Boldly go back. Since 2016 and the release of Star Trek Beyond, fans of the Trek movies have been caught in a transporter beam that’s failed to fully materialize. While the Trek universe has expanded on streaming TV in an impressive way, the future of Trek in the cinema has been less clear.
But after several starts and stops, a new Trek feature might finally be warping into theaters just in time for the franchise’s 60th anniversary in 2026. Here’s why it seems this new Star Trek “origin story” film is really happening now, what its unexpected subject matter will be, and why we should expect a lot more updates soon. As reported by Trek Movie via Puck , “.
..the new Trek script, by Seth Grahame-Smith, is done and on its way toward a green light, possibly by the end of the year, for a shoot in the first half of 2025.
” This project, which had been previously reported in a variety of outlets, is a script focused on Starfleet history before the J.J. Abrams movies, and perhaps could even be set “well before the U.
S.S. Enterprise era.
” If that’s the case, it would be the first Trek movie of its kind, a prequel to all of Trek’s divergent canon that might give it the feeling of a cinematic reboot. Some previous reports have suggested that this new movie would take place mainly on Earth, which isn’t that unusual when you consider that three of the franchise’s biggest box office hits — The Voyage Home, First Contact, and Star Trek (2009) — all take place at l.
