Good god, they are continuing on with this crap. They embarrassed themselves with that crap last year.

Yep. There's really no point in watching unless there is a massive overhaul of the writing room and show runners.

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The whole show needs to be tightened up. I'll still give it a shot but better writers and a better showrunner would be welcome.

Yeah love me some Picard but after that first season your opinions is probably the same as the other 95% of Star Trek fans.

You would think so, but the new shows seem to be pretty popular on the Trek forums. There is a very large segment of the fan base that simply loves anything with the Star Trek label on it. I think the studio knows this so they really don't have an incentive to turn out a better product.

Matt Shakman, fresh off the billion Emmy nominations for WandaVision, has just signed on with Paramount and Bad Robot to helm the next Star Trek film. No word on cast or timeline yet, but it's being rushed into production early next year. Big deal for Paramount, apparently.

If this is true, they have a script and will bring back the Kelvin Timeline cast because otherwise, it would be impossible.

With Bad Robot involved, I'd be absolutely floored if they re-cast the Abrams Star Trek crew.

And here's confirmation from literally 2 minutes ago:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Very excited that Matt Shakman from WandaVision is going to direct the next Trek movie — and that the reboot cast is also coming back. I wonder if they’re still going with the idea of bringing back Hemsworth. I would rather they move on from Kirk’s daddy issues. <a href="https://t.co/GzzqEWmJ4O">pic.twitter.com/GzzqEWmJ4O</a></p>&mdash; Jim Vejvoda (@JimVejvoda) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimVejvoda/status/1415108210071982080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Awesome news! It’s funny to think that this cast will have spent at least us much time playing these characters on the big screen as the original cast did.

1979 to 1991. Original cast.

2009 to 2022. New cast.

Well, it's four movies with the new cast versus six with the original but I get your drift. I would be kinda shocked if this film was released in summer 2022 and it'll most likely be during the holiday season or Spring 2023.

The best part about this is that the cast could conceivably continue for decades.

Yes. Good point

That's good news. Chris Pine was well cast as Kirk, so it would have been a shame to waste that.

Oh hell yes! This is great news.

Pine, Karl Urban, and Zachary Quinto all nail the Star Trek "big three". Zoe Saldana, John Cho, and Simon Pegg all do very well with their adaptations (even if I could do without the Spock/Uhura romance).

And RIP Anton Yelchin. His Chekov took me a couple of viewings to adapt to, but by the end of the third flick he WAS Chekov.

Very true. They all surpassed any expectations I had going into that series of films and did a good job with those characters.