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Paramount confirmed this week that “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman will head into production on a new “ Star Trek ” movie later this year with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg reprising their roles for a fourth go-around on the big screen. For Quentin Tarantino fans, the news is the latest reminder that the Oscar winner’s “Stark Trek” movie remains dead. At least for now.

Tarantino fans were sent into a frenzy in late 2017 after it was announced that Paramount and “Star Trek” producer J.J. Abrams loved Tarantino’s pitch for a new “Star Trek” movie and were assembling a writers room to flesh out the idea. Tarantino ultimately partnered with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who was tasked with writing a “Star Trek” film script based on Tarantino’s idea while Tarantino was busy finishing post-production and touring the world for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Smith revealed on the  “Bulletproof Screenwriting” podcast in August 2021 that J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot gave him a call on Tarantino’s behalf.

“They just called me and said, ‘Hey, are you up for it? Do you want to go? Quentin wants to hook up.’ And I said, ‘Yeah,’” the screenwriter said. “And that was the first day I met Quentin, in the room and he’s reading a scene that he wrote and it was this awesome, cool gangster scene, and he’s acting it out and back and forth. I told him, I was so mad I didn’t record it on my phone. It would be so valuable. It was amazing.”

Tarantino intended to bring a “Pulp Fiction” vibe to “Star Trek” with an idea that was a largely earthbound story set in a 1930s gangster setting. Tarantino’s pitch appeared to take inspiration from “A Piece of the Action,” the 17th episode of the second season of “Star Trek: The Original Series.” The installment, which aired in 1968, followed the Enterprise crew as they visit a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.

Smith told “Bulletproof Screenwriting” that the screenwriting process started almost immediately after he agreed to work with Tarantino, adding, “I would go hang out at his house one night and we would watch old gangster films. We were there for hours…We were just kicking back watching gangster films, laughing at the bad dialogue, but talking about how it would bleed into what we wanted to do.”

According to Smith, Tarantino’s “Star Trek” idea was “really wild” and like “its own very cool episode.” The plot included “a little time travel stuff going on” and “had a lot of fun” with Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk. Tarantino fans expected the director to go all in on Pine considering Tarantino’s outspoken love for the actor. Tarantino has called the Pine-starring “Unstoppable” one of his favorite action films, and he had nothing but raves for Pine’s performance as Kirk in the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot

“I thought Chris Pine did a fantastic job, not just playing Capt. Kirk but playing William Shatner’s captain — he is William Shatner,” Tarantino once told MTV. “He’s not just another guy, he’s William Shatner’s Capt. Kirk. And Zachary Quinto is literally Leonard Nimoy’s — because they both have the same scene together — he’s his Spock. They fucking nail it. They just nail it.”

Tarantino’s “Star Trek” was widely believed to be rated R, although it was never confirmed. Fans expected the R-rating given the graphic nature of Tarantino’s movies. It was also never confirmed that Tarantino would direct the script himself. Tarantino has maintained that he is retiring from feature filmmaking after his 10th directorial effort, which means he only has one movie left to make, post-“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Fans questioned whether or not Tarantino would want an IP-based movie like “Star Trek” to be his curtain call.

Tarantino revealed to Consequence of Sound in December 2019 that he was “steering away” from directing the “Trek” movie. A final blow arrived in January 2020 when Tarantino confirmed , “I think they might make that movie, but I just don’t think I’m going to direct it. It’s a good idea. They should definitely do it and I’ll be happy to come in and give them some notes on the first rough cut.”

After Justin Lin’s 2016 entry “Star Trek Beyond” underwhelmed at the box office with less than $400 million worldwide, Paramount put a pause on the film franchise as it figured out what to do next. Tarantino and Smith’s script was one of three potential “Star Trek” films in development at the same time. “Fargo” and “Legion” creator Noah Hawley was working on his own “Star Trek” film that was to feature a new cast, while Paramount was also developing a more traditional sequel to “Beyond” with the same cast. Filmmaker S.J. Clarkson was attached to this third “Trek” idea for a time.

The “Star Trek” announcement this week confirmed that a “Beyond” sequel with the returning cast is officially a go. Paramount announced in July 2021 that Shakman was hired to helm a new “Star Trek” movie, the cast for which was unclear at the time. Shakman is a prolific television director with credits that include “WandaVision,” “Six Feet Under,” “House,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Game of Thrones” and “Succession.” He’s only directed one previous feature, the 2015 indie “Cut Bank” with Liam Hemsworth and Billy Bob Thornton.

As reported by Variety , Paramount did market research to determine whether or not there was still audience interest in Chris Pine and the 2009 reboot cast given the long wait period between “Beyond” and a new “Trek” film. Insiders said that studio executives determined there was still lasting audience enthusiasm for Pine, Quinto and the rest of the cast, which allowed the studio to feel comfortable with moving forward with bringing them back.

One person most likely relieved that Paramount is moving ahead on a “Star Trek” movie without Tarantino is Rod Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment. Roddenberry, who serves as an executive producer on several “Star Trek” series on Paramount Plus (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” etc.), told Forbes in September 2021 that he had mixed feelings on Tarantino coming into the “Star Trek” fold.

“I struggle with that because the way I’m pretty myopic with the way I see ‘Star Trek,’” Roddenberry said when asked about Tarantino’s “Star Trek” idea. “I mentioned that I grew up with fans coming up to me out saying how ‘Star Trek’ inspired them and gave them hope for the future. It’s the optimism and the messaging in there that make ‘Star Trek’ what it was. I truly believe that. If you create a ‘Star Trek,’ that is just action; that is not ‘Star Trek,’ in my opinion. That’s what makes it different than ‘Star Wars,’ and I love ‘Star Wars,’ but they can both coexist. And I love Tarantino’s work and the kind of films that he does. I am trying to have an open mind.”

Roddenberry continued, “I would be curious to read a script on his take. I do not think you could say we’re going to do a ‘Reservoir Dog-Star Trek.’ I’ll be honest, that doesn’t work for me, but he is a fan, and I think as a fan, he probably understands to some degree that ‘Star Trek’ has to have some of this messaging.”

Production on the Tarantino-less new “Star Trek” movie will begin later this year.

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William Shatner is showing support for Quentin Tarantino ‘s R-rated “ Star Trek ” movie on social media. The actor who originated the role of Captain Kirk was asked his thoughts about Tarantino doing a more adult-skewing “Trek” movie, to which he asked, “Why are people plotzing about this?”

“It’s my understanding that ‘Star Trek Discovery’ has used expletives in some episodes,” Shatner added. “Why aren’t people melting down over that?”

Given Tarantino’s affinity for expletive-packed dialogue, some “Star Trek” fans have worried how the writer-director’s style would fit in with the often family-friendly film and television franchise. The last three films in the franchise, “Star Trek,” “Star Trek Into Darkness,” and “Star Trek Beyond,” were all rated PG-13. If Paramount goes ahead with an R-rated version they could risk alienating some of the franchise’s younger fans, although a restricted rating didn’t stop Fox movies like “Deadpool” and “Logan” from being hugely profitable at the box office.

Tarantino confirmed to Empire magazine this week that his “Star Trek” movie will be rated R if he steps behind the camera. When asked to verify the rating, the writer-director responded, “Oh yeah! It’s an R-rated movie. If I do it, it’ll be R-rated. There’s a script that exists for it now. I need to weigh in on it, but I haven’t been able to do that yet.”

Speaking to /Film  shortly before the Cannes Film Festival, Tarantino said “it’s a very big possibility” that he’ll end up directing a “Star Trek” movie. The director said his script was done but that he’s been too busy in the editing room on his next feature, this summer’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” to really focus on “Trek.” 

“When I emerge my head like Punxsutawney Phil, post-‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ we’ll pick up talking about it again,” Tarantino said about working with Paramount.

Tarantino’s “Hollywood” opens nationwide July 26 from Sony Pictures.

Why are people plotzing about this? It’s my understanding that Star Trek Discovery has used expletives in some episodes. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Why aren’t people melting down over that? https://t.co/QW0fHHHY1j — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) June 13, 2019

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Back in December 2017, reports surfaced that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie. The idea that the creative mind behind Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction would soon be unleashed upon the Star Trek universe tickled a part of my Trekkie brain I didn't know existed.

But there was a second part to the rumor, something that anyone knowing Tarantino's work would come to expect: the film would also be R-rated.

Unfortunately, an R rating is the last thing Star Trek needs right now.

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Star Trek was always somewhat of an outlier in the world of science fiction. Star Wars has "war" in the name (a conflict still ongoing 40 years later) , Alien paints space as a place filled with inaudible screams, and even Wall-E doesn't illustrate the most flattering portrait of space-faring humans.

