Though the TV shows are speeding ahead at warp speed Star Trek just can't get out of dry dock on the big screen at Paramount. With various interpretations competing for attention, the studio is pushing the pause button while it figures out how to proceed, which means bad news for Fargo's Noah Hawley.
The writer/director had been developing a new Trek movie, one that features a fresh cast and – according to Deadline – a story about a virus threat that might cut a little too close to home right now. He's still on board, but new film chief Emma Watts is deciding the course Paramount should chart from here.
Star Trek on the big screen has a few possibilities, including the script that Quentin Tarantino was developing with writer Mark L. Smith, which is reportedly going to tackle the crew encountering '30s Gangsters (which would put it as a spin on original series episode A Piece Of The Action, where a planet based its society on a pulp gangster novel). And then there's the lingering attempt to reunite the cast of Star Trek and Into Darkness, which has been complicated by the price/schedules of Chris Pine and co.
For now, it would seem like the Enterprise is stuck waiting for its orders.