What for?
I thought the Kelvin films were supposed to be the official OS reboot?
SNW S5 is only going to be six episodes.
If Paramount wanted to film yet
ANOTHER reboot of TOS, they wouldn't be so eager to show SNW the door.
The whole point of doing the Kelvin films was to reboot TOS without
clashing with TOS's continuity.
I’m only rolling off of Goldsman’s and Myers’ evident perspective, nothing concrete on my own end. I can’t speak to the “what for”, only what the two of them are hinting at personal interest in pursuing. Yet, all the same, I don’t think the existence of the Kelvinverse films would ever put a stop to things if, for whatever reason, Paramount
did decide to give the green light to a direct continuation of Strange New Worlds. What’s past has passed, you know?
I don’t really disagree with what you said about the relative unlikelihood of any vested interest in doing so, given the six-episode order for season five. That doesn’t speak to a great deal of demand on their part for more content so closely knit. But there are always going to be all sorts of moving parts that we, the public, are not privy to.
The pocketbooks might not have the what’s-what for ten episodes of SNW penciled in to the upcoming production timeframe, yet there could be hopes that things would be better-sorted later on. There may be a fundamental connection between Secret Hideout and Paramount that Strange New Worlds is worth pursuing through other venues, should cheaper means be found, with a minimum of freshly-built overhead.
Or maybe Kurtzman, Goldsman, Myers, and the rest of them came perilously close to finding out that the fourth season would be the last, and only eleventh-hour negotiations secured a shortened fifth, and Paramount is eager to wash its hands of all of this, because modestly strong ratings aren’t enough for the bottom line amid 2025’s economic realities.
I just like to ponder the possibilities. lol
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