Star Trek XIV: What do you want?

Because people can't keep secrets.

 

I wonder if they should just do a Prodigy movie for theatres and be done with it.

That way, they can bring in some members of TNG (Riker and Troi on the Titan, Worf on the Ent-E or some Klingon ship or even the Defiant) to feel secure that the movie with draw, but it still focuses on the PRO cast and won;t cost much to make.

 

Star Trek Generations II featuring the Kelvin and Next Gen crews.
Actually I liked Generations but it wasn't really the epic TOS/TNG team-up anybody dreamt of.
So thinking about the next best option - have a triumphantly reunited gang from last year on Picard crossover with the 2009 reboot cast already.

 

It would probably break the bank if they got everyone.

Though if they wanted a crossover on a smaller budget, focus on Picard, Riker and Troi for TNG. And Kirk, Spock and Uhura for the Kelvinverse.

And Brent Spiner in a double role as Data and some Kelvinverse Soong.

 

The problem with another Kelvin movie is that there's not really a reason for it aside from "just because". There's no real narrative in the movies to build on.

If they do another, I would want it to give some sort of closure to the whole thing. There's a part of me that wants some kind of like, Avengers Endgame scenario where we have the a threat to the multiverse and by the end of it, we've got a downright cavalcade of damn near 60 years of Star Trek converging and resulting the sacrifice of the Kelvin Universe to allow others to survive.

 

Good.

Maybe it will just be a fun story all on its own.

 

I don't see why that would be in any way necessary.

And speaking of Avengers, this relates to a major issue I have with recent developments in the superhero film genre. In both Marvel ( Strange 2, Loki ) and DC ( Flash ), the universes are somehow literally colliding, as though they all occupy some kind of meta-three-dimensional space. But why should this be the case?

 

I see it as a full circle kind of thing. It was created through an accident, to be destroyed in correcting another.

It's a narrative way to have some sort of interaction between them in a way most people can understand.

Canonically in Star Trek, there is "distance" between universes. It's why the Mirror Universe is so relatively easy to access, it's "close" to the Prime Timeline. DSC establishes that these distances shift over time, to the point that by the 32nd century, the Mirror Universe was too far away to access. (and interestingly enough, the Kelvin Timeline had some interaction with the Temporal Wars).