Damon Lindelof Hints That The Klingons Will Be The Main Villains In STAR TREK 3

Won't be JJ making it so....

It's Star Trek. It's Star Trek Villains in a Star Trek movie. Not surprised here.

Peter Jackson or Brad Bird should take over the new Trek In my opinion.

@fettastic Not really Star Trek's style. TOS and TNG focused mainly on exploration. The idea is by exploring and learning about other cultures, we learn about ourselves. Those two shows weren't really focused on the military aspects of Starfleet. Now DS9 on the other hand is a different story.

The beauty of DS9 is that the build up to the Dominion War wasn't rushed at all. It took several seasons but it was definitely worth it. It was almost as though that's what the show ultimately became about.

IMO another director should take it from here. Leave Abrams on Star Wars. From what I've heard, Into Darkness isn't that great, so another visionary should take a crack at this franchise.

As long as they don’t keep that dumb Cardassian look.

At the start of TOS,the Romulan's were almost forgotten behind the Neutral Zone.
It was the Klingons that were the primary threat to the Federation and it seemed to be implied that the Federation /Klingon Empire Neutral Zone was the result of a war began as a result of a botched First Contact.

@blkyank Then Enterprise went and contradicted that be showing a relatively peaceful first contact with Klingons in its first episode. Before that I read somewhere that first contact took place in 2222 and was disastrous. But Berman and co decided to retcon it to 2151 for no reason whatsoever.

I'm all for a Next Gen Cross over, technically speaking, the original timeline still does exist, so it is entire theoretical that any member of the Next Gen crew could pop up, if they traveled back in time, since their jump in time would land them in this alternate timeline(i.e. See Back to the Future Part II for that explanation).

The borg need to stay away though, we've had almost too much of it, yes it was needed for the First Contact film & it turned out to be a great film, but it's bad when you see villians showing up TOO much. In the 23rd century, the Borg were still deep in the Delta Quadrant, I don't think it would make sense for them to show up in the 23rd century, even in the new timeline.

Now onto Q, THAT is a much needed villian that needs his own film. But it depends on which Q they are talking about, the Next Gen Q played by John de Lancie or if it's another Q from the Continuum. Yes, John de Lancie is kind of old, 65 right now, but as far as I'm concerned HE IS Q. I would love nothing more than to see him return to the role that many saw him perfect in the Next Gen Series.(maybe even via time travel, he is a Q after all & can show up at any time & place with the snap of a finger) However, I am open to the possibility of another Q from the Continuum(since they are named Q), being the main villian.

In fact in The Original Series, in the episode "The Squire of Gothos" there was a charactered named General Trelane, who is described as an eccentric being who uses his apparently unlimited power over matter. That is pretty much a discription of what Q is, heck it's even generally accepted that General Trelane was a Q, even though they didn't call him Q or mention the Continuum in that episode, but even John de Lancie said that his inspiration for Q, was based off of that character. So I think in that sense, he would be the perfect character to use as Q's(or another Q) re-introduction into the Star Trek Universe(via the alternate timeline). I've bee saying it a long time that Q needed his own movie & I personally would've loved to see how Kirk & Spock would've handled John de Lancie's Q, but honestly, I think the part would be recast, just due to de Lancie's age, but I think he'd be a perfect villian for the next Star Trek film(other than the obvious of the Klingons).

@AustinFan4Life But if a character arrives into the Abrahms timeline from the future, they'd be from the future of the current timeline and the current timeline would become another separate timeline to their future from the moment they arrived in the past. Like how the Abrahms timeline was the original timeline until the moment Nero arrived back. (Which means Enterprise takes place in both timelines and can be followed by the 09 film OR the original timeline. Serious mindf*ck!). So basically any TNG character arriving back would be from a future also affected by Nero's tampering and any TNG character from the original timeline going back in time would arrive in a completely separate timeline to the current one...I've hurt my own head now. This is why I hate time travel as a plot device unless it follows the rule of whatever happens happened. Back to the Future gets away with it though for being awesome and less than serious.

