Image: Paramount After years of false starts and potential projects, it looks as though Paramount has figured out where it wants to take its Star Trek film franchise, and has brought in Star Trek: Discovery writer Kalinda Vazquez to pen the script. While CBS’s revitalized TV franchise has been taking off with the likes of Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, and a bunch of other spinoffs, the film franchise has floundered a bit in recent years. The last big film hit theaters in 2016 with Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond, which followed J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. Since then, a fourth “Kelvin Universe” film has eluded the franchise, in part because Paramount wasn’t willing to pay for the salary increases that stars Chrises Pine and Hemsworth were asking for.