There’s going to be big changes behind-the-scenes for the third voyage of the rebooted U.S.S. Enterprise, with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams having set off at warp speed to a galaxy far, far away for Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII, and screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay linking up with Roberto Orci to pen the script for Star Trek 3. Speaking at the LDS Film Festival (via TrekCore), Payne has offered up a few hints as to the plot of the threequel.
“We’re trying to set up a kind of situation where you really could — and not in just an ‘everything’s relative’ sort of moral relativism — you could be a good person of any creed or philosophical background and come down on both sides of how you should respond to this opportunity that the crew has…. that also has some pitfalls to it. Where you could argue very, very, very compellingly that ‘this’ is what you should do, and if you’re advocating ‘this’ then it’s actually evil. It’s sort of the Adam and Eve thing, where should we eat the fruit or not eat the fruit? Well, there are some very compelling reasons why they should and why they shouldn’t. So, similar kinds of things here that really give the whole movie an opportunity to sort of play with that, and have people come down on different sides and wrestle with it; then come to an ending where you can walk out and say, ‘You know, I don’t know what I would do.'”
So, where would you like to see the next Star Trek movie headed? Let us know your thoughts….
Originally published March 22, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