@AustinFan4Life: I hate when people claim that the Borg showed up "too much." It shows that they are clearly not paying attention. This list just gives an example of which species showed up how many times:

Klingons:
ENT: (11)
TOS: (7)
TAS: (2)
TNG: (31)
DS9: (49)
VOY: (14)
films: (8)

Romulans:
ENT: (5)
TOS: (3)
TAS: (3)
TOS films: (3)
TNG: (21)
TNG films: (2)
DS9: (16)
VOY: (6)

Ferengi:
TNG: (15)
DS9: (70)
VOY: (5)
ENT: (2)

Borg:
TNG: (6)
DS9: "Emissary"
Star Trek: First Contact
VOY: (22)
ENT: "Regeneration"

Your Trek fan card has been revoked. Leave the bridge, do not take the turbolift, do not kiss Uhura on the way out.

@ Luminus

Usually when people say the Borg show up too much, it's because the Borg are by far the most superior type of villain, than any other villain in Star Trek history. Technically speaking, The Borg are supposed to be unbeatable(although Starfleet always found a way to beat them). So from that stand point, The Borg were over used in the Star Trek.

Oh & you missed a couple for The Borg. TOS Epsiode "The Doomsday Machine" & Star Trek The Motion Picture.

Both have been retcon by the producers as being part of the origins of the Borg.

Now I wasn't comparing The Borg to any other villain, I've said it before in the past, that the Klingon's were over used, it's just that when you have a special villain, that is supposed to be unbeatable....they don't show up as often as they do, you have them for special moments & special occasions, not once a week or once a month, type deals(which is how it seemed, after their primary appearances in TNG)

While I would like to see how Kirk & crew would deal with them, I still feel that the Borg are a villain that would make much more sense with TNG crew, especially since the Borg are deep within the Delta Quadrant in the 23rd century. And if you believe what is said in Voyager, it would take close to 70 years, at max warp, just to get to the Alpha Quadrant, THAT is why The Borg doesn't make sense for them to show up in the current timeline quite yet.

Now I'm in no way disagreeing with you & yes, if your statistics are correct(which for argument sake, I'll say they are, minus the two add ons, I pointed out), then yes, there were villains who showed up more, also Klingons were allies of the Federation in TNG series, so they wouldn't have counted as villains, case & point is Worf serving on the Enterprise. Anyways back to my point, sure other villains showed up a lot more, but The Borg were seen WAAAAAAYYYYY too often then they should have.

@ Luminus

I didn't say they showed up those times, I said both the episode & Star Trek The Motion Picture, were tied into the Borg origins, so technically speaking, that counts as an appearance. Again this was all retcon by the producers of the show, prior to JJ Abrams reboot.

But here's the thing about how the Borg arrived in the Alpha Quadrant, that I believe you've over looked. At the end of the Enterprise "regeneration" episode, it was stated that before the Borg's destruction, Jonathan Archer was told that The Borg sent out a distress call(or subspace message as it was said in that episode), & Archer was told by T'pol after they analyzed the message "it was take two hundred years, for a message to reach the Delta Quadrant" to which Archer responded "it seems to me we've only postponed the invasion, until what? The 24th Century?" And according to that episode that was in 2153, which would mean that since that portion of the timeline is unaffected by the Nero Incident, then the message would still take til the 24th century for the Borg to receive that distress call in the Delta Quadrant.

This was again verified by the producers of the show, that explained that's why when you first see The Borg in the episode of "Q Who?" (when Q sent the Enterprise into the Delta Quadrant) they are traveling at high warp, as they were responding to that distress call, before they ended up detecting & intercepting the Enterprise D. Again, this was retconned by the producers. They also explained how it only took them a year to reach earth, from the Delta Quadrant, after that first appearance, that was when the Borg first put their Transwarp Conduits online.

All of this is explained how they reached the Alpha Quadrant in the 24th Century, the same explanation can't be used to "theoretically explain" how they would end up in the 23rd century. The only way that it would make sense, for the Borg to be active in the 23rd century, is to tie their re-introduction in with Q(like what was done in TNG series), if they decide to re-introduce Q in the 23rd century, but not by the same explanation that you gave for them showing up in the 23rd century.

It made perfect sense for Voyager to run into them & as well as them showing up in TNG series(since that's when they were introduced), but was an annoyance seeing them randomly pop up in Enterprise. I can forgive their appearance in DS9, since that was the beginning of the series & used it as a plot device, but they still appeared way too much. With a villain like The Borg, I would rather have seen few appearance with the quality of appearances that should've been respected with, when it comes to a villain like The Borg. They can't, nor should they have been, been used in the same way the Klingons, Romulans, or even the Ferengi are. That's again why you quality over quantity analogy makes sense, in that perspective.