With a script written by myself, Ed Gross, and art by Pat Carbajal, this was our attempt at capturing the feeling at the time, all done with a sense of humor, of course. Apologies for the confusing dialogue set-up in panel 1. Somehow we missed the fact that our letterer had mixed things up a bit. Without further adieu, our journey to the final frontier a long, long time ago.
Abrams, of course produced the 2009 production of Star Trek and ultimately decided to direct as well. Although a number of fans were offended by just the idea of a reboot with other actors in the role of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the Enterprise crew, it did score at the box office and the casting choices across the board worked out well.
He followed this three years later with Star Trek Into Darkness and then produced the third chapter, Star Trek Beyond. There was a recent announcement of a fourth chapter which will reportedly reach theaters by the end of 2023.
In between, Disney acquired Lucasfilm and, in turn, all rights to the Star Wars franchise. Abrams, who had made no secret of the fact that he was mujch more of a Star Wars fan than one of Star Trek, was happy to jump aboard and help guide that big screen relaunch, which would subsequently include Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi and Abrams returning to direct The Rise of Skywalker.
Whatever the fans may think of these efforts, Abrams himself was delighted at the opportunities they provided, commenting in the Star Trek oral history book The Fifty-Year Mission, "I'm honored to have been the tempoary captain of the ships that Lucas and Roddenberry built. I only hope that my involvement helped bring more people into these universes, so lovingly and wonderfully drawn by their creators. It was an honor to have lived in these worlds, for a time, and to have been even a small part of their enduring legacies."