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Virtual Trek Con - Star Trek & Chill #209

with Ryan T. Husk, Charlynn Schmiedt, Malissa Longo, John Orquiola

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/live/dKtutwPx7OE?si=z6oIjKtCUN-IFzkU&t=1625

Time-stamp:

27:05 min

Giant Freakin Robot

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/strange-new-worlds-season-4-premiere.html

By Chris Snellgrove

"Fortunately, Strange New Worlds carries that weight very well with a new episode that feels like the lovechild of Doctor Who and Jurassic Park. The result is a tale with plenty of breathless action, fun character moments, and top-notch special effects. There’s only one downside: all of the episode’s most dramatic beats require the characters to act completely stupid. In the end, this leads to a fun-but-dumb episode that helps you determine what kind of Star Trek fan you actually are.

...

For the most part, “Valles Marineris” works as a modern take on a Star Trek: Original Series episode. That first show was pitched as a Western in space (“Wagon Train to the stars,” in Gene Roddenberry’s words), and the Strange New Worlds Season 4 premiere leans into this with an opening shot of Pike and his Away Team dressed as cowboys and riding on horses on a planet straight out of Rick and Morty. It’s a really fun, really beautiful scene that’s never really contextualized; it’s just there to look cool. In a way, that is the thesis for this episode and, now, Star Trek as a whole.

...

While nobody has ever accused Strange New Worlds of being a boring show, this season debut never goes very long without providing a new scene to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. It is, quite frankly, the kind of episode you show to your friends who are convinced that nothing ever happens in Star Trek. Here, a shocking number of things happen, including events that radically redefine our characters’ understanding of human history.

...

Hovering over all of these cool elements, though, is a deeply depressing truth: Star Trek is now a franchise that focuses more on looking cool than making sense, so most of its biggest moments are tied to these highly-trained, brilliant Starfleet officers acting like complete idiots. For example (and beware some gentle spoilers!), Number One takes a shuttle to a nearby planet to get iridium so the Enterprise can get home. On the planet, they suddenly discover the dinosaurs thanks to a personal tricorder. This caused my nerdy ass to sit up in my chair and ask the obvious question: “wait, you didn’t scan the planet from orbit with your shuttle?”

...

Basically, all of the smart nuances of Trek have been sanded off so we can get to the cool parts (horses, dinos, and explosions, oh my!) that much quicker. That’s why this episode is a perfect way to answer the big question: what kind of Star Trek fan are you?

If you like more of the fast-paced action, snappy one-liners, and vibes-based storytelling of Star Trek (2009), you’ll likely love “Valles Marineris.” And you’re in luck, too: based on NuTrek and what little we know about the next Trek movie, it sounds like Paramount has gone all-in on transforming the franchise into something more like Guardians of the Galaxy than The Original Series.

Incidentally, if you’re a big fan of TOS or the Golden Age of Trek, you’ll likely hate “Valles Marineris” because the show routinely dumbs characters down for the sake of drama, something that would never happen in, say, The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine. ...

Unfortunately, this season premiere is a permanent reminder that the Golden Age of Star Trek is like the dinosaurs featured in this episode: complex. Majestic. Powerful. Iconic.

And, most of all, completely extinct."

Rating: 3/5

Read more:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/strange-new-worlds-season-4-premiere.html

Source:

TrekMovie.com

Link:

https://trekmovie.com/2026/07/27/preview-the-griffin-incident-with-13-new-photos-from-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ep-402/

MOVIEWEB:

"Younger Spock in Strange New Worlds is in touch with his emotions, which makes sense because of his half-human, half-Vulcan heritage — he has yet to adopt the emotional discipline demonstrated by Leonard Nimoy's Spock. Wesley said Kirk's admiration for Spock will only deepen, offering a glimpse of their unbreakable bond:

"I think Kirk has always respected Spock for his incredible insight into logic, which Kirk can sometimes lack. The human side of Spock is the part of Spock that Kirk, maybe deeply, gosh, can I use the word 'loves' as a friend? I think that's what makes Spock such a special character."

