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Brent Spiner says a Star Trek crossover movie was rejected as too costly
Brent Spiner says he and screenwriter John Logan planned a Star Trek movie that would bring together characters from different generations.
They developed the idea after Star Trek: Nemesis, released in 2002, in which Spiner starred as Data.
The proposed story would have had Picard travel through time to recruit people including Data, Kirk, Spock and Archer to face a group of villains.
Spiner described it as a “Justice League of Star Trek” and said the idea also involved characters playing two roles.
He said he and Logan met with Paramount executives, who turned the project down because it would have cost too much.
Nemesis performed poorly with critics and at the box office, ending the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation movies.
The franchise later went on a break after the TV series Enterprise was canceled in 2005, and no plans for the proposed film are described.
Brent Spiner says Paramount rejected a proposed Star Trek crossover movie because it would have been too expensive.
Spiner and screenwriter John Logan developed the idea after working on Star Trek: Nemesis.
The proposed film would have brought together characters from different Star Trek generations.
Spiner said the concept involved time travel and characters playing two roles.
He and Logan met with Paramount executives, who turned the idea down.
- Who
- Brent Spiner and screenwriter John Logan proposed the movie to Paramount.
- What
- They pitched a Star Trek crossover movie bringing together characters from different generations. Paramount rejected the idea as too expensive.
- When
- The proposal followed Star Trek: Nemesis, released in 2002. The exact date of the meetings is not stated.
- Where
- Not stated
- Why
- Paramount considered the movie too expensive to make.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Star Trek: Nemesis was released, and Spiner and Logan had developed its story.
Spiner and Logan met with Paramount executives about their crossover movie idea, and the studio rejected it.
Spiner discussed the crossover idea with Star Trek Magazine.
Spiner revisited the idea at the New York premiere of The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World.
- Proposed by
- Brent Spiner and screenwriter John Logan
- Film
- Star Trek crossover bringing together characters from different generations
- Initial film
- Star Trek: Nemesis, released in 2002
- Proposed elements
- Time travel and characters playing two roles
- Decision
- Paramount rejected the idea as too expensive
What people are saying
We had an original script that we wrote that was rejected. It wasn’t the script. We had a story idea that involved everybody playing two roles, but alas, that wasn’t to be.
Yeah, we had meetings, and they said, ‘Nah, we don’t want to do that.’ And so, that’s the way it goes.
John [Logan] and I had a great story that would bring together all the captains, crews, and villains together at the same time. It was the Justice League of Star Trek, but Paramount decided it was too expensive a movie to make.
The problem with that more than anything is cost – how do you pay for that?
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