Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows

Trying to maintain monitor of what Star Trek is coming proper now looks like attempting to cease a tribble from procreating. Before much more new sequence get introduced, right here’s our information of when to anticipate all of the new Star Trek exhibits, the returns of acquainted favorites, and what else is within the works proper now. Engage!

Star Trek Shows Currently Airing and Coming Soon

Star Trek: Picard Season 2

The at the moment airing second season of Picard—which has seen the titular The Next Generation hero and his crew journey again in time to keep away from a darkish future manipulated into existence by a heady mixture of the Borg Queen and a returned Q—is about to wrap up on Paramount+ May 5. If you need to try our episode recaps, they’re linked under:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1

A prequel-sequel sequence—a prequel to the unique Star Trek, a sequel to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery—Strange New Worlds follows the crew of the unique USS Enterprise as they boldly go looking for all of these titular new worlds. Returning Discovery season two company Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn will painting Captain Pike, Mr. Spock, and Number One respectively, joined by a brand new solid enjoying acquainted and recent faces alike:

• Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Uhura
• Christina Chong as Security Chief La’an Noonien-Singh
• Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel
• Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga
• Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas
• Bruce Horak as Chief Engineer Hemmer

Catch our interview with the solid right here, and be taught extra about Spock’s trials coming into the sequence right here. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins streaming on Paramount+ May 5, and season one is 10 episodes lengthy.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3

The third season of the pleasant animated sequence following the misfit crew of the USS Cerritos—and particularly its cadre of ensigns, Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Tendi (Noël Wells), and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero)—doesn’t have a launch date but, past a window of summer time 2022. Expected to begin airing across the time Strange New Worlds begins wrapping up in July, season three sees our heroic ensigns and the remaining bridge officers aboard the Cerritos band collectively to free Captain Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) from Starfleet Security, after she was wrongly accused of destroying the Pakled homeworld within the climax of season two. Watch a brand new trailer above.

Upcoming Star Trek Shows and Series In Development

Upcoming: Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Part 2

The first half of the primary season of the animated sequence Prodigy—following a crew of alien teenagers who escape a torturous residing on a mining encampment within the Delta Quadrant, because of the invention of the USS Protostar, an experimental Starfleet vessel with an superior warp drive—wrapped up on Paramount+ earlier this yr, however is at the moment anticipated to return for the second half of the season later in 2022. Will Admiral Janeway (returning Voyager legend Kate Mulgrew) be capable to meet up with the ship previously captained by her previous good friend Chakotay (fellow returning Voyager legend, Robert Beltran)? Time, and maybe a chat with Protostar holographic teacher Janeway (additionally returning Voyager legend Kate Mulgrew), will inform.

Upcoming: Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

Expected a while in 2023, Discovery’s fifth season might be 10 episodes lengthy, down from the 13 of prior seasons. In the wake of season 4‘s climax earlier this year, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) led her crew in a desperate attempt to save the galaxy from a mysterious anomaly created by an extra-galactic race, ensuring peace and stability for the Federation once more… for now. As her romantic partner Book (David Ajala) pays time for his own role in a campaign to surreptitiously destroy that anomaly, we’re unsure what awaits Burnham and Discovery’s crew simply but, however given this present, we’re certain it’ll be very, very dramatic.

Upcoming: Star Trek: Picard Season 3

Star Trek: Picard’s third, and now formally remaining, season can also be anticipated on Paramount+ a while in 2023, though contemplating it was shot back-to-back with season two, don’t be too shocked if it will get a shock begin later this yr. There’s loads to be excited about too: the sequence goes out in model, reuniting Sir Patrick Stewart with The Next Generation’s command crew: Brent Spiner as Data, Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi, Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, Michael Dorn as Worf, and LeVar Burton as Geordi LaForge.

In Development: Section 31

Although it’s been formally unveiled since 2019, we nonetheless don’t have a clue when this spinoff based mostly across the seediest facet of Starfleet—the shadowy spy group Section 31, first launched in Deep Space Nine—with Discovery visitor star Michelle Yeoh is definitely meant to air. Yeoh, who will return as former emperor of the Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire, Phillipa Georgiou, now was a kinder, however nonetheless kickass particular person by her time with Michael Burnham, remains to be anticipated to return, however past that, nobody is aware of what to anticipate. Especially as a result of the best way Yeoh exited Discovery’s third season signifies that Georgiou may mainly present up wherever throughout Star Trek’s timeline.

In Development: Starfleet Academy

If we’ve been ready some time for Section 31 to occur, then by some means that is even longer. Back within the heady days of 2018, when Discovery was the one new Star Trek, a part of sequence architect Alex Kurtzman’s cope with CBS to helm a brand new period of Trek included discuss of a sequence based mostly round Starfleet Academy, the San Francisco-based college that formed the Federation’s engineers, scientists, doctors, pilots, and commanders into the long run explorers and peacekeepers of the galaxy. Originally slated to be showrun by Marvel’s Runaways’ Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the sequence went quiet after these preliminary reviews, nevertheless earlier this yr it was re-confirmed that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is within the works once more.

Now developed by Absentia co-creator Gaia Violo, little is thought in regards to the sequence past that, aside from that it’ll clearly observe Starfleet cadets, and is anticipated to probably observe the Section 31 sequence into manufacturing someday within the subsequent yr. We additionally don’t know when it might be set in Star Trek’s timeline, however Discovery’s fourth season did embody a main improvement for Mary Wiseman’s Sylvia Tilly, the place she left the ship to take a instructing place on the re-opened Starfleet Academy of the thirty first Century—so it may stand to purpose the present may observe her, however we don’t know proper now.

Where Can I Stream Classic Star Trek Shows?

That’s all of the new bits of Star Trek coming. But what in regards to the previous Star Trek? In the U.S. at the least, the overwhelming majority of traditional Star Trek exhibits can be found completely to stream on Paramount+ (albeit not with out points), though some holdouts stay on different streaming companies. Here’s a full record of traditional Star Trek exhibits and the place to stream them, in addition to hyperlinks to our advisable episode guides for each sequence!

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