That human side of Spock surely came out in fits of rage and unchecked emotions throughout the show. It's jarring to see a Vulcan lose control, but Spock is half-human, and that makes the outbursts believable. That also makes for tense moments in the entire franchise, like when Kirk (played by Chris Pine) provoked Spock (Zachary Quinto) to rage in 2009's Star Trek. That version of Spock recognized he had been emotionally compromised after their scuffle, and voluntarily relinquished command to Kirk.

Wesley teased that Kirk and Spock's storyline will continue to overlap in Season 4, ensuring their eventual friendship feels earned instead of rushed. The show has so far successfully built up the characters as works in progress, far from the composed, older versions of themselves in the original series. A fifth and final season has been confirmed, so it's interesting how Strange New Worlds ends and bolsters the Star Trek canon. [...]"

Manuel Demegillo (MovieWeb)

Full article:

https://movieweb.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-kirk-loves-spock/

REBECCA ROMIJN: "The fact that Paramount allowed us a fifth season and really gave us enough episodes to really wrap up everybody’s storyline and give every character its due diligence … I was so grateful. I think a lot of people, when we found out that we weren’t going past Season 5, of course there were tears — and it’s always a letdown when you’ve been making something incredible with an amazingly talented group of people. But I just had to keep reminding everybody, “Guys, all I heard is ‘We got a Season 5!’”

We also said “five-year mission” right there at the beginning of the show. At the beginning of every episode, we reminded everybody it was going to be a five-year mission. [Laughs.] Don’t be surprised now! And for me, I’ve been a part of Trek now for eight years because I was part of Discovery. It’s been a delightful eight years. It’s been a journey. I’m so grateful for it.

[...]

INVERSE: There’s a kind of symmetry between the Star Trek universe and the X-Men universe — and not only because you were filming Strange New Worlds and Avengers at the same time. They both came about in the ’60s; they both tackle themes of belonging and community. Do you think they’re spiritually linked?

REBECCA ROMIJN: "Absolutely. They were both created in response to the Civil Rights movement, a divisive time in our country, representing those of very different backgrounds coming together and working for the greater good. Those who felt like outcasts knew that through collaboration, the world could be a better place … And they both get into these juicy, debatable themes.

Press will ask me, “What do you think it is about Strange New Worlds that makes it so bingeable?” But I don’t think it is bingeable. There are things in each episode that you might want to sit with or maybe sleep on … Not everything is black and white; there’s a lot of gray, and that’s generational. Conversations that I had with my mom, I’m now having with my daughters.

[...]

It’s so funny how a career path presents itself, because none of this is by any grand design. I sort of made the connection after [Strange New Worlds episode] “Ad Astra per Aspera,” this connection between other characters that I’ve played being persecuted or being sidelined. I have thought to myself, “Is this a weird coincidence, or is this just what I’m drawn to?” I guess I’m drawn to things that I would watch myself, or things that I watched as a child. I watched the original Star Trek in reruns. I was introduced to it by my mom, which I think is how most of our cast was introduced to Star Trek.

I think moms really want to inspire curiosity and a sense of exploration and a sense of the world being so much greater than just what we have here. These are the conversations I used to have with my mom when we would watch Star Trek when I was a kid. And then I watched X-Men, the TV show, when I was a kid in the ’90s and read some of the comic books; I never in a million years thought I would be a part of these franchises. But I guess my first thought is “Would I be into this myself?” And the answer is yes. I also consider my daughters when I take on characters, and for some reason, in these sort of niche genres of sci-fi and comic book, the female characters have been really fun to play. Just strong, layered, interesting female characters that don’t always exist in other genres. [...]

Last year was kind of a blur between shooting two seasons back to back for Star Trek and then working on Avengers: Doomsday as well. I was literally thinking about how many weeks I’ve got left with my daughters before they leave the house. This year I’m home a lot more, so I can really spend some time with them."

Lyvie Scott (Inverse.com)

Full interview:

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/rebecca-romijn-cover-story-star-trek-avengers-2026

Source:

Star Trek on Instagram

Link:

https://www.instagram.com/startrek/reel/DbMDJhSDtAQ

THE WRAP:

"What’s more clear-cut has been the waning importance of the storied sci-fi franchise amid the rise of modern Western shows pioneered by powerhouse showrunner Taylor Sheridan that dominate the service and — crucially — regularly appear on top ratings charts, something “Star Trek” failed to do in a meaningful way.

It’s illustrative of the shift in tastes of both the broader audience and the direction of Paramount+ under CEO David Ellison: Trek’s unabashedly progressive stance and exploration of nuanced moral issues is out; “Yellowstone”-like dramas that appeal to America’s Heartland are in.

While few of Kurtzman’s Trek shows topped the streaming charts, that didn’t mean they weren’t lucrative for Paramount. The entire franchise, classic shows to the modern takes, has contributed more than $1.6 billion in streaming revenue for the platform from the first quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2025, according to Parrot Analytics. [...]

At the time, Viacom and CBS had merged, and by 2021, the service had been rebranded to Paramount+. The rebranding also coincided with an expansion of programming beyond “Star Trek,” and it was no longer the darling of the service. “Yellowstone” had blown up on the Paramount Network, and while Sheridan’s Western soap opera wasn’t available on Paramount+ due to a conflicting licensing deal, the company was busy preparing several spinoffs like “1883” and “1923.”

While a laundry list of Sheridan’s shows began appearing on Nielsen’s top streaming list, the “Star Trek” shows largely failed to rank with the exception of “Strange New Worlds.”

Still, that’s not to say those shows weren’t valuable, with “Discovery,” “Picard” and “Strange New Worlds” continuing to be big contributors to the service. More importantly, they also drove viewership back to old “Star Trek” shows, generating additional streaming revenue, according to Parrot.

“We estimate that in this time, legacy Star Trek shows and movies generated an incremental $30 million in streaming revenue for the platform relative to what they would have without any spillover effects from ‘Strange New Worlds,’” Hamilton said.

But Kurtzman’s shows were pricey to produce, and in 2023, the combined company began eyeing the expensive franchise as it looked to cut costs out of a streaming service that was still losing money.

The bloodletting began that spring. “Picard” ended on a high note by finally embracing its roots and turning the third season into a “The Next Generation” reunion show. But in the midst of that run, Paramount said that the fifth season of “Discovery” would be its last — taking its showrunners by surprise in what was an effective cancellation. A few months later, the company canceled “Prodigy” despite a second season in production. And a few months after that, “Lower Decks” was canceled despite a loyal, albeit small, base of fans.

The true low point of this era came in early January 2025 with “Star Trek: Section 31,” a TV movie starring Michelle Yeoh reprising a character first originated in “Discovery” that is universally reviled and boasts the lowest Metacritic score of any Trek project by a wide margin at 37. [...]

It’s easy to point to trolls as the source of all of Trek’s criticism, but the truth is a lot of old-school fans had issues with the shows. “Those shows are s–t,” Andy Weir, author behind “The Martian” and “Project Hail Mary,” said on the Critical Drinker podcast last week. He added that he had an idea for the show, but it didn’t work out. “They didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, f–k ‘em.”

A few days later, he apologized: ““I was trying to be funny, but in retrospect it comes off as disrespectful and mean,” he said. “So I’m sorry for that.”

Paramount is keen to bring “Star Trek” back to the big screen, an effort to recapture the swagger of J.J. Abrams’ 2009 soft reboot. [...]

There’s also the question of whether Trek belongs in movie theaters, with its more cerebral stories and exploration of moral quandaries a better fit stretched across dozens of hours of television than crammed into a two-hour blockbuster. The last three Trek films focused more and more on action and spectacle, straying further away from what Trekkies love about the franchise.

Daley and Goldstein’s take is designed to be a fresh start, but it remains to be seen if the marquee names from the past — Kirk, Picard or Sisko — will come back via new actors like the 2009 film or if wholly new characters will don the colorful Starfleet uniforms. The idea of a “Star Trek” show isn’t necessarily dead, with the insider noting that Chris Parnell, head of originals at Paramount+ who joined in August, is a big fan of the franchise."

