The Final Frontier?
But now, Star Trek finds itself in a very different place to where it was when The Experience shuttered in 2008. Although the year after Trek returned to the big screen, it’d take almost another decade for the franchise to take the voyage home to TV with Star Trek: Discovery, anchoring the launch of Paramount’s nascent streaming service (known then as CBS All Access). Now, there’s more Star Trek than there ever was in its ‘90s heyday, and yet more on the horizon.
After Galaxy’s Edge has proven this kind of immersive experience can still thrive (and, in the case of Galactic Starcruiser, how not to do it), could Star Trek sustain the idea again? It’s hard to say what form such a thing could take. Would it embrace the nostalgia of the beloved ‘90s shows and essentially re-do what The Experience did? Would it theme itself around the modern offerings? There’s no solid plans for such a thing yet either way… but it’s nice to dream that Star Trek could match Star Wars with such a thing, a quarter century after it beat it to the punch in the first place.
