Star Trek: Every In Development Movie & TV Show, Ranked
The Kelvin movies may be done, but the Trek Universe is ever expanding...
The planned fourth movie in Star Trek's 'Kelvin' series appears to have finally been shelved completely. It's a disappointment after the strong Star Trek Beyond - though that movie's box office performance didn't match it's decent reviews.
Despite a director, SJ Clarkson, being attached to the fourth movie it ran into major problems. These included a contract dispute involving Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth - who were slated to return as Captain James T Kirk and his father George Kirk, respectively - and reports are that the film has now been cancelled indefinitely.
While this will be a disappointment for many, Trek fans have much cause for celebration right now as the franchise is about to get bigger than ever. Since Alex Kurtzman was tapped to oversee Trek's reinvigorated TV arm a huge slate of shows have been announced to join the already airing Star Trek: Discovery.
That show is well into second season, a run which has proved popular so far. Kurtzman took over as showrunner this year, and has managed to iron out some of the issues fans had with season one resulting in a more streamlined show that feels more like Star Trek.
That in itself is a good sign for the expanded universe, while many of the projects announced so far are very exciting...
8. New Captain Picard TV Series
Without a doubt the most highly anticipated new Trek project in years is the recently announced return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who will once again be played by Sir Patrick Stewart - nearly twenty years after he appeared to leave the role for good with Star Trek Nemesis.
The show was announced by Stewart himself at a Star Trek Convention in August 2018. The news was received rapturously. While details on the series are still scarce, it seems to be moving quickly with little hints being dropped from the writer's room, casting announcements made and a likely start to production next month. The first episode should premiere before the end of 2019!
Many fans have also been delighted by confirmation that the show will be set around twenty years after Star Trek Nemesis. This will be the first project in almost two decades that properly focuses on the period after that movie - everything since has been a prequel (like Discovery) or reboot (like the Kelvin movies).
Finally, we'll get to find out what happens after the destruction of Romulus which kicked off the Kelvin timeline - an incident which will reportedly have big repercussions for the original Trek universe, and for Picard himself.
It seems likely we'll see a very different Picard - he likely won't be a Captain anymore, and may not even be in Starfleet - but Stewart himself was both surprised and delighted by Kurtzman's pitch which convinced him to return to the character, as well as taking on a producing role for the first time.
Watch Patrick Stewart announcing Picard's return here: