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Next Star Trek Won’t Arrive Till 2013

Date: Nov 11, 2011 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Star Trek 2009When JJ Abrams new Star Trek appeared in 2009 and rebooted the universe, we were supposed to get another installment set in that world almost immediately. After all, that was the entire point of all that alternate timeline mumbo jumbo: to give them a fresh start for the franchise.

It’s now 2011 and they still haven’t actually started filming another Star Trek, though they do have a script and things seem to be at least moving in that direction. Unfortunately, as we’d begun to suspect recently, Paramount Pictures has now confirmed that we won’t get another Star Trek before the year 2013.

The news was dropped in a conference call by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman. Ironically they’re full steam ahead with Transformers 4 and that, even though we just had a Transformers movie, may be out in 2013 as well.

Assuming Star Trek: The Next actually arrives in 2013 and isn’t delayed again, that means a nearly five-year gap between franchise movies. When the Star Trek franchise was really running in the 80s and the 90s, they usually averaged around three years between movies. Five years, for any franchise hoping to mine an established audience who keeps coming back for more, is a long time.

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  • http://twitter.com/FutureIncr Tony Pires

    Big mistake Paramount.

    • JT

      Don’t blame Paramount, they’ve wanted to do it ASAP.  JJ Abrams and the writers have simply been dragging their feet.

      • Ym3robot

        Yes, blame Paramount! If they were really interested in bringing out the sequel right away they would have pushed Abrams to speed up the process!
        Paramount is more interested in putting out Transformers 4 before anything else. The third movie just came out this year and already they want to release the fourth movie next year!
        Isn’t that enough proof?
        Any way this reboot was a big mistake and should have stuck with Rick B and tng crew!

        • JT

          Paramount really HAS been pushing.  I’ve been following this for awhile.  But there’s a line where they are probably afraid of they push too hard Abrams will just walk and not do it at all.  I really don’t think they have any blame for the delay.  I guess they could have simply ditched Abrams and hired someone else, but then everyone would be mad at them for that. Abrams and his team have just decided they’d rather to other stuff, which is a shame.