Jonathan Frakes is het beste bekend als Commander Riker uit de Star Trek: The Next Generation TV serie en films. Deze acteur en regisseur had pas geleden een interview met de website Uproxx en daar sprak hij onder anderen over een derde Star Trek film.

Uproxx: Let's say you get the job directing Star Trek 3, what would you want to bring to the project? What kind of story would you hope to tell?

Jonathan Frakes: I mean, nothing I'd like better... but if I come to Star Trek 3, I'm coming to the script that exists, so I'll do the best version of whatever story we've got to tell. Our friend Captain Kirk, I gather he's been signed up, so there's gotta be some way to work Kirk in, which I think would be great for the fans.

Uproxx: If you had your say, though. If you were able to shape the story, what kind of story would you want to tell? Would you want to tell a story of exploration, something that's a little more original, something that kind of pays tribute to the long history of the franchise? What would you do if you had your say?

Frakes: I think the success of the show and the stories that I've always enjoyed telling are the ones that have a little more emo. A little more about relationships and a little less about blowing sh*t up. So complicated relationships and moral dilemmas like we faced in Insurrection, First Contact. I like the sort of visceral, emotional relationship part of the Trek lore.

Not that I'm opposed to blowing sh*t up, because it's always fun and visually exciting (laughs).