Nickelodeon has officially given the greenlight for a new cartoon series for Star Trek. This will be the first cartoon series aimed at a younger audience since Star Trek: The Animated Series' 22 episode run from 1973. The CG-animated series will be written by brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman (The Lego Movie, Croods 2, Ninjago) who will also be executive producers alone with Alex Kurtzman and others.
The series "follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation." The show will air on Nickelodeon. Currently there is no ETA on when it will premiere. In general the work cycle of an animated series is about a year from written episode to completed episode with CG generally having a quicker turnaround once enough assets are built. Net result is probably looking at a late 2020 to early 2021 launch date.
This is not the same as Lower Decks cartoon series from Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty's) that is still in the pipeline and not aimed at children. With this project we now have confirmed 5 series in various stages. Star Trek: Discovery just completed its season 2 run with season 3 already greenlit. Star Trek: Picard (unofficial title) just started production for unknown release date and Section 31 is in pre-production with filming probably starting sometime in 2020. So yeah the movie franchise is probably dead at this point but Trek fans will have plenty to feast on starting next year.
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