Quentin Tarantino's 'gangster' Star Trek still in play as series tries to chart new course on big screen

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When he rebooted Gene Roddenberry’s beloved Star Trek in 2009, filmmaker J.J. Abrams altered the long-running sci-fi series’ timeline for good.

So it seems apt then that in an alternate reality, a fourth film in the revamped franchise led by Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk would have already been in theatres by now.Shortly before 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, producers announced the next film would once again delve into a time-travel plot that would have seen Kirk crossing paths with his father George (played by Chris Hemsworth), “a man he never had a chance to meet, but whose legacy has haunted him since the day he was born.”But with Beyond only managing to leg out a tepid $338 million in worldwide box-office receipts — and Pine and Hemsworth both