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Upcoming Star Trek TV Shows: What's Ahead For The Sci-Fi Franchise

Here's what's ahead for Star Trek.

It’s a golden era for Star Trek tv shows, as the franchise is churning out more content than ever before. Fans with a Paramount+ subscription can stream a plethora of old and new content from one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time.

There’s a ton of new Star Trek content coming in the future, including the debut of a new show as well as the return of all the ones fans already know well. For those who need a breakdown of what all to expect, look no further because here’s where and when all the new Trek will arrive in 2023 and beyond. There’s even some information on planned shows that aren’t quite ready yet, but hopefully, we’ll see them soon enough. 

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 - Premiering On April 4th 2024

Captain Michael Burnham and the crew are back, and based on what we've seen and heard about Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 so far, some changes are on the way. Season 5 will see the crew race against others in an attempt to secure an ancient power, and will apparently have a tonal shift that will skew more toward action and adventure. We also learned that this coming season will be the final adventure , as Paramount+ decided to end the series after this coming season. The final season will kick off in April and, fingers crossed, leave an avenue open for more stories with these characters in the 32nd century. 

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 - In Production

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming back for Season 3, and is currently filming for the upcoming season. It's likely the season will kick off with the second part of the adventure started in the Season 2 finale . Pike must decide whether or not he's going to listen to Starfleet and retreat to avoid further conflict with the Gorn or to stay and try to save the kidnapped crew members. I have a hunch I know what decision he'll make, but I'm also very invested in seeing if Scotty will remain with the crew and what other adventures will come as well. 

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 - Coming In 2024

Paramount+ originally renewed Star Trek: Prodigy for Season 2, but announced later that it had been canceled alongside other shows on the platform. While the news was a bummer to many and encouraged responses from stars like Kate Mulgrew , there is a silver lining. After some talk with other companies, Paramount managed to negotiate a deal where the series will transition over to Netflix , and Season 2 will release over there. At this time, it's unknown whether or not this will lead to more seasons of Prodigy , but fans are thankful they'll at least get to see the season that was being worked on coming up in 2024. 

Section 31 Movie - Production Underway

Section 31 was one of the first Star Trek spinoffs announced after Discovery , and yet it took the longest to get off the ground. The series was supposed to Michelle Yeoh ’s Phillipa Georgiou and her efforts in the secret ops Starfleet faction that does the jobs that others in the organization would rather not know about. Other former Discovery stars, like Shazad Latif, were involved at one point, but some believed the odds of it happening aren't great after Michelle Yeoh's Oscar win .

It turns out Yeoh was interested in making it happen, and Paramount+ decided to alter the idea to a movie . Fans are excited about the project all the same, and ready to see Michelle Yeoh back in her role. Production on the film is officially underway, and it's looking like a premiere sometime in late 2024 to 2025 is likely.

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Starfleet Academy - Production Starting In 2024

Alex Kurtzman revealed not long ago that Star Trek is actively working on another new live-action series , and it’s going to be set at Starfleet Academy. Of course, we don’t know exactly what era this series is set to take place during or who is going to star in it yet. We don’t really know much of anything, though it’s worth noting that Star Trek: Discovery did write off its character Tilly when she took an offer at Starfleet Academy. The episode where that happened seemed like it could be a backdoor pilot for the show, but again, we have no idea. We do know that the writer's room is underway, but details are scant beyond that.  

As shown above, there’s still a ton of Star Trek on the way in 2024, and beyond. The only way to watch these shows is with a Paramount+ subscription , which is totally worth picking up with the increasing amount of shows and movies available to watch. 

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New Year's Day was a Human holiday celebrated annually on January 1, commemorating the beginning of a new calendar year . These celebrations were normally combined with those of New Year's Eve , celebrating the end of the previous year on December 31. One of the largest traditional celebrations was held in Times Square in New York City . ( TNG novel : I, Q )

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Q , while visiting New York City on Earth , briefly befriended a Human woman in anticipation for New Year's of Jan. 1st, 2000 . Unbeknownst to everyone else but himself, the ball to usher in the new millennium was sabotaged by terrorists . They killed everyone in attendance, except for Q. He left, pondering how blissfully ignorant mortals were to their concepts of importance verses the greater universe . ( TNG novel : I, Q )

The crew of the United Earth starship Enterprise NX-01 celebrated New Year's Day in 2152 . ( ENT novel : What Price Honor? )

On New Year's Eve 2367 , Julian Bashir , Elizabeth Lense and Shelerib th'Zharath attended a party held by Bruce Lucier . At the party, Lense confused Bashir with Erib. Being mistaken for an Andorian still rankled Bashir years later. ( DS9 episode : " Explorers ")

Celebration of New Year's Day that year was muted, as Earth was under a blackout, due to the threat from the Borg . Irene Hansen noted the event in her journal. ( VOY - Strange New Worlds V short story : " Final Entry ")

San Francisco celebrated New Year's Day 2378 with a long congratulations to the USS Voyager and its crew, following their recent return from the Delta Quadrant . ( VOY episode : " Endgame ", VOY novel : Homecoming , VOY - Strange New Worlds IV short story : " Uninvited Admirals ")

From 2409 onward, the fishing master in q's Winter Wonderland taught visitors the Klingon New Year tradition of ice fishing . Young warriors would catch kos'karii with there bare hands to celebrate the incoming year. In q's version, the fishing took place on a frozen lake, and gummy fish were used to lure a giant Gummy Kos'karii . ( STO missions : " Learning to Ice Fish ", " Klingon Ice Fishing ")

Alternate timelines [ ]

In an alternate timeline where United Earth became xenophobic, Trip Tucker and T'Pol attended the celebration in Times Square for the beginning of New Year 2200 . A violent confrontation broke out at that event, and Tucker was tragically killed. ( Star Trek: Myriad Universes novel : A Less Perfect Union )

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Published Jan 31, 2020

This Month in Trek: New Year, New Trek

What's going on in the world of Star Trek this month?

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Each month, StarTrek.com scours the internet for the best mentions, writing, art, crafting, and all-around creative endeavors from the global Star Trek community. Our picks for January include the launch of Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Voyager's 25th anniversary, and more!

January's biggest news is clear: after more than a year of waiting, Star Trek: Picard finally hit our streaming screens. Fans were stoked.

From the conclusion to #CrisisonInfiniteEarths to the series premiere of Star Trek: #Picard , these are the shows you need to be watching this winter. https://t.co/d1CXEnH4gA — Nerdist (@nerdist) January 11, 2020

Star Trek fans engaged! #StarTrekPicard premiered on @CTVSciFi with the largest audience in the history of the channel. Get all the details @thelede_ca here: https://t.co/aFi1Ii8nOV pic.twitter.com/iIUZQhUXRY — CTV Communications (@CTV_PR) January 24, 2020

Patrick Stewart returned to Los Angeles to celebrate Picard and enjoyed the honor of having his handprints memorialised at the Chinese Theatre along side several TNG castmates.

Last week, I placed my hand and footprints at Hollywood's @ChineseTheatres . An extraordinary honor to receive and special to have some of my first Hollywood colleagues @LevarBurton , @Gates_McFadden , @Marina_Sirtis , and @BrentSpiner there. pic.twitter.com/QfHP0lrsMn — Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) January 21, 2020

It's safe to say that fans and critics have embraced Star Trek: Picard , and so much of that credit goes to the mastermind behind the camera of the show's first three episodes, Hanelle Culpepper.

Hanelle Culpepper & January 23, 2020. This woman & this day are going down in history as the first time in the #StarTrek franchise’s 53 year history a new series has been launched by a female director. Congratulations, @Hillview798 , and thank you ?? #CBSEYESpeak #SeeHer pic.twitter.com/LEdxlSUJ29 — EYE Speak (@CBSEyeSpeak) January 23, 2020

One of the most important events of the premiere takes place on the planet Mars, and is referenced throughout the episode. Fans familiar with the red planet noted that Picard 's depiction of its surface appearance was startlingly accurate. Over at the Planetary Society, Emily Lakdawalla spoke with visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman, who let us all in on a few secrets about getting it right.

"I was granted an interview with visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman, and I asked him. It turned out to be more traditional art than engineery simulation, just working from great images of Mars (“Google is always a visual-effects supervisor’s best friend,” he said, and I laughed, not admitting that it’s a science writer’s best friend, too)... ...For Zimmerman, making Mars so realistic was important to please fans. “In Star Trek, we really do try and honor the science of things because I think the fans specifically do care about those things, maybe more than some other sci-fi franchises. It’s a little daunting because it’s something that people know. So for us it was really just about doing a ton of research. As much as we could find—realistic images, photos, recreations and all of that, and then piecing it together to create the most faithful representation that we could. We definitely wanted Mars to be recognizable, and to be faithful to what it was supposed to look like based on NASA and everybody else that’s got pictures and recreations of it.”

January 16th marked Star Trek: Voyager 's 25th anniversary, with "Caretaker" debuting that day in 1995. Captain Janeway herself, Kate Mulgrew, did some digging and shared her original Janeway uniform and director's chair from set. Some fans even did the same!

Wore this to work for you Admiral! pic.twitter.com/7HLYlVFSMl — DianaL (@dlsquared2) January 16, 2020

Was this a hint as to what we should expect from Riker's appearance on Star Trek: Picard or just some good ol' Dolly Parton sanctioned meme fun?

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And finally, we could not get enough of these adorable finger puppets, created by fan Carl's mother. Nothing is more perfect for hours of entertainment!

