Some movies have actually done so with great success. The Lord of the Rings has many heroes and villains acting together and seperately from each other. A New Hope was the one Star Wars movie that did what every other movie seemed to struggle with massively, which is slow and proper pacing. The main characters only talking via holoscreens and never physically interacting at all makes the movie a lot better. The one moment where they got close was when Corbin exited an elevator right as Zorg entered it. Despite Star Trek movies being on space ships, which makes meeting a bit hard, Star Trek lore has made it abundantly clear that while teleporting into someone else's starship is hard, it’s not impossible.
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