. Cool. 
Universal made Oppenheimer for cheap. Paramount is not having as much fun as they had in 2022. MI 7 underperformed. They need to make cheap films to keep their franchises booming.
Oppenheimer is not a Star Trek film.
Doing Star Trek on the cheap is a poor idea. It's what almost sank TUC until Meyer was able to ask for more money.
Genre fiction movies tend to be more expensive. It isn't going to be worthwhile for Paramount to go cheap with this one.
What if it was about Photon Torpedo Guy?
The failure of some of the recent blockbusters is needless over spending. An Indiana Jones film shouldn't cost 300 dollars. Star Trek Beyond had a beautiful shot of a space station that looked expensive, but added nothing to the movie, it could have been a Deep Space 9 space station and the movie would have been the same.
Sometimes working within a budget promotes creativity.
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