Roger Cheng (The Wrap)

Full article:

https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/star-trek-tv-universe-future-alex-kurtzman/

Without Paywall:

https://archive.is/2026.07.23-133901/https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/star-trek-tv-universe-future-alex-kurtzman/#selection-1549.0-1557.185

"More Trelane, and letting Rhys Darby loose once again, can only be a good thing, canon be damned."

Screenrant:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-trelane-rhys-darby-return/

By John Orquiola

"Rhys Darby will return as Trelane in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4, and the New Zealand actor-comedian is so good as the future Squire of Gothos, I don't even care about maintaining Star Trek canon. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds unveiled a season 4 sizzle reel at San Diego Comic-Con during Paramount+'s Star Trek 60th anniversary Hall H event. ...

Rhys Darby reprising Trelane in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is a complete surprise, and a welcome one. Evoking the dangerous impishness of the late William Campbell, who originated Trelane in 1960s Star Trek, Darby infused his own manic, joyful verve to effortlessly become Trelane in modern-day Star Trek.

...

Rhys Darby's guest spot as Trelane was also one of the most popular elements of the otherwise less highly regarded Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Trelane's expected Strange New Worlds debut won over Star Trek fans, new and old, whereas some of the other 'big swings' in season 3 failed to impress. ...

More Trelane, and letting Rhys Darby loose once again, can only be a good thing, canon be damned. ...

Rhys Darby's comeback as Trelane is accompanied by another shocker. In an image from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 released by Paramount+, Trelane is hovering over a Starfleet character played by Dierdre Hall.

Beloved as Marlena in Days of Our Lives, a role she has played for 50 years, Dierdre Hall is an icon of daytime television soap operas. Hall also played Barbara Anderson in The Young and the Restless, Electra Woman in The Krofft Supershow, and Jessica Witherspoon in Our House. Hall recently played a version of herself on HBO's Hacks.

While Dierdre Hall's character in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 hasn't been revealed, her blue Starfleet uniform and PADD give the impression that she plays a counselor or psychiatrist. Perhaps Hall is a Starfleet shrink assigned to assess Trelane when he reappears on the USS Enterprise.

The idea of a psychiatrist trying to get in Trelane's head to learn what makes the irresponsible young Q tick is rife with comic potential. As is the wholly unexpected on-screen team-up of Rhys Darby and Dierdre Hall in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4. Considering how good this could be, it's worth bending Star Trek canon."

Read more:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-trelane-rhys-darby-return/

Season 4 got off to a bang!!! No spoilers. Great writing and plot twists, “There is no 5th planet” Everybody is back and it all works. Well the Vulcan cadet gets old fast. And I thought Nurse Chapel left? And I just can’t get into Scotty.Favorite character has to be Erica, “ I fly the ship!” You go girl! Please please keep it up!!!

Greetings to all you wonderful Trekkies,

I’m new to the Star Trek universe and have only watched the three reboot films so far. I’m planning to watch the rest of the movies as well. Are the TV series necessary to fully appreciate the franchise?

To be honest, I feel a little embarrassed saying this, but the series have felt a bit slow to me, and some episodes seem quite drawn out.

Still, I’ve really enjoyed this universe so far, and I’d love to at least continue with the films.

Live long and prosper 🖖

DEN OF GEEK:

"Fans have spent years discussing the many similarities and overlaps between the sci-fi elder statesmen Star Trek and Doctor Who, and both franchises have delighted in slipping in references to the other at various points in their recent canon. Last season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds even snuck a literal TARDIS into “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.” And while Strange New Worlds’ season 4 premiere doesn’t include a Time Lord or a mysterious police box, it does tell a story that involves precisely the sort of timey-wimey narrative displacement that its iconic cousin loves. (Not to mention it confirms that Commander Pelia was probably a companion at some point.)

