Actually they stopped making original cast Trek movies long before any cast members died. And they didn’t even stop because they were old. It was part of the sequel process, all the spinoff shows were supposed to get movies, but by the time they’d done 4 non-TOS movies and the 4th spinoff show the audience had abandoned them. That’s what caused the reboot, the quest for a new audience.
Yep, that bald Captain Picard was sure a sissy, a joke to put him in Kirk’s chair on the bridge
Where Kirk would flip the bad guy over his shoulder Cap Sissy would Challenger him to game of chess.
Most of the Trek movies sucked unfortunately. It’s a wonder the franchise was popular enough to survive, at least until “Nemesis”.
My brief take on all
1, pretty boring, stupid plot that was a rehash of a TOS episode
2, good
3, not terrible but very underwhelming
4, Very enjoyable, but very stupid plot
5, Partial birth Abortion
6, good
Generations, feeble, ignoble end for Kirk and for Picard’s ship
First Contact, okay, best TNG movie by default
Insurrection, stupid pointless garbage
Nemesis, ditto, finally killed the franchise until the reboot movies which are fun action with crappy plots.
A DS9 movie would have actually been good probably, since the writers of that show weren’t worthless hacks.
Back to Star Wars, the Ewoks may have been stupid (that Stormtrooper Armor is sure useless!) but ROJ is piece of gold compared to the prequels. It’s amazing how Lucas tried so hard to destroy what he created.
I have no idea what’s up with the new ones, I wish I could say I’m optimistic.