Keyboard Vagabond"The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot."
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James R Kirkvariety.com/2025/film/features/david-ellison-hoâŚ
With Ellison in control, we might finally get that all-white, all-male Starfleet that non-fans have been begging for
Whelp, guess that rules out a DS9 movieâŚ
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I mean isnât âthe future is for everyoneâ kind of a major theme in Star Trek?
Also
Uhhh Geordi La Forge????
I mentioned this to my Trekkie friend and heâd like to add âHemmer is also blind and so is the actor who played himâ
The spirit of Star Trek is incompatible with Paramountâs new MAGA politics, it will be ruined.
I donât think itâs that straightforward. They just gave the South Park guys half a billion dollars, and re-upped Jon Stewart for another year.
The CBS News division is a tire fire right now, but I donât think there have been signs of creative interference in the studios.
You know, yet.
@ValueSubtracted
The article says that the new leadership wants to create more âAmerica-centricâ content.
That said, with their streamerâs major weakness being its lack of subscribers outside the United States and that Ellison and his top team managed to grate so much on Taylor Sheridan that he has signed a contract to move to NBCUniversal in three years, they seem likely to faceplant with this âcorporate approach.â
@etherphon
Eh, I donât think them trying to make some things âgeared to the middle of the countryâ is necessarily a sign that theyâre going full MAGA - the context there is that theyâre likely to pursue Tom Cruise for more projects, andâŚthatâs the sort of stuff that Tom Cruise makes.
I donât think the Star Trek sky is falling, at least any more or less than it was before. But then, Iâm not very invested in them making feature films anyway!
@etherphon @Kirk
Star Trek: Section 31 is proof they've already started. Dreadful.
@etherphon @Kirk Didn't that already happen?
New Star Trek movie you say?
Nice to see they are still working a Trek movie, and also nice to see (IMO) that it could be connected to the main timeline.
I am all for new Trek, but they need to fuck right off with the prequels.
Every studio: âWhat if we instead just go back and write ourselves into a corner and risk pissing people off by breaking continuity.â
Edit: For example, I love SNW. But knowing what happens to half the cast removes a lot of the tension. I know putting Pike, Uhura, Scotty, Chapel, MâBenga or the ship in jeopardy will amount to nothing. Even Una. Because we know from âThose Old Scientistsâ that she later becomes the literal poster girl for Starfleet.
Edit 2: I have a lot of problems with Discovery, but one thing it absolutely did right was stop being a prequel and send the window of storytelling so far into the future that it canât cause story problems for other Trek.
? it doesnât say anything about prequels?
Literal prequel
? that quote is not in the article ???
Iâm not sure why youâre arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it? And did you notice that the article now redirects to a different article than the one you linked to?
It really wasnât hard to find a different source that for the same article you originally posted. Many other sites reposted.
https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/star-trek/star-trek-4-has-finally-been-scrapped-as-paramount-moves-on-from-chris-pine-led-franchise-a9354
Note: âSOURCE: VARIETYâ
The article I shared is the original source and does not contain a mention of prequels.
The link you shared just now appears to be an AI slop summary with added hallucinations.
I am arguing with you because from the perspective of someone reading the article I shared, you brought up an entirely unrelated topic in order to complain.
I really liked Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto and enjoyed the first two movies. The first one far more than the second though.
The second had what I felt were unnecessary linked to their prequels and itâs also what the worst parts of Craigâs Bond and Solo were as well.
I donât think they embodied the spirit of Star Trek though, but I was hoping they could have worked those out over time, but it seems not so much.
Star Trek is dead with the new owners. Gene Roddenberry and Lucy Ball wouldnât continue under a fascist control.
thatâs a shame, i always really liked Pineâs Kirk in particular. but i guess it was also inevitable as soon as Spock showed up in Disco with a new actor
the rest of the article is⌠harrowing, to say the least. Trek feels like the elephant in the room at Paramount right now- youâd think Ellison would think that âun-woke-ifyingâ Trek would be an easy way to score points with the White House right now, but so far itâs been business as usual
I have a long list of things I disliked about the JJ Abrams movies, but the casting was certainly nowhere on it.
Honestly, Iâd take this with a small grain of salt.
I donât doubt Varietyâs reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while Iâm sure theyâve âmoved onâ from whatever they had cooking, I think itâs also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.
Weâll see what happens - itâs been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I donât expect that to change any time soon.