But Star Trek was different. The entire show rested on the premise that humanity had overcome its base failings, like war, poverty, reckless consumerism, and every other -ism out there, and had joined the galaxy as one human family, a cog in an even greater alliance called the United Federation of Planets. We still had some demons in our closet (and Klingon and Romulans would always prove troublesome), but the future of humanity looked bright.

In fact, at least for me, it was this positive tone that made Star Trek so compelling. Not so much that it was better than other franchises , it was just different —an escape from the usual doom-and-gloom, action-hungry sci-fi that often makes its way to theaters.

It's the same phenomenon that makes Steven Spielberg's E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind —two of the very few alien films out there that are not about subjugating/destroying/infiltrating the human race—some of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Sometimes, it's ok to have a brighter outlook on things.

But then it all started to change.

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For whatever reason, Star Trek has been slowly retreating from this positive perspective. Of course, the change is obvious when looking at Star Trek's latest show, Discovery, where gratuitous violence (and terrible writing) is commonplace. But the seed was really planted way back in 1996 with First Contact .

Until First Contact , Star Trek was still mostly Star Trek. Generations was a weird film, but they tried to tackle some heady topics. While arguably a better film, First Contact felt like the beginnings of a different kind of Star Trek. It was more about explosions and action than anything particularly philosophical or deep felt, and I still don't understand the choice to turn philosopher captain Jean-Luc Picard into some rip-shirt action hero.

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Next came Nemesis in 2002 . That film really doesn't feel tonally far-removed from J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot, where the director turns the Star Trek action up to 11. Then add that horrific Spock scene ( you know the one ) from Star Trek: Into Darkness and the first two seasons of Discovery to the pile, and you have a franchise that's nearly unrecognizable from the 30 years of stuff that proceeded it.

It's because of this slow change (or decline, depending your point of view) that Tarantino's R rating feels like a tangible symbol illustrating Star Trek's hard turn from hopeful sci-fi some 20 years in the making .

Reasons to Hope

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But not everything is bad news. Tarantino has earned tons of goodwill with a deep catalog of critically acclaimed films. It's hard to deny that seeing a Star Trek film considered for an Oscar would be a huge achievement.

Tarantino also has a deep love for the franchise that's he's expressed in several interviews. In fact, one of his ideas—originally pitched during a radio interview—focused on The Next Generation, with a premise I'd definitely want to see on the big screen:

"In thinking about the concept even further though, one of the best Star Trek episodes ever was in Next Generation ...[ " Yesterday's Enterprise "] is one of the great—not just space stories—but they way it dealt with the mythology. That actually could bear a two-hour treatment."

Finally, "R rating" can mean many different things. While some seem to think that F-bombs are incoming, Karl Urban, who plays Leonard "Bones" McKoy in Abrams' Trek series, said that he had read Tarantino's script and that "you shouldn't worry that it is going to be full of obscenity and stuff. He wants an R-rating to really make those beats of consequence land. If it's not PG, if someone gets sucked out into space, which we have all seen before, we might see them get disemboweled first...it allows some breadth...gives him some leeway to do that."

Rated R for "Space Death Realism" is much more compelling than Rated-R for "Kirk Swears A Lot."

But one thing is certain: Tarantino's Star Trek (if it ever enters production) will be a huge moment for the franchise. It will likely determine if there's still room left in our galaxy for hopeful and complex science fiction, or if we're doomed to lose Star Trek to the mindless action that plagues every other forgettable sci-fi film.

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Back in 2018, the Oscar-winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino was working with J.J. Abrams on a very different kind of Star Trek movie. The film was based on an idea of Tarantino’s and it would have been R-rated. Paramount put the movie into development in parallel with a planned “Star Trek 4” followup to Star Trek Beyond . Mark L. Smith ( The Revenant ) was brought in to write a script, but by the end of 2019, Tarantino had backed away from the project. Now Smith is talking more about the movie and why it didn’t get made.

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In an interview posted before Christmas on Collider , Mark L. Smith talked about working with Tarantino and why their Star Trek film ended up being shelved:

“Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, ‘If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?’ And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk.”

Tarantino had always said he would end his directing career with ten movies, which is the “number” Smith is referring to. At that time, Tarantino was working on his ninth film, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood , which was released in 2019. Earlier this year, Tarantino announced his tenth and final film will be The Movie Critic .

Smith talked a bit more about the Trek film, adding it was “just a balls-out kind of thing.” He didn’t want to offer plot details for fear that Tarantino “would kill me,” but did confirm how different this would be from other franchise entries:

“I think his vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some Pulp Fiction violence. Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special characters to kind of drop that into the Star Trek world, but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool.”

In 2019, Tarantino said Smith delivered a “ cool ” script and also described it as “Pulp Fiction in space.” After the project fizzled out, Smith revealed the film would have included James T. Kirk as well as other familiar characters, and it would’ve involved “gangsters.”

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Even though the script is finished, it’s understandable that Paramount would not be interested without Tarantino himself attached as director. Paramount has run through a number of potential Star Trek film projects with several writers and directors since the thirteenth film in the franchise, 2016’s Star Trek Beyond .

The studio is reportedly still actively developing a new follow-up set in the Kelvin universe. After the WGA strike ended in September, the studio was said to be hoping to get the project back into pre-production “ soon ,” but there have been no reports since, and just last month star Chris Pine said he still had not seen a script .

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We so dodged a bullet on this one. Thank god it didn’t happen.

Couldn’t have been any worse than Into Darkness. That should have never been made.

Exactly. Or Nemesis, or Insurrection.

or Beyond (we could’ve had a great anniversary/time travel movie with Orci’s ST3 starring Shatner instead of Guardians and the Furious)

“IT’S A SAAAAABOTAGE!!!!”

Actually, Beyond was the best of the 3. It was the most Star Trek like. I actually quite enjoyed it.

Agreed. Beyond felt to me like the first time the Kelvin cast truly felt like their Prime counterparts.

I too enjoyed it.

Beyond is the film that is the most like the Original Series.

Most like a Gold Key comic more like :D

Go outside.

“we could’ve had a great anniversary/time travel movie with Orci’s ST3 starring Shatner”

When was Shatner ever attached to the Orci movie?

Orci’s vision for his movie was to have Pine’s Kirk either meet Shatner or show an aged Kelvin version of Kirk played by Shatner,

In his comments about the script he stated it was Kirk Prime and deaged slightly with CG therefore Shatner kirk would be somehow taken from before died in Generations (as to how is anyones guess, obviously something to do with the ancient timeline altering device)

Bill and Leonard reuniting on screen would have been awesome but it wasn’t meant to be, Leonard got sick and died.

I think it was still going ahead after Leonard died. until Paramount pulled the plug and brought in Pegg/Jung/Lin, with Pegg citing Orci’s ST3 as ‘too star trek’ (the villain wanting to change the timeline back to primeverse with some ancient device, Kirk&Spock encounter Shatner Kirk who helps them) .. apparently Paramount wanted it more Guardians of the Galaxy meets F&F (which had both become huge in the interim). and maybe they felt it was too similar to ST09?

The too Star Trekkie complaint is ridiculous. If they don’t want to make Star Trek they should sell the franchise. Its not Marvel and its not Star Wars. Beyond is one of the most disappointing things ever in my lifetime of watching science fiction films. To be fair i liked Jaylah, i liked the Franklin, i thought the space station was designed well. I liked Bones and Spock in it. But the motorcycle scene was dumb, destroying the Enterprise was dumb. The Beastie Boy music in space was idiotic.

Bones and Kirk drinking was just a reference to Star Trek II. Its like they can’t help themselves.

They also wasted Idris, but to be honest none of the villains in the KT is compelling, at least not like Montalban Khan. I don’t remember i single line they spoke. Other than maybe Nero, James T Kirk was a great man but that was another life.

I think some stuff in Beyond (like that Kirk Bones birthday scene) was most likely was from Orci’s ST3 (despite Pegg saying he’d never seen the script), id also hazard a guess at Krall being based in the villain from the orci script just giving a different ‘mcguffin’ to chase/obsess over instead of the timeline altering one (but his motivations will have been similar). Orci has said in TM comments that Bryan Cranston was being approached to play the villain, and that Alice Eve would’ve been back, and Shatner would’ve been ‘cgi deaged’ to Generations era for Kirk Prime.

Sounds like it would’ve been a cool Trek movie for the 50 anniversary. with big Trek events like potentially altering the timeline, Shatner Kirks return, maybe even Nero and the Kelvin – like a big Yesterdays Enterprise/City on The Edge style timetravel/timeline adventure (and maybe a commentary on how fans can’t let the old stuff they love so much go).

