"What does that mean for the next five, even 10 years? Should fans already be    
   worried about recent history repeating itself?   
      
   We know for sure that there are at least two Star Trek motion picture projects    
   planned by Paramount. Just this month, at CinemaCon, Paramount CEO Jim    
   Gianopulos announced that “multiple movies” were coming—and he later   
   clarified    
   that there were at least two in the works. Details are still unfolding, but   
   it’s    
   all but certain that we’ll see one more “Kelvin” timeline film featuring   
   that    
   cast. The other project is likely to be built around the Internet’s favorite    
   story idea, the one pitched by none other than Quentin Tarantino and currently    
   reported to be in development as a script by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith.   
      
   Beyond those details, we really don’t know anything about what either film   
   will    
   have to say. The last “Kelvin” timeline film, Star Trek Beyond, left our   
   crew on    
   the bridge of that timeline’s version of NCC-1701-A. The fourth installment   
   is    
   likely to star the same main cast (minus Anton Yelchin; J.J. Abrams has said    
   that they will not recast Chekov in the wake of Yelchin’s tragic, accidental    
   death in 2016), and Variety recently reported S.J. Clarkson is attached as a    
   director. Clarkson is known for directing episodes of Dexter, Orange is the   
   New    
   Black, and Jessica Jones, and she would become the first woman to direct a   
   Star    
   Trek feature film. Story possibilities are endless, but the consensus in the   
   fan    
   community is that the hints dropped by Abrams and others last year about Chris    
   Hemsworth’s return as George Kirk are to be believed. There’s some   
   speculation    
   that the movie may center around Captain Kirk interacting with his deceased    
   father through yet another time travel event, possibly even tying up the    
   “Kelvin” timeline by stopping his death—thus making a four-film,   
   self-contained    
   storyline.   
      
   What Tarantino’s story idea might have been is anyone’s guess. I   
   personally    
   doubt it will be what most people think of when they imagine a “Tarantino    
   story”—I’d be surprised if we see our first R-rated Trek feature, for   
   example.    
   Tarantino is on record as being a big fan of episodes like “City on the Edge   
   of    
   Forever” and “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” for whatever that tells us   
   (isn’t    
   everyone a fan of those episodes?). Rumors so far suggest that it may feature   
   an    
   entirely different setting (i.e. not an Enterprise or any other surrounding    
   planets with which we’re familiar), may not even center on Starfleet   
   characters,    
   and may exist in its own timeline."   
      
      
   "And if a second season of Discovery and two more movies at Paramount weren't    
   enough to whet your Trek appetite, the future of the franchise had potential    
   major updates just this week. Wrath of Khan director Nick Meyer stated during   
   an    
   event at UC Irvine on May 16 that he was working on a trilogy of movies for   
   CBS    
   All Access, although forward momentum was on hold while CBS and Paramount work    
   out their legal situation."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/a-dozen-years-after-near-   
   eath-star-treks-future-may-be-stronger-than-ever/   
      
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