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.”
No we don’t need to move on from TNG and TOS we need more of it, and Strange New Worlds proved it. Also that kind of stuff is exactly what you demand when you’re talking about philosophy and better version of humanity.
Too much gritty drama, not enough humour, not enough not taking yourself too damn seriously all the fucking time so when you have some grit to tell it actually hits. Too much fucking nauseating camera movement. Stop copying your pacing from soap operas. Going full Orville would be too much (though the later seasons toned it down) for the main live-action series, but did you know Lower Decks is 100% canon?
As to movies in particular: Make them extensions of the series, again, long (semi-)off-season-arc episode with big budget. There’s never been a movie Garak, and that’s a problem. Pick up good non-Trek scripts and adapt them to the setting, say, what would Arrival look like if it was Trek?
Picard proved the opposite.
But then Lower Decks proved it again
I’m 2 episodes into strange new worlds, does it get better? I mean I’m still in the setup stages, right?
The beginning is kinda weird because Pike’s backstory has been told in Discovery. Best part of that series, btw. SNW thus kinda half-tells it, making it more mysterious than it is if you haven’t watched Discovery.
The series is mostly episodal, it does have a splattering of story threads that go all season, character development arcs etc. but the focus is always on the planet of the day.
I can understand if people are saying that they’ve leaned a bit too much into older TV tropes (heck there’s a musical episode!) but overall it’s really good. Certainly hits the ground running much better than TNG which is a whole first season of cringe before it finds its pace.