Two New Star Trek Movies Are in the Works - One Boldly Going Somewhere New, One Bringing Back the Classics

Paramount and Skydance have finished merging, and apparently the first order of business is to fire up the warp core and bring Star Trek back to the big screen in a massive way. According to Deadline, not one but two new Trek movies are in development - one featuring a whole new crew of characters, and another bringing back Kirk, Spock, and the gang for another Kelvin Timeline adventure.

The "new crew" film will be directed by Andor's Toby Haynes and written by Seth Grahame Smith, while the familiar Enterprise story will come from The Flight Attendant creator Steve Yockey. No release dates yet, and knowing Trek movie history, there's a non-zero chance one of these ends up in the same development limbo as Quentin Tarantino's never-made Star Trek or Noah Hawley's pandemic plot that got scrapped before casting.

Honestly, I'm torn. On the one hand, new characters could give Trek the kind of fresh start it hasn't had on the big screen in ages. On the other hand… I love the Kelvin cast and I'd happily watch them beam into one more adventure.

Also, I'm smack in the middle of a Next Generation marathon right now, so the idea of a Trek movie that captures that balance of fresh faces and classic Trek spirit has me very "make it so." Whether we're getting a bold new voyage or one last ride with the old crew… I'll be there opening night.