Beyond was a waste of a movie imo, a nothing movie like Insurrection, I don’t care if Spock/Bones had some banter and that Pine and the rest seemed more like their ToS counterparts, or that the Enterprise got destroyed. again (and judging by the box office neither did audiences). The only scene that was great was the Star Trek V photo (and I wouldn’t be surprised if that probably from the orci script)

It would have been great for the 50th Anniversary. The only problem was Paramount for whatever reason didn’t want to market it that way. i think that ties into the “Too trekky” thought process. They went with the Guardians of the Galaxy wave instead. Perhaps they can wake up and get it right for the 60th Anniversary. This would be the type of movie that could be an event. The problem is they want Marvel money. Even Marvel is struggling with their last few releases. They should give Orci a writing credit and work off this concept. Have whatever writing team make some tweaks to Paramount’s liking and make a freaking movie already.

Id LOVE to see Orcis ST3 reworked for ST4 for the 60th. Could still get Cranston, and have Alice Eve back and maybe even Shatner (at 95!). Just keep the budget in check so no exceed 150m (so long as it makes Marvel money. which is now in about the Beyond 300 millions range!)

Oh definitely Shatner.

Nemesis was bad. Insurrection had a great story but was messed up with the delivery.

In a way, I am harsher on Insurrection than Nemesis, because at least Nemesis, for all it’s bad faults, wasn’t boring.

The end of Nemesis is very good with the standoff between the Enterprise and Scimitar and i think Data’s death was poignant. The family aspect of the crew also felt real and not forced. I can’t hold it against Nemesis that Picard ruined it all. B4 was dumb though, just another Spock remember thing if they made TNG movie 5 to bring Data back.

I agree 100%. It would’ve been a disaster.

It sounded like an awful idea all around. But if they made it I would’ve checked it out. Someone else beat me to it, it still couldn’t have been worse than Star Trek Into Dumbness or Nemesis.

STID was the absolute worse to be sure my friend. The plot was just… WOW!

Agree as usual bro, Star Trek Into Drek will go down as one of the most ridiculous Trek movies ever made.

So your diabolical plan Admiral Marcus is to literally hand Fratboy Kirk all the illegal evidence and trying to kill off the augments by having the Enterprise shoot off 80 photon torpedoes with them in it in enemy territory just to take out one guy?

Can anyone tell me the last time a ship fired that many torpedoes at anything outside of fighting a war? Why doesn’t Marcus just take ten minutes out his day, fly his big ludicrous ship to the sun and just shoot the torpedoes into it and then go get lunch when he’s done?Wouldn’t that just been easier. He obviously knew Kirk had the IQ of a mockingbird but c’mon???? It’s amazing how dumb everyone is in that movie in order to make the plot work.

This is the kind of amateur plotting I would’ve wrote in a story…. when I was ten.

Sorry I’m ranting again lol.

LOL I’ll add to that. Admiral or no Admiral. How do you build a war ship with that many resources taken away from that many other ships AFTER the battle of Earth in ST ‘09 and justify it and say, oh, I’m just using an entire space port no one can use by myself. Not even Section 31, which was HILARIOUSLY misrepresented in this movie, has that kind of capability. And then you are going to sent the federation flagship into the heart of the enemy, intercept them, and just blow them up and not think you are going to get caught? I mean TNG had some DUMB admirals in its time and I know this is not TNG but WOW this takes the cake!

he wanted the enterprise to be caught, having sabotaged the warp drive

Bu why?? No pun intended, what is the endgame there? What was he going to accomplish that he could not have by like any other means?

And of course what’s more ridiculous is that he convinces Kirk to fire the ‘cloaked’ torpedoes from the edge of the neutral zone but the Enterprise itself isn’t cloaked??? Did these geniuses really think they can bombard one of the most militaristic and suspicious species in the Quadrant and they couldn’t figure out it was a Starfleet vessel that is lobbing dozens of missiles on their homeworld?? Hasn’t it been made clear multiple times that all advance races have the ability to identify ships from their warp signature?? Did no one bother to raise that issue the second the Enterprise warped back to Earth? And isn’t there surveillance all along the neutral zone so ships can’t just roll up unannounced and just start shooting at their planet??

It’s all good though, the torpedoes are cloaked and the Enterprise will just hide behind a comet or something as it’s doing it.No one would be the wiser. 🙄

And then Marcus rolls up disappointed his fool proof plan didn’t go as envisioned but decides to blow the Enterprise up to complete his dasterardly mission only this moron is now doing it on Earth’s doorstep with a ship that is illegal for him to even have.

And once more there isn’t any surveillance near the freaking moon?? He’s going to destroy a Starfleet vessel that hasn’t fired one photon at him but somehow suggests his actions were justified. Really the black Star Destroyer he’s riding in and five times the size of the Enterprise is going to somehow convince Starfleet brass it was the other ship that was the real threat although there isn’t a single scratch on the Vengeance (most ridiculous name ever) that he secretly built illegally off the books and took out the flagship killing everyone because they had Khan onboard? Sounds like that wouldn’t bring up any questions at the hearing.

But then when Scotty manages to knock out the power of the ship Kirk doesn’t come up with a plan to evacuate the ship with all the shuttle crafts and escape pods to send them to Earth or even the moon which is literally just fine minutes away at impulse speed. Noooope! Instead he does a space jump to the ship with just him and Khan to literally take out an armed ship full of men on their own hoping to take down the ship. Bro, use that time to get your crew out of danger using the shuttles to ride back to Earth and tell Starfleet what is going on.

It’s sooo ridiculous. If they were trapped in the middle of space with nowhere to go, that makes sense. But we have to believe they can’t send help of any kind when they are literally a few minutes away and have shuttles sitting there.

But then we can’t have the dramatic scene of them being pulled into Earth’s atmosphere even though they are literally hundreds of thousands of miles away from it.

These people couldn’t have written the script in more than just a few days with all the mountain size potholes in it. 🙄

LOL my friend I could keep going and going like the energizer bunny on this. At the end I will say this. There are a handful of truly great sequels in this world that surpass their original. Wrath of Khan is one of them. What is SO IRONIC here is that they tried to copy Khan sooooo badly here and they accomplished nothing but the exact opposite. To make a sequel SOOO BAD it killed the franchise, or at least that leg of the franchise and the franchise as a whole for a whole lot of years.

Yeah man, you know me I can go on forever! 😉

STID is just a total bleep show of a movie. It proves why Abrams was a true hck who never should’ve been anywhere near Star Trek and thankfully hasn’t been since. They praised this guy like he was the second coming and he destroyed the movie side after just the second one.

And I think the first one was even dumber than the second one, but it gets a pass because it looked like a masterpiece after Nemesis and it comes off super cool looking and shiney with a fun action story and decent characters. And there was no Khan in it or magic blood or WOK stuff.

I’m not saying JJ verse is the only dumb movies in Trek obviously, both TOS and TNG has a lot of dumb stuff too and Nemesis is still my worst Trek movie of all time. STID is my second worst though. It’s why I never really cared about the movies but the Kelvin movies are typical blockbuster movies dumb. Leave your brain on Risa and just enjoy the explosions dumb.

Getting back on topic maybe Tarantino would’ve just had a better written story but I really doubt it would’ve been a great Star Trek story based on everything we heard and probably why it didn’t get made.

I’m totally saying it. The JJ-verse movies were a bunch of dumb popcorn fun movies at best and pure racist at worst. I’m Indian and I AM PISSED OF THE WHITEST GUY ON THE PLANET got cast to play Khan. I know Ricardo Monoban wasn’t Indian, but at least he was a person of color. Cumberbatch is the perfect example of white washing I have ever seen!

Also, I’ll add when Tarantino was once about to make his Trek movie, he said he didn’t get the Kelvin universe and how it was different from Prime Trek. Jar Jar Abrams just told him I don’t get it either, who cares? Just make the movie you want. That is a douche and not someone that cares for the franchise in the slightest and I will NEVER watch anything associated with bad robot again!

he wanted the flagship of the Fed/starfleet to make the move to start the war he wanted against the klingons.

but the big mistake in the end was bringing back khan full stop

But why? At the end of the day, he may be an evil admiral in the grand tradition of all evil admirals of the TNG era… But why have Starfleet start the war? If he can be that manipulative, he can’t come up with a better scheme to make Starfleet look better in this?

It’s still better then Generations.

No, no it isn’t. And I think Generations suck too. Nothing about the Nexus makes a lick of sense. But everything about Star Trek Into Disaster is beyond stupid.

