In an interview with Collider, Chris Pine not only mentioned that while he's excited about the possibility of another Star Trek film (which would be the fourth starring himself, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and the rest of their cast), and the fact he hasn't yet read a script, but expressed his belief that Paramount Pictures should remove the idea of matching a Marvel-like billion dollar gross out of the equation.
"We always tried to get the huge international market. It was always about making the billion dollars," Pine pointed out. "It was always this billion-dollar mark because Marvel was making a billion. Billion, billion, billion. We struggled with it, because Star Trek, for whatever reason, its core audience is rabid. Like rabid, as you know. To get these people that are interested that maybe are Star Wars fans or think Star Trek is not cool or whatever, proven to be… we’ve definitely done a good job of it, but not the billion-dollar kind of job that they want. But we operate in a system now which I don’t know how much longer we have if you have to spend 500 million dollars on a film to reach… even you have to pay all sorts of people back. So to make a billion, it’s like you haven’t even — a billion is the gross. You haven’t brought your net in. So I mean, if I had my business suit on, that’s what I would do, but I don’t know where that is. That’s all above my pay grade."
The intention is that Matt Shankman from WandaVision. He will be following in the footsteps of producer/director J.J. Abrams, who helmed Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2012) and Justin Lin, who directed Star Trek Beyond (2016).
This will be the 14th Star Trek feature film.