5 Star Trek Shows Is Not Nearly Enough Star Trek for Paramount+

We’re already in a world the place there’s sufficient new Star Trek to fill out half a 12 months of consecutive weekly broadcasts. According to ViacomCBS, effectively, that simply means there’s nonetheless one other half a 12 months to suit some boldly going into.

Speaking on the ongoing Television Critics Association press tour (through Variety), Paramount+ president of unique scripted collection Nicole Clemens briefly touched upon the latest information that between Prodigy, Discovery, Picard, newcomer Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks’ return this summer season, Star Trek has been in a position to block out week after week of recent programming on Paramount+ since early January all the way in which into July. The schedule is so jam-packed that some exhibits will briefly overlap one another as they launch. “The question about ‘critical mass’ on Star Trek, I think we have some fantastic offerings in our always on slate,” Clemens informed press, which is basically a diplomatic manner of claiming “yeah, what are you gonna do about it?”

Clemens additionally famous that there are extra exhibits to return—the long-awaited Michelle Yeoh Discovery spinoff, specializing in the Starfleet secret intelligence division Section 31, is certainly nonetheless within the works—but past that, Clemens mentioned that “you may see a few more very curated additions coming” to the Star Trek slate. “Curated” is an fascinating phrase selection right here, maybe suggesting that collection we might see coming onto this already busy slate—which already has bigger collection like Discovery and Lower Decks in ongoing season commitments, to be presumably joined by Strange New Worlds, already renewed for season two—might present shorter-type restricted choices anchored across the greater ongoing exhibits, as an alternative of us essentially getting main new Trek additions to the universe whereas these main collection are nonetheless working.

But that’s extra hypothesis that it’s truth—in any case, there was a world the place Picard was initially going to be a one-and-done restricted collection, and now it’s filming its third, probably ultimate season. We don’t know the scope of simply how huge ViacomCBS’ plans for Star Trek actually are going ahead, however one factor we undoubtedly know? They suppose there’s room for a lot, way more.

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