Selection has the news on the way forward for “Star Trek,” unveiling a flashy new cowl story protecting virtually each nook of the (fictional) universe. One tidbit buried among the many relaxation, nonetheless, paints a reasonably fascinating image of what one of many films in improvement may find yourself specializing in. With names like Toby Haynes and author Seth Grahame-Smith (“The LEGO Batman Film,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) hooked up, there’s clearly no scarcity of artistic expertise seeking to put their stamp on future plans for the franchise. Determining what precisely that course needs to be, nonetheless, is one other story altogether.
In response to the report, followers can anticipate the film to “function an origin story of kinds for the principle timeline of your complete [‘Star Trek’] franchise.” What meaning, in fact, is anyone’s guess. When it comes to the timeline, one of the best guess is that it will happen lengthy earlier than the occasions of the 2009 J.J. Abrams semi-reboot and that of “The Unique Sequence” as nicely. Discounting time-travel adventures that positioned modern “Trek” characters on, say, twentieth Century Earth, the earliest period of the canon that we have seen was beforehand explored in “Star Trek: Enterprise,” which is about a full century earlier than the likes of Captain James T. Kirk or Mr. Spock ever stepped foot on the USS Enterprise.
Trekkies already know the way occasions like First Contact between humanity and the Vulcans unfolded or how occasions just like the Eugenics Wars ravaged the Earth and set our civilization on a course for the celebs, so may this in-development film deal with the formation of Starfleet and the Federation as a complete? At this level, your guess is nearly as good as ours. We’ll positively be protecting a detailed eye on this one.