I've been thinking more about ideas for a fourth film lately.
Some people compare the probe from TVH to V'Ger from TMP.
That got me to thinking about the fact that they really didn't do anything with V'Ger in the reboot movie series.
What if Voyager 6 went through a wormhole into the Kelvin universe....only this time when Kelvin-Kirk and crew encounter it, not only are there 3 Klingon ships stored in stasis....there is also the prime-Enterprise and crew! The actual ships and their crews could be stored, in separate locations, rather than just 'copies' like we saw in TMP.
Prime universe, but yet a different version of.
The prime crew could appear stored something like this, from the time travel sequence in TVH:
That would not require the physical presence of the original cast members and there are plenty of recordings of their voices to work into the story and make use of. Maybe at the end of the film Kirk could be 'extracted' and Shatner could be age-regressed and have that type of part that he has talked a bit about.
The story could even be changed around so that it was an old Klingon space probe that was modified and sent back to find its creators. Qo'nos could be facing the threat, rather than Earth.
In that scenario, I would like to see the Klingons take over the Kelvin-Enterprise and Kelvin-Kirk has to fight them by making use of a prime-K'tinga battle cruiser that he and the crew manage to unlock from stasis.... maybe something about the approach to the home planet of the creators unlocking the Klingon ships first, because they are not 'alien' like the prime-Enterprise....then using the battle cruiser in an attempt to disable his own ship and retake it without destroying it in the process.
Something like that could be fun if done right. Would they do it? Hell no.
