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The streaming period of Star Trek goes by means of some evolutions–Picard got here to an finish final yr, we’ve simply mentioned goodbye to Discovery, and Decrease Decks is getting ready to bid farewell this October. However there’s extra on the horizon… together with a model new present we simply discovered about.
Revealed to Corridor H at San Diego Comedian-Con, Star Trek: Decrease Decks‘ Tawny Newsome has partnered with Justin Simien to develop a brand new, live-action Star Trek comedy sequence. The half-hour sequence doesn’t but have a title or format, however Newsome and Simien will write the present with Star Trek overseer Alex Kurtzman. Particulars had been scant concerning the sequence on the panel, aside from that it is going to be set sooner or later within the twenty fifth century–a comparatively unexplored interval of Star Trek, with solely Picard among the many reveals set in the course of the early years of the 2400s, and that the sequence will comply with a solid of Federation outsiders, serving clients on a resort world, who uncover that their each day exploits are literally being recorded and broadcast to the whole quadrant.
No additional particulars can be found concerning the present, however as Decrease Decks says goodbye later this yr, it’s a testomony to its strengths as a Star Trek comedy–one thing many followers didn’t anticipate to work when it first launched–that Trek is now in a spot the place it feels snug sufficient to experiment with the style exterior of even usually Star Trek confines like a Starfleet ship. In any case, Trek is supposed to be boldly going, and this actually sounds prefer it could possibly be a daring determination.
We’ll carry you extra on Star Trek‘s future as and once we be taught it.
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