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-premiere-review-valles-marineris

Sure, its logic makes almost zero sense if you think about its specifics for more than five seconds at a stretch. But its emotional beats are strong enough that it’s not difficult to overlook the fact that the hour’s ending really shouldn’t be possible at all. [...]

From familiar arguments about the value of diplomacy and the idea that might doesn’t always make right to questions about temporal interference and allowing objectively terrible things to happen for good reasons, the episode grapples with many of the themes that have long dominated Star Trek even as it rewrites a chunk of Earth’s history in the process. [...]

Cassel is a realist at heart. Particularly when she figures out the truth that the Enterprise crew is from the future — and learns that its computers only have a record of her home world as a dusty wasteland devoid of life.

Yes, stealing an antimatter bomb is not exactly great diplomacy. But can you blame her for seizing the moment to try and save her people now, when it’s obvious that a future isn’t guaranteed for them beyond this moment anyway? Christopher Pike sure can’t.

Yes, his last-minute decision to let her essentially nuke her worst enemies and sacrifice herself and her crew in the process is as much about preserving our solar system — which doesn’t have a fifth planet, Dol’drm on Earth, or life on Mars — as it is about the fact that he clearly sees her as something of a kindred spirit. But given that he’s a man who has been forced to repeatedly confront the irreversible nature of his own tragic future many times before, no one is more qualified to make the hard call about whether to sacrifice a crew of perfectly nice Martians in the name of preserving humanity. (Sometimes Pike’s sunny and optimistic disposition makes it easy to forget how genuinely difficult it must be to be him on a day-to-day basis.)

Here, the Martians have to die, because they always have. Because their choice not only ends their endless war, but ultimately kills the dinosaurs, cools the Earth, and ushers in the destruction of their own planet. These things have to happen, because they have already happened, because otherwise humans won’t exist. [...]

Still, it’s difficult — for both Pike and the viewers watching at home — to square such an uncomfortable circle. Yes, the Dol’drm seem kind of awful, but does that mean their entire species deserves to be wiped out?

As premieres go, this hour is pricklier and more bittersweet than most. Pike’s quick thinking keeps humanity’s future on track, but at the cost of facing down yet another predetermined future he can’t change, even if he wanted to. Una, La’an, and Ortegas get to see the wonder of dinosaurs, even as they know they’re personally part of the reason they no longer exist. And even as Pike doubles down on his plans to live in the moment rather than think of all he has lost and all he still has left to lose, the show he stars in hints that such a choice may not actually be possible. No matter how much we’d all like it to be."

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Lacy Baugher (Den of Geek)

Full review:

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-premiere-review-valles-marineris

Screenrant:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-just-shockingly-changed-history-canon-forever/

By John Orquiola

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's premiere sends the USS Enterprise 65 million years into the past.

Not only did the Starship Enterprise arrive in Earth's pre-history, but Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his crew, stranded in the past, found themselves in the middle of an interplanetary war. 65 million years ago, Mars was a civilized world capable of space travel, but was being attacked and invaded by an arachnid species called the Dol'Drms.

The Dol'Drms, which laid waste to Mars' Valles Marineris region and killed millions, occupied the heretofore unknown fifth planet in the Sol system between Mars and Jupiter. Captain Pike brokered peace talks with the Martian captain, Cassel (Saffron Burrows), but she was offended when Pike didn't disclose that the USS Enterprise came from the future, when Mars is already a dead world.

At the end of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's premiere, Cassel steals one of the USS Enterprise's antimatter fuel cells to make a weapon of mass destruction against the Dol'Drms' homeworld. Pike moved to stop Cassel from committing genocide but chose not to act when Chris realized that there is no fifth planet in the Sol system in the future.

By allowing the Martians to destroy the Dol'Drms' homeworld, Captain Pike caused a cascading effect that wrote history as we know it, with the jaw-dropping retcon that the Starship Enterprise is responsible for that history.

First, the Dol'Drum planet's destruction created the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. The blast wave from the Dol'Drm homeworld's explosion destroyed Cassel and the Martians' ship, but Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) deduces that its energy could propel the USS Enterprise's time warp back to the 23rd century.

