Iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and director Jonathan Frakes reacts to the news of Paramount’s new Star Trek movie. Paramount Skydance announced a new Star Trek movie developed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein that will be unrelated to any prior Star Trek movie or TV show.
Jonathan Frakes is no stranger to directing Star Trek movies, helming Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. Frakes is regarded as the favorite director of Star Trek on Paramount+’s actors. Jonathan has directed numerous episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1 will also be directed by Frakes.
While a guest on TrekMovie’s All Access Star Trek podcast with Kitty Swink to discuss PanCan and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Jonathan Frakes learned about Paramount’s new Star Trek movie for the first time, and that the studio would not be making Star Trek 4 with Chris Pine and his Starship Enterprise cast. Check out Frakes’ reaction to this massive news below:
“Wow. That IS big news.”
Jonathan Frakes recognized Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley as “the Dungeons & Dragons guys.” Goldstein and Daley directed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves with Chris Pine. As a fellow Star Trek movie director, Frakes offered the following advice to the filmmaking duo:
“May they live long and prosper and stay safe and come in on budget and on time, and they’ll do fine.”
During Star Trek 4′s long process in development hell, Jonathan Frakes reached out to producer J.J. Abrams and offered his services as director. However, nothing came of it, and Frakes continued his prolific work directing Star Trek TV series and other projects.
Frakes appears to be a fan of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley’s work. The duo wrote Spider-Man: Homecoming and Horrible Bosses. Daley and Goldstein stepped behind the camera to direct Vacation, Game Night, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Jonathan Frakes’ most recent Star Trek episode he directed was Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s “A Space Adventure Hour,” which Frakes hailed as the best hour of TV he ever directed. Understandably, Jonathan was surprised by the divisive fan reaction to his holodeck murder mystery and lighthearted ode to Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek: The Original Series.
Like Star Trek fans, Jonathan Frakes is taking a wait-and-see approach to what the new Star Trek movie will be. A Star Trek movie unconnected to prior TV shows and movies sounds like a major gamble, but Frakes’ own Star Trek: The Next Generation, introducing a new cast that wasn’t Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), was also a big risk that paid off.
- Release Date
-
1987 – 1994-00-00
- Network
-
Syndication
- Showrunner
-
Gene Roddenberry
- Directors
-
Cliff Bole, Les Landau, Winrich Kolbe, Rob Bowman, Robert Scheerer, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Wiemer, Gabrielle Beaumont, Alexander Singer, David Carson, Paul Lynch, Corey Allen, Patrick Stewart, Chip Chalmers, Joseph L. Scanlan, James L. Conway, Robert Lederman, Tom Benko, Timothy Bond, Robert Legato, Adam Nimoy, Robert Becker, David Livingston, LeVar Burton
- Writers
-
René Echevarria, Maurice Hurley, Richard Manning, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Tracy Tormé, Hannah Louise Shearer, Stuart Charno, Ira Steven Behr, Sara B. Cooper, Peter Allan Fields, Herbert Wright, Frank Abatemarco, Burton Armus, Hilary Bader, Morgan Gendel, David Kemper, Michael I. Wagner, Philip LaZebnik, Robert McCullough, Susan Sackett, Nick Sagan, Fred Bronson, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Sam Rolfe
