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@usernamefactory @startrek I don't know if I agree with that premise. I've run into any number of people who became Trek fans in general by starting with Kelvin.

That said, I don't know that breaking the movies into *more* timelines is a great idea.

And I personally would be skeptical that anything from the proposed movies would ever turn into a TV series. They are really operating in separate spaces right now. And P+ is shedding series faster than they're adding them.

@roofuskit That's a rather reductive statement that basically ignores the article quote that I'm reacting to. So thanks for that.

@ValueSubtracted I think my ramblings up there are my process of arriving where you already are.

"Make Kelvin 4" is at least a plan, and there's an audience that would like more. Would I watch it, sure. Would I care if it never gets made...not really.

But when they start throwing these other movie ideas around, I don't see a purpose. And people will say what they will about Kurtzman's tenure as TV Trek overlord, but at least everything there had a purpose (whether one agrees with it or not).

@ValueSubtracted I keep thinking about this and I'm not sure where I land. I feel like we're near "progress for progress' sake".

First we had movies that sequeled our TV shows. No one objected unless a given movie was bad.

Then post-Berman pre-streaming we did movies because no one had appetite to make new TV Trek. Fine.

Now in the streaming era of multiple series, what purpose do disconnected-from-TV cinematic movies serve? Do they need to exist besides 💰?

I don't know what the answer is.

@StillPaisleyCat I can't decide how to feel about it. I don't have much interest in a full-blown reboot. Nor am I much interested in seeing how this film might crap all over ENT. I guess we'll see. Or maybe we won't, considering Paramount's track record of late with getting Trek films off the ground. @startrek

"It is said to involve the creation of the Starfleet and humankind’s first contact with alien life."

If that's really what it is, for all I care just establish that Kelvin is an entire alternative universe and not an alternate timeline instead of annoying me by seeing how they frak around with the canon Star Trek: Enterprise already established.

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Or they're just throwing the "Kelvin had a specific point of divergence" concept out.

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@imnapr @startrek Too much greatness for their bandwidth. 😆

@reddig33 @startrek Well we know Tawny Newsome is on the writing staff of the "Starfleet Academy" series, so she's still lurking at least behind the scenes. 🙂

@Reverendender @startrek "I'll give it a shot" is basically where I am going into any new Trek project. We'll see what it is.