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

10. STAR TREK: ORIGINS

Most recently, January 2024 saw director Toby Haynes of Andor fame signed up, along with writer Seth Grahame-Smith, in an all-new original non-Kelvin Origins movie set between First Contact and Enterprise.

"A prequel focusing on humanity’s early contact with aliens and the formation of the Federation,” it was thus to be set mostly on Earth. Like Kelvin 4, this one was actually on the slate to have been greenlit by the end of 2024 and shot in 2025 as a 60th anniversary release this year. But the dragged-out studio sale melodrama froze out this one as well.

Though P-Sky initially took over with an option to retain any existing projects, this JJ Abrams/Bad Robot contract was all of 18 months in the public eye when it was apparently deemed too “old” and cast aside late in 2025, for a “fresh” restart.

Status: JUST DEAD

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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