Sending grounded franchises to space is one of the worst tropes in ALL of media

[Kaunisto]

I agree that Jason X was better than couple previous films. And so was Leprechaun 4 (in the "so bad it's good" kind of way).
But those and the whole going to space thing tends to mean going almost full comedy, even more than the series has been. And you can't go much further from there (though Leprechaun 5 did pull it off), nor you can go back to being serious, except by full reboot. So yeah, space is a series dead end.