The movie starts off with the Enterprise being underwater for some strange reason and is never explained in a pre warp society that isn’t supposed to know they are even there. To this day I still try to wrap my head around how did Fratboy Kirk manage to secretly enter a ship that is half a mile long into the bleeping water without a local spoting it. Did they just wait for them to all go to sleep or something?

What’s crazy (but weirdly more impressive) is the movie manages to get even more dumb as it goes.

Probably just because it looks cool is why it was underwater. It reminded me of Space Battleship Yamato

The funny thing about what you just said is me and Amirami discussed this very thing on another website a few months ago. I literally used that as an example and said Abrams probably base most of his decisions on what goes into a movie if he thinks something looks cool or not, regardless how it impacts the story. TROS was filled with it.

I’m not getting on his case because he wants stuff to look cool and flashy, that’s the case with most $200 million movie. But at TRY to justify it in the story. He spent all that time and money for that scene but he couldn’t bother to come up with just TWO LINES to explain why it was down there? Two lines! I don’t think he ever even thought about it.

It’s all flash and no substance with that guy and people have finally realized that after the SW sequels

They were seen by a pre warp civilization and because of that the Enterprise became their new god. Pike wasn’t pleased. Nibiru fate was decided, the people were supposed to die and Spock played god, violating the prime directive. Jim made it worse by not letting Spock die. And being seen.

That’s what happens when you base an entire movie on paranoid Bob Orci’s conspiracy worldview. There is a reason that dude is no longer welcome in the industry, and why his former wife maced him and took a baseball bat to his door.

A truth be told I dunno anything about that stuff but I can’t disagree about the STID paranoid stuff.

The events of the 2009 film leading to a more hawkish starfleet arming for another potential attack by time of ITD made sense to me and not some product of a conspiracy theorist

That is literally why the Enterprise design is different and Starfleet is more militaristic. Nero’s incursion. It is why they woke Khan up early to build weapons for them. Why Space Seed never happened but we have Wrath of Khan early.

It can both make sense and also be the product of the mind of a paranoid weirdo. Because Orci *is* a paranoid weirdo.

Well, you didn’t offer up a citation for your more salacious observations, so I had to look it up. It seems your version of his personal issues isn’t supported by the court filings. Whether you like the guy or not, there’s no reason to slander him.

Yes, I don’t believe spousal abuse has ever been caused by a disagreement over the grassy knoll or some other conspiracy theorist nonsense. Deeper issues were at work there.

OK, I do admit that is not necessarily a causal relationship, and if anyone was offended by that remark, I apologize.

That being said, 911 Truthers to me are some of the lowest forms of life on this planet and deserve ridicule – my personal opinion.

(Orci) describes things getting so bad in the couple’s relationship that she “maced” him in the face in 2019…she took a baseball bat to their bedroom door…

Nope, this is what he himself said.

You’re yanking things out of context here to a degree that someone from the Trump campaign may just offer you a job. You’re ignoring other reported examples of erratic behavior on her part, that he declined to press charges, and he got the restraining order on her. This’ll get hashed out in court, but you’ve offered up nothing to suggest any conspiracy theory mongering fueled her alleged mental health issues. Nor that Orci has been blacklisted..

At this point you’re just being an @$$hole.

No, because I remember all of his 911, Truther BS (some of it mentioned by him in his posts on this very site) which was an awful slap to the face to both the people that died and the people that the difficult task of rescuing people and cleaning up — and all those people whose lives were forever changed by that disaster. But he kept doubling down and suggesting it was some sort of a “star chamber” ruse by an international cabal that really controls things globally.

Regarding his wife, I’m just saying that I’m not surprised at all that he could drive someone crazy — but that is my personal opinion only.

Regarding being blacklisted, of course I’m not claiming it’s as direct as that, but he’s done nothing in the several years since Hawaii Five-O wound up… Draw your own conclusions. Personally, I would be wary of hiring someone with nutjob views like that… Again, just my personal opinion, but I would certainly not be surprised if others in Hollywood would think twice

When you say you are trying to work on your tone and how you come across, this is the sort of vicious slander you should think twice about posting.

Please see my response to Phil

Furthermore, what I quoted was in news reports — not only that, that was his own quote

It was completely uncalled for to go after his marriage. The discussion was about Into Darkness and instead of just presenting Orci’s fringe beliefs to add color, you went nuclear and brought up your unsolicited opinion about his marriage.

Also, the blacklisting supposition is just that since Sony hired him to work on a Spider-Man universe film.

I apologize to anyone who was offended by my comments.

Regarding the Spider-Man project, I don’t think it’s happening. Please provide an update if you have any different information?

Thank you for apologizing. After reading the articles about what happened with his wife I just can’t condone using that as fodder to attack him.

The news about the Spider-Man movie made the rounds 3 years ago, there’s been nothing new since then either about it getting further along or being cancelled.

I don’t think Trekkies or Tarantino fans would have been happy. Hell, I’m both anyway, but I’m not really sure I need those two worlds to collide.

Exactly! I love both, and I’m all for a wacky mash-up, but this one just never felt right to me and I’m relieved it isn’t happening. It just sounded like such a gimmick to me.

Totally. I get this man has his movie making chops and so forth but he seems like the completely wrong person for any kind of Star Trek film.

That’s just what I was thinking — we’re so lucky this was never made!

If people are open to musicals and cartoon crossovers in Star Trek, then why not a Rated R Star Trek?

I’ve never seen the point of totally ejecting children from the potential audience of the franchise. I thought it was a big mistake for Discovery and even the older-skewing Picard to do it.

Non sequitur.

I must be an old fuddy duddy i thought those were the worst episodes of Trek in history. Especially those old scientists i don’t watch lower decks.

I think that Tarantino could have made a really interesting Star Trek film. The sequence in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where Brad Pitt’s character goes to the Spahn Ranch to check on his friend and is surrounded by the menace of the Manson cult was set up like a classic TOS scenario.

Kelvin-verse’s A Piece of the Action.

Once more, with feeling: just as well that the thing never got made. But I’d give my right, uh, eyetooth, to read the script.

IDW, are you listening? Your adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s original teleplay for “The City on the Edge of Forever” was top notch. How about taking this on?

Probably being kept on ice in case Quentin changes his mind

I want to read all the unused Kelvin-verse scripts, going back to when Orci was supposed to direct.

Michael, are you on any sites that have a private message function? I have access to a different script you might enjoy reading or could at least cross off your bucket list.

I hated that idea (or rather oh-dear) from the start and I’m glad it didn’t happen. I dislike QT’s movies as well as most “hard R” movies in general. Trek should never go down that road. Icheb’s demise was bad enough.

Why do you dislike R-rated movies?

Simply because I can’t stand blood and guts? I think it’s a matter of upbringing. My father hated blood in movies and since his death, his preferences have grown on me. In death he has become more powerful than you could possibly imagine… Not that I had particilarly liked graphic bloodshed before that. but before his passing, I was able to tolerate it. Now I’m not…

How about soft X movies? Emmanuel? Room in Rome?

I never loved this idea, but can’t Tarantino just, like, make 11 movies?

I’m not really getting the whole 10 movies thing either. Is it like his lucky number or something?

He’s always said he only planned to make 10 films in his lifetime then he’d retire. This would be movie 10 I believe.

Sure I get what you mean but why 10? Why not 11 or 13 or 5?

He can always pull a Soderbergh and change his mind. Kinda wish Soderbergh hadn’t unretired though.

It’s seems wrapped up in his delusional “mad genius” ideas of his “Hollywood Legend.” Like, he pictures his The E! True Hollywood Story and revels at the thought of them trying to unravel why “the greatest director in HISTORY” stopped after “only TEN films.” It’s very egotistical to me. He probably will be a legend, but it just seems so contrived to set a nice round limit on the number of movies your going to create. I hope he enjoys being asked the same question for the next 40 years, “Is that really it for you Mr. Tarantino? I like QT’s movies, but he’s always been a bit of a knob.

Kind of a weird obsession with making 10 movies.

This is one of those times when I don’t exactly want this to be made, but I wouldn’t mind stepping into the alternate Blockbuster Video from Last Action Hero to see how strange, and probably bad, it would be. File it under morbid curiosity, I guess.

Man I so still want to see this. Make it so!

Make it now Quentin!

Pacino as Bela De Niro as Krako Michael Madsen as Kalo Margot Robbie as Edith Keeler

If you truly embody ‘where no one has gone before’, you would support this wholeheartedly.

Sign me up!

I’m bummed, would’ve loved to have seen that. So instead we’ll just get nothing, awesome.

