Star Trek: Strange New WorldsandStar Trek: Starfleet Academyeach have 2 seasons to come on Paramount+, but producers are already preparing to pitch the next wave ofStar Trekseries. In early August, Skydance Media completed its purchase of Paramount Global. CEO David Ellison is aStar Trekfan, and hopes are high that he will want newStar Trekseries on Paramount+.
Secret Hideout, led by executive producer Alex Kurtzman, has overseen the Star Trek on Paramount+ franchise since 2017. Under Kurtzman’s auspices,Star Treklaunched six TV series and a made-for-streaming movie,Star Trek: Section 31. However, it’s unclear if Kurtzman will continue to runStar Trekunder Skydance, or if the new owners will shake up the 60-year-old franchise.
It would be encouraging ifStar Trek: Lower Decks’executive producer Mike McMahan has plans to pitch a continuation or new version of his beloved animated comedy to Paramount/Skydance. The same goes forStar Trek: Prodigycreators Kevin and Dan Hageman. However, nothing is known yet about any attempts to restoreStar Trek’s groundbreaking animated series.
Coming out of STLV: Trek to Vegas, the biggestStar Trekconvention of the year, there were plenty of announcements, hints, and intentions to pursue newStar Trekseries. Here are 4 knownStar Trekshows that will reportedly make their case to Paramount/Skydance.
4Star Trek: Year One
Created By Akiva Goldsman & Henry Alonso Myers
Star Trek: Strange New Worldsexecutive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have been vocal about their hopes to launch a new seriesabout Captain James T. Kirk’s (Paul Wesley) first year commanding the Starship Enterprise. Reportedly, thisspinoff ofStrange New Worldsis titledStar Trek: Year One.
Star Trek: Strange New Worldswill end after a six-episode fifth and final season on Paramount+.Strange New Worldsseason 4 has wrapped filming, and production on season 5 starts in fall 2025. However, Goldsman and Myers are looking towards what could be next afterStrange New Worlds, pinning their hopes on their version ofStar Trek: The Original Series.
After all, as Goldsman and Myers have argued,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsalready has the actors in place to continue playing Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck), Lt. Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and the rest of Kirk’s crew, and they already have the USS Enterprise sets to port over onto a new spinoff.Strange New Worldsis also arguably the most popular Star Trek on Paramount+ series.
Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers will reportedly pitchStar Trek: Year Oneto the new executives of Paramount/Skydance. PerhapsStar Trek: Year Onewill warp onto Paramount+ afterStar Trek: Strange New Worldsends.
3Star Trek: United
Created By Michael Sussman & Scott Bakula
TrekMovieexclusively reported from STLV thatStar Trek: Enterpriseproducer Michael Sussman has been developing a new series that would star Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer. Inspired byStar Trek: Picardbringing back Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Sussman and Bakula’s show would beabout Archer as President of the United Federation of Planets.
DubbedStar Trek: United(or simplyStar Trek United), Bakula’s return as President Archer is designed as a thriller about politics and family, with Sussman hopingStar Trek: Unitedcould lend the kind of prestige toStar TrekthatAndorgaveStar Wars. A couple of years ago, Sussman took his pitch to Secret Hideout, who brought it to Paramount, but they passed onStar Trek: United.
However, Mike Sussman has refinedStar Trek: Unitedand believes the time is right to pitchScott Bakula’s Star Trekreturnto Paramount/Skydance. No doubt, Scott Bakula’s comeback as President Archer is a compelling draw, but it remains to be seen if Paramount’s new leadership will be united in favor of Sussman and Bakula’sStar Trekseries idea.
2Tawny Newsome’s Live-Action Star Trek Comedy
Created By Tawny Newsome & Justin Simien
At San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien announced they were developingStar Trek’s first live-action comedy series. A year later, Newsome and Simen’s concept has undergone revisions, but it is reportedlya workplace comedy set in the early 25th century about the employees of a pleasure planet outside the Federation.
TrekMoviespoke to Tawny Newsome at STLV, who said that"Hollywood’s in a place, and we’re waiting to hear. We wrote the thing, and we’re waiting to hear… I think everyone in the business is sort of waiting to see if anyone ever sells a show again, not to be bleak, but nothing’s guaranteed.”
Part of Newsome and Simien’s strategy in setting theirStar Trekworkplace comedy in the 25th century is that it would allowStar Trek’s legacy actors to guest star as their age-appropriate characters without digital de-aging. It could also mean Newsome’sStar Trek: Lower Deckscastcould appear as their characters in live-action.
Newsome and Simien’sStar Trekcomedy was developed under Secret Hideout, with Alex Kurtzman praising Tawny as a"stone cold killer"in the writers' room after she joined the staff ofStar Trek: Starfleet Academy. It’s possible Newsome and Simien’sStar Trekworkplace comedy will be pitched to the new executives at Paramount, but as Tawny said, it’s all wait and see right now.
1Star Trek: Legacy
Created By Terry Matalas
For two years since theend ofStar Trek: Picardseason 3,the single most desiredStar Trekproject by fans has beenStar Trek: Legacy. Continuing the voyages of the USS Enterprise-G under Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan),Star Trek: Legacyfound no momentum towards being developed at Paramount+, despite fervent fan campaigns in favor of the spinoff.
At STLV,Star Trek: Picardseason 3showrunner Terry Matalas, who now executive produces Marvel Studios’Vision Quest, confirmed that there continues to be no movement towardsStar Trek: Legacy.Yet fans andStar Trek: Picardseason 3’s cast and creative team stillwantStar Trek:Legacy,and it’s possible Paramount/Skydance will as well.
While Terry Matalas gave no indication he would make a formal pitch forStar Trek: Legacyto Paramount/Skydance, Terry did confirm at STLV that he had written 30 pages ofStar Trek: Legacy’s pilot, and that the first 20 minutes would involve the Klingon Empire and the return of Todd Stashwick as an Emergency Engineering Hologram version of Liam Shaw.
Fingers are crossed that, despite Terry Matalas' very busy schedule and commitments to Marvel Studios, his dream ofStar Trek: Legacycan happen at the new Paramount/Skydance.Star Trek: Legacyhas always had the prestige and fan support to take over the status of Star Trek on Paramount+’s flagship series afterStar Trek: Strange New Worldsends.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Cast
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy follows a group of cadets as they embark on their journey to become Starfleet officers. Facing the challenges of friendship, rivalry, and romance, they confront a new enemy endangering the Academy and the Federation under the guidance of their rigorous instructors.