I feel like I need to show off all the amazing finger puppets Mom has made so far. I may be reenacting scenes soon... pic.twitter.com/DCTQywrebG — Carl (@ListeningToFilm) January 24, 2020

Star Trek: Picard streams exclusively on CBS All Access in the United States, in Canada on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and OTT service Crave, and on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.

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Preview Of Star Trek For 2022: What We Are Most Anticipating

| December 31, 2021 | By: TrekMovie Editors 80 comments so far

After reflecting back on the year that was , we now take a look forward to the new year. There is a lot to look forward to in the world of Star Trek in 2022. In no particular order, the following are what the TrekMovie team is most excited about…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

2022 will see more Star Trek: Prodigy , along with new seasons of Picard and Lower Decks , all of which are highly anticipated. But the Star Trek Universe is about to get a bit bigger with the arrival of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a brand new series set on board the USS Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike. Anson Mount returns to the role following his run in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery along with Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. There is a new cast, some playing familiar roles like Dr. M’Benga and Nurse Chapel. The series is designed to be different from the two other live-action Paramount+ shows, with a lighter tone and more traditional episodic “planet of the week” format, designed to satisfy old-school Trek fans.

Star Trek: Resurgence

Also coming this spring is Star Trek: Resurgence , a brand-new adventure game set within Star Trek’s 24th century Prime Universe. It’s been a while since the last launch of a PC and Console video game, so this is a big deal—and the focus on story and the pedigree of the team behind it make this a potential highlight for the year.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition 4K Update

His Trek film famously rushed to theaters for its 1979 theatrical release, the late Robert Wise worked with Paramount on a Director’s Edition with a new edit and new special effects for a release in 2001. Two decades later, Paramount has brought the team back together to bring Wise’s vision into the HD era with a new 4K Ultra HD edition, including newly rendered visual effects and updates. The 4K TMP will debut on Paramount+ first, and we just can’t wait to see it.

The return of Playmates Toys

In Star Trek’s heyday of the 1990s, Playmates Toys dominated with a constant stream of affordable and collectible figures and toys spanning the franchise. But that all came to an end in 1999, except for a brief return for the 2009 Star Trek movie. In 2022, Playmates will return with a new line promising “attention to brand detail, authentic portrait sculpting, and new product innovations.” Details are sparse but Playmates is expected to be offering kid-friendly toys and figures tied to Prodigy , other new shows, and legacy Star Trek.

Mission: Chicago

In 2022, ReedPop (who runs the Star Wars Celebration events) is taking over the Star Trek convention license in the US and is set to hold their first new “Mission” in Chicago with a four-day event starting April 8. Working closely with ViacomCBS, the event organizers promise “celebrity guests, exclusive merchandise, and exciting announcements.” It is expected that ViacomCBS will use this event as a showcase and opportunity to make some news about their Paramount+ shows and possibly even Paramount feature films. The only caveat is there are only a handful of guests announced so far, and the latest COVID wave could have an impact on this, which is coming up in just a few months.

Star Trek: Picard: Second Self

In May, Pocket Books is releasing its next Star Trek: Picard novel tie-in, and this time it is set to bridge the gap between season one and season two, which also arrives in early 2022. Written by the always reliable Una McCormack, Second Self will focus on Raffi Musiker, who finds herself torn after the events of season one, trying to decide if she should return to Starfleet. The novel promises espionage and intrigue and could help add some context to Raffi and other characters before season two.

Alien Spotlight

IDW Publishing is returning their gaze to Star Trek aliens with a planned series of extra-long one-shot comics, each focused on a different iconic species. The first issue is due in February with a focus on the Klingons, and tells the story of Kahless, the legendary Klingon warrior and founder of the Klingon Empire. Future issues later in the year will focus on the Ferengi, Vulcans, Trill, and others.

To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager

The team behind a series of popular Trek documentaries is following up their 2018 DS9 doc What We Left Behind with a deep dive into Star Trek: Voyager. Work started in 2020, and following a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in early 2021, the team went back into production to shoot more interviews with the people who made Voyager and beyond. The doc promises some surprises, and based on their track record, this should be a highlight of the year assuming they hit their goal of a late 2022 release.

A Woman’s Trek

Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor is currently hard at work on a new book for Hero Collector called A Woman’s Trek, set to come out sometime in 2022. The book will take a frank look at what it’s like for the women who have worked on Star Trek in front and behind the camera throughout the franchise. Visitor has been conducting a series of honest, hard-hitting interviews that are also being filmed for a potential documentary as well, working with the same team behind To the Journey .

The Orville: New Horizons

Yes, it’s technically not Star Trek, but we here have embraced it as part of the family and we have been waiting for a long time for The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s loving homage to The Next Generation , to return. Jumping to the Hulu streaming service (and Disney+ Star internationally), the third season is being branded The Orville: New Horizons; producers say it’s “more ambitious” and “much bigger in scope” than before. The 10-episode third season kicks off on March 10.

2023 Movie News

We are still waiting to hear about what’s next for Paramount+’s growing Star Trek television universe. There’s a possible Starfleet Academy show, maybe the Section 31 project will finally move forward… but the news we are most starved for is about the big screen. Since the release of Beyond in 2016, Paramount Pictures has had a series of stops and starts with various Star Trek feature film projects. However, they actually staked out a movie release date in this year,  setting a film to premiere in December 22, 2023. Producer J.J. Abrams has hired WandaVisions’s Matt Shakman to direct with a script co-written by Captain Marvel screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet, which is reportedly already completed. The new studio chief has touted the importance of feature films for the Trek franchise, and indicated that multiple films are in the works. If this is all going to become a reality, we should learn much more in 2022 about the holiday 2023 movie, including who is in it and how it fits into the larger Star Trek multiverse.

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I’ve been keen on a Pike-led Enterprise since I first saw The Cage decades ago, so SNW is firmly at the top of my list for 2022.

With the possibility that the Academy series might be set in the 32nd century, I’m intrigued.

On the movies, I just can’t get interested until there is word that production is happening. I feel we’ve been reliving the 70s, when there were frequent rumours of a show being revived, but nothing materialized until TMP was almost missing its committed theatrical release date. I believe something will eventually emerge, but when and with which creative team I’ll believe when it’s in production and 6 months from scheduled release.

So, I have to say that I was surprised that you put movie news at the top of the TrekMovie list. While I recognize that this site is literally called TrekMovie, I find it surprising how seriously you are taking each announcement.

Well yes it is in our site name but it’s a bit more significant because for the first time since BEYOND they have actually set a release date. Also the favorable comments from the new studio head all add up to this being a serious thing. So this project is further along than others and being taken seriously, although that doesn’t mean it’s going to 100% happen.

Mr. Pascale,

I, for one, really appreciate your focus on the next movie, and I also agree with you that this seems much more real this time given the new merged studio and it’s brand new management team seems to have their act together, and the new studio is much more financially stable versus four years ago when bankruptcy was at least in the conversation. So I think comparing this to the previous on-again, off-again movies misses this key point. That former studio mgmt team was indecisive, was cash poor, and were the clowns that botched the marketing of Beyond — they are gone now (thank goodness).

Keep up the good work. Thanks

Will the new movies use an existing Enterprise design or will we get yet another iteration?

Agree with you 100% about the next movie. It’s really hard to get excited when we been jerked around for 5 years now lol. I know there are some people here who has faith (of the heart) this time it’s REALLY happening due to changes inside the company, but yeah we have heard all of this before too. The Tarantino project was DEFINITELY happening. How can it not? Even if Tarantino doesn’t direct it himself, the studio really really wants a Star Trek film with his name on it somewhere…and then poof! ;)

Yes a premiere date for it bolds well, but I’ll still only believe it when they announce the cast and a filming date. Not a day before then. The fact that they already moved the date without a single announcement of what I just mentioned doesn’t feel too positive either. And lastly they announced the director and writer months ago but not a single peep from either of them since. When the first Kelvin movie was announced you had JJ Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci talking small tidbits about it constantly in the press even when they were still just writing it. All those articles are still here on Trekmovie dating back to 2006.

But it’s been very very quiet with these new guys.

I recently received a call about doing some on-set work in early 2022. A movie is, in fact, happening.

So there’s a script? An actual script? If true that would be awesome news!

That’s good news. I still won’t overly think it until there is actual casting and a filming date though.

I think like most fans, I’m excited for SNW the most! It’s still crazy we haven’t even gotten a trailer for it yet. To The Journey definitely second on my list. Orville is third I guess. The others I’m curious about but since I’ve never read many books or played any of the games it’s more of a passing interest.

But it is really cool to see Playmates making toys again. That company was part of my childhood and I would buy a lot of Trek figures and ships. And such great quality at that. It’s really a shame the Kelvin movies didn’t have a stronger merchandising line up when the first film came out and kind of killed off the toy line from that point on. So it’s nice to see this side of the franchise coming back.

(nuff said)

Looking foward to:

Definitely SNW… I very much like DSC S4. It’s become wonderful Trek now. But a return to the one and only true Enterprise is definitely way more exciting :-)

PIC S2 is also a highlight. In a way it’s a chance to start anew and improve upon the less than stellar S1.

I’m also looking forward to finally being able to watch PRO on P+ in Europe…

Hoping for:

P+ should announce and introduce a new format: a series of live-action streaming movies releasing at least twice a year (First Contact Day and Star Trek Day come to mind). I would call that format TREKBUSTERS. Set in different eras, that movie format could explore many lost and brand-new opportunities without having to commit to a full series format: Pre-ENT Ringship Enterprise, Excelsior, Stargazer, Titan, Voyager-J, or even adapting some novel series such as Vanguard.

