The last “Star Trek” feature film released in theaters was “Star Trek Beyond” back in 2016. The movie was directed by Justin Lin, the filmmaker behind “Better Luck Tomorrow” and several of the “Fast and Furious” movies, and it was co-written by Simon Pegg, who also played Scotty in the film. “Beyond,” the third film in the Kelvin timeline, was … pretty good. The action was clear and the character work was solid — the entire cast brought their A-games — but the film overall was generic action nonsense; it was the fourth “Star Trek” film in a row about a twisted villain on a mission of revenge. Sadly, “Beyond” wasn’t as big a hit as Paramount wanted, and it seemed to be the end of the road for “Star Trek” in theaters.

Ever since, though, Paramount has been persistently struggling to make a fourth “Star Trek” movie set in the Kelvin timeline. As of this writing, some new plans are afoot to finally make said film along with a prequel movie set at an earlier point in the “Star Trek” timeline. Given how many false starts there have been on “Star Trek 4,” however, one will simply have to bide their time to see if anything comes to fruition

In an interview with Katee Sackhoff on “The Sackhoff Show,” Pegg talked a little bit about his “Star Trek” experiences. In doing so, he admitted he has a hard time imagining “Star Trek 4” ever getting made, seeing as it would be “tainted” by Yelchin’s absence.

“I’d love to do more. Obviously, it’s been forever tainted because we lost Anton, and that was a really hard thing for everyone involved, and for the real world, let alone anything else. If we do come back, if there is another opportunity to come back, I’d love to. Because as we were saying earlier on, it’s a group of guys that I dearly, dearly love and don’t get to see very often […] It would be good to get back together with them.”

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I don’t think I’ll ever understand this current obsession with the death of an actor meaning the death of a character. It’s acting. The whole point is that multiple people can play the role over the years. The only thousands of people have played Romeo? Just get another actor. Tons of rolls have been recast. It’s fine. I’m sure that actor did a fine job in the role but it’s not like he was the only the first one to play the role, someone else can take over. We’ve seen other people that were all before and it’s fine.

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Beyond was… Not good. I liked the others though.

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Oh, are we just pretending Into Darkness doesn’t exist?

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Probably for the best. Derivative nonsense.

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I liked it more than beyond.

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As a casual star trek fan, beyond was my favorite of the three. The first one was enjoyable and I didn’t really like the second one. But I thought the third one was a lot of fun and had more memorable moments than the rest

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As a hardcore trek fan: fucken loved it. Not everything has to be fine art, the universally best loved film is batshit insane with whales ffs

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The Wrath Of Khan was, is, and forever will be the best Trek movie of all time. TOS cast, 3D space fighting, ear worms, you will forever be my friend, what are you freakin kidding me, you can’t beat that, you just can’t. I’d like to see some good Trek movies made with a different cast than the Pine one, that’s over, run it’s course, etc, but you’re never gonna beat Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!

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Which is why they remade it twice, and fucked it up both times.

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You know… Every time I hear that Chekov’s absence needs to be explained, I sigh. Chekov was on the Reliant in Wrath of Khan. There’s zero reason they can’t just say that. The Khan arc won’t matter, Genesis may still get made and they may need to find a test planet. It’s not that difficult.

What I really still want is to see the probe from Voyage Home to come looking for the whales. Let’s see if Action Jackson Kirk can figure it out without a Bird of Prey or blowing up the 1701-A.

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More to the point, it’s an ensemble show about a pseudo-military ship’s crew. Since when has it ever been necessary to explain crew changes beyond “personnel got reassigned?”

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TLDR Because Anton died.

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Yeah, it isn’t tainted because of that, I can tell you.

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Yeah, the headline horribly twists his words. I think he’s saying that the experience filming another Star Trek movie in that universe will be forever tainted for the cast.

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They really did completely fuck with what he said to make it as clickbaity as possible. Fucking scumbags, taking someone talking about fond memories and emotional pain and then mutating it into something hideous for profit.

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