{"id":549923,"date":"2026-03-20T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:34:08","slug":"everything-we-know-about-the-future-of-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549923\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About the Future of ‘Star Trek’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year,\u00a0Star Trek turns 60<\/a>, a landmark anniversary for one of the most venerable series in science fiction. But as it enters its anniversary year, it does so in a time of great change<\/a> behind the scenes. Just a few months into the year,\u00a0Star Trek finds itself in a position it\u2019s not seen in almost a decade: a moment where there isn\u2019t a Star Trek film or TV series being actively filmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a moment that comes in the shadow of some other major changes. In July 2024<\/a>,\u00a0Trek owner Paramount announced it was being merged with Skydance in an $8 billion deal, which would close just over a year later. Now, Paramount currently has its eyes on another merger: the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, for which it emerged as the surprise successor after Netflix pulled out of its own acquisition deal this year. With Paramount placing Star Trek as a high priority<\/a> in its plans for the future, the case of whether or not there\u2019ll be more\u00a0Star Trek is a matter of if, rather than when.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that its future remains decidedly in flux, on the big screen and the small<\/a>. For now though, here\u2019s everything we\u00a0do know about what\u2019s in the works.<\/p>\n

\"Star\u00a9 Paramount Starfleet Academy Season 2 <\/p>\n

Starfleet Academy\u2018s debut season may have only just come to an end last week<\/a>, but we\u2019ve actually known since New York Comic Con 2024<\/a> that the show had been renewed for a second season. The series wrapped up principal photography in late February 2026, so we can probably expect it to air either late this year or sometime next.<\/p>\n

Little is currently known about the season, other than that guest stars Tatiana Maslany, who played protagonist Caleb Mir\u2019s mother, Anisha, and Paul Giamatti, who played season one villain Nus Braka, will not appear in the new season. We\u2019ve also had a few vague teases that season two ends on a \u201cshocking\u201d cliffhanger<\/a> and that its villain for the seasonal arc isn\u2019t a single person but more of an idea.<\/p>\n

Strange New Worlds Seasons 4 and 5 <\/p>\n

Ahead of the broadcast of its third season last year, Paramount announced that\u00a0Strange New Worlds would come to an end after five seasons<\/a>. While season four will continue the series\u2019 standard of 10 episodes, season five will be truncated to just six episodes (and was initially almost a streaming movie<\/a> sendoff, instead). The series wrapped production at the end of 2025, although sets for the show are still standing at the CBS stages in Mississauga, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Season four is expected to air at some point this year, and the production team has already gone to great lengths<\/a> to assure fans that the remainder of the series will try to win back some of the good will lost by its rocky third season<\/a>, blaming outside factors on the season\u2019s quality. While season four will still include the mix of episode styles and tones the series has made a name for itself with (one episode will turn the Enterprise crew into puppets<\/a>, for example), the final season will put more focus on regular adventures<\/a> as the series winds down. The final episode of the series will introduce Kai Murakami and Thomas Jane<\/a> as two of the remaining original series characters\u00a0Strange New Worlds has yet to add, Hikaru Sulu and Doctor Leonard \u201cBones\u201d McCoy, respectively.<\/p>\n

While it has yet to be greenlit at all, the\u00a0Strange New Worlds team has formally pitched<\/a> to Paramount an idea for a continuation series:\u00a0Star Trek: Year One, a recreation of the early days of the original\u00a0Star Trek that would bridge the gap even more between\u00a0Strange New Worlds and classic\u00a0Trek.<\/p>\n

\"Star\u00a9 Paramount Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley\u2019s Star Trek Film <\/p>\n

This is the very first\u2014and currently only\u2014Star Trek project given the go-ahead after the closure of the Paramount-Skydance merger. It was confirmed in November 2025<\/a> that\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley would write, produce, and direct a brand-new Star Trek movie. Again, little remains known about the project, other than it is set to focus on a completely new take on the\u00a0Star Trek universe, unconnected to any prior shows, films, or characters.<\/p>\n

But that leads us to an interesting fork in the road. Paramount has spent a very long time<\/a> trying to make a very large number of Star Trek movies since the release of\u00a0Star Trek Beyond in 2016. Although most of them have been officially announced as being scrapped (the latest victim being\u00a0Beyond\u2018s own sequel<\/a>,\u00a0Star Trek 4), there are three film projects in particular that we\u2019ve learned about that have yet to be publicly taken off the board, even though we haven\u2019t heard about them for years.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go over them, from the most likely to still happen to the least\u2014although, as they were all put into work before the Paramount-Skydance merger, the odds of any of them happening feel unlikely.<\/p>\n

Seth Grahame-Smith and Toby Haynes\u2019 Star Trek Film (TBD) <\/p>\n

In early 2024<\/a>, Paramount announced that Seth Grahame-Smith would write, and Toby Haynes would direct, a new\u00a0Star Trek prequel film that was described as an origin story for Starfleet (it was left incredibly unclear, for fannish time-travel\/alternate universe reasons, if this meant the film would be set in the cinematic universe established by the 2009 JJ Abrams\u00a0Star Trek movie, known as the \u201cKelvin Timeline,\u201d or if it would be set shortly after the events of\u00a0Star Trek: Enterprise<\/a> in the prime continuity).<\/p>\n

No further updates have been provided on the film\u2019s status, outside of reports in May 2024 that Paramount was eyeing Simon Kinberg<\/a> (who is currently also working on the early stages of a new\u00a0Star Wars trilogy)<\/a> to produce the film and potentially other Star Trek movies.<\/p>\n

Patrick Stewart\u2019s Star Trek Film (TBD) <\/p>\n

Just\u00a0days earlier<\/a>, Patrick Stewart randomly announced that there were plans for a new movie centered on Jean-Luc Picard, presumably set after the events of the then-recently-concluded\u00a0Picard TV series. Stewart, after initially seeming content to be done with the character after the three-season show, began expressing interest in a return in some capacity<\/a> shortly after its third season wrapped up in 2023. Again, no further updates have been provided on the film\u2019s status.<\/p>\n

Kalinda Vazquez\u2019s Star Trek Film (TBD) <\/p>\n

The least likely of all in a trio of already increasingly unlikely films, in 2021 Paramount tapped Star Trek: Discovery writer Kalinda Vazquez to script a new\u00a0Star Trek film<\/a>. We\u2019ve heard nothing since, so it\u2019s\u00a0technically not canceled yet.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year,\u00a0Star Trek turns 60, a landmark anniversary for one of the most venerable series in science fiction.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,9489,9487,21246,9488,348],"class_list":["post-549923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-paramount","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}