That would be Matt Shakman, who is coming off directing Marvel’s hit Disney+ series WandaVision.
In the world of Star Trek you drift along in space for a while and suddenly someone gets the nacelles working again and zoom you’re flying.
But it’s already been five years since Star Trek Beyond, and more than 11 years since the reboot that launched their version of the franchise.
Deadline reports that the film has a new script “by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet,” making it “the first Star Trek film to be written by female screenwriters.”