Star Trek Day Brings Trailers and Release Dates

Paramount held its Star Trek Day event last night where panels were held with various cast members, producers and creators from the various series both past and present.  With it comes new trailers and release dates for the various upcoming seasons including an introduction of the bridge crew for Strange New Worlds.

 

To start the news, Star Trek: Discovery season 4 premiere date is set for November 18. The season description is “Season four of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery facing a threat unlike any they’ve ever encountered. With Federation and non-Federation worlds alike feeling the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all.”  Seems Paramount+ wants to keep things close to the vest as not even a teaser trailer was released, at least not yet. 

 

Strange New Worlds is set on the USS Enterprise, but before Kirk took command.  It shows the continued adventures of Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) whose name Una Chin-Riley was taken from a Star Trek book which is always nice to see when the option is there to respect over 40 years of Trek world building in page form. These three were introduced in the second season of Discovery. However 3 does not make for a complete bridge crew. Three Original Series characters will be joining them with Cadet Nyote Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun). In addition there is Hemmer (Bruce Horak) an Aenar which is a usually blind subspecies of Andorian, La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) which yes is the last name of Mr. Wrath of Khan himself, and Lieutenant Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia). No release date yet but probably after Picard Season 2 completes its run so guessing late April or early May. Intro video below.

 

Speaking of Star Trek: Picard season 2, we have its premiere in February 2022 on Paramount+. Below is a new trailer that reveals more of the story arc. Suffice it to say that Q is up to no good, this time changing the past and requiring our heroes to come to the 21st century. The show has already begun work on Season 3.

 

Another premiere date, with a full trailer (below) is for Star Trek: Prodigy. The series will premiere on October 28. The Nickelodeon branded cartoon series is in fact not premiering on Nickelodeon but instead on Paramount+. I guess Nick might show it off at a later date? The series follows the adventures of a group of kids who find derelict ship the USS Protostar, which itself seems to be a Federation prototype ship with the hologram of Captain Janeway.

 

Last, but not least is the mid-season trailer of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2. The cartoon continues to knock it out of the park and I highly recommend you give it a look.