SDCC Brings New Show, Trek Alumni Casting, Teasers, and Clip

Saturday the San Diego ComicCon 2024 panels were held for Star Trek. With the panels news about upcoming Star Trek shows including a new one that is still in early planning stages. Lets get right to it. 

Star Trek: Untitled Comedy - A potential new series is in very early planning stages, basically pre-pre-production live action comedy described as "Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant." Risa is Trek's go to resort planet but it wasn't specifically mentioned. The show is being developed by Justin Simien (The Haunted Mansion) and Tawny Newsome (writer, voice of Mariner on Lower Decks).

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Four previous Star Trek actors are joining the series that is set to start filming soon in Canada. Tig Notaro (Jett Reno), Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance) and Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly) will reprise their Star Trek: Discovery roles. In a bit of a shock, Robert Picardo will reprise his role from Star Trek: Voyager role as hologram The Doctor, a role he recently voiced for season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy (on Netflix, really should watch show regardless of age, be patient as worth it.)

Star Trek: Lower Decks - set to premiere its fifth and final season on October 24 on Paramount+ with two episodes and remaining 8 each week after for series finale on December 19. Show has been ended too soon but what can you do. Below is season synopsis and teaser trailer done in the style of the first trailer for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In season five of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…if they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. This upcoming season on Paramount+ is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles.

Star Trek: Section 31 - The Michelle Yeoh starring movie got its first teaser trailer (below). No release date yet but aiming for an early 2025 release on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Here is first look at season 3 of the show via a clip that creates a rather interesting and increasingly annoying situation for Spock to deal with. Cillian O'Sullivan (Then You Run) as been cast to play Dr. Roger Korby, future ex-fiancé to nurse Chapel (from Original Series episode nine). An episode will be like "a Hollywood murder mystery" and the show may not be done with musicals. No airdate is set but I suspect mid to late 2025.