Does Star Trek Still Need to Be a Movie Franchise? The Eternal Debate

There are as we write this some 947 episodes of Star Trek content available to watch, stretching across Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , totaling something like 820 hours of viewing. There are also 13 theatrical Star Trek movies in circulation, plus one direct-to-streaming movie , which rack up another roughly 27 hours or so of sci-fi adventures. While both numbers are formidable in their own right, it’s still clear which medium Gene Roddenberry’s original vision has prospered in the most.

David Ellison, the new owner of what is now called Paramount Skydance, said at a recent press event to commemorate the merger that returning Star Trek to the big screen—from which it has been absent for nearly a decade—is a priority for him. And he wouldn’t