Don’t you see where this J.J. Abrams thing is going?

2009. J. J. Abrams directs Star Trek, a Reboot of the original “Star Trek”-Franchise.

2011. J. J. Abrams directs Super 8, produced by Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin, which allows Abrams, as he points out in Interviews to “share DNA” of earlier Amblin movies like E. T. – The Extra Terrestial.

2013. (January) J. J. Abrams is officially confirmed as the director of Star Wars: Episode VII.

2013. (May) The Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness features a post-credit sequence, in which James Kirk returns to his quarters to find E.T. sitting at his desk. He is pointing a glowing finger at the Captain and says: “Mr. Kirk, you’ve just become part of a bigger universe.”

2015. Star Trek: Episode VII features a longish subplot about a kid on Tattooine making friends with a gnarly outcast from the galactic senate, who has moved into Ben Kenobi’s old cabin.

2017. SPACE AVENGERS