Yep. Trek fans don’t deserve a QT Trek movie.

lol That comment seems weirdly self-deprecating posted on a Trek site that only Trekkies frequent. You deserve it UpperDecks! Don’t be so hard on yourself ;-)

Every Star Trek movie has been hit or miss (mostly miss) so I can’t help wonder if the Key people at Paramount are in touch with reality or naturally half baked? All of the characters in Picard were excellent but the overall story content left much to be desired. The prime woman character of the first season was sweet and overall convincing but when her twin was bedded by that villain I thought Why is this show and her character portrayal with this pathetic Soap Opera? If that wasn’t enough they brought back Data after he died and added the Borg element – situation. Captain Rios was multifaceted and the best new character of them all but they ditched him like moldy bread. 🤨 Picard went too far – too fast in the wrong direction. Keep it simple and semi-predictable on the ship traveling to wayward planets – new worlds.

For a fanbase that prides itself on open-mindedness, the close mindedness against this film is truly mind-boggling. I’d love to see a different approach for a Trek movie and it doesn’t necessarily have to be “canon” as well. It could be something experimental like the standalone Joker film. My personal choice to direct a “different” kind of Trek movie though is more of a guy like David Cronenberg (who is actually involved in the franchise) rather than a guy like Tarantino. I’d be willing to see any and all forms of different interpretations of the Trek concept from auter directors.

Wow, so bringing the hardest of brutality to star trek is considered as “cool“. Honestly, don’t you think any random director wouldn’t be able to just bring as much brutality to a movie? This is considered as art??? Especially for adding some value to star trek??? Oh lord.

It’s like you didn’t even watch Pic season 3…lol

I watched it and since it has brutal elements, I still feel it’s serving the story. I think a star trek tarentino film would be like Picard season 1 episode where they pulling out the eye slowly

A JJ produced Tarantino a piece of the action isn’t a film i wanted. But it can’t be just that can it, there has to be some time travel hook or something like a dark alternate timeline or something. Something that makes it Star Trek and science fiction, because stylized violence in space isn’t Star Trek.

If a musical is acceptable, then a Tarantino take is fair play. Both aimed to do something never done before with the franchise. Both had strong resistors and a louder group of people shouting those people down. If it had happened, it would’ve meant that everybody would’ve gotten a turn at the bottom of the wheel, which is only logical, given the age of the franchise.

I don’t mind animation but it doesn’t need to be dumbed down or for kids, or insipid. Other franchises take animation seriously as another medium.

A shame that it didn’t happen. It would have been inglorious.

Some of you think that Tarantino would do a bad job? I remember a time when people were concerned about Nicholas Myers helming WOK, due to his interpretation of the STAR TREK franchise, and the fact that his resume/body of work was “light” when it came to sci-fi.

Personally, Tarantino should have took a crack at helming a movie. For one, it would have been an interesting experiment, since his field of expertise is the pop-culture side of cinema. For another, him helming a film might have been the thing to get other mainstream directors to consider doing a STAR TREK film. And, personally, I think Tarantino, regardless of his style of directing, would have respected the source material, given that he likes to deep-dive the subject matter. Heck, he might have used concepts that GR would have originally wanted, but couldn’t due to studio interference.

And while it is highly unlikely that Tarantino would want to helm a STAR TREK film at this point (I blame Paramount for this), I would like the script to still be produced, with him as the producer. If nothing else, I would like to read the script, just to see what ideas Tarantino and his scripter partner had in mind.

Still, can you imagine Sam Jackson as a Starfleet admiral that Captain Kirk has to report to? That’ll be an intense scene to be sure.

Agreed it feels like a huge missed opportunity, iconic director offering his services (much like he did with 007), and I would fully expect for him to have ‘deep dive’ into the material with extreme nostalgia for ToS (and maybe some of the movies) like he did with his other movies for their respective genres ..

As for what it could’ve been we obviously know it was something to do with gangsters/Piece of the Action, but Tarantino said in a podcast a few years back(before this movie was announced) that if he had the chance to do a Trek movie he’d make like a big version of City on the Edge of Forever or Yesterdays Enterprise (I can’t remember which but he proclaimed his love for both eps, so mightve been both of them),and the scriptwriter Mark Smith has said in a previous interview there was some timetravel in it, so maybe like a mashup of those 3 eps.

And id fully expect SLJ in there along with other QT alumni like Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Waltz, Madsen, Thurman maybe even Pitt or DiCaprio or MRobbie as gangsters, klingons, romulans, orions, corrupt starfleet captains/admirals etc and probably including Shatner somehow as he’s a huge fan of his and its not like Shatner would refuse a cameo in a Tarantino flick.

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EXCLUSIVE : After Deadline this week revealed that Quentin Tarantino pitched a Star Trek film to JJ Abrams and Paramount, the whole thing is moving at warp speed. Tarantino met for hours in a writers room with Mark L. Smith , Lindsey Beer , Drew Pearce and Megan Amram. They kicked around ideas and one of them will get the job. I’m hearing the frontrunner is Smith, who wrote The Revenant . The film will most certainly go where no Star Trek has gone before: Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience. That was the reason that Guillermo Del Toro’s $150 million At The Mountains of Madness didn’t go forward at Universal, even though Tom Cruise was ready to star. The exception to this rule was Fox’s Deadpool, but that film started out with modest ambitions before it caught on and became the biggest R rated film ever.

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That rating was crucially important to Tarantino, who hopes to direct this Star Trek and who has helmed R rated films his entire career. Imagine how this could open storytelling lanes, or even what the banter on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise might be, if you conjure up memories of the conversations between Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction , or the banter at the diner between robbers before the heist gone wrong that triggered the action in Reservoir Dogs .

Smith is best known for writing the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed The Revenant and subsequently overhauled Overlord , the WWII thriller that Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing for Paramount. Pearce’s script credits include Iron Man 3, Sherlock Holmes 3, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and the TV series Runaway TV ; he just directed his script Hotel Artemis ; Beer’s credits are mostly upcoming, and include the Doug Liman-directed Chaos Walking , as well as Godzilla Vs. Kong, Masters of the Universe, Barbarella and Dungeons and Dragons , all big scale stuff.

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Tarantino's Star Trek Movie Will Be R-Rated

Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie is looking at The Revenant writer Mark L. Smith to pen the script.

If you haven't already heard the crazy news, Quentin Tarantino is working on a Star Trek Movie . He recently pitched the idea to Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams and now the project is moving forward rather quickly, with Abrams set to produce. It's been revealed that the studio and Tarantino are zeroing in on a writer, which is encouraging for those who want to see this movie actually happen. But that's not the most interesting part. Not by a long shot. According to a new report, this will be the first R-Rated Star Trek movie ever. Here's what Deadline had to say about it.

" Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition."

On the one hand, it's not that surprising that Quentin Tarantino would want this mysterious Star Trek movie to be R-rated, as every movie he's ever directed has been. On the other hand, it's pretty amazing that Paramount is willing to allow Star Trek to boldly go in that direction, since it's never ventured into that kind of territory. However, movies like Deadpool , Logan and IT have proved that an R-rated movie can still be incredibly lucrative. Audiences just want to see a good movie. Plain and simple.

Currently, Quentin Tarantino is not locked in to direct this R-rated Star Trek movie , but the pitch is his and he's at least going to produce. If he likes the script, there's a chance he'll direct as well, which would mark the first time in his career that he's tackled a franchise movie. As for the script, Tarantino reportedly spent hours in a writer's room with Mark L. Smith ( The Revenant ), Lindsey Beer ( Chaos Walking ), and Drew Pearce ( Iron Man 3 ). They reportedly kicked around a lot of ideas and, at the end of the long process, Smith emerged as the frontrunner. Though, he hasn't locked down the gig just yet.

At the moment, Quentin Tarantino is working on his new movie , known only as #9, for Sony. J.J. Abrams, who rebooted Star Trek for Paramount and will executive produce this new movie, is busy prepping Star Wars: Episode IX . That will give Paramount the time they need to get this new Star Trek ready, providing the writer with plenty time they need to complete the script. Tarantino has said he's going to retire from redirecting after his tenth movie. If this works out, that means his final movie very well could be this R-rated Star Trek movie.

Plot details are currently being kept completely under wraps for now, but Quentin Tarantino did speak about doing a movie based on the Star Trek: The Original Series episode City on the Edge of Forever and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Yesterday's Enterprise on an episode of The Nerdist Podcast in 2015. Deadline's new report doesn't clarify if this movie will take the place of the proposed Star Trek 4 , but it seems unlikely that movie would still happen, given the disappointing box office for Star Trek Beyond .

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Space . . . the final @!$&#%.

Quentin Tarantino recently spoke about his possible new “Star Trek” film, which he’s pitched to Paramount, but the director didn’t discuss the plot, characters or his actors.

