So far the only details we’ve learned about Star Trek 4 is that it will see Kirk crossing paths with his father, George Kirk, played by Chris Hemsworth.
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie is presumably the other movie that’s in the works, but that’s reportedly still being written, so it would be released after Star Trek 4.
George died at the beginning of the 2009 Star Trek movie minutes after James was born, so their meeting in the next movie would supposedly be accomplished through time travel.
It was revealed yesterday at CinemaCon that Paramount is developing two separate Star Trek movies, so to clarify, the S.J. Clarkson-helmed Star Trek 4 would follow the Enterprise crew in the Kelvin timeline for a fourth time, i.e.