'Star Trek' Cast, Including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, Returning for Fourth Film

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By Adam B. Vary/Variety

They’re boldly going back.

Paramount is planning to enter negotiations for “Star Trek” stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Simon Pegg to return to the Enterprise for their fourth tour of duty in the venerable sci-fi franchise.

The announcement was made by J.J. Abrams during the Paramount Investors Day Presentation on Feb 15.

“We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new ‘Star Trek’ film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take ‘Star Trek’ into areas that you’ve just never seen before,” Abrams said. “We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.”

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. I hope that it works out, and that the new film is a good one. The last one I heard wasn't.

Perhaps they're getting to the point that it's kind of repetitive or overdone (the series)?

[OhZone]

9. Oh, it was worth watching for - SPOLIERS

[COLOR=WHITE]The Beastie Boys song used as a weapon![/COLOR]

[Bleacher Creature]

2. YES!!!!!

I've been waiting for this news and have been worried that it wouldn't ever happen.

I love the Kelvin timeline crew and am so excited. The only disappointment is that Anton Yelchin won't be in it.

[Clash City Rocker]

3. They'll have to explain Chekov's absence

Very sad that the actor died at such a young age.

If they really want to make this Star Trek nerd happy, they could give us a CGI version of Arex from the animated series. Discovery has been able to make equally alien cast members look real.

[exboyfil]

7. Check out Green Room if you can handle violence

Anton Yelchin gives a great performance. RIP he died much too soon.

I would do a flyer and introduce an aged Walter Koenig who got aged in some sort of accident or by some weapon used against him. It would be a bit of tragedy as Koenig reflects on his lost youth (no easy out on this - make it stick). Let's see if Koenig can bring some acting chops to the role.

Koenig made a great villain as Bester in Babylon Five.

[FarPoint]

8. My thoughts....

He will have a brother or something along those lines....just guessing.

[ItsjustMe]

4. J.J. Abrams Is Garbage

[exboyfil]

5. That is a bit strong

I personally agree that he has bastardized Star Trek and turned it into something it wasn't supposed to be. The last two films were trainwrecks. I can't even express how offended I was by the second movie. It showed so little imagination that I wanted to cry. I wanted Cumberbatch to be Kirk's friend Gary Mitchell (the prime version who apparently died at Kirk prime's hands). He would have been unimaginably powerful as his tele- abilities advanced on the edge of the galaxy. He followed Spock prime into the Kelvin timeline.

Wouldn't that have been a much better story than what we got (a bastardized rehash of Wrath of Khan).

Cumberbatch looks a lot more like Gary Lockwood than Ricardo Montalbán.

[intheflow]

13. Not to mention, Khan is an Indian name.

Montelbam and Cumberbatch are two examples of white men being cast as a POC. I can forgive TOS for casting him, because it was the ‘60s and that’s how tv was; ditto in reprising the role in the ‘80s. But to cast a Brit as an Indian character? Absolute culturally tone deaf casting in the 21st century.

[Moostache]

6. I actually liked the first two "new" Star Treks that were made recently

Top Five Star Trek Theatrical Films: (obviously everyone will have their own!)

5) Star Trek (2009 - Kelvin Timeline reboot)
4) Star Trek: Generations (1994)
3) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
2) Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
1) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

For me, Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) was enjoyable as long as it was not compared to the original Wrath of Khan. Cumberbatch is a great actor, and he was not bad as Khan Noonien Singh, but that character IS Ricardo Montalbán and the combined ask - of accepting Chris Pine as James T. Kirk AND Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan was a bit too much, especially with the Kirk-Spock dichotomy/twist to the storyline.

[Shermann]

11. Wrath of Khan FTW!

Picking up the TOS arc 15 years later was epic.

[BootinUp]

12. I suck at personal rankings of anything, but #1

in this category isn't hard. Agreed!

[hunter]

14. Yep. These Star Trek reboots are not Star Trek.

They're generic action-adventure space opera dressed up with Star Trek characters.

Maybe "Strange New Worlds" can bring Star Trek back.

[BootinUp]

10. I find the cast entertaining. Not my ideal Trek

but it is usually entertaining.