Re: Tarantino Trek
Doesn't sound good.
No indication anyone in creative control for years now has a grasp.
Anything with Abrams calling any shots will suck. He is a vampire to Trek and sucks away
all core values Trek had and replaces it with lowest common denominator mass appeal nonsense.
Tarantino, I have no idea what he likes about Star Trek or what
it is he thinks he can bring to the table. He hasn't made anything like thoughtful Sci Fi, so
probably it's not going to be that. Odds not good at all.
When Star Trek 2009 came out I would have disagreed. I felt Trek had gotten stale and repetitive, and Abrams found the root of the old series in terms of adventure and brought that back. But at the time I said "Okay, you had the fun, you got the winks and nods and cameos in-- now you have a fresh Trek franchise. Whatever comes next should be spot on." And they proved they had no idea what to do. A fresh start with arguably the first "shared universe" franchise with hundreds of hours of source material for inspiration-- and what do they do? Try to remake TWOK... which had been tried and failed with the last TNG film.
So I'd agree, they don't know what to do with it. Don't blame Abrams, blame the constant regime changes at Paramount that decided to hand it him, and worse, not give it to a better caretaker.
There was hope with Bryan Fuller-- his version of Discovery was going to be much more true, but he was pushed out in favor of grit and flash.
As for QT-- I've always wanted to see him do scifi, do his mash-up thing with 60s/70s scifi. Imagine a QT post-apocalyptic film that mashes up Soylent Green, 2001, Solaris, Last Man On Earth, Fahrenheit 451... that would be amazing. But Trek? I don't know...
If Tarantino were really so enamored with Trek, he would not even want an R rated ST movie, much less make it a stipulation for his involvement.
I think this nails it. He can love Trek, and I think his version of it as some sort of send up, or an original take would be awesome. I'd love to see a movie he made and describe it as "Tarrantino's Star Trek"... but to actually have it BE Star Trek!?
You're right. His desire sort of betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the mythos.
I drop several f-bombs a day, and I love QT movies in general... but the one f-bomb in ST: Discovery felt so wrong to me