My second hope is that we may at some point get a time travel show, exploring different eras of Klingon, Vulcan, Borg, T’Kon, Iconian etc. history… But that’s even more unlikely :-)

i’d love a new TNG movie, a deep space nine movie or even a film that had both casts. But its a fan dream and it won’t happen. Its like wanting season 5 of Enterprise or a continuation of TOS with a new cast, it isn’t happening.

“or a continuation of TOS with a new cast,”

While not being a “continuation”, SNW is the closest thing we could get. It’s direct prequel to TOS. It’s the original Enterprise! So yeah, I think we are getting that, sort of…

ENT S5… I think it’ll happen, just not being called ENT S5… They may eventually do a FEDERATION series, with Archer as Admiral or President and Shran getting command of the NCC-01 Refit :-)

New TNG movie… nah… but a reformed S3 of PIC may do the trick…

If SNW has proven one point is that these PTB are actually listening and we may be getting more of those “fan dreams” than you could even imagine…

Agreed. I would love to see a TNG or Deep Space Nine movie (even one with both casts). Michael Dorn and Colm Meaney were already in both. Or as mentioned by Garth Lorca, another season of Enterprise. However I also agree with you both it is unlikely.

I would really like to see a re-boot of DS9. That was my favorite Star Trek, along with TNG.

I’d be happy with a Star Trek series that’s on par with DS9 or at least within spitting distance. I really can’t stomach what they’ve done with Star Trek, and that’s coming from somebody who slogged thru almost all of Voyager and Enterprise, so my tolerance levels for Bad Trek are fairly high. It would be great to see some of the best old characters – Kira, Janeway, Worf, Garak – back in action but only if they can hire some decent writers.

I so agree!

P+ has committed to two new movies per month going forward. At least a couple per year should be Star Trek.

Is this going to be the first year ever that we are going to get new Trek series pretty much continuously throughout the year? We know that Prodigy and Discovery will take us through March or April. Picard season 2 is happening after that. Then Strange New Worlds? That would take us through August when the next season of Lower Decks is expected. That would go through September or October. Then a new season of Discovery or Prodigy?

I actually made a post about this in another thread. This is how I see the next year going (but prepared to be wrong as usual) starting next week:

• Prodigy episodes 6-10
• Discovery 8-(13?)
• Picard season 2 (which as stated was announced for February but maybe it will be bumped to March)
• Strange New Worlds season 1
• Prodigy season 1 second half 11-20
• Lower Decks season 3
• Picard season 3

This is everything that’s been confirmed so far. Assuming everything on that list is on time then in theory we are looking at a new show every week until early 2023. This may not happen as shown and they can take breaks between shows but I have a feeling 2022 will have the most Star Trek content we have ever gotten.

And we know Prodigy has been confirmed for season 2 and basically sounds like both Discovery and SNW are getting another season as well, so 2023 will probably be filling up pretty soon too.

That list has me excited. Thanks!

The only thing I would question might be the order. It would seem that SNW might end up in the summer based on that order, especially if Picard is pushed back to March as you said it might. I doubt they would want to do that. So maybe SNW is Sept, and then Picard S3 is Nov-Feb with a holiday break (and the animated shows run in the summer before)?

Or maybe we will have several weeks in April-May when we have both Picard S2 and SNW eps at the same time?

You’re welcome!

And sure that’s possible, but I don’t think streaming really has the same issue of holiday/vacation breaks. And I think the point is to keep people on the hook all year long. But you’re right, they could air PRO in the summer and it would make sense as kids will be mostly home then. They already said SNW would air in the Spring, but yes that’s before all the changes made, so who knows. I would love it if both Picard and SNW ran at the same time though! I think we all would. ;)

Tony/Laurie

I’m looking forward to 3 things:

1. Strange New Worlds

2. Star Trek XIV News

3. Spending saturday mornings listening to All Access Star Trek. I really enjoy listening to both of you. You make me laugh and keep me up to date on Trek news.

Happy New Years!

Happy New Year, KevinB! You made my morning. So happy you enjoy the podcast!

What i wish for is a 4th Kelvin timeline film, or Deep Space Nine and Voyager remastered in at least 2K res like TOS and TNG. What i’m anticipating is Picard season 2. Waiting on the news of Disco season 5 i still have hope the show will get better.

I too would like to see a fourth Kelvin movie with the same cast. I think the cast had just started to grow into the characters and the interrelationships between their characters in Beyond. I know a lot of fans did not like the movie but do all of the fans like all of the movies. Star Trek and Star Wars fans in my opinion are probably some of the most critical in the world. No studio can produce a hit with every offering. With a good script I think this cast could produce a good film. As far as television Trek, I do not like Paramount’s TV Star Trek. Picard was never a favorite of mine and I do not like Anson Mount as an actor. I have seen him in other features and just do not like his performances. I guess what I am trying to say about the TV side is that so far Paramount has not given me a reason to subscribe to Paramount+. I also feel the same way about the film side. I have been a fan of Trek since the first show in 1966, but if I am honest my excitement about another movie has dimmed due to all of the delays, cancellations and hype over the movie. Whether I see it or not(that is if it even gets made) will depend a lot on the characters involved. If you are going to make a Star Trek movie after an extended break, then I would suggest it would be better to use known characters rather than a completely new cast. Just think what would have happened to Star Trek if Kirk, Spock and McCoy had not been the focal characters of The Motion Picture. Would we even be having this conversation or would Star Trek just be a faded memory.

I think for me it definitely has to be SNW. I would even go as far as to say that casting Anson Mount as Pike was the best casting decision ever made by Trek and SNW should be a hoot.

Yes, awesome casting, but Nimoy I think is in level by himself in that category.

I just find that promo shot of Mount in that awful uniform as just so uninspired, it feels cheap as hell, like all new trek. You look at the promo shots from TOS, and the uniforms look GOOD, unlike the ill fitting, strange ripoff SNW seems to be giving us. It’s pretty much the only show I’m even marginally interested in, and everything I’ve seen is it so far has seriously tempered my optimism. If 2022 trek resembles the past 5 years of it, then I won’t be tuning in, like I haven’t since 2020. I miss intelligent and engaging writing, and cool looking ships and uniforms… Is it so much to ask for?

Remember that promo shots in general are styled a LOT. There’s stuff you can’t see like clips and safety pins in back to tighten up fabric, special angles and poses to minimize unflattering aspects, mini combs to fluff up hair, lighting tricks, wardrobe steamers nearby so they can de-wrinkle anything, etc.

While we live in the age of Photoshop, in the 1960s all commercial photography was hand-airbrushed or dodged/burned in the darkroom to get rid of wrinkles, seams and shadows. I guarantee that whatever TOS photography you’ve seen has been edited.

Lead actors / cast get their uniforms entirely custom-tailored by the wardrobe department. They’re as close to a perfect fit as you can get.

I don’t really see any problems with the uniforms we’ve seen to date on Discovery from a quality perspective, and it’s hard to judge SNW’s uniforms based on one relatively low-resolution internet trailer.

I mean, if you want to see sloppy uniforms, there’s dozens of fan films where the cast are wearing off-the-rack cosplay costumes that haven’t been tailored to fit or didn’t fit in the first place. Bags and sags and wrinkles all over the place!

You might not like the design and that’s your prerogative of course, but it’s not cheap.

I myself wasn’t a fan of those weird asymmetrical collars, which are thankfully gone.

I’m neither here nor there on the current SNW designs, which to me seems a little too close to a baseball jersey or cycling top with that semi-raglan sleeve design, with the patterned yoke and the V neck. Most visible on Nurse Chapel’s outfit. Plus there’s a shape mismatch with a V neck on top and crew-neck T shirt underneath.

But I’m guessing as we progress through the series we’ll see some evolution towards a more detailed version of the classic TOS design.

I personally would love to see something more like the ST:Beyond high-collar design, but bringing back the laser-textured patterning and vibrant colours from the 2009 version; or something more like the 2009 version, but with a crew neck on the coloured overshirt, so there isn’t that weird mismatch of V-neck and black undershirt mock-turtleneck.

Yeah well said, I definitely am just not a fan of the design, I’m sure they’re quality garments at any rate. But I really would love to just see the TOS uniform done with modern resolution standards in mind – not an interpretation of the uniform, like the Kelvin timeline films and Disco, but actual, authentic, faithful re-creations of the original uniforms, with better quality fabrics and a metal Starfleet delta, like the Beyond uniforms without the high collar. That’s it, that’s all they have to do. Instead they keep trying to change it.

Yeah, that would be interesting to see.

The hyper-detailing on costumes in general as a trend from the early 2000s onward is an aesthetic choice, for sure, ostensibly to make things seem more dimensional and real, less “cartoonish”, and to show off just how sharp your theatre’s Barco 6K laser projector is.

It’ll be interesting to see when, if and how filmmakers dial down the detail levels once this “look” is no longer in vogue. Once audiences have been used to a kind of look it’s hard to go back, though.

Could you do a new Superman film with Christopher Reeve’s simple, almost 2D costume? It works for those first movies because of the emotional and tonal character of the film. There are no shades of grey, just good vs evil with interesting character moments. Technically the lighting is a lot flatter and brighter due to the way film stock worked back then – you couldn’t shoot low light as well as we can today, so the palette was more limited.

