Simon Pegg Explains Why the ‘Star Trek’ Film Franchise Has Stalled

Paramount doesn’t really know what to do with Star Trek on the big screen anymore.

They’re perfectly happy to keep cranking out a billion series for CBS All Access, but when it comes to feature films, they’re stuck.

When they relaunched the franchise in 2009, Star Wars was dormant, so there was room for a big, sci-fi, space action series, but that’s no longer the case.

Furthermore, Trek, despite its devoted fans, doesn’t have Star Wars’ pop culture footprint and easy access mythology of light-side-vs-dark-side.

This all adds up to …

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