BREAKING: Paramount Sets Top Secret Star Trek Movie For Summer 2023; To Be Produced By J.J. Abrams

[Locutus of Bored]

Besides bringing back Jaylah, I'd also like to see them take the alternative universe idea to its fullest extent on show us "What If?" style alternate outcomes for the characters, or build-up aspects of their backstories that were only hinted at in the films and shows.

For instance, bring back Carol Marcus as Kirk's current partner or ex, and have him have a close(r) relationship with his son David this time. At least, insofar as he Zoom calls him from the ship every day and pays him a visit whenever he returns to home port instead of not being a part of his life at all.

Have a new child Saavik that is the daughter of Spock and Uhura.

Show more of the relationship between Sulu and his husband Ben and their daughter Demora living on Yorktown Station. Have Sulu get command of an alternate universe Excelsior by the end of the film.

McCoy can visit his daughter Joanna and express regret about how his divorce of her mother has driven a wedge between. Scotty can be a father figure to his nephew Peter who decides to pursue a career as a Starfleet Engineer, to his mother's concern.

None of these should be the driving force of the film in any way, but just some nice background filler to let us know what the characters have been up to over the last several years.

 

[think]

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This will be the first new Star Trek film since the last installment in the Kelvin-verse series, Star Trek Beyond, director Justin Lin's 2016 installment. As of now, there is no official information concerning the director of this latest movie, nor do we know whether or not we'll be exploring more of the Kelvin-verse, perhaps pick up from where Star Trek: Nemesis left off with The Next Generation films, or if the film will follow a new plot entirely through the Prime timeline.

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https://www.startrek.com/news/paramount-studios-announces-new-star-trek-movie-release-date

Update, 02/15/2022: During the ViacomCBS Investor’s Day presentation today, producer J.J. Abrams announced the creative intention to bring back the original cast. No deals are in place at this time. “We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new Star Trek film that we’ll be shooting by the end of the year, featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting, and help take Star Trek into areas that you’ve just never seen before,” said Abrams.

Matt Shakman, who was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work directing WandaVision, is beaming into the Star Trek universe. He'll be directing the upcoming Untitled Star Trek Project for Paramount Pictures, with a script written by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson. J.J. Abrams, who helmed both Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness and produced Star Trek Beyond, will be returning as a producer.

This will be the first new Star Trek film since the last installment in the Kelvin-verse series, Star Trek Beyond, the 2016 film directed by Justin Lin. As of now, the film is untitled.

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https://www.startrek.com/news/everything-we-know-about-the-untitled-star-trek-project

just a recap maybe? I did not read too far back in this thread here-

 

[Lord Garth]

As a movie studio, what else is there but making movies? Lets see... on the one hand, make movies. On the other hand, go out of business. hmmm

On the one hand make these movies. On the other make... Other movies!

 

[UssGlenn]

Have a new child Saavik that is the daughter of Spock and Uhura.

Solid Idea, horrible choice of character name. All that will do is make new viewers horribly confused when they watch the classic films. Plus the "real" Kelvin Saavik is still out there.

 

[johnjm22]

It was announced during the investor presentation. Looks like it went over well. The stock is only down 20% today.

It's kind of strange. With Star Trek on CBS All Access/Paramount+ being such a smash hit and all.

 

[Falconer]

It's kind of strange. With Star Trek on CBS All Access/Paramount+ being such a smash hit and all.

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, here. If not, get a grip:

Not even the same ballpark.

 

[fireproof78]

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, here. If not, get a grip:

It's sarcasm.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Solid Idea, horrible choice of character name. All that will do is make new views horribly confused when they watch the classic films. Plus the "real" Kelvin Saavik is still out there.

Oh, has that been established somewhere? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious.

Saavik's age is tricky. If you go by Kirstie Alley's age at the time of TWoK, she was 31. But if you figure she was a fourth year cadet and didn't start later in life, she would be about 22 years old in 2285 in the Primeverse, and therefore would have also been born around 2263 in the Kelvinverse, thirty years after the Kelvin Incident changed everything in 2233, and right after the events of ST: Beyond in 2263, when Spock and Uhura had some downtime on Yorktown Station while the Enteprise-A was under construction.

