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[–] Niksolo80@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Star Trek Origins. All roles played by Jeffrey Combs.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] fixmycode 3 points 1 day 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~~

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bad writers who hate Star Trek and their fans.

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 9 points 2 days 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.

[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 5 points 2 days 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!

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days 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

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!

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Star Trek Origins: The Birth of Khan

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just three hours of delivery room footage

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Origin of Purple Klingons.

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

We do not discuss it with outsiders.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't First Contact the origin movie?

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

We can go even deeper

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see we're reporting on reports now

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And commenting about it, too!

[–] halm@leminal.space 3 points 1 day 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?

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.