Do you want the Kelvin Universe to continue?

[Yistaan]

It's hard to see what the Kelvin movies are bringing to the table if it's just the same as what we're getting in Strange New Worlds, Discovery, etc. You basically just have a 2 hour episode or a 2 parter in theaters. When Trek's movie franchise started, the movie budget allowed far better special effects than tv shows. That's what they brought to the table. With CGI now more widespread, the special effects difference between Trek tv and Trek movies are almost nonexistent.

Maybe just experiment more with Kelvin--have them take part in the Temporal Wars to justify mixing in some other Trek stars, or just send them to another galaxy entirely. Something completely different from the status quo currently on tv Trek.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I think there's a huge difference between what a Kelvin movie and what a series like Discovery and Strange New Worlds can put on screen visually. Not just the visual effects, but the scale of the sets, the amount of location filming, how many extras they use etc.

Storywise, the big difference is that Strange New Worlds is (theoretically) tied to the story we've seen so far. Uhura will never marry Spock, the Federation will never make peace with the Romulans (or even meet them), and so on. In the Kelvin universe anything can happen and they're free to tell epic stories with huge consequences.

 

[F. King Daniel]

...and my biggest disappointment in Into Darkness and Beyond is that they reset the status quo at the end. Run with your creative freedom, Kelvin Universe!

 

[Richard S. Ta]

...and my biggest disappointment in Into Darkness and Beyond is that they reset the status quo at the end. Run with your creative freedom, Kelvin Universe!

They went all out and blew up Vulcan and then spent two movies hitting the reset button. I like them all, even as I have found recently, Into Darkness, but the movies after 09 are toothless in comparison.

 

[Rahul]

After SNW there's definitely no reason to return to those movies. In fact, it would be way more confusing & to the detriment of both the excellent SNW as well as the movie franchise, to have both a reboot & a prequel running at the same time, with the same charaters, contradicting each other.

The only way would be leaning heavily into that - have a multi-verse story where they all meet (in a MARVEL copy) or reboot the reboot, where Pine and Quinto suddenly play the original versions in the original timeline, no connection to the previous movies (except a heavy wink at the audience).

 

[Ovation]

Far more people will see the movie than the show. No real danger of confusion.

 

[fireproof78]

In fact, it would be way more confusing & to the detriment of both the excellent SNW as well as the movie franchise, to have both a reboot & a prequel running at the same time, with the same charaters, contradicting each othe

No Way Home demonstrates that audiences are just not this dumb

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

After SNW there's definitely no reason to return to those movies. In fact, it would be way more confusing & to the detriment of both the excellent SNW as well as the movie franchise, to have both a reboot & a prequel running at the same time, with the same charaters, contradicting each other.

Personally I'd be very happy if Kirk, Scotty, Sulu etc. were pretty much movie-only characters with only brief appearances in the series. That way TOS is untouched and they can give Kirk all the adventures they want.

 

[Airmandan]

With SNW and the Kelvin universe all owned by the same parent company, why couldn't we see a crossover of the two? Instead of some variation of the mirror universe we get to go to Kelvin timeline.

 

[F. King Daniel]

With SNW and the Kelvin universe all owned by the same parent company, why couldn't we see a crossover of the two? Instead of some variation of the mirror universe we get to go to Kelvin timeline.

Sure, they've already mentioned the Kelvinverse on Discovery. And supposedly one of the (many, many, many) Star Trek 4 movie pitches involved a team up with the Discovery crew.

 

[Charles Phipps]

It's hard to see what the Kelvin movies are bringing to the table if it's just the same as what we're getting in Strange New Worlds, Discovery, etc.

I'd say fun, easily understood, easily digestable movies to intrigue people about Star Trek that wouldn't be familiar with the franchise otherwise.

They got my wife interested in Trek.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Fun fact, for the money Elon Musk is paying for Twitter, he could have made 220 Kelvin Universe Star Trek movies, with a budget of $200 million each.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Or one really expensive one.

 

[fireproof78]

Or one really expensive one.

In space.

 

[M'Sharak]

Fun fact, for the money Elon Musk is paying for Twitter, he could have made 220 Kelvin Universe Star Trek movies, with a budget of $200 million each.

OK, that may be an arithmetic fact, and Musk may have been name-checked in a Trek episode, but isn't that stretching the Trek connection pretty darn thin?

 

[F. King Daniel]

OK, that may be an arithmetic fact, and Musk may have been name-checked in a Trek episode, but isn't that stretching the Trek connection pretty darn thin? View attachment 28127

It was more an exploration of just how much more billions are compared to millions. Since I was browsing the site when it came to me, it ended up here.

It's an insane, barely-graspable order of magnitude more.

 

[dupersuper]

Fun fact, for the money Elon Musk is paying for Twitter, he could have made 220 Kelvin Universe Star Trek movies, with a budget of $200 million each.

Think how many people he could have fed or the climate change research he could have funded...

 

[M'Sharak]

Think how many people he could have fed or the climate change research he could have funded...

And now we really do need to get away from wild and completely unrelated speculation and back to Trek and the thread topic. Please.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They're, ummm, "close to the starting line" with this

 

[Casas9425]

I have a feeling JJ Abrams is going to end up directing this himself. His career is at a strange point right now and he could use the comfort of returning to his franchise.