"Yeah, I look at Star Trek and think, you know what this needs? More guns and characters shouting motherfucker."
-Quentin Tarantino
(probably)
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In my defense, the last one had Krang. Krang! I'm only human. |
Unless you're infested with alien parasites, in which case it's set phasers to head'splode. |
No really. Go ahead, name something Star Trekkier than that. Well? |
I guess I have a hard time reconciling something like that with whatever Tarantino has in mind that's going warrant an R. But on the other hand, the new show, Discovery is rougher than previous incarnations, what with its casual swearing, Klingon war and a seriously uncomfortable sex/torture scene, but it's still recognizably Star Trek.
Sure, this guy did eat Michelle Yeoh's character, and his ship has a corpse room, but I think Captain Lorca has a tribble... |
Sadly, not even a Rihanna tie-in music video could save Beyond from a mediocre domestic performance. |
Ok, so maybe it'll work. Just because his Star Trek would be full of the swears and murder sprees doesn't meant it can't also explore strange new worlds or whatever. But it still seems like a dramatic 360 after the bright and colorful J. J. Abrams series, so what gives? Money. Try to act surprised. Star Trek Beyond was pretty good but didn't do as well at the box-office as the studio hoped. In fact, and this is the nutty part, it might have been disappointing enough to re-reboot reboot-universe altogether. With me?
Oh yes, buckle them nerd belts because noted blowhole enthusiast and actor Sir Patrick Stewart says he'd love to play Picard again if it means working with Tarantino. If it pans out, it would mean abandoning the alternate reality of the Abrams movies and picking up up where the TNG movies left off. Which I'm all for, but more importantly it would mean Captain Jean-Luc 'Let's Work it Out Over A Cup of Earl Grey' Picard in a movie directed by the guy who brought us Reservoir Dogs.
"It's like I always say Mister Data: fuck the prime directive, phasers on kill."
-Jean-Luc Picard,
about to make it so
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