CBS CEO Comments on Star Trek's Future

For those hoping that Star Trek: Legacy series (inspired by Picard season 3) might be greenlit soon, CBS CEI George Cheeks put the kibosh on that. The idea isn't dead but his answer was framed as trying to avoid oversaturation. Suspect budget is also a significant factor with three shows (Strange New Worlds, Starfleet Academy, Lower Decks) and a movie (Section 31) in production. The full interview with the CEO about CBS and Paramount+ can be read at Vulture. Below is the relevant Star Trek quote.

Star Trek remains one of the most important franchises for Paramount Global, and Paramount+ specifically. There’s so much great opportunity with the franchise, and it’s really about the cadence and the timeline of it.

We don’t want to offer up all these amazing premium drama series at once. We want to time it out appropriately. Luckily, we have this incredible partner in Alex Kurtzman, and we all work together to sort of manage long-range planning across many years, to figure out what’s the right cadence for dropping new Star Trek series.

So there’s a lot we’re focused on, but it should not suggest to you [a scaling back]. There is a tremendous amount of focus and prioritizing of the Star Trek franchise.”