To boldly oversaturate!

Unless you're making a pan...

So there's an expression that springs to mind: "strike while the iron is hot." It comes from blacksmithing, and I guess the idea is there's a window of opportunity where the thing you're blacksmithing-usually something iron-is super hot and that's the time to pound it with your hammer. Which, now you know. But nowhere in that metaphor does it suggest that you pound your iron repeatedly until it's nothing but a useless flat hunk of metal. I mention this because of this.

Which they are. Dumb, I mean.
Also selfish.

Huh? Yeah, sorry, it's about Star Trek. Yes, again. Look, we live in unrelentingly depressing times and there are only so many new and interesting ways I can call people dumb for not wearing masks. Anyway, if you clicked on the link-and you didn't-you'd have read about Producer Robert Sallin, who you might remember (that is, if you're a big huge nerd like me) as the producer of fan-favorite Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, pitching a new Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures.

Even these fans think it's getting out of
hand, and they're naked people who
painted Starfleet uniforms on themselves. 

Star Trek, as we've discussed before, is experiencing a bit of a glut following the success of Star Trek: Discovery. There's that show there's Picard, there's the cartoon that starts next month, there's the new show they just announced with Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn, and then two or three other series that have been announced but we haven't seen yet and Short Treks which sorta counts. The point is thirty years ago it seemed insane that there were two Trek shows on at the same time. Now there're four with four more coming soonish. There's a point where even fans would agree enough is enough.

But that's just TV. Sallin's pitch means that there're at least three and possibly four different Star Trek movies in the works. There's the Quentin Tarantino film that's been described as "what if Star Trek but with gore and swearing."

Which, check and check...

A film version of 80's sitcom Growing
Pains would be unlike anything done in
Star Trek. Doesn't mean it'd be good...

And then there's another one from Noah Hawley, who was the creator of Legion and the TV version of Fargo. And his movie is apparently not related to the fourth movie in the J. J. Abrams series with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. That series is probably done with, but also, maybe it's not done with? Who can say? In any case, Robert Sallin's pitch is still another, different movie which he insists his will be: "unlike anything that has been done in Star Trek, and it will be part of the canon..." And, not for nothing, but that's exactly what both Hawley and Tarantino have said about their versions, and it's not terribly descriptive.

If it feels like we've had this conversation before, it's because we have. Every time a new Star Trek thing is announced, I'm on here pointing out that there're too many sequels, prequels and alt-universe side-quells already. I don't want to be negative about it and besides, if we're being realistic, maybe one of these will happen. If any. Still though, if you're a fan and have ever written a fan film, now's the time to slap it on a thumb drive and mail it to Paramount, because they're apparently open to anything at this point.

Like my script about the adventures of Captain Flurm Spel'Daar. He's an
 Andorian starship captain who's also a hover-tennis champion. Oh, and
it's unlike anything that has been done in Star Trek, and will be canon.