Star Trek Beyond took about a year to reach cinemas once principal photography started.
BREAKING: Paramount Sets Top Secret Star Trek Movie For Summer 2023; To Be Produced By J.J. Abrams
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So what?
I would love a Denis Villeneuve Star Trek film, but I don't think it's something he'd ever do.
Maybe, maybe not. Dune was not something I ever expected to happen. Regardless of what one thinks about current Trek what is apparent is the variety that is willing to be explored. So, I'm not inclined to say never.
I mean it's been this way since TOS. It's a variety platform for storytelling in an action/adventure format.
Ok. So is there any essence to it? I was really asking, not trying make a point.
It was “humanistic, pluralistic space navy having adventures.” Through TNG.
Maybe it’s just a franchise name, though what I described sounds like DSC.
Maybe it’s a fictional universe with no common ethos across shows.
Eh, let’s drop it, ha ha! That’s not the point of this thread.
It was “humanistic, pluralistic space navy having adventures.” Through TNG.
Maybe it’s just a franchise name, though what I described sounds like DSC.
Maybe it’s a fictional universe with no common ethos across shows.
Eh, let’s drop it, ha ha! That’s not the point of this thread.
I don't know...maybe?
For me, when I research TOS's history and Trek's history in general what comes across to me is two things:
1). action/adventure in a science fiction setting to entertain the audience while offering potential social commentary
2). A more optimistic view of humanity's ability to learn from past mistakes.
To me, that invites a lot more variety in storytelling that TOS and occasionally TNG would take advantage of, but few other shows did as much, save for the one offs. They always emphasis a particular piece, rather than taking it as a sand box with a variety of possibilities.
I'm interested to see where they take Kirk's character. In '09 he was this brash cocky rebel kid who had daddy issues. Into Darkness taught him the humility of being in the Captain's chair and how you shouldn't be taking it for granted. Beyond showed him to be at a crossroads but at the end he knows where his place is on the bridge of a starship.
I think it would be cool to see him step in to the mentor role. Have a newly promoted ensign who is a bit reckless and rough around the edges and is constantly butting heads with Kirk. Kirk is irritated and wants to transfer him and takes Spock and Uhura to remind him of how he used to be.
And they are trying to deal with the Doomsday machine, and have to rescue Commodore Decker and Carol Marcus.
maybe make the ensign Will Decker. that would be interesting.
An Ensign Decker was heard being paged on Discovery's commsystem in Season 1 or 2. I wonder if they intended him to be Will Decker and that he once served aboard Discovery after graduating from the Academy.
I remember reading an article on st.com that suggests that Decker was supposed to be Will. and he wasn't an ensign, he was a cadet.
I'm not so sure. If he was told they wanted to take it away from the current model (which would please me greatly) and do a movie in his ballpark that captures something of the grandeur and the futuristic feel of TMP he might bite.
There's probably zero chance of him wanting to make anything stylistically similar to the last few movies.
They almost gave Tarantino a rated-R Star Trek film about gangters on a duplicate Earth and virtually no Enterprise, perhaps they're not entirely against doing crazy things with the franchise.
Tarantino is that rare thing. A bankable auteur. If he says he wants to do a Star Trek movie, of course you give him the keys to the castle.
...and then they didn't
You just know it's going to be Christmas 2023 or Summer 2024 instead. Assuming they started production any time now...
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