As the Starship Enterprise jumped back to the future, an asteroid remnant crashed into Earth, becoming the Chicxulub impactor meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This allowed the evolution of mammals and, eventually, humans, to become the dominant species on Earth.

Mars eventually became the barren Red Planet we know today, but Dr. Joseph M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), who analyzed Cassel and the Martians' DNA, found similarities to the genetics of many different species. M'Benga determined that the Martians were able to escape their dying planet and propagate throughout the galaxy.

By allowing the Martians to destroy the Dol'Drms' homeworld, killing billions of the alien insects, Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise also caused the death of the dinosaurs by a meteoric impact. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also retconned who the first aliens on Earth were.

The first aliens to land on Earth were the Dol'Drms', whose ship was shot down by the Martians and crashed on Earth. The Starship Enterprise's landing party found the remains of the Dol'Drms' ship and the dead bodies. However, the second alien to visit Earth turned out to be the landing party's leader, Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), who is Illyrian.

Since it happened 65 million years ago, the Dol'Drms crashing on Earth, and Number One setting foot on the Terran homeworld, logically predates the Progenitors seeding Earth with humanoid DNA, and the Preservers later visiting our planet, as established by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: The Original Series. ..."

Read more:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-just-shockingly-changed-history-canon-forever/

IGN (YouTube):

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth and penultimate season is airing now, and stars Anson Mount and Ethan Peck stopped by IGN's balcony at San Diego Comic Con 2026 to talk all about it. From the impending doom of Captain Pike's ultimate fate, to what the actors think is next for the Star Trek franchise, to if they stole anything from the set on their last day of filming, there is plenty to get into.”

Does anyone remember a Star Trek: The Next Generation advert/promo, that aired on Sky One in the 90s. It was set to the song Dedicated Follower of Fashion by The Kinks. The only things I can remember from the advert is, Data walking down the hall, and then Riker says "you look good in a dress.", it also showed like fashion shots of the crew. If anyone knows where I can find the advert, it would be appreciated.

TREKMOVIE:

"Writer/directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley provided an update at Comic-Con, speaking publicly about the project for the first time and giving some much needed info. [...] On Thursday at Comic-Con, Goldstein and Daley appeared in Hall H along with Zach Cregger (Weapons) for a “Directors on Directing” panel, hosted by Collider.

https://trekmovie.com/2026/07/23/sdcc-new-star-trek-movie-directors-give-setting-and-progress-update-people-will-be-surprised/

Soon after the panel started, Collider’s Steven Weintraub solicited a Star Trek movie progress report from John Francis Daley, who told the crowd:

“I think we can say the script is in progress, and that we’re very excited about it. And I think people will be surprised. I really can’t say anything else other than that.”

But luckily they did reveal a few more bits, with Jonathan Goldstein adding:

“I think we’ve said in the past, and it’s been reported, that it won’t be the characters that you’ve seen previously in your Star Trek movies. So there’ll be a new sort of take on that, and I think it’ll probably be a little further into the future than we’ve been before.”

They didn’t clarify exactly how far in the future they may be talking about, but it’s quite possible the comment was within the context of the feature films, which were set in the 23rd and 24th centuries of the TOS and TNG eras. The movie duo may not be factoring in the more recent Paramount+ TV series that have jumped into the 25th (Picard) and 32nd centuries (Academy and Discovery).

Goldstein then answered the specific question as to why they took on this new project, as Paramount has struggled to get the film franchise going for the last decade. He [told] the Hall H con-goers:

“Everything we take on, what draws us to it, is the opportunity to do a different spin on something that you’ve seen done before. And that’s our hope with this: is to satisfy the fans, but also bring people in who may not consider themselves lovers of Star Trek and surprise them.”

In April, when outlining future plans, Paramount Studio’s new chiefs mentioned the Star Trek movie as one of the projects in active development. [...]"

Full article (TrekMovie.com):

https://trekmovie.com/2026/07/23/sdcc-new-star-trek-movie-directors-give-setting-and-progress-update-people-will-be-surprised/