Something that I think hinders the franchise

[indycar]

I think the fact that the television series (past and future), along with the franchise in general, are owned by CBS Television Studios, while the film franchise is licensed to Paramount Pictures. I say this because CBS also owns the merchandising to franchise, including Paramount's current film franchise. In addition, CBS seems to rather promote the versions of the characters from their own series rather than the current versions (which makes since, considering that they would rather merchandise their own holdings rather one that licenses their rights). However, since Paramount can't merchandise their films, it can cause them to lose people who would potentially be interested the franchise (both versions) due to there not being much cross over (compare to The Walt Disney Company with Star Wars and Marvel, whose films can have interest built around merchandising). The only merchandising that I can think for either of the films was a video game that came out around the time of Star Trek Into Darkness and even then I believe CBS and Paramount had to work on it together.

The point is, I think if everything was under one company, it could help build interest to the new material in the franchise and even help get some attention to older parts (a person could see the new film and television series and then become interested in what came before).

Also, didn't J. J. Abrams say at one point he was frustrated with this.

 

[T'Girl]

If CBS Television directly held the rights to make Trek movies, that might have resulted in few or no movies.

CBS films doesn't make very many movies, they're considered a "mini-studio." It seems that most of their movies are kind of small, although The Backup Plan (5 years ago) was in my opinion a superior movie.

 

[Anji]

It might make it a bit easier, but they still need a creative head, which they can't find.

How do you find someone to takeover another's life work? You can't. That work is part and parcel of him/her. Art stems from the soul...it's part of one's gift and no one can possess another's gift.

I don't honestly think they will be able to find someone to fix Star Trek. They've been trying since 1991 with no success. Trek died with Roddenberry. That's it.

 

[T'Girl]

^ Although, the (debatably) best Trek movie ever was produced after Roddenberry was kicked to the curb and the creative decisions were place in the hands of Nicolas Meyers.

 

[USS Triumphant]

:Reads your OP:

I'm sorry, but I think you've misspelled "Les Moonves".