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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably a college comedy movie about how Archer got through school and on the path to captaincy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd watch that - there aren't enough movies featuring water polo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Which is baffling, considering just how visually interesting the sport is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is an excellent question.

I kinda hope it's like a movie about the literal origin of Star Trek as a television show. At this point, I feel like that would have a better chance of actually getting made then anything set in universe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is an idea I ran by a fellow Trekkie awhile ago. An "Ed Wood" like movie about the behind the scenes of TOS. Satirize it from a place of love, focus on the drama between the cast and the antagonism between the studio and Gene. Quality movie material!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you seen Shadow of the Vampire? It's a fiction about the filming of Nosferatu (1922) where they actually used a real vampire as the main character

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I have not but I'll have to check it out. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy being time travellers from the future would certainly be a twist!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

After watching "The Offer" I'm totally in on this idea. It would be awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Star Trek Origins: The Birth of Khan

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just three hours of delivery room footage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

LOL I would love if a new Trek film comes out and it's just some extremely esoteric avant-garde production.

Give me Warhol's "Empire" but it's just an extended 8 hour cut of the flyby scene in TMP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Origin of Purple Klingons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We do not discuss it with outsiders.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Star Trek Origins. All roles played by Jeffrey Combs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Commander Shran returns to Andoria to reenact the events that led to the forming of the Federation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't First Contact the origin movie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

We can go even deeper

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see we're reporting on reports now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And commenting about it, too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh great, another recast of the TOS crew, but they're all preteens hijacking a spaceship and fighting preteen Romulans together? Also, they form this deep and meaningful bond that has to be reset/memory wiped by the end of the movie yet somehow steer them onto a shared future?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s…a lot of assumptions not in any way supported by the linked article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

To be fair, it's also not supported by any other articles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not assumption, just worst fears when they give us so little to go on after two or three aborted or stalled movies 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's dystopian and not utopic, they can keep it and hopefully lose money. Star Trek isn't Star Wars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Alex Kurtzman ran for mayor of my town just to make it illegal for me to watch TNG :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bad writers who hate Star Trek and their fans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Rick Berman?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tbh I’d rather just more content from the modern age of Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's no evidence it's not! First Contact was a TNG movie after all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Looking around online, further rumors seem to lean towards it being a Federation origin film.

That would put us in ENT era, but I don't see them following the existing canon. Maybe following a non-Enterprise ship to recruit an early but non-founding planet. The origin in this case being about how the Federation first expanded.

The other option could be picking up right after First Contact. How mankind adapts to learning about the Vulcans.

I just don't see either of those films getting greenlit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

the movie is just a long take of a young James T. Kirk driving a convertible while listening to the Beastie Boys. The movie ends as he drives it into a canyon.

~~I'd probably watch it~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It’s going to be about the Post-Atomic Horror… Or else! Give me my campy Kangaroo court.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just rewatched Into Darkness. It still holds up, if the whitewashing doesn't bother you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

To be fair, I wouldn’t exactly call original Khan good representation either, in the sense that he draws on some negative ethnic stereotypes.

Still a fun villain, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Recasting one actor for a character that race isn't an important characteristic isn't white washing.

The problem with Into Darkness is how bad the writing and acting are. They took one of the most popular Star Trek movies and remade it badly.