“Justice League Of Star Trek” Movie That Never Happened Would Have Been “Fantastic,” Says Brent Spiner

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Published Oct 12, 2026, 8:19 PM EDT

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Brent Spiner talks about the "fantastic" Star Trek: Nemesis follow up that he and screenwriter John Logan dubbed the "Justice League of Star Trek."

Spiner and Logan concocted the story for 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis, and the duo hoped to make another movie that would have been a crossover, with characters from different generations of Star Trek teaming up. However, Star Trek: Nemesis bombed critically and at the box office, putting an end to the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise.

TrekMovie's Laurie Ulster spoke to Brent Spiner at the New York premiere of The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World. Spiner revisited the "pipe dream" of his "Justice League of Star Trek" idea, admitting that it was too expensive for Paramount, "particularly not after my salary." Spiner also hinted about "everybody playing two roles," as his and Logan's plan reportedly involved time travel and the Mirror Universe. Read Brent's quote below:

Brent Spiner: ““Thing is, it was a pipe dream on our parts, because obviously, nobody could afford to do that. Particularly not after my salary, they weren’t going to be able to. We had an original script that we wrote that was rejected. It wasn’t the script. We had a story idea that involved everybody playing two roles, but alas, that wasn’t to be."

Logan and Spiner did meet with Paramount executives about their idea, however:

Brent Spiner: "Yeah, we had meetings, and they said, ‘Nah, we don’t want to do that.’ And so, that’s the way it goes.”

In 2023, Spiner spoke to the official Star Trek Magazine about their Star Trek crossover movie idea:

Brent Spiner: "John [Logan] and I had a great story that would bring together all the captains, crews, and villains together at the same time. It was the Justice League of Star Trek, but Paramount decided it was too expensive a movie to make."

In an interview with the British magazine Dreamwatch, Spiner divulged more details about their "Justice League of Star Trek" concept:

Brent Spiner: “One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them, and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula’s character Archer. The problem with that more than anything is cost – how do you pay for that?”

Post-2002, Star Trek was a failing franchise in Paramount's eyes. Star Trek: Nemesis' failure killed the prospect of more Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. Meanwhile, the lone Star Trek TV series on the air, Enterprise, was drawing poor ratings on UPN, which canceled the prequel. In 2005, the studio put an end to Star Trek, concluding Rick Berman's 18-year tenure overseeing the franchise.

Given the state of Star Trek 20 years ago, there was no chance Paramount would have financed a crossover as expensive and ambitious as Spiner and Logan were proposing. After four years, Paramount gave the keys to Star Trek to J.J. Abrams, who rebooted the movies successfully with a new, younger cast. However, after two sequels, Abrams' Star Trek saga also puttered out.

After nearly a decade of new Star Trek series on Paramount+ executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Star Trek once again faces an uncertain future. Skydance's priority is to launch new Star Trek movies, with the first known project by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein containing no legacy characters.

Given Skydance's intention to break away from Star Trek's 60 years of canon in the hopes of attracting new audiences, Brent Spiner and John Logan's "Justice League of Star Trek" crossover idea seems as distant a possibility today as it did two decades ago. But it might have been as "fantastic" as Spiner believes.

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