This is sad. The reason I’m going back and watching classic Trek is because I’m tired of every show needing to be dark and gritty!
New 'Star Trek' Movie Writers Tease "Dark" Story And New Franchise
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TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
themoken@startrek.website 5 hours ago
“Two movies we cite as comps for what we’re hoping to do are Training Day and Crimson Tide,” Goldstein tells Inverse.
Hmm, I like both of those movies but way different vibes. Crimson Tide might as well already be a Trek script, but Training Day? Freshly minted Captain versus effective but corrupt badmiral perhaps? XO and captain maybe?
My hopes this will be made are pretty low, but there could be some good Trek here. Especially if they actually made a movie that wasn’t a cameo fest (it does say all new characters).
- ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 hours ago
I haven’t actually seen “Training Day,” but I suppose both films have entrenched authority figures with outdated and/or corrupt ideas of How Things Are Done, and younger subordinates who have to walk through the ethical minefield that’s been laid.
And I agree, that could be good Trek.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
They really are determined to undermine Star Trek.
- ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 hours ago
"…while this [script] isn’t a cynical or nihilistic take on it, I think it does acknowledge that there are some bad apples in every institution that can have a strong voice and can really make an impact on that institution and everything it stands for.”
How could they possibly think this is relevant subject matter in the year 2026?
David_Eight@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
A corrupt Admiral then? These writers must be real fans busting out this Star Trek classic lol
adhocfungus@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Wasn’t the big complaint against Star Trek: Section 31 was that people didn’t want to watch Corrupt Space CIA? And don’t people enjoy SNW and Lower Decks because they embrace the lighter side of Trek?
Honestly I think most Trek movies have tried to get dark and it never lands for me.
I think the much bigger complaints are that it was boring, derivative, and had nothing to say?