In typical Tarantino fashion, his head went straight for the gutter.

“It’s an R-rated movie,” the profanity-loving director told Empire . “If I do it, it’ll be R-rated.”

That’s a lot less shocking a statement than any plot twist out of Tarantino’s films. Take a gander at some of the dialogue from his oeuvre:

“Pulp Fiction”: “Does he look like a b–ch? Then why are you trying to f–k him like a b–ch?”

“Kill Bill”: “Your name is Buck, right? And you came to f–k, right?”

“Reservoir Dogs”: “Eddie, if you keep talkin’ like a b–ch, I’m gonna slap you like a b–ch.”

Tarantino has not yet been reportedly hired by Paramount to direct the flick. He’s also said that while a script for the film — which would likely still star Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban — exists, he hasn’t weighed in on it yet.

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It's hard to say how he would have worked in a discussion between Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock about a Royale with Cheese, but there's no question that if Quentin Tarantino had directed a "Star Trek" film, if would have felt like his crime classic "Pulp Fiction" in other ways.

In all likelihood, that means that the phasers carried by the crew of the Starship Enterprise would have been set on something far more powerful than "stun." "I think his vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some 'Pulp Fiction' violence," screenwriter Mark L. Smith explained in an interview with Collider . "Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special characters to kind of drop that into the 'Star Trek' world, but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool."

While Smith revealed some details about the "Star Trek" script he wrote for Tarantino and its darker tone — for a movie that ultimately never took flight — he wouldn't go into specifics about the plot. "I can't say anything about the story. He would kill me," the writer said.

Tarantino struggled with Star Trek being his last film

Quentin Tarantino's "Star Trek" film was unusual in that instead of writing the script, he left those duties up to Mark L. Smith. During his interview with Collider, Smith said that Tarantino was naturally trying to make the film in conjunction with filmmaker J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company. Bad Robot produced the first three "Star Trek" reboot films that began in 2009, starring Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock.

One of the hangups during the process, Smith explained, was Tarantino's insistence that he was going to retire after making 10 feature films. As far back as 2012, Tarantino said that he wanted to stop at a certain point, suggesting that 10 films may be his limit . Following his ninth feature, 2019's "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," Tarantino appeared to be keeping his promise, skipping the "Star Trek" sequel in favor of his upcoming swan song, "The Movie Critic."

After writing the script, Smith said that Tarantino began contemplating his rule of 10 and whether he wanted the "Star Trek" feature to be his last. "I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that "Star Trek" could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?'" Smith told Collider. "And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk."

Tarantino could use a loophole to make the Star Trek movie

Since Quentin Tarantino still has Mark L. Smith's script for a "Pulp Fiction"-style version of "Star Trek," could that mean the two-time Oscar winner is still contemplating making it? The answer, technically, could be "maybe."

After all, in 2019, Tarantino admitted that there was a loophole that might exclude "Star Trek" from his 10-movie rule . The filmmaker said at the time that the sequel could be left out of his official 10-movie count since it's not part of his body of original work.

In the meantime, while Smith knows Tarantino is fond of his "Star Trek" script, he's not holding his breath for the director to miraculously pull the trigger on the sequel. "I know he said a lot of nice things about it. I would love for it to happen," Smith told Collider. "It's just one of those that I can't ever see happening. But it would be the greatest 'Star Trek' film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing."

Meanwhile, "The Movie Critic" remains in development with no release date attached to it.

Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek: What happened?

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Fans of Quentin Tarantino have been living the roller coaster ride that is his journey in the Star Trek franchise.

In 2017, the news broke that Tarantino, one of the best directors working in the industry, had an idea for an R-rated Star Trek movie, and Paramount was moving on it. By 2020, news hit that Tarantino was out.

Quentin Tarantino pitched his Star Trek idea to J.J. Abrams

When one thinks of Quentin Tarantino movies, they see the ultra-violent films with some of the best dialogue in cinema. However, what they all have in common is that they are R-rated films as Tarantino makes his movies for adult audiences.

When one thinks of Star Trek, the ideas and ideals of the Federation are adult-oriented, but the series was aimed for fans of all ages. It may not be as kid-friendly as Star Wars, but it isn’t R-rated.

That made the news that hit in 2017 that Tarantino was planning to make an R-rated Star Trek movie surprising.

That is what happened, though.

Deadline reported in December 2017 that Tarantino pitched his Star Trek idea to J.J. Abrams, who brought Star Trek to a new generation on the big screen. Abrams liked it and planned to put together a writer’s room, and if it worked out, Tarantino would direct the movie.

This would have been the first Quentin Tarantino movie that he did not create on his own, although he did direct an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard book in the past (Jackie Brown).

However, the announcement also said that it would be a Tarantino movie, which means violence and language, and Tarantino gets final cut on most of his films.

Tarantino’s Star Trek would not be part of ongoing series

The one thing that he guaranteed was that the Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie would not be part of the ongoing Star Trek movie universe.

Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in Star Trek, said that the fourth movie was still in the works (as of May 2018) and it had nothing to do with the Tarantino movie, and a director had already been chosen for Star Trek 4 at the time (S.J. Clarkson).

“Quentin’s idea is another thing,” Pegg said . “He came into Bad Robot and pitched it, and it’s been put in the bank. I think he had us in mind when he came up with the idea; he likes the new cast. But he’s going to be so busy with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that I can’t see him doing it for five or six years, by which time we might be too old anyway.”

Also, it should be known that Tarantino is not a fan of the Kelvin Timeline (the new movie series), so using the cast from those movies made little sense anyway.

Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek had a script

By June 2018, a script was turned in for the Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie. This was also very unusual for Tarantino, who wrote all his films. Screenwriting was Tarantino’s strongest point in his career.

The team put in place included Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) as the writer. However, Smith wrote the script based on Tarantino’s story treatment.

At the time, Paramount president Wyck Godfrey said that the Tarantino Star Trek movie was a priority.

“Imagine, for instance, Paramount giving ‘Star Trek’ to Quentin Tarantino. Suddenly people’s eyes light up,” Godfrey said . “Yours just did.”

Tarantino talks his Star Trek film

A year later, Quentin Tarantino was talking about his Star Trek film. The director had finally released his ninth movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and had time to look at his next project.

However, this has fans worried. Tarantino has said that he planned only to make 10 movies and retire. Would Star Trek be his final movie and not an original film? Or would Star Trek not count since it was not a Tarantino original idea?

In July 2019, Tarantino talked in the Happy Sad Confused podcast about his Star Trek movie, proving it was still in development.

Tarantino said that the movie would take place in the Star Trek world that he grew up watching because he didn’t understand the new Kelvin Timeline. He said Abrams explained it to him, and he still didn’t get it.

“I don’t buy that. I don’t like it. I don’t appreciate it. F–k that. I don’t like that. I want the whole series to have happened! It just hasn’t happened yet,” Tarantino said about wiping the slate clean in the new movies.

He said he told Abrams this and was told: “Do whatever you want! If you want to do it the exact way it happened in the [original series], it can.”

He did mention in the same podcast that he loved the cast of Abrams’ movies, saying that Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto “nailed it” as Kirk and Spock.

Tarantino backs out of Star Trek

Exactly two years after Deadline reported that Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Star Trek movie, Consequences of Sounds interviewed the director, who said he wasn’t likely making the movie anymore.

So, what happened?

“I think I’m steering away from Star Trek, but I haven’t had an official conversation with those guys yet,” Tarantino said.

Tarantino said that, as much as he said he would finish with 10 movies, he finished Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and thought it could be his last movie. He said, if he makes another movie, he has no idea what it would be at that time.

He then also said that he had an idea that maybe his last film would be a small one, for a smaller audience, almost like “an author’s note.”

That would not be Star Trek.

However, Tarantino then said in that interview Paramount still planned to make his Star Trek movie, but he would not be the director.

“It’s a good idea. They should definitely do it, and I’ll be happy to come in and give them some notes on the first rough cut,” Tarantino said

Furthermore, it would still be separate from the main franchise, which has now brought in Noah Hawley (Legion) to direct Star Trek 4.

Meanwhile, Tarantino fans are just waiting to see what is next for the acclaimed director, if he even plans to make his 10th movie.

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Tarantino is a great writer, but I don’t want to see his paw-prints on a new Star Trek movie. I enjoyed the Kelvin Timeline movies and hope there’ll be another at some point.

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Quentin Tarantino Didn’t Make His R-Rated Star Trek Movie for One Key Reason

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Quentin Tarantino didn’t make his R-rated Star Trek movie because he didn’t want it to be the last film he ever made.

