The last “Star Trek” feature film released in theaters was “Star Trek Beyond” back in 2016. The movie was directed by Justin Lin, the filmmaker behind “Better Luck Tomorrow” and several of the “Fast and Furious” movies, and it was co-written by Simon Pegg, who also played Scotty in the film. “Beyond,” the third film in the Kelvin timeline, was … pretty good. The action was clear and the character work was solid — the entire cast brought their A-games — but the film overall was generic action nonsense; it was the fourth “Star Trek” film in a row about a twisted villain on a mission of revenge. Sadly, “Beyond” wasn’t as big a hit as Paramount wanted, and it seemed to be the end of the road for “Star Trek” in theaters.
Ever since, though, Paramount has been persistently struggling to make a fourth “Star Trek” movie set in the Kelvin timeline. As of this writing, some new plans are afoot to finally make said film along with a prequel movie set at an earlier point in the “Star Trek” timeline. Given how many false starts there have been on “Star Trek 4,” however, one will simply have to bide their time to see if anything comes to fruition
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In an interview with Katee Sackhoff on “The Sackhoff Show,” Pegg talked a little bit about his “Star Trek” experiences. In doing so, he admitted he has a hard time imagining “Star Trek 4” ever getting made, seeing as it would be “tainted” by Yelchin’s absence.
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“I’d love to do more. Obviously, it’s been forever tainted because we lost Anton, and that was a really hard thing for everyone involved, and for the real world, let alone anything else. If we do come back, if there is another opportunity to come back, I’d love to. Because as we were saying earlier on, it’s a group of guys that I dearly, dearly love and don’t get to see very often […] It would be good to get back together with them.”
God am I freaking tired of doomsday plots and imposters in charge of the federation and all of that. I watch Trek because I don’t want to see real life there.
Picard season 2 spoilers
I legit cannot watch Picard season 2 anymore because of the fires and all of the horrors they saw. (Ignoring plot reasons) because it was just unbearable. Hey watch this show! You can see how fucked the planet is, and by the way you have zero power to change any of it, but let’s keep beating you with how bad your world is!
Ffs, bring back the best of the Federation. The ones who don’t hate each other, who protect the innocent, who fight for what’s right, and it’s been institutionalized and at a societal level. I want to see some goddamn utopia shows, I want to believe we can turn this sinking ship around, not be constantly reminded how fucked everything is.
I have completely memory-holed Picard.
I’m not a trekkie, I just watched everything trek there is, I’m not the kind of guy who’s going to get a reference to decades-old material for the simple reason that I don’t re-watch everything once a year, I’m not steeped in canon. Yet that whole series completely fails to even register as trek in my memory. I guess there was a defunct Borg cube involved? Must’ve been trek but it doesn’t mesh with anything.
I am still angry af at how picard mangled the dominion war and fucking sanctioned section 31. Stay the fuck away from ds9, kurtzmann. You don’t fingerpaint on the work of masters