Just make it LOOK like Star Trek! Nothing from 2009 onwards besides Lower Decks has actually looked or felt like Star Trek.

Star Wars has been consistent in this.

I blame JJ first and foremost. But strangely he managed to make Star Wars look right….ish.

I’ll give it a chance. These two care about telling a good story while being faithful to the subject matter. That said, their entire resume is jokey movies, which works well for something like D&D but not so well for Star Trek. I wonder if they’ll be able to go in a new professional direction and tamp down on that… or if they were hired for that, since Paramount seems to think Star Trek needs to be more Buffy the Vampire Slayer than TOS or TNG.

That said, part of the reason DS9 was so great in later seasons and so rough and uneven in earlier ones was because the drama was fantastic in later seasons and the comedy was so awful in early ones. So who knows, maybe there’s a chance to strike a balance and not have it come out as shallow as the 2009 movie.

Any Trek is good Trek.* Let’s give them a chance.

(*)Except that Section 31 movie.

Per Wikipedia:

Daley is also known for his collaborative work with fellow writer and director Jonathan Goldstein, working on various films together. Daley and Goldstein’s first work together was co-writing the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), co-writers for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), co-story writing for Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and co-writing/co-directing (in their directing debuts) the fifth film in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series, Vacation (2015). The duo were co-writers for Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) with Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and they co-directed the 2018 comedy Game Night and the 2023 fantasy Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Also involved in the Minecraft Movie and a TV Horror show called Hysteria.

…Okay.

Could be worse, I guess?

With how things are going, I don’t have any hope this will be any good if it even gets made.

I remember when this used to be good news

Trek should be closer to what we had in the TOS or TNG films. A continuation of a TV show that already has established characters that had plenty of time to explore who they are. I’m willing to bet this new Trek film is gonna be another TOS rehash to avoid having to do any of that.

I’m happy to hear that something new will happen. Hopefully we can break free of all the modern Trek from the last decade. I seriously hope this isn’t going to be yet another nostalgia play where they re-cast the original characters. Please, write something new and explore that amazing universe with new compelling characters, ships, planets and science fiction stories. It would be incredible if they advanced the timeframe to completely break away from the temptation to loop in existing characters or retcon stuff. The last thing we need is another cool and modern interpretation of the 60s aesthetic. Let’s move on and be creative.