13 Star Trek Pitches Out There (And Where They're At)

14. STAR TREK: "UNCONNECTED"

Well, “Unconnected” is my term, at least, for the yet unnamed Star Trek film project announced in November with the movie duo behind the popular Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Spiderman: Homecoming, among others: John Francis Daly (who will always be Lindsay’s little brother Sam Weir to me! —shoutout to Freaks and Geeks) and producing partner Jonathan Goldstein. They’re officially tasked to write/produce/direct the only actual confirmed *new* Trek project of any kind. Yes, really.

I’m calling it “Unconnected” because, as Deadline first reported, the premise is “a completely new take on the Star Trek universe and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects.”

So, different characters and different eras … ? That’s what I’ve been wanting for 25 years! Finally got it with Enterprise; finally got it with Section 31 (though I wish we’d gotten a good story along with it.)

The rest of the movie list is easy, because it’s all vaporware from here on.

Status: : GREEN-lit script

Authored by Larry Nemecek

Contributor

Back when nerds and geeks were just called "hobbyists," Larry's ninth-grade science teacher ended a bewildering conversations with him about Halkans by finally saying, "Oh Larry — don't tell me you don't know Star Trek!"— along with a commandment to go home and begins watching the daily after-school rerun. The rest is history — well, future history, anyway. Larry had always been a NASA kid and a history fan (not so much sci-fi), so Star Trek fit right in: for the phenomenon that was worldbuilding before the term was invented, Larry felt passion-called to take up "backgrounding" and gap-filling before the term "retcon" was invented. Star Trek is fun and inspiring, but it doesn't pay the bills —at least in those days— but after college and work in theatre and print news, Larry somehow managed to combine both fields with his non-fiction Trek fandom and created the monster that today is Dr. Trek. His self-published, pre-Internet star charts and TNG Concordance were precursors to the official Stellar Cartography map set and the bestseller TNG Companion, after a move to Hollywood /SoCal in the 1990s boom years. Add in a stint as managing editor of official ST Communicator magazine, the first editor and later content producer of the original startrek.com, and the franchise consultant for everything from the Star Trek World Tour to the storied Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. When Star Trek went wandering in the wilderness for the first time in 18 years amid the "Paramount divorce" of 2005-06, so did Larry — until, finally, the entrepreneur web world eventually found a path and a way to stay afloat. Since then, Larry's "Trekland" has come to mean more media projects and podcast/streaming alongside the old standbys like convention guest speaking and even text writing. Sure, there's The Trek Files for Roddenberry, his own Trekland Tuesdays Live, and Dr. Trek;s Second Opinion reaction shows — but that passion for spotlighting and archiving the creatives of Trek across all arenas and eras still drives him to pioneer experiences like the monthly backstage Portal 47 features, and the Trekland Treks day tours of Trek location sights. And now ... in-depth Dr. Trek turns for TrekCulture, too!

Posted On: 1st Jul 2026

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