Four new ‘Star Trek’ series planned under Kurtzman
LOS ANGELES: Star Trek fans will be boldly going all over the universe in the next few years, if CBS’ franchise expansion plans stick.
According to Variety, four new Trek series are actively in development at the network, presumably as programming for CBS All Access, the streamingonly service that premiered Star Trek Discovery in late 2017.
Alex Kurtzman, whose credits include the Star Trek Kelvinverse fi lms, several “Transformers” movies, and the recent “Dark Universe” reboot of “The Mummy”, is supervising all of the shows in development, as well as taking over showrunner duties on Discovery season two.
On the new series, the fi rst is a series set at Starfleet Academy.
The second idea in the works is positioned as a limited series that Variety says is “based around the Wrath of Khan story. More likely is a show focusing on Khan Noonien Singh, portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán in the ‘ Star Trek: TOS’ Space Seed’ episode and again in the fi lm “Star Trek II”.
The fi nal two shows are even lighter on the details. If the show takes fl ight, it will be the fi rst animated Star Trek property since The Animated Series ended in 1974.
Then there’s an out there idea: could the fi nal mystery show bring back Jean- Luc Picard? According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kurtzman and Discovery season one writer Akiva Goldsman are reportedly in the works on a series that could bring Patrick Stewart back to the iconic role.
One thing is clear about Star Trek’s future: it’ll be exploring new worlds, and soon.