Part of the problem with Reeves blue suit was it had to be a different shade of blue from the blue screen in back of him. There are times when it just looks off to me. But still, Donner made a fantastic film.

that was fixed with the dvds, blu rays

I have the upgraded BD. They did their best but it still looks off to me.

henry cavill actually wore the reeve suit to audition for MoS and got the role. nick cage also wore it when tim burton was planning to direct a ‘superman’ movie in the 90s.

I’m not anticipating any news about the beginning of production on Trek 14 for theatrical release. There’s little to suggest the studio isn’t doing much beyond looking at concepts that can be made for around 100MM.

I’m more excited about Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The 4K Director’s Edition, to be honest. Happy 2022, everyone!

Glad I’m not the only one! Well, *technically* I’m more excited about Strange New Worlds, I guess, but if I could only pick one thing from the entire list to actually happen, it would be the TMP director’s cut upgrade.

Here as well but I am hoping that they put out a BD of it. So far there is no word on that whatsoever. If it is just for streaming then I’m not interested whatsoever. I want a Blu Ray. HD. No need for 4K.

Only SNW holds any interest at all for me. If only the same people weren’t behind it as the other feeble offerings.

Bingo. What worries me about SNW is that the problems with Disco and Picard have to do with showrunners and writers. They simply aren’t any good. Unless there’s a different creative team working on SNW, why wouldn’t it have the same issues? The three lead SNW actors are well cast but they can’t rewrite the scripts. Maybe they should try.

I’m looking forward to most of the new content as well as, TMP The Directors Edition but I really want 2022 to be the year we get the announcement of remasters for Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

Yeah I second that for DS9 and Voyager. It just seems to be the right thing to do. If the studio are making money on the new shows then surely they can take on a short term financial hit with putting out DS9 and VOY on HD. It will be an expensive project but it seems right that they’d invest in this to future proof those two shows for the next several decades or whatever it is.

With disc sales continuing to decline they’d have to put it on Paramount Plus / streaming services (at first anyway) but they can still make the money back after several dozen years I’d think. Make a few Star Trek movies make there money back there.. there are ways!

I hope they bring back Sofia Boutella as ‘Jaylah’ to replace Anton Yelchin (who sadly died) in Pavel Chekov’s Navigator/Security/Tactical officer position at the Helm.

Ditto! She’d be fun as the new “baby” at the helm.

I say have Star Trek run into the Empire of Star Wars!!! LOL

Pretty telling that Picard Season 2 doesn’t make the list for the site editors or most of the commenters. I know Season 1 was a mixed bag, but with Betty White passing, it makes me realize that we likely don’t have much time left with Sir Patrick, so I’m looking forward to seeing him on screen as Picard as many times as possible before all good things come to an end.

Patrick Stewart is still in incredible health for an 81 year old man. He still seems to walk mostly unaided for one and still seems quite switched on in a mental sense. Of course we don’t know the exact details of his health as that’s private to him but it’s great he’s still working and happy to play Picard again for us fans.

Thought the same thing when i heard of Betty White passing. Also made me think that they should have some fun with William Shatner while he is also very active.

The list is essentially picking one thing per category and the copy makes it clear picard season 2 is highly anticipated. If you listen to our weekly podcast we talk about it all the time and how we’re very much looking forward to it especially from things we’re hearing about it and the new showrunner. It’s only that snw is something new and even more geared towards fans that makes it the most anticipated season coming up in 2022

After watching the wretched Picard S1, they should let Sir Patrick go quietly into retirement and not sully our memories any further.

The new trek movie ( cast announcements:kelvin//prime actors, title/early teaser trailer) :

all other concerns are secondary. you understand..

You’re not…… holding your breath now….are you?

Breathe deeply, it’ll be a while.

LaVar Burton, Grand Marshall of the 2022 Rose Parade. It’s all good!!

I’m most looking forward to the 4K UHD release of the remaining movies 5 thru 10.

Any word on when that’s coming?

There were rumours of Feb 22, but no announcement has been forthcoming

SNW by far. I just hope it’s more like the old Trek and less like current Trek.

How about likable or at least tolerable characters for starters and a lot less crying. And a new writing staff.

You’re right about the crying. How many times did Kirk cry? When Spock died, maybe? And Picard cried after the Sarek mind-meld and being torturued by a Cardassian, but I think that’s it. And Sisko cried as Benny Russell, not sure about Janeway or Archer. My point is the crew of the previous Trek shows did not cry or have as many “kumbaya” moments of sharing their feelings. The Disco crew does not have the “feel” of the older Starfleet crews I knew, they are much less formal. But, that’s just my very humble opinion.

Personally I don’t have as much of a problem with the tears than I do with the fact that every time they did it, as an audience member, I did not feel what the character was feeling. Meaning those moments were unearned and perhaps even over emoted. If the moment felt genuine then a character’s tears can be totally justified and the viewer can be drawn in it with the character. But so far on Star Trek Discovery there has been none of that. It’s always forced.

It’s odd because other shows are able to do it. I just watched the final season of Lost in Space and the emotion in that final episode was completely genuine. I found myself thinking, why am I connecting with these characters but not one from Discovery? What are the LiS writers doing that the Star Trek Discovery writers aren’t?

Can’t wait to see anything Trek on the big screen! Christmas 2023 we should be in for a treat.

Strange New Worlds is first on the list. But “excited” is just too strong. I look forward to it with cautious optimism. Optimism that became possible due to Star Trek Prodigy not only not sucking but actually being above average! It showed that, unless Prodigy was just pure accident, (and it might be) that Secret Hideout is indeed capable of making at least mediocre Trek when they try!

PS… Also looking forward to (hoping, really) improvement in streaming tech. It still sucks to have to watch stuff on streaming services for a handful of reasons. It seems that there is always something from failure to forward or rewind, to closed captioning getting in the way of images, to software glitches, menus that are not intuitively obvious… The list just goes on and on. It’s just annoying because every time one issue is fixed another one pops up. It’s got to get better, right?

Really looking forward to finally getting some more Orville. It started out a litttle derivative but got better by each episode. So I hope, it can finally really stand on it’s own this time. It would be fitting, since season 3 was the sweetspot for a lot of trek shows.

As for P+ offerings, I will have look at SNW, since Pike was pretty much the only good thing to come out of Discovery, but pretty pessimistic about it. It’s the same thing they promised for every other Season of their shows and they just got worse and worse.

Strange New Worlds is the most promising of the new shows. It is most like my favorite Treks (TNG, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Voyager and the Original). Discovery was a real disappointment. The biggest problem was the cast (except Michelle Yeoh who was fantastic!!!). They came across as a the ship of the mental misfits. All the crew would talk about feelings, and want to have group hugs during battles. Tilly was the Reginald Endicott Barclay III, but unlike the Barclay, she was promoted.

Also cartoon star treks are nice for the kids, but I am looking froward to someone developing a Star Trek that I can enjoy, similar to the ones that made the series one of the greatest sci fi stories of the past 55 years.

I do like the new shows in general even if I have my issues with a few of them, but I agree with you and hope that SNW is closer to classic Star Trek is and more standalone adventures with 90% less crying. ;)

I just got TOS on BR so I can finally watch with the original effects and not the cheap plastic CGI on the streaming services – and it’s just so, so intelligent, so refreshing to see ADULTS handling things like ADULTS without CRYING and still managing to joke amongst themselves. That’s the mark of good writing – being able to have credible people behave like professionals, not acting like spastic immature teenagers in charge of a starship. I seriously think Trek peaked in the 60s.

TOS is still too old to be appealing for a great many people under about 35 or 40 today. I’ve tried to watch it myself and it doesn’t hold my attention to see it through. I love the TOS movies but the TV series is just too old for me. It’s a bit like watching an old stage-play or something and everything is slower and big on hammy acting which was more the standard for TV of that era I know.

Crying isn’t the problem mind, but it’s probably the amount of it that is. Its not realistic to have a professional starship crew that is too sensitive. You wouldn’t stand a chance in the military like that. They’d have you thrown out as you’d be deemed a danger to yourself and your teammates. I mention the military because starfleet has basically been compared to a military, albeit one that is purely defensive and passive in nature, similar to a futuristic NATO alliance or something I guess.

Given how often Starfleet gets into battles, they should have shaped themselves into a military mindset a long time ago. TOS, DS9 and TNG all maintained that balance in a believable way.

You may not have seen a lot of TOS, but frequently it would start like this: the crew is placidly doing something like scanning a new nebula for science reasons and then the giant space amoeba attacks or there are Klingons off the starboard bow.

The science/exploration part of Star Trek was often in the background and the story starts when a crisis hits. So, we need characters who are good at handling one crisis after another, generally involving phasers set to kill. These people can’t be crying and hugging all the time.

DS9 was great in its own way. I see TOS and DS9 as the pinnacles of Star Trek thru the years. TNG hasn’t aged well, VOY and ENT were painful but wow, the new shows are worse than I could have imagined. I’ve finally given up trying. I know we’ll never have a TOS like show again but could we return to DS9, with well-crafted, compelling and likable characters (even the villains were likable or at least fun to watch!) and gripping plot arcs? And I totally agree about the hugging and the crying. Geesh.

Frankly I didn’t even like Yeoh on Disco. The only characters that were okay: Saru and Jett Reno. That’s just not enough, especially when the writing also sucks. Picard was even worse. I did like how they revitalized Seven although I’m confused about when she became a lesbian. Not objecting to it, just seems shoehorned weirdly in.

PS, I forgot: the Romulan siblings were also good on Picard. On Disco, I liked the Ash plotline even though the big twist was telegraphed with all the subtlety of a bat’leth through the skull.

