You would suppose in case you might efficiently blanket greater than half the yr in new weekly episodes of Star Trek, you had sufficient Star Trek occurring in the intervening time. But Paramount doesn’t appear to suppose so—in between dropping episodes of Trek like they have been two-for-one raktajinos on Deep Space Nine’s promenade, the studio introduced {that a} long-previously-announced plan for a Starfleet Academy sequence was being reworked into a brand new Paramount+ sequence this yr.

It additionally confirmed time and time once more that Michelle Yeoh’s spinoff Section 31 sequence is nonetheless within the works, simply a good distance off, after Yeoh exited Discovery throughout its third season. And then there’s in fact renewals, like Discovery season 5, Lower Decks season 4, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds every getting a season two… if this yr was any indicator, we’re going to be doing an terrible lot of trekking once more in 2023 and past.