Star Trek is Still Important, Says Damon Lindelof

Damon Lindelof has proven his mettle as a showrunner with titles like The Leftovers and last year's Watchmen, and though Simon Pegg seems to think that the Trek franchise has lost its fire, Lindelof believes it's a franchise worth fighting for.

Talking to Fandom, Lindelof was asked to comment on the halting of the Trek franchise, to which he replies, "… I feel like there is a wide breadth of ways to attack [‘Star Trek']… And you cannot deny that very few things have a 50-year half-life. There is something about ‘Trek' that resonates. And while it may never be ‘Star Wars' or ‘The Avengers,' I still think that it's important; those are important stories to tell."

Lindelof goes on to compare the franchise to Bond and Batman, in a sense that anyone can take a stab at Star Trek and put their own spin on it. Though the films have halted, we still have multiple series coming out like Discovery and the well-received Picard show.

Personally, I'm a fan of the new films, and I'm kind of bummed that Star Trek: Beyond didn't perform as well as expected. If anything, it was all really just faulty marketing; I thought the film was very fun, and felt as more Trek than the J.J. Abrams films ever did. Hopefully Pegg manages to follow through on the story they were initially planning to tell, because I would have loved to see Chris Hemsworth come back to this universe as George Kirk.

For now, we have yet to get an announcement for Star Trek 4.

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