I’m most looking forward to the next season of Lower Decks – that show has had the best hit-to-miss ratio of P+ era Trek for my money. It seems like every time I think I’m in love with the live-actions shows, I get kicked in the teeth (looking at you, PIC S1), so I’m waiting for the reviews on the new seasons of those.

Amen! Love Lower Decks!!!!

Really hoping Picard improves next season.

Disgusting, please get that Orville trash off our viewscreen.

I’m looking forward to Strange New Worlds, but we really don’t need that “old school fans” descriptor for fans of Star Trek. Instead, it’s the shmegeges who have memorized DS9, but ‘can’t get through TOS’ that are the subset of fans to be siloed.

You mispelled PICard.

Sounds like you should be the one that is siloed.

Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have worth to others. You honestly didn’t have to say anything at all, it’s not like YOUR opinion is going to change the course of a Television show or franchise. Go take your toxicity to some other dark corner of the internet, where you can whine about what others like and dislike and how it gets your underwear in a wad.

Your negativity is not welcome here and is quite intolerable . Heck, I don’t like Discovery and what they’ve done to Picard, but at least I tolerate others that like them. You can’t even be bothered to be civil: you want to section off what kind of “Star Trek Fans” are appropriate or not.

Frankly, I think we could do with less of YOUR type of fan. The fandom would be better for it.

“Anson Mount returns to the role [of Captain Pike] following his run in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery along with Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. There is a new cast, some playing familiar roles like Dr. M’Benga and Nurse Chapel.”

Hey, Number One and Nurse Chapel are supposed to be played by the same person.

You forgot the computer’s voice ;-)

I’ve finally given up trying to like Disco or Picard. The writing. Is. TERRIBLE.

I’m hoping against hope that SNW might be the exception. I hope it has different writers and showrunners. Please. Let Star Trek be good or at least tolerable again.

Looking forward to the 2022 efforts of Exo-6.com. They have come out of the gate at a gallop in the 1:6 scale action figure space with quality and speed, shipping 4 museum-grade figures within weeks of pre-order, including First Contact Data & Picard and Voyager’s Janeway and EMH. Pre-orders have been taken for Mirror Spock and previews have been presented for several more, including Judge Q and Locutus of Borg for 2022! There are expectations for 14 plus releases in 2022. This crew is just getting started and is already turning heads. The intent is to finally do Justice to Star Trek in the 1:6 space and they are making it so!

Star Trek New Year’s Eve viewing must include “11:59”

By mike poteet | dec 30, 2021.

Voyager first aired the Star Trek New Year’s Eve episode in May 1999.

If Star Trek Christmas references are few— and they are —Star Trek New Year’s Eve references are even fewer. The Memory Alpha wiki includes only two canonical references. One is to a throwaway mention in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Explorers.” But the other is to one of the oddest episodes of Star Trek: Voyager , the fifth’s season’s “11:59.”

How so? Well, while some scenes in “11:59” take place in the 24th century in the Delta Quadrant, the bulk of the episode—scripted by Joe Menosky from his and Brannon Braga’s story, and directed by David Livingston—are set in the week after Christmas 2000, in Portage Creek, Indiana (a fictional city, though Portage, Indiana is quite real ). Thus, when it first aired (May 5, 1999), it largely took place some 19 months in its audience’s future. Today, it’s largely set 21 years in our past. And “11:59” isn’t even a time travel story !

Plus, it’s the only Voyager episode in which Kate Mulgrew plays a “real” human character other than Captain Kathryn Janeway. (Entity-possessed, memory-wiped, illusory, and holographic Janeways don’t count.) In the episode’s extremely late-20th-century portions, Mulgrew plays Janeway’s ancestor Shannon O’Donnel (the captain’s grandmother “fifteen generations removed,” as Seven of Nine points out).

But because its climax comes just before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2000, and because it rings changes on themes appropriate to the season of Auld Lang Syne, “11:59” deserves a spot in any Star Trek New Year’s Eve marathon.

“11:59” invites us to honor the past and embrace the future

Anyone who remembers pedantic debates about when the 20th century actually turned into the 21st will appreciate O’Donnel’s dismissive remark to Henry Janeway (played by Kevin Tighe ), her future husband, about “Millennium Eve.” “When the world didn’t end and the flying saucers didn’t land and the Y2K bug didn’t turn off a single light bulb, you’d think everybody would have realized it was a number on a calendar . . . . This New Year’s Eve will be as boring as last year.”

But watching or rewatching “11:59” makes for a great Star Trek New Year’s Eve!

For starters, Mulgrew turns in a first-rate performance as Janeway’s ancestor. Shannon O’Donnel is witty and warm, a rigorous intellectual who nevertheless appreciates things like a romantic make-believe dinner in Paris. She embodies so many qualities that make Janeway a popular captain, yet we never feel Mulgrew is simply playing Janeway by another name and in modern dress. It’s easy to see why Captain Janeway admires this woman, whom she mistakenly believes was one of the first women astronauts and a pioneer of Martian exploration. O’Donnel wasn’t either of those things, as the audience sees and as Janeway learns, she is quite an inspiring person all the same.

And for all that it doesn’t feel like a typical episode of Voyager —or any Star Trek series, for that matter—”11:59” takes advantage of its New Year’s setting to raise some very typical Star Trek questions about how what has gone before shapes what is and what yet could be. “I’m stuck in the future,” Janeway tells Henry, “you’re stuck in the past. But maybe we could get unstuck in the present.”

There’s more than this couple’s relationship on the line. Henry is opposed to the construction of the Millennium Gate, a huge corporate redevelopment of the Portage Creek downtown where he runs the independent bookshop his family’s owned for three generations. He’s the sole holdout, and his refusal to sell his store means the town may lose the project altogether. O’Donnel sympathizes with Henry’s complaint that Millennium Gate is a shopping mall, but, as a highly skilled, aerospace-trained engineer, she also appreciates the Gate is a self-contained, self-sustaining biosphere. For this reason, In Voyager’s time, Millennium Gate will be recognized as a small but significant step toward humanity’s colonization of other worlds. The episode thus raises questions about how communities and individuals can hang on to what is valuable about the past while also welcoming—or, at least, making way for—a larger future.

And “11:59” ends with the Voyager crew’s own, beautiful creation of a brand-new holiday. To make Janeway feel better about discovering Shannon O’Donnel wasn’t exactly who Janeway thought she was, Neelix and the others surprise her with the inaugural celebration of Ancestors’ Eve.

It is, as Chakotay calls it, “an evening of reflection in honor of those who came before.”

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, indeed? Certainly not!

So log on to Paramount Plus this New Year’s Eve—or dig out your Voyager Season 5 DVD set—and raise a cup of kindness to “11:59.” It’s not one of the series’ most action-packed episodes, but it is full of heart and opportunity for reflection of one’s own on past and present, as another year dawns.

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“I can’t believe I get to play the captain of the Enterprise.”

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In other words, “Star Trek” is not just a franchise. As Alex Kurtzman , who oversees all “Star Trek” TV production, puts it, “‘Star Trek’ is an institution.”

Without a steady infusion of new blood, though, institutions have a way of fading into oblivion (see soap operas, MySpace, Blockbuster Video). To keep “Star Trek” thriving has meant charting a precarious course to satisfy the fans who have fueled it for decades while also discovering innovative ways to get new audiences on board.

“Doing ‘Star Trek’ means that you have to deliver something that’s entirely familiar and entirely fresh at the same time,” Kurtzman says.

The franchise has certainly weathered its share of fallow periods, most recently after “Nemesis” bombed in theaters in 2002 and UPN canceled “Enterprise” in 2005. It took 12 years for “Star Trek” to return to television with the premiere of “Discovery” in 2017; since then, however, there has been more “Star Trek” on TV than ever: The adventure series “Strange New Worlds,” the animated comedy “Lower Decks” and the kids series “Prodigy” are all in various stages of production, and the serialized thriller “Picard” concluded last year, when it ranked, along with “Strange New Worlds,” among Nielsen’s 10 most-watched streaming original series for multiple weeks. Nearly one in five Paramount+ subscribers in the U.S. is watching at least one “Star Trek” series, according to the company, and more than 50% of fans watching one of the new “Trek” shows also watch at least two others. The new shows air in 200 international markets and are dubbed into 35 languages. As “Discovery” launches its fifth and final season in April, “Star Trek” is in many ways stronger than it’s ever been.

“’Star Trek’s fans have kept it alive more times than seems possible,” says Eugene Roddenberry, Jr., who executive produces the TV series through Roddenberry Entertainment. “While many shows rightfully thank their fans for supporting them, we literally wouldn’t be here without them.”

But the depth of fan devotion to “Star Trek” also belies a curious paradox about its enduring success: “It’s not the largest fan base,” says Akiva Goldsman, “Strange New Worlds” executive producer and co-showrunner. “It’s not ‘Star Wars.’ It’s certainly not Marvel.”

When J.J. Abrams rebooted “Star Trek” in 2009 — with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldaña playing Kirk, Spock and Uhura — the movie grossed more than any previous “Star Trek” film by a comfortable margin. But neither that film nor its two sequels broke $500 million in global grosses, a hurdle every other top-tier franchise can clear without breaking a sweat.

There’s also the fact that “Star Trek” fans are aging. I ask “The Next Generation” star Jonathan Frakes, who’s acted in or directed more versions of “Star Trek” than any other person alive, how often he meets fans for whom the new “Star Trek” shows are their first. “Of the fans who come to talk to me, I would say very, very few,” he says. “‘Star Trek’ fans, as we know, are very, very, very loyal — and not very young.”

