4 New Star Trek Shows Being Pitched To Paramount Explained

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy each have 2 seasons to come on Paramount+, but producers are already preparing to pitch the next wave of Star Trek series. In early August, Skydance Media completed its purchase of Paramount Global. CEO David Ellison is a Star Trek fan, and hopes are high that he will want new Star Trek series on Paramount+.

Secret Hideout, led by executive producer Alex Kurtzman, has overseen the Star Trek on Paramount+ franchise since 2017. Under Kurtzman's auspices, Star Trek launched six TV series and a made-for-streaming movie, Star Trek: Section 31. However, it's unclear if Kurtzman will continue to run Star Trek under Skydance, or if the new owners will shake up the 60-year-old franchise.

It would be encouraging if Star Trek: Lower Decks' executive producer Mike McMahan has plans to pitch a continuation or new version of his beloved animated comedy to Paramount/Skydance. The same goes for Star Trek: Prodigy creators Kevin and Dan Hageman. However, nothing is known yet about any attempts to restore Star Trek's groundbreaking animated series.

Coming out of STLV: Trek to Vegas, the biggest Star Trek convention of the year, there were plenty of announcements, hints, and intentions to pursue new Star Trek series. Here are 4 known Star Trek shows that will reportedly make their case to Paramount/Skydance.

4Star Trek: Year One

Created By Akiva Goldsman & Henry Alonso Myers

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have been vocal about their hopes to launch a new series about Captain James T. Kirk's (Paul Wesley) first year commanding the Starship Enterprise. Reportedly, this spinoff of Strange New Worlds is titled Star Trek: Year One.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end after a six-episode fifth and final season on Paramount+. Strange New Worlds season 4 has wrapped filming, and production on season 5 starts in fall 2025. However, Goldsman and Myers are looking towards what could be next after Strange New Worlds, pinning their hopes on their version of Star Trek: The Original Series.

After all, as Goldsman and Myers have argued, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds already has the actors in place to continue playing Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck), Lt. Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and the rest of Kirk's crew, and they already have the USS Enterprise sets to port over onto a new spinoff. Strange New Worlds is also arguably the most popular Star Trek on Paramount+ series.

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers will reportedly pitch Star Trek: Year One to the new executives of Paramount/Skydance. Perhaps Star Trek: Year One will warp onto Paramount+ after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends.

3Star Trek: United

Created By Michael Sussman & Scott Bakula

TrekMovie exclusively reported from STLV that Star Trek: Enterprise producer Michael Sussman has been developing a new series that would star Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer. Inspired by Star Trek: Picard bringing back Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Sussman and Bakula's show would be about Archer as President of the United Federation of Planets.

Dubbed Star Trek: United (or simply Star Trek United), Bakula's return as President Archer is designed as a thriller about politics and family, with Sussman hoping Star Trek: United could lend the kind of prestige to Star Trek that Andor gave Star Wars. A couple of years ago, Sussman took his pitch to Secret Hideout, who brought it to Paramount, but they passed on Star Trek: United.

However, Mike Sussman has refined Star Trek: United and believes the time is right to pitch Scott Bakula's Star Trek return to Paramount/Skydance. No doubt, Scott Bakula's comeback as President Archer is a compelling draw, but it remains to be seen if Paramount's new leadership will be united in favor of Sussman and Bakula's Star Trek series idea.

2Tawny Newsome’s Live-Action Star Trek Comedy

Created By Tawny Newsome & Justin Simien

At San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien announced they were developing Star Trek's first live-action comedy series. A year later, Newsome and Simen's concept has undergone revisions, but it is reportedly a workplace comedy set in the early 25th century about the employees of a pleasure planet outside the Federation.

TrekMovie spoke to Tawny Newsome at STLV, who said that "Hollywood’s in a place, and we’re waiting to hear. We wrote the thing, and we’re waiting to hear... I think everyone in the business is sort of waiting to see if anyone ever sells a show again, not to be bleak, but nothing’s guaranteed.”

Part of Newsome and Simien's strategy in setting their Star Trek workplace comedy in the 25th century is that it would allow Star Trek's legacy actors to guest star as their age-appropriate characters without digital de-aging. It could also mean Newsome's Star Trek: Lower Decks cast could appear as their characters in live-action.

Newsome and Simien's Star Trek comedy was developed under Secret Hideout, with Alex Kurtzman praising Tawny as a "stone cold killer" in the writers' room after she joined the staff of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. It's possible Newsome and Simien's Star Trek workplace comedy will be pitched to the new executives at Paramount, but as Tawny said, it's all wait and see right now.

1Star Trek: Legacy

Created By Terry Matalas

For two years since the end of Star Trek: Picard season 3, the single most desired Star Trek project by fans has been Star Trek: Legacy. Continuing the voyages of the USS Enterprise-G under Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Star Trek: Legacy found no momentum towards being developed at Paramount+, despite fervent fan campaigns in favor of the spinoff.

At STLV, Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas, who now executive produces Marvel Studios' Vision Quest, confirmed that there continues to be no movement towards Star Trek: Legacy. Yet fans and Star Trek: Picard season 3's cast and creative team still want Star Trek: Legacy, and it's possible Paramount/Skydance will as well.

While Terry Matalas gave no indication he would make a formal pitch for Star Trek: Legacy to Paramount/Skydance, Terry did confirm at STLV that he had written 30 pages of Star Trek: Legacy's pilot, and that the first 20 minutes would involve the Klingon Empire and the return of Todd Stashwick as an Emergency Engineering Hologram version of Liam Shaw.

Fingers are crossed that, despite Terry Matalas' very busy schedule and commitments to Marvel Studios, his dream of Star Trek: Legacy can happen at the new Paramount/Skydance. Star Trek: Legacy has always had the prestige and fan support to take over the status of Star Trek on Paramount+'s flagship series after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends.