While we still don’t know an adversary for the upcoming Star Trek sequel, we can tell you which classic adversary won’t featured.
Writer Damon Lindelof says that we won’t see the Borg as the threat in the next Trek film.
“We know what the movie’s about, we know what the key relationships are, what the stakes are, who the bad guy is…or girl…or Borg. No Borg. No Borg. We can rule out Borg,” he says.
But what about those rumors that we could see Khan in the next installment?
“To Khan or not to Khan was the jumping off question and we actually put a big list up on the board: pros and Khans, because it’s a pun, and sort of weighed it all out and had a big debate and came to a decision, and once we came to that decision we stuck to our guns,” he says.
“The first movie was designed as a buddy cop movie, [Kirk and Spock are] Riggs and Murtaugh. So the idea that pure emotion and instinct can actually pair quite nicely with a logical brain as long as in that Venn diagram they find the same traits in each other,” he adds. “That’s definitely a huge theme of Trek and one that you cannot abandon, it has to keep moving forwards, it’ll certainly be a big part of [the sequel], but I think the sequel is also going to want to explore other relationships in the movie and certainly characters who were more in the background get to shine a little bit brighter in the second movie.”
I’m all for letting some of the other characters (Sulu, Uhura, Scotty & Chekov) shine a bit more so long as Abrams, Lindelof, et.al., not forget that what has made the original Star Trek such a phenomenal franchise has been keeping on target the unique chemistry between the Kirk, Spock & McCoy characters. Those 3 are the glue that holds together the entire binding.
Screw it I want an all scotty movie, lol.
It sounds like their approach lead to exactly what I didn’t like about the 1st Abrams Trek movie. The characters were the best part and very true to the spirit of trek but the actual plot felt like and afterthought; just and excuse to get the characters together. I hope they do characters AND story next time.
The only reason that Khan made sense in the second Trek movie was because Kirk and Khan had a history (setup in the original series). In this new Trek, that has not happened yet (if ever), so having Khan show up doesn’t make any sense. Well, unless they want to combine the events of “The Space Seed” and Wrath of Khan…
The return (reboot 1st appear) of Khan. Sounds like we already need a reboot of the reboot.