What Could Have Been: Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek

Uhura's Feet, The Movie

JJA: “This is a fantastic opportunity to tell new and interesting stories in the Star Trek universe!” Also JJA: “Lets just redo Wrath of Khan.”

I kind of love the idea of Tarantino coming in and not giving two shits about the original/Kelvin timeline inconsistencies and just filming a Star Trek film that he wants to make.

If Netflix or Amazon were truly smart, they would contract Tarantino to produce a Star Trek-like series. It wouldn't be the 10th movie, because it would be a limited series (8 to 13 episodes). It would allow Tarantino to do what he wanted, and choose the best stories to make.

Great video. Fun fact: In 1989, I wrote and pitched a sequel episode to "A Piece of the Action" to the TNG production team. It was called "All of the Action" and involved the Iotians developing teleportation and sub-warp technology thanks to Bones' communicator. The Iotias hijack the Enterprise but Picard bluffs his way out by showing the eager gangsters all of the other hostiles in the universe they'd have to deal with making the Iotians back down. There were some other subplots about two Iotians from separate gangs falling in love and Data learning how to bluff in poker. If there is anyway to access WGA's script library, you could probably find it there (a copy was registered with the guild back then). The TNG staff turned it down because a) they said that they "didn't make sequels to TOS episodes" back then and b) the scene where Picard uses the holo-deck to show a map of the known universe would have broken the episode's budget (an effect that would be "nothing" to do these days!) and the episode was rejected. However, it's nice to know that Tarantino and I were on the same wavelength!

Fun little fact about "A Piece of the Action" is that when the 30th anniversary of the franchise was coming up one of the pitches for DS9 was to revisit the Iotians and find out that they moved on from the gangster theme and were now obsessed with imitating Kirk and Starfleet. So basically an entire planet of Star Trek fans! Ultimately they went with Trials and Tribble-ations which of course is the better choice.

You know what they call the Enterprise in Paris? ...a Starship Royale.

Just the fact that Tarantino loves classic Trek and his favourite character is Shatners Kirk gives me a good feeling about him directing a Trek movie, because let's face it, classic Trek is the best and it's very specific. Directors who are not fans of the original show and have no love of classic Trek should not be allowed anywhere near the direction of Star Trek movies!

I would love to see Tarantino do a, "Did you see the sign in my yard that said dead Klingon Storage?" line. It could be worked into A Piece of The Action with ease.

Thirteen theatrical movies and a zillion television episodes deep, Star Trek can afford to take a really bold swing for its next film.

I'd like to see the "Mirror Mirror" episode from the original series made into a movie.

The original Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn will never be bettered.

One of my favorite ST episodes was "Piece of the Action" . I would LOVE to see a Tarantino expanded film based on this!

Today I found out Vic Tayback (Mel from Alice) played an alien Iotian gangster named JoJo Krako in an episode of Star Trek. EPIC.

I've heard about this. Star Trek isn't the only franchise he wouldn't mind taking on, he's also express interest in directing an Ian Fleming's James Bond film as well if the opportunity is giving ..

A Piece of the Action: The Movie, would have been a great fit for Quentin Tarantino's style. I personally do not like cursing in Star Trek, as the recent shows have seemingly embraced... However, if the gangster aliens were the ones swearing, then cut to a shot of Kirk and Spock looking at each other with confused expressions, and uttering something silly such as "double fract to you", like they did in Voyage Home... That would have been funny and entertaining!

This is coming from someone who isn't particularly interested in the Star Trek franchise and Only Knows the bare minimum but a Quentin Tarantino movie basically about anything has me interested especially something outlandish and outside of his comfort zone like StarTrack would be incredible

I cry during movies very rarely. Once when ET died. And again when the Enterprise blazed across the skies of the Genesis planet in STIII. The ship WAS indeed a character, just as much as Kirk Spock, McCoy and all the rest. When the Enterprise died, it hit like hammer.

The latter 2 films also seemed to forgot that there's a strong friendship between the three--Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. I missed Kirk turning to McCoy for the 'human' take on situations. (A Tarantino ST would be amazing!)

Give Tarantino, the Mirror Universe to be his Star Trek playground. He could be a violent as he wants to be, and just think of the new characters and villains he could come up with. Man it would be all his movies wrapped in one