$cientology Trek: Cruise Short Listed for Next Star Trek Film

Stick a fork in the franchise, it’s done.

I was seriously doubting that I’d be wanting to see whatever was going to come out of Trek next, and if it is something with Cruise, I am so not there!

(Mods feel free to move this to the Pit if you so desire.)

Well, if they want to kill the franchise for the next 100 years, this is the way to do it.

The franchise is dead. This amounts to giving the corpse a rectal exam to see if there is any hidden money.

“You don’t know the history of the Romulans. I do.”

Having Tom Cruise in the next Star Trek movie might be just what the francise needs to lift it to ‘so bad it’s good’ territory - so I hope they do it. That’s the only way I’d ever pay to see a star trek movie.

Heh, “short” listed.

Oh darn! It’s Cruise “Short Listed”, not “Cruise Short” Listed.

Oops.

So what comes after that? “Snakes on a Spaceship?”

I would show up opening day for a Samuel L. Jackson “Star Trek” movie.

How about Tom Cruise plays an alien! :wink:

The jokes just write themselves.

“What does God need with a DC-9?”
Maybe the Enterprise will fight the Psychlos, or Q will finally appear in a Star Trek movie - and it will be revealed that he’s a psychologist. Or maybe they’ll fight a race of clams.

According to my friends’ “sequel rules,” Snakes on a Spaceship is the fifth movie in the franchise. After the original, you’d have Snakes on a Plane 2: The Revenge*; Snakes on a Plane 3: Die, Snakes, Die; and Snakes on a Plane in the Hood before Snakes on a Spaceship.

*I prefer Snakin’ 2: Electric Bugaloo.

Kirk: Xenuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Nah, it just doesn’t work. :smiley:

Seriously, I’m a bit ambivalent about this. I still like Cruise as a movie star, even if he’s a crazy asshole in real life. With the right producer and director, I could see his presence helping Trek. Of course, the public would have to be willing to pay to see him, and right now the public still hasn’t forgiven him for being batshit crazy and obnoxious about it.

On the plus side, he could bring new levels of sincerity to space opera, since he’d actually believe all of it!

They’d just have to make the Enterprise look like a DC-10.

Maaaaaaat!!!

Now, that I would go see!

Revtim, dude, I totally didn’t make that connection until you posted it.

Personally, I was sort of hoping for Scotty. I would be first in line.

Wasn’t Cruise told to hit the bricks by Paramount? Given that Star Trek is a Paramount franchise, would he actually have been offered such a part…?

Tom Cruise in a Star Trek movie? Well, I guess he is the right height for a Ferengi.

I think it’s that he no longer has a production deal with Paramount for the movies he produced. I would guess he would just be acting in a Star Trek movie, and it’s not like Paramount has banned him from all Paramount movies.

Since this is not in the pit, we can’t speculate about dialogue. Or maybe we can.

Borg: “Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”

Captain L. Jackson: "oh yeah? (draws huge pistol) “Assimilate this, M______R!!!”

nO, Not snakes

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