Star Trek Is Getting Its First Live-Action Comedy

The streaming epoch of Star Trek is going done immoderate evolutions–Picard came to an end past year, we’ve just said goodbye to Discovery, and Lower Decks is preparing to bid farewell this October. But determination is much connected the horizon… including a marque caller amusement we conscionable learned about.

Revealed to Hall H astatine San Diego Comic-Con, Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Tawny Newsome has partnered with Justin Simien to make a new, live-action Star Trek drama series. The half-hour bid does not yet person a rubric oregon format, but Newsome and Simien volition constitute the amusement with Star Trek overseer Alex Kurtzman. Details were scant astir the bid astatine the panel, different than that it volition beryllium acceptable astatine immoderate constituent successful the 25th century–a comparatively unexplored play of Star Trek, with only Picard among the shows acceptable during the aboriginal years of the 2400s, and that the bid volition travel a formed of Federation outsiders, serving customers connected a edifice world, who observe that their regular exploits are really being recorded and broadcast to the full quadrant.

No further details are disposable astir the show, but as Lower Decks says goodbye aboriginal this year, it’s a testament to its strengths arsenic a Star Trek comedy–something a bully galore fans did not expect to work erstwhile it archetypal launched–that Trek is present successful a spot wherever it feels comfy capable to experimentation with the genre extracurricular of adjacent typically Star Trek confines similar a Starfleet ship. After all, Trek is meant to beryllium boldly going, and this surely sounds similar it could beryllium a bold decision.

We’ll bring you much on Star Trek‘s aboriginal arsenic and erstwhile we larn it.

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