You could say nothing changed and she was born to the same Romulan/Vulcan parents she had in the novels and comics, or that she had two Vulcan parents, but the destruction of Vulcan in 2258 sort of complicates things by making Vulcans an "endangered species" according to Spock. So maybe that Saavik was never born and this new one is the universe trying to snap back to reconcile itself as it were, as it did by reuniting Kirk and Spock on the Enterprise. The details are fuzzy, they got there in different ways, but it's a similar outcome.

That's what I was thinking with using Saavik anyway, a way to explore the character and her hybrid nature and mentor / mentee relationship with Spock from a different perspective.

You're right that it would cause some confusion and it's totally not necessary, it's just a fun little alternate excursion I was thinking they could do with the character.

 

[valden]

I am surprised and happy that this news has been met with a lot of love everywhere, it is a good vindication to see that the kelvin cast is loved and we want to see them back. the reaction to trek 4 has been positive.

this should once and for all destroy the notion that Kelvin JJ trek is hated. I dont hate it, I had my issues with the 3 movies but I still want more and Beyond was a good step in the right direction that I always felt needed a follow up ASAP.

 

[M'Sharak]

If it keeps him away from Superman, I’m all for it.

Keeps who away from Superman?

Don't be cryptic.

If you have something of substance to offer on the news, then that's great, and this is the place for it.

If you've come here solely to mock enthusiasm with laughing smileys, then you really could have saved yourself the trip.

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[UssGlenn]

Oh, has that been established somewhere? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious.

It has not been established, I should have hedged that with a "probably still out there", sorry for sounding so definitive. Still, her being half Romulan certainly increases her chances of still being born.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

her being half Romulan

That's never been established either.

 

[JLBTucker]

since Chekhov isn't going to be recast out of respect for Anton Yelchin.... are they going to kill him off screen, is he going to leave Starfleet or what?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It has not been established, I should have hedged that with a "probably still out there", sorry for sounding so definitive. Still, her being half Romulan certainly increases her chances of still being born.

Depends on how the Klingons react to a giant Romulan ship with advanced weapons and systems destroying 47 Klingon Warbirds in 2258 as they were still trying to reverse engineer the Narada over the prison colony on Rura Penthe where Nero and his crew were being held. Knowing Klingons, they wouldn't react well, and might have carried out a massive genocidal war against their off and on bitter enemies. Or the Romulans may have to have pulled back to defend their core worlds and entered a state of isolationism again, making her birth less likely.

They certainly seemed to have still been isolated from the Federation and Vulcan during ST09 which is set in 2258.

But that's only if you go by the novel and comic backstory of Saavik where she was half-Romulan, which of course you're not required to as a writer or director or producer.

And this is all rather a moot point as it's purely my own thought exercise and extremely unlikely to ever occur.

 

[Falconer]

Anyway… taking a character that Spock slept with and probably married in the old continuity, and making her his daughter in the new continuity, it is just odd.

 

[Nerys Myk]

since Chekhov isn't going to be recast out of respect for Anton Yelchin.... are they going to kill him off screen, is he going to leave Starfleet or what?

It's a big fleet. He could get transferred. But it's a question that can only be answered once they make the movie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Anyway… taking a character that Spock slept with and probably married in the old continuity, and making her his daughter in the new continuity, it is just odd.

Wouldn't be the same character, but someone with the same name.

 

[fireproof78]

since Chekhov isn't going to be recast out of respect for Anton Yelchin.... are they going to kill him off screen, is he going to leave Starfleet or what?

Transferred off screen.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

since Chekhov isn't going to be recast out of respect for Anton Yelchin.... are they going to kill him off screen, is he going to leave Starfleet or what?

He might have been transferred to the Reliant.

 

[JLBTucker]

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He might have been transferred to the Reliant.

think that would be a better full circle then he was just transferred "offscreen"