Speaking with Collider , writer Mark L. Smith opened up about Taraninto’s now-defunct Star Trek movie and explained that the project never came to fruition because the Pulp Fiction director didn’t want it to be his tenth and final movie.

“It was a different thing, but this was such a particular different type of story that Quentin wanted to tell with it that it fit my kind of sensibilities,” Smith said. “So I wrote that, Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, ‘If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?’ And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk. I know he said a lot of nice things about it. I would love for it to happen. It’s just one of those that I can’t ever see happening. But it would be the greatest Star Trek film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing.”

Tarantino has openly discussed his plans to retire after making his tenth movie. He’s so far directed nine movies throughout his career, including 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, 1994’s Pulp Fiction, 1997’s Jackie Brown, 2003’s Kill Bill: Volume 1, 2004’s Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Tarantino considers the two Kill Bill volumes to be a single film), 2007’s Death Proof, 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, 2012’s Django Unchained, 2015’s The Hateful Eight, and 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Quentin Tarantino is currently working on his last movie

He’s planning on his last movie to be The Movie Critic , which will be set in the 1970s and be “based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag,” he previously told Deadline .

Tarantino further explained about The Movie Critic, “He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic. I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.”

Smith further noted that Tarantino’s Stark Trek movie would have been something totally “different” for the franchise similar to “ the way that [Thor] Ragnarok changed things. It was like suddenly it had a different feel for the Marvel stuff. It was like, “That’s fun. That’s different.” And I guess Guardians [of the Galaxy] to some level, but it was just like a different vibe and that’s what I thought that it could bring to Star Trek was just a different feel.”

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Worst Star Trek Episodes From Every Series, As Rated By Fans

Posted: March 15, 2024 | Last updated: March 15, 2024

<p>When the premiere episode of <em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds</em> premiered on Paramount+ in May 2022, it brought the number of franchise television series, past and present, to eleven. We thought it would be interesting to look at the IMDb user ratings for every single series to determine which episodes were deemed the biggest stinkers for each show. Here they are, from the first days of William Shatner, to the most recent series led by Anson Mount.</p>

The Worst Star Trek Episodes From Every Series

When the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered on Paramount+ in May 2022, it brought the number of franchise television series, past and present, to eleven. We thought it would be interesting to look at the IMDb user ratings for every single series to determine which episodes were deemed the biggest stinkers for each show. Here they are, from the first days of William Shatner to the most recent series led by Anson Mount.

<p>Season 3 of <em>The Original Series</em> is generally considered the least impressive, with “And the Children Shall Lead” – with a user rating of 5.2 – proving no exception. The episode has the heroes discover a Federation colony in which all the adults have committed suicide while the children carry on as if everything is fine. We eventually learn the kids are under the influence of a malevolent alien named Gorgan (Melvin Belli).</p>

Star Trek: The Original Series - "And the Children Shall Lead"

Season 3 of  The Original Series is generally considered the least impressive, with “And the Children Shall Lead” – with a user rating of 5.2 – proving no exception. The episode has the heroes discover a Federation colony in which all the adults have committed suicide while the children carry on as if everything is fine. We eventually learn the kids are under the influence of a malevolent alien named Gorgan (Melvin Belli).

<p>There were only 16 episodes of the oft-overlooked <em>Star Trek: The Animated Series</em>, and according to fans the least of them is “The Magicks of Megas-Tu.” The world of Megas-Tu is home to a strange version of physical laws in which magic becomes reality. The heroes befriend the Satyr-like Lucien (James Doohan), something the rest of the Megans aren’t very happy about.</p>

Star Trek: The Animated Series - "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

There were only 16 episodes of the oft-overlooked Star Trek: The Animated Series , and according to fans the least of them is “The Magicks of Megas-Tu.” The world of Megas-Tu is home to a strange version of physical laws in which magic becomes reality. The heroes befriend the Satyr-like Lucien (James Doohan), something the rest of the Megans aren’t very happy about.

<p>As infamous as <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation </em>episodes like “Code of Honor” and “Sub Rosa” proved to be, no episode of <em>TNG</em> is hated more than the Season 2 finale “Shades of Gray.” In fact, based on its IMDb rating of 3.3, it’s the most hated episode in the entire franchise. Riker (<a href="https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/jonathan-frakes-arnold-schwarzeneggers-sequel.html">Jonathan Frakes</a>) suffers from a potentially terminal virus, and the only way to save him is to stimulate his brain activity, forcing him to relive his worst memories. The premise allows for Star Trek to give viewers what amounts to a “clip show,” somethings fans clearly didn’t want.</p>

Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Shades of Gray

As infamous as Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes like “Code of Honor” and “Sub Rosa” proved to be, no episode of TNG is hated more than the Season 2 finale “Shades of Gray.” In fact, based on its IMDb rating of 3.3, it’s the most hated episode in the entire franchise. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) suffers from a potentially terminal virus, and the only way to save him is to stimulate his brain activity, forcing him to relive his worst memories. The premise allows for Star Trek to give viewers what amounts to a “clip show,” somethings fans clearly didn’t want.

<p>Early in their relationship, Jadzia (Terry Farrell) and Worf (Michael Dorn) take a trip to the pleasure planet Risa. Disgusted by what he sees on the planet, Worf joins forces with a conservative group who believes the people of the Federation have grown too soft. The Klingon helps them sabotage the technology controlling the weather on Risa, changing the idyllic paradise into an inhospitable mess.</p>

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Let He Who Is Without Sin...

Early in their relationship, Jadzia (Terry Farrell) and Worf ( Michael Dorn ) take a trip to the pleasure planet Risa. Disgusted by what he sees on the planet, Worf joins forces with a conservative group who believes the people of the Federation have grown too soft. The Klingon helps them sabotage the technology controlling the weather on Risa, changing the idyllic paradise into an inhospitable mess.

<p>“Let He Who Is Without Sin…” actually ties with “Meridian” for the least favorite <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</em> episode — with both earning an IMDb user rating of 5.6 — and interestingly both episodes involve Jadzia’s romantic life. A season before she meets her future husband Worf, Jadzia falls in love with Deral (Brett Cullen). The only problem is that Deral lives on the eponymous planet, which phases out of physical existence for decades at a time.</p>

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Meridian"

“Let He Who Is Without Sin…” actually ties with “Meridian” for the least favorite  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode — with both earning an IMDb user rating of 5.6 — and interestingly both episodes involve Jadzia’s romantic life. A season before she meets her future husband Worf, Jadzia falls in love with Deral (Brett Cullen). The only problem is that Deral lives on the eponymous planet, which phases out of physical existence for decades at a time.

<p>With a rating of exactly 5, the Season 5 <em>Star Trek: Voyager </em>episode “The Fight” somehow beats out other famously hated episodes like “Threshold” and “Sacred Ground.” Chakotay (Robert Beltran) is the focus of this episode, as he suffers from hallucinations and embarks on a vision quest in hopes of figuring out what’s going on. He sees a pair of boxing gloves all over the titular vessel, and has visions of himself boxing under the tutelage of Starfleet Academy’s Boothby (Ray Walston).</p>

Star Trek: Voyager - "The Fight

With a rating of exactly 5, the Season 5  Star Trek: Voyager  episode “The Fight” somehow beats out other famously hated episodes like “Threshold” and “Sacred Ground.” Chakotay (Robert Beltran) is the focus of this episode, as he suffers from hallucinations and embarks on a vision quest in hopes of figuring out what’s going on. He sees a pair of boxing gloves all over the titular vessel, and has visions of himself boxing under the tutelage of Starfleet Academy’s Boothby (Ray Walston).

<p>Of all the series in the franchise, <em>Star Trek: Enterprise</em> is the only one whose lowest <a href="https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?series=tt0244365&view=simple&sort=user_rating,asc">IMDb</a> user rating (5.3) is for its series finale. All things considered, it isn’t much of a surprise. All of “These Are The Voyages…” is told from the perspective of Will Riker, who is witnessing it all on a holodeck during the events of the <em>TNG</em> episode “The Pegasus.”</p>

Star Trek: Enterprise - "These Are The Voyages...

Of all the series in the franchise,  Star Trek: Enterprise is the only one whose lowest IMDb user rating (5.3) is for its series finale. All things considered, it isn’t much of a surprise. All of “These Are The Voyages…” is told from the perspective of Will Riker, who is witnessing it all on a holodeck during the events of the TNG episode “The Pegasus.”

