My two favorite moments from Star Trek.

but it’s that utopianism which defines the franchise.

Each of the TOS cast films was a different genre. Only the first was a heady sci-fi in the style of 2001 A Space Odyssey. The second, Wrath of Kahn, is basically a WWII submarine action movie. The third is a “good-guys-gone-rogue” action film/heist movie. The Voyage Home is a fish-out-of-water comedy. Final Frontier…

You can be in charge of Paramount now.

Star Trek has never been particularly successful as a film franchise. Oh, it’s had a few hits, but adjusting on its ratio for hits and misses, well, they’ve been at their best when they’ve been at their lowest budgets. (TWOK famously shot on roughly a TV production budget)