Star Trek Is Getting Its First Live-Action Comedy

The streaming era of Star Trek is going through some evolutions—Picard came to an end last year, we’ve just said goodbye to Discovery, and Lower Decks is preparing to bid farewell this October. But there is more on the horizon… including a brand new show we just learned about.

Revealed to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Tawny Newsome has partnered with Justin Simien to develop a new, live-action Star Trek comedy series. The half-hour series does not yet have a title or format, but Newsome and Simien will write the show with Star Trek overseer Alex Kurtzman. Details were scant about the series at the panel, other than that it will be set at some point in the 25th century—a relatively unexplored period of Star Trek, with only Picard among the shows set during the early years of the 2400s, and that the series will follow a cast of Federation outsiders, serving customers on a resort world, who discover that their daily exploits are actually being recorded and broadcast to the entire quadrant.

No further details are available about the show, but as Lower Decks says goodbye later this year, it’s a testament to its strengths as a Star Trek comedy—something a good many fans did not expect to work when it first launched—that Trek is now in a place where it feels comfortable enough to experiment with the genre outside of even typically Star Trek confines like a Starfleet ship. After all, Trek is meant to be boldly going, and this certainly sounds like it could be a bold decision.

We’ll bring you more on Star Trek‘s future as and when we learn it.

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