<p>The lowest rated episode of <em>Star Trek: Discovery</em> streamed in the beginning of its most recent season: Season 4’s “All Is Possible.” The story sees Tilly (Mary Wiseman) and Adira (Blu del Barrio) leading Starfleet cadets on a training mission when things turn dangerous quickly.</p>

Star Trek: Discovery - "All Is Possible

The lowest rated episode of  Star Trek: Discovery streamed in the beginning of its most recent season: Season 4’s “All Is Possible.” The story sees Tilly (Mary Wiseman) and Adira (Blu del Barrio) leading Starfleet cadets on a training mission when things turn dangerous quickly.

<p>While <em>Star Trek: Picard</em>‘s third and final season was widely embraced, the same cannot be said of the season that preceded it. The seventh episode of Season 2, “Monsters,” is the least loved of the series. The chief focus of the story is Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) mental journey to uncover buried memories, with <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>‘s James Callis serving as his guide.</p>

Star Trek: Picard - "Monsters

While  Star Trek: Picard ‘s third and final season was widely embraced, the same cannot be said of the season that preceded it. The seventh episode of Season 2, “Monsters,” is the least loved of the series. The chief focus of the story is Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) mental journey to uncover buried memories, with  Battlestar Galactica ‘s James Callis serving as his guide.

<p>Just as <em>Enterprise</em> is the only Trek series whose series finale earned its lowest user score, the animated comedy series <em>Star Trek: Lower Decks</em> is the only one whose series premiere, “Second Contact,” is the least regarded in the show. “Second Contact” introduces us to the quartet of lower decks heroes as the U.S.S. Cerritos stops by to check on the small, pig-like residents of Galardon.</p>

Star Trek: Lower Decks - "Second Contact

Just as  Enterprise is the only Trek series whose series finale earned its lowest user score, the animated comedy series  Star Trek: Lower Decks is the only one whose series premiere, “Second Contact,” is the least regarded in the show. “Second Contact” introduces us to the quartet of lower decks heroes as the U.S.S. Cerritos stops by to check on the small, pig-like residents of Galardon.

<p>The least loved episode of <em>Star Trek: Prodigy </em>is “Starstruck,” when the heroes have to find a way to get the U.S.S. Protostar to break free from a horrifying collision course. But “least loved” is fairly relative, considering of all the Trek series’ low points, “Starstruck” has the highest rating (7.1). You could argue that <em>Prodigy </em>has only had one season, and only twenty episodes, and so hasn’t had enough “chance” to make a bad episode — but it’s had more episodes than <em>The Animated Series </em>or <em>Strange New Worlds</em>, so this is an impressive feat no matter how you slice it.</p>

Star Trek: Prodigy - "Starstruck

The least loved episode of  Star Trek: Prodigy  is “Starstruck,” when the heroes have to find a way to get the U.S.S. Protostar to break free from a horrifying collision course. But “least loved” is fairly relative, considering of all the Trek series’ low points, “Starstruck” has the highest rating (7.1). You could argue that Prodigy has only had one season, and only twenty episodes, and so hasn’t had enough “chance” to make a bad episode — but it’s had more episodes than The Animated Series  or Strange New Worlds , so this is an impressive feat no matter how you slice it.

<p>When it comes to the most recently released franchise series, <em>Strange New Worlds</em>, the least favorite episode among fans according to IMDb is “The Elysian Kingdom,” and it isn’t tough to imagine why. On one hand while the Enterprise has no holodeck at this point, the episode essentially is a holodeck episode, with the entire crew becoming characters in a fairy tale. On the other, it resolves a subplot involving Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and his sick daughter in a way that many didn’t agree with.</p>

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - "The Elysian Kingdom

When it comes to the most recently released franchise series, Strange New Worlds , the least favorite episode among fans according to IMDb is “The Elysian Kingdom,” and it isn’t tough to imagine why. On one hand while the Enterprise has no holodeck at this point, the episode essentially is a holodeck episode, with the entire crew becoming characters in a fairy tale. On the other, it resolves a subplot involving Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and his sick daughter in a way that many didn’t agree with.

<p><em>Star Trek: Short Treks</em> was a series of short films created in the Star Trek universe. It only lasted two seasons, probably because it wasn’t very well received. The worst received of all its episodes was one from season two called “The Girl Who Made The Stars.”  It’s an animated episode that, as far as anyone could tell, had almost nothing at all to do with Star Trek. Instead, it was some sort of unrelated African fairytale, and not one that fans seemed to think was very well told as reflected by its 5.4 rating.</p>

Star Trek: Short Treks - "The Girl Who Made The Stars"

Star Trek: Short Treks was a series of short films created in the Star Trek universe. It only lasted two seasons, probably because it wasn’t very well received. The worst received of all its episodes was one from season two called “The Girl Who Made The Stars.”  It’s an animated episode that, as far as anyone could tell, had almost nothing at all to do with Star Trek. Instead, it was some sort of unrelated African fairytale, and not one that fans seemed to think was very well told as reflected by its 5.4 rating.

<p>Someone at Paramount thought it might be a good idea to make extremely short form, funny videos using the style of <em>Star Trek: The Animated</em> series. Fans seemed to agree that in fact, this was not a very good idea at all. The most disliked <em>Very Short Treks</em> episode is called “Worst Contact,” and IMDB users gave it a shockingly low 4.7. The entire episode entirely revolves around jokes about gross bodily fluids, so it’s not a surprise that not only would this be the most hated episode of <em>Very Short Treks</em>, but perhaps the most hated Star Trek episode ever made.</p>

Star Trek: Very Short Treks - "Worst Contact

Someone at Paramount thought it might be a good idea to make extremely short form, funny videos using the style of Star Trek: The Animated series. Fans seemed to agree that in fact, this was not a very good idea at all. The most disliked Very Short Treks episode is called “Worst Contact,” and IMDB users gave it a shockingly low 4.7. The entire episode entirely revolves around jokes about gross bodily fluids, so it’s not a surprise that not only would this be the most hated episode of Very Short Treks , but perhaps the most hated Star Trek episode ever made.

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Quentin tarantino didn't want "hard r" star trek to be his final film, says screenwriter.

Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie isn't going to happen, and screenwriter Mark L. Smith explains why the A-list director changed his mind about it.

  • Quentin Tarantino intended to direct an R-rated Star Trek film, but he was hesitant to make it his last movie.
  • Tarantino worked with screenwriter Mark L. Smith to develop a script, but Quentin couldn't reconcile Star Trek 4 as his final film.
  • The script for the R-rated Star Trek film is still sitting on Tarantino's desk, but it is unlikely to ever be made.

Quentin Tarantino intended to direct an R-rated Star Trek movie, but the Pulp Fiction auteur decided he didn't want Star Trek 4 to be his last film. Tarantino has stated that he has plans to retire from directing after ten films, and it seems he had mixed feelings about Star Trek being his last outing. Although Tarantino's idea for Star Trek was undoubtedly interesting , it never got past the scripting stage. Tarantino did work with The Revenant director Mark L. Smith to write a script based on his idea, but the film never made it any further than that.

In an interview with Collider about The Boys in the Boat, screenwriter Mark L. Smith spoke about the script he had developed with Quentin Tarantino for Star Trek 4 . Smith reveals that Tarantino worried about Star Trek being his 10th and final film, and he backed away because the director couldn't reconcile Star Trek 4 as the last movie he ever makes. Read his full quote below:

"It was a different thing, but this was such a particular different type of story that Quentin wanted to tell with it that it fit my kind of sensibilities. So I wrote that, Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?' And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk. I know he said a lot of nice things about it. I would love for it to happen. It’s just one of those that I can't ever see happening. But it would be the greatest Star Trek film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing."

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Quentin tarantino's hard r star trek movie explained, tarantino's star trek was an homage to tos' "a piece of the action"..

Quentin Tarantino's pitch for a Star Trek film took inspiration from Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 17, "A Piece of the Action." This classic Trek episode follows Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) as they masquerade as gangsters on a planet whose culture is based on the gangster culture of 1920s Chicago. While little information has been revealed about the script written based on Tarantino's idea, Mark L. Smith confirmed that it would have followed in the footsteps of Tarantino's other movies when it came to the film's rating . Smith said:

"But I think his vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some Pulp Fiction violence. Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special characters to kind of drop that into the Star Trek world, but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool."

Since Quentin Tarantino first mentioned the idea of doing a Star Trek film, fan reaction has been mixed. Tarantino's tendency to explore some of humanity's worst traits directly contrasts with Star Trek's optimistic view of humanity and its future , meaning his film would likely have been very different from any previous Trek outing. While the script for the film is still out there, it seems unlikely the film will ever get made. Paramount reportedly still wants to make a long-awaited sequel to 2016's Star Trek Beyond with Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the rest of the cast, but Star Trek 4 remains elusive.

Source: Collider

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