But that’s exactly what JJ did with the kelvinverse
Not at all. The conceit of the Kelvin films is that they're an alternate timeline of the same overall reality, so the characters are supposed to be essentially the same people even if their life experiences are different. So that constrains the degree to which they and their universe can be reimagined. A true reboot would be freer to reinvent the characters more radically, e.g. by changing their sex or ethnicity or giving them distinctly different personalities. It wouldn't even need to keep the same setting or ground rules of the universe. (For instance, if I could reboot Trek from scratch, I'd set it a couple of thousand years in the future and have humanoid aliens be descended from human colonists who genetically engineered themselves to suit their new environments. Spock would still be a Terran-Vulcan hybrid, with the same general personality and the same relationships with Kirk and McCoy, but in a way that makes more biological sense because both species are genus
Homo. I'd also gender- and race-swap some characters, and probably do some composite characters or mixing and matching of characters from different series and eras -- like how the X-Men movies made Iceman a contemporary of Kitty Pryde rather than a member of the previous generation of X-Men, or how the Arrowverse has made Dinah Drake the second Black Canary (or third, to hear Cisco tell it) instead of the first. The advantage of a new continuity is you get to distill the best bits and put them together in fresh ways.
and now they’re doing it on Discovery
They aren't doing anything of the sort. The show is meant to be in the exact same continuity as TOS through ENT, just with some updating of the visual design. Art direction is not story continuity. Admittedly, one can quibble with how they've chosen to interpret certain characters (like Harry Mudd) and technologies (like the speed of warp drive), but that's just the kind of inconsistency that can crop up when the same characters or elements are viewed by different storytellers. A lot of people think that Janeway's character was written inconsistently in later seasons of
Voyager, but that doesn't mean the show was split into alternate universes, it just means that writers don't always see a character the same way, that the pretense of a unified continuity requires glossing over discrepancies in interpretation.
, and people aren’t that happy about it.
Some people aren't happy about it. Every new Trek incarnation for the past 40 years has provoked protests from a segment of fans that condemned it as wrong and unacceptable, but they've always turned out to be a disproportionately loud minority whose resistance had no impact in the grand scheme of things. From online commentary, you could get the impression that the Kelvin films are widely hated, but in fact they're just about the most successful and profitable Trek films ever made. Most people
are happy about the Kelvin films, which is why they're making a fourth one.
I’d hope Tarantino would realize that.
You really think a director as idiosyncratic as Tarantino would color within the lines? Hell, what would Paramount get out of signing a director with such a well-defined and eccentric style if he was just going to do some generic Trek movie like everyone else? The simple fact is, the name "Quentin Tarantino" carries more cachet in the movie industry and with film critics than the name "
Star Trek," so it's obvious which of those is going to take precedence in shaping the film. They don't want Tarantino to conform to the Trek house style, they want him to turn Trek into a Tarantino film. Or
he wants to do it that way and they're indulging him because he's famous.
Anyway, they've already announced that it's out of continuity, so clearly they're not planning on doing something that can easily be reconciled with existing versions of Trek.
And dont get me wrong I LOVE the kelvinverse and Discovery, I just doubt he would want to associate with any of that
Of course not. I presume he's going to do it
his way, which will be unlike anyone else's.
