https://trekmovie.com/2019/01/18/in...iou-at-star-trek-discovery-season-2-premiere/
With J.J. Abrams’ contract with Paramount ending and a possible CBS-Paramount merger, would you be interested in going back and “owning” the movie franchise as well?
Kurtzman: We haven’t had any conversations about that. I loved making those films. I loved it, and I think Star Trek is still so relevant, I think, in all platforms. So the movies brought a new vitality to the franchise in 2009, and the movie that Justin did was so great, Beyond was so great. I’d be really curious to see what the new version of a Star Trek movie would be, because I think it has to be something different now. I think that the movies we made were perfect for the time that we made them in. And now, things have changed, the world has changed, ideals have changed, and so the question would be, ‘How do you make it worth going to the movies for?’ Because the truth is, that you can get a pretty cinematic experience by watching Star Trek: Discovery, and you’re going to be able to get the same thing watching anything else. What might help is that when people see it on the big screen tonight, they’ll recognize that the line between movies and television’s really over. So I would approach it more from the point of view of what kinds of stories can’t we tell on television that are better for the screen.
Would you want to see the movies and the TV shows sync up?
Kadin: I think the dream is always when you’re working on a franchise to have everything play in the same universe. I mean especially for fans, who’ve been fans forever, of this franchise, I think it would only be a better experience for everybody.
Kurtzman: Obviously they have in the past. So the trick is, how do you not cannibalize each other – and maintain the television version and the movie version and if they do cross over, have that be a special event that feels worth going to the theater for. But look, I think anything’s possible is the short answer to your question.
Nice try, Kadin, but I disagree.
I think that, in this case, it isn't the movies that should feature discovery's reality (thus prime trek) but really, recent TV trek should've been (honestly) set in the kelvin timeline since the start since it was more or less created using these movies and their success as inspiration. Would they even make discovery if JJ hadn't renewed an interest in trek through the movies? Come on, you got Kurtzman of all the people. You want to be
that trek without having the full permission to be it.
And yes, fans might like to have everything in the same universe but I, for one, also love new stories, good storytelling and consistency and I hate retcons and forced storylines that trap writers in a no win scenario. And I also hate the 'dictator' that is nostalgia.
I'm bitter because the kelvin timeline has always and will always have more potential if you want new trek iterations and add to canon without interfering with the other shows. That because this reality isn't that trapped by tos and you can virtually do anything here without having to worry too much about how to explain a retcon and make it fit into established canon. It had an enormous potential that is now wasted by poor managing of the studio.
The way I see it, ostensibly making everything in the prime timeline only
again would mean going backwards and pretty much contradict that need to do something new and truly different that was the foundation of the reboot.
It's damn redundant.
I ask myself if I really
need to invest my money and time to watch more prequels and sequels of tos, when I have plenty that already, or I would rather see sequels of this 'what if' reality where everything is unpredictable and the characters I care about are all given a fresh start? A reality that created plot points never explored in tos and where the story has to reconcile with a race like the vulcans that literally had their original planet destroyed and they are now creating their world all over again on another planet.
I feel like they try are trying to have the cake and eat it too now since they are obviously using the movies as inspiration, and tried to monetize on the audience that became trek fans thank to the reboot, but couldn't make their show in this reality so after 'copying' kelvin trek - so to speak - they now expect it to make room for them making it seems the movies are a hindrance.
And yet, unfortunately, I'm still far more interested about the idea of this trek getting more stories than I'm about discovery or the Picard show now (where they only exciting thing for me is, ironically, the fact it does deal with the aftermath of what happened to Romulus in the first kelvin movie). I'm glad trek lives on TV still and that it isn't dead, but I'm very disappointed that the trek that had more potential for me is getting wasted.
