Paramount and Skydance executives want Star Trek back on the big screen in the future, and I've read a lot of conversations about how that should happen and with whom. On the heels of many thinking Andor Season 2 is the best thing sci-fi has done in a while, I heard some pining for Trek to become more like Star Wars. Well, the good news is there's already an Andor director making the franchise's next movie, but even then, I feel like Trek's been down that road before.
I recently watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock with my Paramount+ subscription, and I feel like it's the most Star Wars-coded Trek movie we've seen to date. I maintain its ranking as a middling Trek movie now that I've finally seen it, and I think the fact I feel it tries to channel Star Wars plays into both why it's different in both a good way and bad way.
