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should the next Trek film be about a virus/pandemic?

Trek virus movie?

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I speak for myself and probably pretty much everyone I know, I am so done with this $h!t! Why the heck would I then want to take a break from the "real world" to watch a show about the same thing I'm currently dealing with. No Thanks! Maybe check back in about twenty years.
 
JKM said:
I speak for myself and probably pretty much everyone I know, I am so done with this $h!t! Why the heck would I then want to take a break from the "real world" to watch a show about the same thing I'm currently dealing with. No Thanks! Maybe check back in about twenty years.
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Pretty much. Give me a big giant alien machine to deal with, thanks.
 
I don't quite get the whole I prefer something that was never made attitude. I mean, if we're judging purely on script then Srar Trek V was amazing!
 
fireproof78 said:
Couldn't find it and those comments were...ugh..I get it that these films are not for everyone but wow. But, that's a whole other subject.
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Just search 'boborci'
Tiger2
Reply to Corylea
August 8, 2020 12:25 pm
The irony in your post is that one of the rumors for Orci’s original idea for his third film before he left was going to involve a time travel plot to save Vulcan. And somehow William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were going to be involved. Now to be clear Orci himself said it wasn’t going to be a time travel film but I don’t think he ever ruled out it was going to deal with saving Vulcan somehow.

I liked Beyond but I still think his idea would’ve been more fun and exciting. Too bad it was considered too ‘Trek-y’ and I think that’s the problem. They desperately want a Star Trek movie but they seem afraid if it’s too Star Trek it will scare everyone accept the hardcore fans. But I think they also have to be honest with themselves they lost the initial newbies who went to see the first two Kelvin movies and proclaimed themselves Star Trek fans and now it’s just the hardcore base again watching these films. End of the day that seems to be the real issue, they want films with a bigger mass appeal but probably feel none of the ideas they have now really does that.

I assume that’s why they were so keen on having Hemsworth for the fourth film and Tarantino directing his movie because those two names could at least bring in audiences who may not care about a Star Trek film in general. Unfortunately neither stories sound all that interesting and why they are both sitting on a shelf somewhere.

And it’s probably why it’s best to focus on the shows. They can go as hardcore as they want and not have to worry too much about relying on new fans and just make things that will attract the fanbase mostly, hence Lower Decks.

boborci
Reply to Tiger2
August 8, 2020 4:53 pm
I did have roles for Shatner and Nimoy. No time travel.

Phil
Reply to boborci
August 8, 2020 7:30 pm
What’s the expiration date on that NDA before you can start talking about that, or is there a book in the works
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Stories about diseases can make for good Trek TV episodes. I don't think they would work for a 2-hour movie in the Trek context.

Kor
 
Khan 2.0 said:
so the films (and many episodes) have often been about recent events/issues: Trek VI was all about the recent end of coldwar/'the wall coming down in space'.. TMP was abit about the recent Voyager probe, IV was about the whales/greenpeace and even II & III had a coldwar/nuclear doomsday theme and of course V was influenced by the televangelism craze.

... but this virus is a huge monumental thing the biggest thing since WW2 really (and Trek films haven't done a virus/pandemic film yet although FC was closest). so it wouldn't be unreasonable/ unfeasible for the next movie (be it kelvin or not) to reflect that in the star trek/scifi way..in fact it might be wrong not to do so..
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I have a title for that proposed idea, it should be called "Star Trek: The SALT in the Wound". It is the scents of pessimism which is such a staple point in this era of Star Trek where a pandemic story would be quite fitting for their kind of dread. I wouldn't be surprise if this topic ends on PICARD or DISCO in their upcoming season serials. How horrible it could be if our heroes couldn't discover a cure and will have to... live with it, knowing in the back of their minds, "There is no hope" sooner or later one will succumb to the pandemic and like fake Data in PICARD he will die.
 
Star Trek already did have a pandemic like storyline with DS9's underrated episode The Quickening. I don't think a story now would match up to the emotional impact of that episode.
 
"Operation -- Annihilate" and "The Lights of Zetar" were also plague stories, of a sort. So was "The Omega Glory". Several other stories (examples are found in most Trek series, if not all) involved having to solve one crisis in order to be able to deliver [medicine] to [planet or colony] in time to combat a serious outbreak of [fatal or horrible disease].
 
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