As Stapf puts it: “There’s a tried and true ‘Trek’ fan that is probably going to come to every ‘Star Trek,’ no matter what it is — and we want to expand the universe.”

Every single person I spoke to for this story talked about “Star Trek” with a joyful earnestness as rare in the industry as (nerd alert) a Klingon pacifist.

“When I’m meeting fans, sometimes they’re coming to be confirmed, like I’m kind of a priest,” Ethan Peck says during a break in filming on the “Strange New Worlds” set. He’s in full Spock regalia — pointy ears, severe eyebrows, bowl haircut — and when asked about his earliest memories of “Star Trek,” he stares off into space in what looks like Vulcan contemplation. “I remember being on the playground in second or third grade and doing the Vulcan salute, not really knowing where it came from,” he says. “When I thought of ‘Star Trek,’ I thought of Spock. And now I’m him. It’s crazy.”

To love “Star Trek” is to love abstruse science and cowboy diplomacy, complex moral dilemmas and questions about the meaning of existence. “It’s ultimately a show with the most amazing vision of optimism, I think, ever put on-screen in science fiction,” says Kurtzman, who is 50. “All you need is two minutes on the news to feel hopeless now. ‘Star Trek’ is honestly the best balm you could ever hope for.”

I’m getting a tour of the USS Enterprise from Scotty — or, rather, “Strange New World” production designer Jonathan Lee, who is gushing in his native Scottish burr as we step into the starship’s transporter room. “I got such a buzzer from doing this, I can’t tell you,” he says. “I actually designed four versions of it.”

Lee is especially proud of the walkway he created to run behind the transporter pads — an innovation that allows the production to shoot the characters from a brand-new set of angles as they beam up from a far-flung planet. It’s one of the countless ways that this show has been engineered to be as cinematic as possible, part of Kurtzman’s overall vision to make “Star Trek” on TV feel like “a movie every week.”

Kurtzman’s tenure with “Star Trek” began with co-writing the screenplay for Abrams’ 2009 movie, which was suffused with a fast-paced visual style that was new to the franchise. When CBS Studios approached Kurtzman in the mid-2010s about bringing “Star Trek” back to TV, he knew instinctively that it needed to be just as exciting as that film.

“The scope was so much different than anything we had ever done on ‘Next Gen,’” says Frakes, who’s helmed two feature films with the “Next Generation” cast and directed episodes of almost every live-action “Trek” TV series, including “Discovery” and “Strange New Worlds.” “Every department has the resources to create.”

A new science lab set for Season 3, for example, boasts a transparent floor atop a four-foot pool of water that swirls underneath the central workbench, and the surrounding walls sport a half dozen viewscreens with live schematics custom designed by a six-person team. “I like being able to paint on a really big canvas,” Kurtzman says. “The biggest challenge is always making sure that no matter how big something gets, you’re never losing focus on that tiny little emotional story.”

At this point, is there a genre that “Strange New Worlds” can’t do? “As long as we’re in storytelling that is cogent and sure handed, I’m not sure there is,” Goldsman says with an impish smile. “Could it do Muppets? Sure. Could it do black and white, silent, slapstick? Maybe!”

This approach is also meant to appeal to people who might want to watch “Star Trek” but regard those 668 hours of backstory as an insurmountable burden. “You shouldn’t have to watch a ‘previously on’ to follow our show,” Myers says.

To achieve so many hairpin shifts in tone and setting while maintaining Kurtzman’s cinematic mandate, “Strange New Worlds” has embraced one of the newest innovations in visual effects: virtual production. First popularized on the “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” the technology — called the AR wall — involves a towering circular partition of LED screens projecting a highly detailed, computer-generated backdrop. Rather than act against a greenscreen, the actors can see whatever fantastical surroundings their characters are inhabiting, lending a richer level of verisimilitude to the show.

But there is a catch. While the technology is calibrated to maintain a proper sense of three-dimensional perspective through the camera lens, it can be a bit dizzying for anyone standing on the set. “The images on the walls start to move in a way that makes no sense,” says Mount. “You end up having to focus on something that’s right in front of you so you don’t fall down.”

And yet, even as he’s talking about it, Mount can’t help but break into a boyish grin. “Sometimes we call it the holodeck,” he says. In fact, the pathway to the AR wall on the set is dotted with posters of the virtual reality room from “The Next Generation” and the words “Enter Holodeck” in a classic “Trek” font.

“I want to take one of those home with me,” Peck says. Does the AR wall also affect him? “I don’t really get disoriented by it. Spock would not get ill, so I’m Method acting.”

I’m on the set of the “Star Trek” TV movie “Section 31,” seated in an opulent nightclub with a view of a brilliant, swirling nebula, watching Yeoh rehearse with director Olatunde Osunsanmi and her castmates. Originally, the project was announced as a TV series centered on Philippa Georgiou, the semi-reformed tyrant Yeoh originated on “Discovery.” But between COVID delays and the phenomenon of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” there wasn’t room in the veteran actress’s schedule to fit a season of television. Yeoh was undaunted.

“We’d never let go of her,” she says of her character. “I was just blown away by all the different things I could do with her. Honestly, it was like, ‘Let’s just get it done, because I believe in this.’”

If that means nothing to you, don’t worry: The enormity of the revelation that Garrett is being brought back is meant only for fans. If you don’t know who the character is, you’re not missing anything.

“It was always my goal to deliver an entertaining experience that is true to the universe but appeals to newcomers,” says screenwriter Craig Sweeny. “I wanted a low barrier of entry so that anybody could enjoy it.”

Nevertheless, including Garrett on the show is exactly the kind of gasp-worthy detail meant to flood “Star Trek” fans with geeky good feeling.

“You cannot create new fans to the exclusion of old fans,” Kurtzman says. “You must serve your primary fan base first and you must keep them happy. That is one of the most important steps to building new fans.”

On its face, that maxim would make “Section 31” a genuine risk. The titular black-ops organization has been controversial with “Star Trek” fans since it was introduced in the 1990s. “The concept is almost antagonistic to some of the values of ‘Star Trek,’” Sweeny says. But he still saw “Section 31” as an opportunity to broaden what a “Star Trek” project could be while embracing the radical inclusivity at the heart of the franchise’s appeal.

“Famously, there’s a spot for everybody in Roddenberry’s utopia, so I was like, ‘Well, who would be the people who don’t quite fit in?’” he says. “I didn’t want to make the John le Carré version, where you’re in the headquarters and it’s backbiting and shades of gray. I wanted to do the people who were at the edges, out in the field. These are not people who necessarily work together the way you would see on a ‘Star Trek’ bridge.”

For Osunsanmi, who grew up watching “The Next Generation” with his father, it boils down to a simple question: “Is it putting good into the world?” he asks. “Are these characters ultimately putting good into the world? And, taking a step back, are we putting good into the world? Are we inspiring humans watching this to be good? That’s for me what I’ve always admired about ‘Star Trek.’”

Should “Section 31” prove successful, Yeoh says she’s game for a sequel. And Kurtzman is already eyeing more opportunities for TV movies, including a possible follow-up to “Picard.” The franchise’s gung-ho sojourn into streaming movies, however, stands in awkward contrast to the persistent difficulty Paramount Pictures and Abrams’ production company Bad Robot have had making a feature film following 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond” — the longest theaters have gone without a “Star Trek” movie since Paramount started making them.

First, a movie reuniting Pine’s Capt. Kirk with his late father — played in the 2009 “Star Trek” by Chris Hemsworth — fell apart in 2018. Around the same time, Quentin Tarantino publicly flirted with, then walked away from, directing a “Star Trek” movie with a 1930s gangster backdrop. Noah Hawley was well into preproduction on a “Star Trek” movie with a brand-new cast, until then-studio chief Emma Watts abruptly shelved it in 2020. And four months after Abrams announced at Paramount’s 2022 shareholders meeting that his 2009 cast would return for a movie directed by Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”), Shakman left the project to make “The Fantastic Four” for Marvel. (It probably didn’t help that none of the cast had been approached before Abrams made his announcement.)

The studio still intends to make what it’s dubbed the “final chapter” for the Pine-Quinto-Saldaña cast, and Steve Yockey (“The Flight Attendant”) is writing a new draft of the script. Even further along is another prospective “Star Trek” film written by Seth Grahame-Smith (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) and to be directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor,” “Black Mirror: USS Callister”) that studio insiders say is on track to start preproduction by the end of the year. That project will serve as an origin story of sorts for the main timeline of the entire franchise. In both cases, the studio is said to be focused on rightsizing the budgets to fit within the clear box office ceiling for “Star Trek” feature films.

Far from complaining, everyone seems to relish the challenge. Visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman says that “working with Alex, the references are always at least $100 million movies, if not more, so we just kind of reverse engineer how do we do that without having to spend the same amount of money and time.”

The workload doesn’t seem to faze him either. “Visual effects people are a big, big ‘Star Trek’ fandom,” he says. “You naturally just get all these people who go a little bit above and beyond, and you can’t trade that for anything.”

In one of Kurtzman’s several production offices in Toronto, he and production designer Matthew Davies are scrutinizing a series of concept drawings for the newest “Star Trek” show, “Starfleet Academy.” A bit earlier, they showed me their plans for the series’ central academic atrium, a sprawling, two-story structure that will include a mess hall, amphitheater, trees, catwalks, multiple classrooms and a striking view of the Golden Gate Bridge in a single, contiguous space. To fit it all, they plan to use every inch of Pinewood Toronto’s 45,900 square foot soundstage, the largest in Canada.

