Tuesday 28 March 2023

STAR TREK shows gets new seasons and airdates

Paramount have lifted the lid on some of their plans for the Star Trek franchise moving forwards.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will air its second season starting on 15 June, and has been renewed for a third, confirming more adventures for Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and the Enterprise crew in the 23rd Century.

Star Trek: Lower Decks will air its fourth season later in the summer. The precise date is to be decided, but since each of the three previous seasons aired in August, that seems a fairly logical deduction for this season as well. Lower Decks has also been renewed for a fifth season, due to air in 2024.

Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are also getting a special crossover episode as part of Strange New Worlds' third season, mixing live action and animation.

The Paramount-Nickelodeon co-production Star Trek: Prodigy will also start airing its second season before the end of the year, but has so far not been renewed. Prodigy's seasons are double the length of the norm, though (20 episodes each) and usually air in two blocs, so it might be next year before we hear any more about that show's fate.

Star Trek: Discovery will air its fifth and final season in early 2024, whilst Star Trek: Picard is currently wrapping up its third and final, warmly-received season. Whilst there have been discussions about a follow-up series, called Star Trek: Legacy, that has not been formally greenlit yet. There is also no further word on the much-discussed Section 31 TV series which has been in development hell for some considerable time.

Still, that's a reasonable amount of Star Trek to look forwards to in the foreseeable future.

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