"New" Star Trek Movie Announcement & Starfleet Academy news

[dickinsons]

Err...

The project is said to be set decades before the events of the 2009 movie that was directed J.J. Abrams, likely around modern times. It is said to involve the creation of the Starfleet and humankind’s first contact with alien life.

(Source: THR)


Creation of "the" Starfleet? We saw that on Enterprise. Humankind's first contact with alien life? That was the movie First Contact.

I'm just very confused by this because, although I've only seen the Star Trek 2009 and not the other 2 in that Abrams trilogy, I thought the Kelvin universe only existed since the moment Nero destroyed the Kelvin ship, so how come we're getting movies about events we already saw? Are they changing the lore so that these events were retroactively changed by Nero's actions?

I just don't understand this, truly.

And now for some good news (imo):

The “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” series at Paramount+ has cast Holly Hunter in a lead role, Variety has learned.

Hunter’s character will serve as the captain and chancellor of the Academy, presiding over both the faculty and a new class of Starfleet cadets as they learn to navigate the galaxy in the 32nd century.

(Source: Variety)

I love Holly Hunter, so this is great news! Let's face it, I also think she'll be very hot in uniform, and I hope she's mean.

Comments

[dividedbyblue]

I hope the Star Fleet: Academy will be available on other streaming services at some point. Paramount + isn’t available in my country. Sadly, that means I also have no way to watch Strange New Words, a series I would really like to see. I wish they would make a Star Trek: Legacy series though, continuing Star Trek: Picard with Seven as a Captain! I was so sure they were heading that way after I finished Picard, but sadly, there hasn’t been any word about that yet.

I haven’t seen any of the Kelvin timeline movies, so I don’t know how they imagine this movie.

[dickinsons]

I remember when Discovery was pulled from Netflix right before the next season premiered, and me and all my non-American friends were baffled. I haven't watched these last few seasons yet for that reason! These shows are now in my country under a different streaming service, SkyShowtime, since last year, but I'm not subscribed. It's just really confusing to keep up with all these platform changes. But I'm interested in the Academy show! I hope we can watch it.

I'm not sure if they're gonna do Legacy any time soon, since I'm hearing Matalas is doing a different, non-Trek project now. I think it's a Marvel thing? But we'll see!

And yeah, we'll see about this new movie. It just sounds weird to me right now.

[dividedbyblue]

Yes, I was sadly too late to see Discovery on Netflix. It was pulled before I got a chance to watch. I’m from Belgium, I have no idea who holds the right currently to broadcast this and other Star Trek series like Strange New Worlds.

That indeed probably means there won’t be a Legacy series any time soon, a bummer :/

[dickinsons]

That's a shame! I got to watch the first 2 seasons, the second one with a group of other European fans, and then all of a sudden it was gone. I have no idea about the situation in Belgium, it's very confusing how they pulled the shows from Netflix everywhere while most countries didn't have another platform to stream it on.

And yeah, perhaps in the future? Or they get someone else to do it? I'm always a bit overwhelmed by the amount of news coming out about different Trek-related projects lol.

[mellowtigger]

Back before Enterprise first appeared, I remember hearing that its timeline would not be canonical with TOS or TNG. I remember losing interest before it even started for that reason alone, so I didn't watch it when it originally aired. I've seen some episodes since then, but all I can really remember is that "Trip" was easy on the eyes, and Phlox and Shran were well-written and well-acted aliens, much more interesting than any recurring aliens (except Spock, of course) from the early two series.

[dickinsons]

Ohh, interested! I had no idea they had said that about its timeline back then.

Trip was cute, I agree! Shran is a big fave of mine, and I just adore Jeffrey Combs in general. I always wanted to see more Andorians on Trek, so I was really happy that they had Shran and explored more of Andoria in the show! I find Phlox interesting as well, and he was of a new species so everything about the character was original. Personally, I liked how T'Pol was played, although she wasn't always treated well as a character. What really was a shame was how underwritten Hoshi and especially Mayweather were. Seriously, I think poor Mayweather is particularly forgotten by everyone because he was just... there.

The show isn't very good overall, but the last season was great! Except for the finale. Never watch the finale.