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The fifth TNG movie that never was

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Undeveloped Star Trek projects

Spiner himself explained,

One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula's character, Archer.

I can't imagine it would have been good, but boy do I wish I existed in a universe where this movie had been made.

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  • Really though, I just would have wanted to see Archer on the big screen, regardless of quality.

  • This is something I would have loved to hate.

    • I think this is a great take.

      I get the appeal. Cross overs are enticing. But Zach Snyder's justice League demonstrates a huge challenge that most people don't seem to discuss: the recruitment needs to have a purpose.

      Remember when Batman is asking Aquaman to be in his movie team? It's clear that the only reason is that the team is not a means, it's the end. He doesn't need him for any particular reason, he just spends the he could be trying to solve a mystery building a club from scratch with no clear purpose. I think this set up would have the same problem.

      • In some contexts this would be called a solution without a problem. I couldn't agree more!

  • Would Abraham Lincoln and Surak be on team Starfleet, like in TOS' "The Savage Curtain" (s3e22)? Would everyone enter a fight suit that would join together into a giant fighting robot that has a shiny Starfleet insignia on it? Justice League of Starfleet. I just can't.

  • Justice league of Star Trek crew ultimate team up….

    Where is this movie and how do I pay to see it :/ yes it would likely be terrible but seeing Kirk vs Janeway dynamic or spock vs Kira debates arguments etc

    And those are the first two that come to mind

  • So as everyone else has said ... yuck!

    But then I quickly remembered "... All good things". Time travel, big CGI thing in the sky, reuniting with old characters (Tasha, O'Brien) ... and it works very well, especially as a send off.

    I'm thinking that there's a kernel in there as a farewell to TNG era trek. Maybe not something where Picard becomes a literal Time Lord, but more where a drastic event has forced time-bending onto everyone at the epi-center of the event and any attempt of take advantage of it also entails some cost and the only way to fix the "breaking of time" is to do something incredibly starfleet.

    There's no evil per se just things breaking and people taking advantage of it. And Borg 🤷 .

  • The Generations we should have had.

    Not even kidding the premise is goofy but with a visionary director and sincere enough attempt, this could have been amazing.

    • The people in charge of TNG by that point were creatively bankrupt. It would have been a fiasco.

      Also, the idea just doesn't fit Star Trek. It isn't a comic book franchise, where fan-pleasing callbacks and crossovers are baked into the formula. In Star Trek media, callbacks and crossovers have tended to be some of the worst stories.

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