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5. Bye Bye Bye 4
The Enterprise-A has seemingly been decommissioned, though this time, there's no one there to tell the bosses to 'Go To Hell.' In the push for more theatrical content, Ellison's company has given the keys to a new film to Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, one that is predicted not to have any ties to the Kelvin universe at all.
To be clear, the news of a new film is positive, and this writer is already excited to see what the men behind Spiderman: Homecoming and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves can bring to Star Trek. The bittersweet side of this is that Paramount has reportedly 'moved on' from the Kelvin universe, finally killing the hopes of those waited with baited breath for a fourth adventure.
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldaña, and Simon Pegg have all made statements over the years about their wish to return, with several potential sequel ideas pitched along the way. Pine felt that the film should be smaller in scope, while Quinto was seemingly just keen to put the ears and wig back on.
JJ Abrams and Justin Lin delivered three fun, exciting films between 2009 and 2016. If that's the end of that particular timeline (a certain temporal agent Betelgeusian notwithstanding), then these films can at least be praised for keeping the universe alive between shows. The Enterprise-A may have hung up her nacelles for the moment, but let's never say never. As Spock himself said while standing on another Enterprise-A:
I've been dead once before.
So too has Trek. Death is never the end.