Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek Movie & Why It Didn’t Happen Explained

Quentin Tarantino’s unmade Star Trek 4 movie has become one of the franchise’s great “What If?” questions, but it didn’t happen for a number of reasons. The Tarantino project was just one of many prospective versions of Star Trek 4, the next entry in J.J. Abrams’ Kelvin Timeline franchise. Various versions of Star Trek 4 have risen and fallen since 2016, including a return by Chris Hemsworth as Lt. George Samuel Kirk in a time travel movie. The most intriguing of these possible Star Trek 4 ideas was the script written by Quentin Tarantino and Mark L. Smith, writer of the Oscar winning Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Revenant.