Or you could go in the exact opposite direction, and select a director who is not only familiar with successfully helming big budget productions (well, Thunderbirds excepted) but is also pretty familiar with the Star Trek franchise. Jonathan Frakes is known to fans on-screen as Commander Riker from The Next Generation and its ensuing movie spin-offs, but he was also the man behind the character for one of the best instalments in the Trek film series and one of the more action-packed ones, come to think of it. First Contact was a little different from much of the rest of the Star Trek franchise. Not quite as radically different as the Abrams reboots, but it still favoured high-ocatne thrills over the more prosaic pace of the TV show. What Frakes managed to do well was translate the television series to a more cinematic arena, bringing some big-screen action but never compromising the philosophy that Rodenberry embedded in the concept from the beginning. Oh, and the Borg. It also had the Borg. The new Star Trek films has so far toyed with Vulcans, Klingons, and Khan the hive-mind alien invaders seem like the last iconic Trek concepts they've yet to play with. So why not let the master handle a rebooted take on the Borg? And in doing so we can all forget that he also directed Insurrection. And his last two films were TV movie Indiana Jones rip-offs.
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