Talking About Star Trek: RIP Kelvin Timeline - How long will the current Star Trek movie franchise continue?
How long will the current Star Trek movie franchise continue? If you’re referring to the Kelvin timeline films ( Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond, the “current Star Trek movie franchise” is - for all intents and purposes - dead and buried. There are several reasons for this, but it all boils down to this: even though the cast was pretty good, the special effects well-done, and the initial concept was interesting (how to tell a “prequel’ story without the usual problems that prequels have), the Kelvin Trilogy just didn’t jive with the rest of the Star Trek franchise. Although I liked the basic idea that Nero and his monstrous ship, the Narada, travel back in time to the 23rd Century and alter the destinies of James T. Kirk and Crew, the execution was, to put it simply, problematic. In the Prime Timeline (aka Star Trek prior to 2009), Kirk is older than most of the bridge cre...