But this is a “Star Trek” show, so there do need to be starships, and Kurtzman is discussing with Davies about how one of them should look. The issue is that “Starfleet Academy” is set in the 32nd century, an era so far into the future Kurtzman and his team need to invent much of its design language.

“For me, this design is almost too Klingon,” Kurtzman says. “I want to see the outline and instinctively, on a blink, recognize it as a Federation ship.”

The time period was first introduced on Season 3 of “Discovery,” when the lead character, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), transported the namesake starship and its crew there from the 23rd century. “It was exciting, because every time we would make a decision, we would say, ‘And now that’s canon,’” says Martin-Green.

“We listened to a lot of it,” Kurtzman says. “I think I’ve been able to separate the toxic fandom from really true fans who love ‘Star Trek’ and want you to hear what they have to say about what they would like to see.”

By Season 2, the “Discovery” writers pivoted from its dour, war-torn first season and sent the show on its trajectory 900-plus years into the future. “We had to be very aware of making sure that Spock was in the right place and that Burnham’s existence was explained properly, because she was never mentioned in the original series,” says executive producer and showrunner Michelle Paradise. “What was fun about jumping into the future is that it was very much fresh snow.”

That freedom affords “Starfleet Academy” far more creative latitude while also dramatically reducing how much the show’s target audience of tweens and teens needs to know about “Star Trek” before watching — which puts them on the same footing as the students depicted in the show. “These are kids who’ve never had a red alert before,” Noga Landau, executive producer and co-showrunner, says. “They never had to operate a transporter or be in a phaser fight.”

In the “Starfleet Academy” writers’ room in Secret Hideout’s Santa Monica offices, Kurtzman tells the staff — a mix of “Star Trek” die-hards, part-time fans and total newbies — that he wants to take a 30,000-foot view for a moment. “I think we need to ground in science more throughout the show,” he says, a giant framed photograph of Spock ears just over his shoulder. “The kids need to use science more to solve problems.”

Immediately, one of the writers brightens. “Are you saying we can amp up the techno-babble?” she says. “I’m just excited I get to use my computer science degree.”

After they break for lunch, Kurtzman is asked how much longer he plans to keep making “Star Trek.” 

“The minute I fall out of love with it is the minute that it’s not for me anymore. I’m not there yet,” he says. “To be able to build in this universe to tell stories that are fundamentally about optimism and a better future at a time when the world seems to be falling apart — it’s a really powerful place to live every day.”

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2022 Was Star Trek's Year

2022 was star trek 's year, there was a new episode of star trek this year every week for over six months. that's a lot of boldly going.

When a world of new Star Trek shows was still a glimmer in the mind’s eye of CBS , the thought of a world where there was “all Star Trek , all the time” after years of the franchise’s dormancy on TV seemed unfathomable. In 2022, however, the idea finally felt actually quite fathomed.

It’s hard to argue a better year for Star Trek in the 21st century than 2022—returning favorites, big news, and bigger gambles on new series that paid off with not just some of the best Star Trek in what’s become a highly saturated market, but some of the best TV of the year full stop. Let’s take a look back at the year that was for Star Trek , where it went—and where it’s going.

Prodigy Doubled the Janeways

Sure, Prodigy debuted at the tail end of 2021 , but it brought in 2022 with an end to the first half of its debut season—which is about to wrap up just as the year ends—by revealing that its crew of alien teens, corralled into being Starfleet Acadam y potential by their prototype ship’s holo-Captain Janeway, were being pursued by the actual Admiral Janeway .

It’s always good when a show literally doubles the amount of Kate Mulgrew in itself in a single moment, but the two Janeways—one desperate to find her former N umber One, Chakotay, the other equally desperate to safeguard these children and shape them into heroes worthy of Starfleet—gave Mulgrew a ton of excellent work to chew on when Prodigy returned for the back of its first season this fall, reminding us all why Janeway is such a beloved Trek hero.

Paramount+ Ran a New Star Trek Episode Every Week f or Six Whole Months

In January Paramount+ made the unhinged announcement of its schedule for five of its six active Star Trek series in 2022, revealing that from January 6 all the way up to July 7, there would be one new episode of a Star Trek show between Prodigy , Discovery , Picard , and Strange New Worlds every Thursday. Hell, on some there’d be two, with Discovery and Strange New Worlds overlapping with the start and end of Picard ’s sophomore season, respectively.

It’s an unprecedented level of saturation Trek ’s not seen since Deep Space Nine and Voyager were airing concurrently. We lived through it and I’m still not sure how this happened.

Discovery Saved the World With Peace and Love...

Discovery ’s fourth season had a lot to prove after a very strong scenario-shift in season three . And while the results were mixed in season four , its H ail M ary of a finale— resulting in an indulgent, happy-go-lucky solution to the problem of the extra-galactic first contact mission of a lifetime investigating the mysterious Ten-C— was so sweet you could almost forgive that nothing about it made a lick of sense if you thought about it for more than a few minutes. But god bless it for trying .

...Okay, That Stacey Abrams Cameo Though

Speaking of things that don’t make sense the more you think about them, Discovery season four ’s finale also went for the absolute bananas move of making diehard Trek fan and Georgia politician Stacey Abrams the P resident of 31st century Earth. On the one hand: good for Stacey Abrams, massive nerd and wearer of some choice space fashion in her cameo scene. On the other: 31st century Earth was pretty fascist in what we saw of it in Discovery before this, so... yeah, try not to think about it.

Picard Embraced Being Absolutely Unhinged

The first season o f Picard was a massive disappointment , a show that desperately wanted to demonstrate how it didn’t need to lean on the nostalgia of its titular hero’s place within Trek canon until it decided it absolutely needed to, and did so with reckless abandon. It’s hard to say that, by the time it ended, Picard ’s sophomore season was particularly good , but it was definitely better than the first through the simple honest of it letting itself be completely bonkers, for better or worse. Time travel? Alt reality that kind of barely matters and everyone’s a bit fash? Wil Wheaton appearing out of nowhere? Q bullshit? That absolutely wonderfully terribly ludicrous season finale? A mess, but at least it was charming about it.

Holy Shit, Strange New Worlds

The jewel in Star Trek ’s crown this year however, was Strange New Worlds , the new prequel-prequel that took us back to the time of pre-timeskip Discovery and told the tale of Captain Pike’s tenure on the U.S.S. Enterprise . In what might be the strongest debut season of any Trek series, Strange New World ’s first season structurally juked where much of contemporary Trek has jived, relying largely on standalone riffs on classic Trek episode formats to deliver a show that both felt nostalgically charming and yet fresh and exciting for the franchise. Not just an excellent bit of Star Trek , but one of the best TV series of the entire year .

Holy Shit , Strange New Worlds !?

Okay but then the episode that is basically Alien but Star Trek with freaky killer Gorn babies and the scariest thing Star Trek has ever done? What a show, folks. What a show.

Holy SHIT , Strange New Worlds !

As if it hadn’t excelled enough in its debut season,   Strange New Worlds saved its most brilliant and bold idea for last. Not just the surprise early arrival of Paul Wesley’s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, well ahead of his previously announced season two debut, to be a fascinating, challenging and yet complimentary foil to Anson Mount’s Captain Pike. No, it did so in an episode that was also a fantastic re-interpretation of the greatest episode of Star Trek ever made: “Balance of Terror.”

Going toe-to-toe with Trek ’s finest hour to tell an incredibly personal, brilliantly framed moment of growth and acceptance for this take on Captain Pike was a ballsy move, and Strange New Worlds pulled it off with aplomb.

Lower Decks Did a Perfect Love Letter to Deep Space 9

Lower Decks ’ third season did not quite grab us as its prior seasons had, but that ultimately means that we got a pretty solid season of animated Star Trek hijinks instead of an incredibly good one, so that’s not that bad. Case in point, it gave us “ Hear All, Trust Nothing ,” an incredibly well done tribute to Deep Space 9 . DS9 is one of the shows that Star Trek has largely shown little nostalgia for in the modern age, with TNG and even Voyager getting love from the contemporary Trek shows before it. But Lower Decks did more than lean on nostalgia with wonderful return roles for the likes of Nana Visitor and Armin Shimmerman, it told a new story in the style of Deep Space Nine , something that felt both like a great Lower Decks tale and a loving tribute to a wonderful show.

Picard Finally Agreed to Do t he Thing

After years of batting aside the chance to bring many of them back—outside of Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis’ appearances in season one— Picard softened the bitter pill of announcing its third season as its final one by revealing that almost all of The Next Generation ’s primary bridge crew were back for one last adventure . And this was no quick cameo: they’re as much as part of the show as Picard himself is.

Sure, we’ve yet to see the results— Picard season three won’t air until February . It could be an absolute disaster. At least, however, the footage we’ve seen so far seems to suggest that, much like season two , what can feel like a bit of a disaster can still be kind of fun to experience along the way, so we’re chalking this one up as a win so far.

Everything Going Right on TV Couldn’t Save Poor Star Trek 4

In a year where Star Trek shone piercingly brightly on TV, its cinematic self took a bit of an extended drubbing again , further rocking the series’ already-rocky history on the big screen. Somehow 2022 saw the official confirmation that Matt Shakman’s mystery Trek movie was indeed Star Trek 4 , bringing back the rebooted crew of J.J. Abrams’ Kelvin-timeline Enterprise crew for a new adventure set to start filming this year. Then it was just as quickly revealed that Paramount hadn’t actually told those stars about the announcement. And then things went very quiet when no one really had an idea what was going on.

