The Star Trek Universe will enter a whole new dimension with a half hour comedy show.
Star Trek has expanded its horizons over recent years, beyond its traditional television and movie formats.
We’ve seen the franchise celebrate its past with Picard and Strange New Worlds, and expand into irrelevant animated comedy with Lower Decks. Additionally, Prodigy has pitched for a younger audience too.
In 2025, there’s a streaming movie starring the former Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) working for Starfleet’s shady Section 31. Plus, the YA series Starfleet Academy is currently filming.
New half-hour comedy show
Now, as announced at the recent San Diego Comic Con, it’s preparing to push through another frontier: live-action comedy.
The new half hour show comes from Lower Decks star Tawny Newsome (Lower Decks) and filmmaker Justin Simien (Dear White People), who are co-writing. Alex Kurtzman, the Star Trek franchise head honcho, is also writing for the project too.
A new @StarTrek series is in development from co-creators Justin Simien and @TrondyNewman! In this live action comedy, Federation Outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant. pic.twitter.com/Hugz1rZtdf
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) July 27, 2024
The series is to follow a group of Federation outsiders serving at a gleaming resort planet who find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant. Boasting some “odd-couple pairings”, the show will take place in the 25th century. That places it sometime around the end of Picard series.
Writers Simien and Newsome will executive produce alongside Alex Kurtzman, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.
We’ll keep you posted.