“Star Trek: Discover,” “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” have all been renewed at Paramount Plus.
For “Discovery,” that means it will return for a fifth season. The show is due to resume its fourth season on Feb. 10. “Lower Decks” will now be back for a fourth season, with Season 3 of the animated comedy set to debut this summer.
“Strange New Worlds” has yet to debut its first season, which will drop on Paramount Plus on May 5. New episodes will then roll out weekly on the streamer. “Strange New Worlds” stars Anson Mount as Capt. Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley aboard the Enterprise prior to the events of the original “Star Trek” series.
“Four years ago, we made a promise to grow ‘Star Trek’ into something it had never been before, and thanks to the incredibly hard work done by our many talented showrunners, writers, and directors, along with the extraordinary support of CBS Studios and Paramount Plus, we’re keeping our word,” said Alex Kurtzman, who oversees the “Star Trek” TV franchise for CBS Studios. “Now our current shows are set up for the future as we work to build ‘Trek’s’ next phase of programming for years to come.”
Paramount Plus has also revealed more premiere dates. Season 2 of “Star Trek: Picard” will now premiere on March 3, with new episodes dropping weekly thereafter. It had previously been reported that the show would debut in February. Season 3 of the series starring Sir Patrick Stewart is currently in production. Meanwhile, the kid-focused animated series “Star Trek: Prodigy” resumed the first half of its first season on Jan. 6. The second half of the season will be available later in 2022.
I'm kinda pissed that they delayed Picard s2, but I have to wonder in SNW about seeing the Romulan War, or w/ever the Enterprise was up to before the 5ym.
My thoughts on NewTrek aside, am I the only one who finds prequels boring as feck?
Where's the tension? Pike cannot die. Spock cannot die. The 1701 cannot be destroyed. There are no stakes to anything that happens.
Star Wars was the same. Let's see: Anakin couldn't die. Obi Wan couldn't die. Yoda, Chewbacca, Palpatine, R2, C3-PO... all immortal.
Woo! Exciting! How are they going to get out of this one alive!
clearspira wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:02 pm
My thoughts on NewTrek aside, am I the only one who finds prequels boring as feck?
Where's the tension? Pike cannot die. Spock cannot die. The 1701 cannot be destroyed. There are no stakes to anything that happens.
Eh, it's like Better Call Saul. You can't kill maybe four characters out of a main cast of about ten. But you can torture the hell out of them. Besides that, as I understand it SNW is meant to be more like the older treks; episodic. Picard won't die by the end of the episode. Riker won't die by the end of the episode. OK, Yar did die but that was stupid and badly handled.
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It wouldn't surprise me if PICARD's third season will be announced as its last. Stewart can only do the show for so long.
Yeah this has been my expectation for a while, that they’re doing seasons 2 and 3 as something of a set in terms of production and that will ultimately wrap up the show.
Anyway, nice to see Lower Decks keep on trucking, and eager to see if SNW can fill the episodic niche many (including myself) have been wanting for even if they do like the serial shows.
clearspira wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:02 pm
My thoughts on NewTrek aside, am I the only one who finds prequels boring as feck?
Where's the tension? Pike cannot die. Spock cannot die. The 1701 cannot be destroyed. There are no stakes to anything that happens.
Star Wars was the same. Let's see: Anakin couldn't die. Obi Wan couldn't die. Yoda, Chewbacca, Palpatine, R2, C3-PO... all immortal.
Woo! Exciting! How are they going to get out of this one alive!
Ebert said the same thing about Wolverine '09. I mean, it's true of any of Wolverine's personal stakes involvement in all the stories he's in, but there's other problems going on with the concept execution.
clearspira wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:02 pm
My thoughts on NewTrek aside, am I the only one who finds prequels boring as feck?
Where's the tension? Pike cannot die. Spock cannot die. The 1701 cannot be destroyed. There are no stakes to anything that happens.
Star Wars was the same. Let's see: Anakin couldn't die. Obi Wan couldn't die. Yoda, Chewbacca, Palpatine, R2, C3-PO... all immortal.
Woo! Exciting! How are they going to get out of this one alive!
Yes, because we were all just biting our nails wondering if Kirk or Spock were going to die in each episode of the original series.