The only time things got louder was when Marvel announced that it had swiped Shakman back into its fold after his spin on WandaVision to helm the new Fantastic Four reboot, leading to the director beaming away from what was left of Trek 4 . It’s the last week of 2022 and no, filming has definitely not started. Will it ever? Remains to be seen.

And Yet It Somehow Wasn’t Enough

You would think if you could successfully blanket more than half the year in new weekly episodes of Star Trek , you had enough Star Trek going on at the moment. But Paramount doesn’t seem to think so—in between dropping episodes of Trek like they were two-for-one raktajinos on Deep Space Nine’s promenade, the studio announced that a long-previously-announced plan for a Starfleet Academy series was being reworked into a new Paramount+ series this year.

It also confirmed time and time again that Michelle Yeoh’s spinoff Section 31 series i s still in the works, just a long way off , after Yeoh exited Discovery during its third season. And then there’s of course renewals, like Discovery season five, Lower Decks season four , Prodigy and Strange New Worlds each getting a season two ... if this year was any indicator, we’re going to be doing an awful lot of trekking again in 2023 and beyond.

New 'Star Trek' film will explore early years of Starfleet, Paramount reveals

This upcoming sci-fi origin film hails from producer J.J. Abrams and 'Andor' director Toby Haynes

With "Star Trek" flourishing on the small screen with offerings like "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," "Star Trek: Discovery," "Star Trek: Picard," "Star Trek: Prodigy" and "Star Trek: Lower Decks," it's high time fans were treated to another big screen "Star Trek" feature film, and now our hard-fought wish has been answered.

As recently announced at Deadline , J.J. Abrams will executive produce a new " Star Trek " movie set decades earlier in his fractured Kelvin timeline that was first established in the filmmaker's 2009 reboot simply titled "Star Trek." (Check out our primer for every Star Trek movies in order if you need a refresher.) Fortifying the creative team is Toby Haynes, one of the main directors of Disney+'s acclaimed "Star Wars" series, "Andor," starring Diego Luna's enigmatic rebel spy Cassian Andor.

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Haynes is helming this upcoming "Star Trek" film, which is destined to examine the early days of Starfleet a generation or so after the events of the prime universe's "Star Trek: Enterprise," from a screenplay written by the king of literary mash-ups, Seth Grahame-Smith ("Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," "Abraham Lincoln," Vampire Hunter," "The Lego Batman Movie"). 

J.J. Abrams will act as producer under his familiar Bad Robot banner. 

Apparently, similar to "Star Trek," " Star Trek Into Darkness ," and " Star Trek Beyond ," this new movie will occur along that alternate Kelvin timeline emerging into existence when the renegade Romulan Nero (Eric Bana) accidentally launched back in time after a supernova wiped out his Romulan homeworld. We ranked every Star Trek movie worst to best so far, so let us know which one was your favorite.

The last time we were treated to a "Star Trek" movie was back in 2016 for "Star Trek Beyond," right before the IP was expanded in 2017's "Star Trek: Discovery" and the mission to restore its former glory began on the CBS All Access (rebranded as Paramount Plus ) streaming platform. No further plot details have been announced so stay tuned as production and casting ramp up.

And don't worry, a fourth big screen installment of Abrams' original Kelvin timeline is still languishing in the Hollywood pipeline featuring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana to provide the popular sci-fi franchise's faithful fans plenty of exciting projects to look forward to in the final frontier.

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Paramount is getting the Enterprise gang back together. No, not the 1960s series turned film series cast, but rather the cast of the J.J. Abrams relaunch that debuted in 2009 and went on to star in two subsequent movies.

Paramount executive Brian Robbins and producer Abrams made the announcement at Paramount’s investor event Tuesday, although details were not revealed. No deals are in place, but Paramount hopes that returning castmembers will include Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña and John Cho, who have starred in three films, beginning with 2009’s Star Trek .

The announcement signals a breakthrough to relaunch Trek on the big screen. The studio has been trying to regroup the cast since at least in 2018, when negotiations with Pine and Chris Hemsworth, who had a small role in Abrams’ 2009 film, fell through . Since then, Paramount has tried to redevelop the project, with creatives such as Quentin Tarantino and Noah Hawley taking stabs at films that did not move forward. Pine also played Captain Kirk in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and  Star Trek Beyond (2016), the last big-screen outing.

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In recent years, Trek primarily has lived on the small screen, with numerous streaming shows on Paramount+ including Star Trek Discovery  and  Picard . Executives at Paramount’s investor day noted the company was focused on creating franchises that lived both on the Paramount+ streaming service and on the big screen, with other projects announced including a third  Sonic the Hedgehog  movie as well as a live-action TV spinoff starring Idris Elba’s Knuckles.  Filmmaker John Krasinski also revealed his  A Quiet Place Part III  will arrive in 2025.

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A new origins movie for Star Trek is set to go into production later on this year for a possible 2025 or 2026 release. There's has been a lot of speculation about the timeline of the film, with Inverse offering plenty of detail about the Star Trek timeline and how a film set in the 2210s or 2220s wouldn't rattle too much of Trek's history in either timeline with the caveat that "if you don't think about the prequel series, Star Trek: Enterprise."

Enterprise was set during 2151, and the events of the series were interwoven with other series in the franchise, such as the Ferengi's first appearance on the series instead of Star Trek: The Next Generation and, of course, the horrible series finale that connected The Next Generation's Commander Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis). Yes, plenty of fans would love to forget the finale, but the fact remains that it happened. And even Star Trek: Discovery referenced Archer's visit to Qo'noS from the premiere of the series. So it's kind of hard to jettison the series as a whole.

With the Origins movie supposedly set before the Kirk and Spock era as the movie has been touted, that could put it after Enterprise, but, if the movie is set during the Prime timeline, there are a lot of landmines that could potentially disrupt canon. Some fans, of course, will say that canon has been shredded by various other series already, but a film on the big screen takes things to a new level, especially if it's supposed to be the origination of some aspect of Star Trek.

One possible idea would be to take the story back to Captain Pike's origins, which would still put the movie in the 2230s, roughly, with Strange New Worlds being set in 2259. Since Strange New Worlds is an ongoing series, that would be a great tie-in. Another option would be the origins of Captain April who helmed the Enterprise in 2245. Hopefully, the movie won't take the origin storyline so far back in time that it will disrupt everything that has been created. And, if that's the choice that is taken, then we can just hope the movie gets set in the Kelvin timeline so the Prime timeline remains as unaffected as possible!

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as The Star Trek: Origins movie shouldn't ignore Star Trek: Enterprise .

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Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ boldly goes home after twisting voyage

The first model of the USS Enterprise is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, left, and Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, shake hands over the recently recovered first model of the USS Enterprise at the Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, left, and Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, view the recently recovered first model of the USS Enterprise at Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

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DALLAS (AP) — The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series — has boldly gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing.

The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when it popped up on eBay last fall. The sellers quickly took it down, and then contacted Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to authenticate it. Last weekend, the auction house facilitated the model’s return.

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said he’s thrilled to have the model that had graced the desk of his father, who died in 1991 at age 70.

“This is not going home to adorn my shelves,” Roddenberry said. “This is going to get restored and we’re working on ways to get it out so the public can see it and my hope is that it will land in a museum somewhere.”

AP AUDIO: Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ boldly goes home after twisting voyage.

AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on the return of the original model of the USS Enterprise from the TV show “Star Trek.”

Heritage’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said the auction house was contacted by people who said they’d discovered it a storage unit, and when it was brought into their Beverly Hills office, he and a colleague “instantly knew that it was the real thing.”

They reached out to Roddenberry, who said he appreciates that everyone involved agreed returning the model was the right thing to do. He wouldn’t go into details on the agreement reached but said “I felt it important to reward that and show appreciation for that.”

Maddalena said the model vanished in the 1970s after Gene Roddenberry loaned it to makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” which was released in 1979.

“No one knew what happened to it,” Rod Roddenberry said.

The 3-foot (0.91-meter) model of the USS Enterprise was used in the show’s original pilot episode as well as the opening credits of the resulting TV series, and was the prototype for the 11-foot (3-meter) version featured in the series’ episodes. The larger model is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

The original “Star Trek” television series, which aired in the late 1960s, kicked off an ever-expanding multiverse of cultural phenomena, with TV and movie spinoffs and conventions where a fanbase of zealous and devoted Trekkies can’t get enough of memorabilia.

This USS Enterprise model would easily sell for more than $1 million at auction, but really “it’s priceless,” Maddalena said.

“It could sell for any amount and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is,” he said. “It is truly a cultural icon.”

Roddenberry, who was just a young boy when the model went missing, said he has spotty memories of it, “almost a deja vu.” He said it wasn’t something he’d thought much about until people began contacting him after it appeared on eBay.

“I don’t think I really, fully comprehended at first that this was the first Enterprise ever created,” he said.

He said he has no idea if there was something nefarious behind the disappearance all those decades ago or if it was just mistakenly lost, but it would be interesting to find out more about what happened.

“This piece is incredibly important and it has its own story and this would be a great piece of the story,” Roddenberry said.

Thankfully, he said, the discovery has cleared up one rumor: That it was destroyed because as a young boy, he’d thrown it into a pool.

“Finally I’m vindicated after all these years,” he said with a laugh.

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The original USS Enterprise model used in the introduction of the show "Star Trek" was found after being missing for nearly 50 years. The model went missing in the 1970s and was found being sold on eBay with a starting bid of $1,000.  April 26, 2024

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