If and when the next Star Trek movie finally beams into theaters, the writers and director of the film have promised that it won’t be like any version of Trek we’ve seen before. It’s a bold claim, but speaking at San Diego Comic-Con, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley made it clear that they have a plan. And that plan involves doing something very similar to what worked with their critically adored 2023 film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: to alter the source material, but not in a disrespectful way.
Following the Collider story that broke during San Diego Comic-Con 2026, in which Goldstein and Daley said that the next Trek movie would take place further in the future than any other installment before, TrekMovie noted that a second Collider update provided more context. And that context is twofold. First, the approach the writers are taking might surprise fans. Second, it sounds like the movie is not technically greenlit.
