Dead Horse Interchange

Kinda makes sense if you think about it. How are we ever going to get from Current Year to Star Trek Utopia if WW3 keeps taking its sweet-ass time?

https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2020/02/ ... star-trek/

Good news?

Better than what we have now, yes. I don't believe it myself, though.

I like to think that things can only go up under different ownership, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Never gunna happen. ViacomCBS are probably going through hell to untangle the mess that is the Star Trek licence. They're not going to go and create yet another Star Trek licence for MacFarlane to play with

He can always try to adapt the Star Fleet Battles license.

Not to give Macfarlane any credit or anything, but if he were to buy the Star Trek license, he could just easily decanonize the entire Kelvin Timeline + associated post-Enterprise canon as a "What If" scenario (similar to what Disney did with the old Star Wars EU) as an ultimate middle finger to JJ, Lindelof, and Kurtzman & start off fresh with something in line with the quality of TNG (post-Season 1) and Deep Space Nine.

A new licence would naturally ignore that stuff anyway

There is something endearing about spending your millions on getting custody of that nerd property you've always loved that makes me want to believe the rumor.
Plus it would probably make the blue checkmarks livid - despite being a libshit himself, SJWs hate Macfarlane.

They might well give it to him at some point. He's done a better job, as a parody, of making a Star Trek that people know and love than the people they gave it to make an official continuation. I just don't see them selling it to him, with the licence situation and rights being such a mess and with the re-merger designed, at least in part, to fix all of that.