Assuming they make a couple more nu-trek movies and then decide to end, how would you think it best to end it? Poll to follow.
The continuum change was such that the family that would be Jean Luc is no longer in existance. The Borg attack, and no Jean Luc to stop them, the Borg assimilate Earth.
The End.
Shatner’s Kirk emerges from a black hole and bitchslaps Pine’s Kirk for being even more insufferable than he is.
They enter the Mirror Universe and are unable to return. The Empire captures them and tortures them until they confess to their crimes. They are then horribly executed.
This should be the next movie. A short, actually.
I’m okay with just letting it go until another, hopefully better reboot comes along, which given Hollywood’s lack of creativity, should be four years, tops.
Naturally, I’ll be called in to doctor the script before it goes into production.
The cosmos splits in such a way that people who hate the new movies live in a dimension where they never existed, and those of us who like them can watch them in peace.
And the Spocks play golf.
I’d like to see them have to fight one of the wars they’ve been trying to avoid and see what the consequences are.
Immediately?
A major wormhole undoes all the abominations perpetrated by JJ Abrams and restores the Roddenberry-Berman-verse.
I realize this probably isn’t the kind of answer the OP was looking for, but I really hate the Lucas-ization of Star Trek that has been happening.
The new Trek is what the original Trek would have been if the suit who called the pilot “too cerebral” had been allowed to retool it as he pleased.
Hmm…maybe it should end with the Federation developing technology to neutralize threadshitters.
I’ve been a Trekkie since the first run of the original series. I must confess that I cannot find it within myself to give much of a damn about the new films. The first was enjoyable, but I have not felt impelled to spend my money and time to see the new one. (I admit to indulging in a little recreational outrage at the casting of Khan.)
I blame this on my aging out of the target demographic for film marketing. No one cares if a fifty-something man wants to see their movie.
Let them tell their stories as they wish; I do not have the time to be an armchair producer. Many series and stories have moved to a place I did not care to follow - if I can ignore Voyager I can safely ignore the current film incarnation of the franchise.
You mean you’re not feeling your childhood being raped, even a tiny little bit?
No. The Jim Carrey Grinch movie managed that and caused a callous to grow over that part of my soul. I’ll never feel that way again.
(“Using the doll, please show us what the filmmaker did…”)
Not even a little bit.
Have Jim Parsons (in his Sheldon Cooper persona) walk onto the set, stand in front of Zachary Quinto, look him up and down a couple of times, shake his head sadly, sigh heavily, mutter “No,” and purposefully walk off the set.
Everybody on the bridge of the Enterprise watches him go, then whoever is playing Kirk says “Well, I guess that’s that.” Then everybody leaves.
But FIRST, they use Red Matter, go back in time to before Nimoy screwed up saving Romulus, make it so he doesn’t mess it up, and Nero doesn’t feel any need to destroy Vulcan and kill Kirk’s dad. And just to drive the point home, Kirk’s dad and Spock’s mom are there when Jim Parsons shows up.*
*But not Nero. He’s kind of a dick and it would be just as well if nobody had ever heard of him.
I just noticed that my recovery of the original continuity was one of the options. oops.
Thing is, I wouldn’t mind of they departed from continuity more. Uhura and Spock are snogging? Okay, fine, it’s actually an improvement over Chapel’s unrequited crush on Spock. Heck, why not make Sulu or Chekov female, like the new Battlestar Galactica did for Starbuck and Boomer? And if Spock and Kirk don’t actually like each other, but work well together… cool! A close personal friendship is not required for the kinds of jobs they do (or at least it never has been in the real-life militaries the premise superficially emulates even while denying doing so).
My biggest problem isn’t that the new movies don’t conform to some ideal “Star Trek” from my youth (they radically don’t, but that’s not the issue) - my problem is that the new movies are stupid in many ways, riddled with plot holes (and lens flares) and contrivances, making them incoherent and implausible even by action-movie standards, or even comic-book superhero action-movie standards.
It’s like they’ve taken the worst elements of TNG and Voyager and given them a $80 million budget - “here, destroy lots of stuff, but don’t get all military because that’s bad, mmmkay?”
My preferred outcome is the the now movies (if they’re going to make more of them) get smarter, at least to the level of Iron Man (not a high standard, I would think). I don’t care if original continuity is abandoned or nominally parallel-dimension restored or whatever, just stop talking to me like you think I’m an idiot.
Serious one: Original Spock, knowing the location of the Guardian of Forever, goes there, like he did in TAS, and disintegrates Nero. Boom, continuity restored.
More fun, all the characters and CGI follow JJ to the Star Wars set, where we’d be able to resolve the Enterprise vs Star Destroyer debate once and for all.
The restoration of the TNG universe.
All series need a satisfying ending. Restoring the timeline is fine, if the new characters have an ending. Of course, then they’d also need a beginning, but it can be done.
The most likely way it will be done is for Kirk to get teleported to the future with Picard, but this time Picard dies falling off a bridge, but there would be some life-giving radiation from some planet telegraphed early on where Picard can be resurrected. And Data will have to fight someone or something.
If that’s what they want this series to be, then embrace the farce.