Star Trek 4 Must Pay Off J.J. Abrams’ Biggest Tease
After years of deliberation, uncertainty, and flirting with Quentin Tarantino, Star Trek 4 is finally happening — here's one J.J. Abrams tease that must be included. Boldly launching in 2009, J.J. Abrams rebooted the Star Trek movie series for a whole new generation, casting younger versions of Captain Kirk's classic Enterprise crew, but breaking into the totally fresh «Kelvin» timeline. This tactic afforded sequels - Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016) — an untouched slate, but when the latter (photon) torpedoed at the box office, doubt fell over Star Trek 4's prospects. Eventually, after a string of false dawns (one directed by Quentin Tarantino, another starring Chris Hemsworth), J.J. Abrams confirmed Star Trek 4 was officially happening with all the main cast returning.
Across a trilogy of Kelvin timeline adventures, Chris Pine and co. faced many tough adversaries — Nero, Khan, and Krall chief among them. The neo-Enterprise crew encountered other enemies along the way too, most notably Star Trek's famous Klingons. Radically redesigned Klingons were slated to debut in J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot, but the scene in question found itself consigned to the cutting room floor. The Klingons returned via Star Trek Into Darkness, but merely as a cog in Khan's evil wheel, and Benedict Cumberbatch brutalizes the Klingon squadron with consummate ease, leaving Star Trek's proud warriors licking their wounds.
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Star Trek 4 needs to bring J.J. Abrams' new Klingons back into focus. With their helmets on, the Klingons carry a powerful mystique, but underneath, the design used for Star Trek Into Darkness conjures a menacing, brutal, primal tone that's
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