That’s a whole lot of new Star Trek content hitting the airwaves these days. In addition to Star Trek: Discovery, there’s an upcoming series all about the latter days of Jean-Luc Picard (starring Patrick Stewart, naturally), a Section 31 series featuring Michelle Yeoh’s Phillipa Georgiou, and an adult-oriented (but not like that) animated comedy called Star Trek: Lower Decks from a writer of Rick and Morty. We’re in the midst of a proper Trek revival.
Now, Deadline reports that CBS and Nickelodeon are in negotiations to make an animated Star Trek series aimed at children. Brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman (Netflix’s Trollhunters) have been tasked with writing the script. This will be the first new Trek series not airing on CBS All Access.
Let’s hope the new show is as good as the animated series from the ’70s. Or that it’s nothing like it, whichever.
This comes along at a good time for the series. If you want a push a franchise to the next level, you need new fans, and who’s newer than children? Also, all this TV content can tide over fans waiting for next Star Trek movie, since Star Trek 4 is reportedly having lots of problems behind the scenes.
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Also of note: although Trekkies may hate the comparison, Disney is doing something very similar with Star Wars right now, and it’s having a lot of success. Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: Resistance and the revived Star Wars: The Clone Wars are all animated shows that either on TV or coming soon. And for the older fans, Disney is readying a pair of live-action Star Wars offerings to premiere on its Disney+ streaming service: The Mandalorian and another show based on Rogue One character Cassian Andor.
It looks like Star Trek may have finally learned to follow a winning formula. Let’s hope it continues down this path.
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