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Summary Star Trek on Paramount+'s Discovery and Lower Decks are both ending in 2024 with each show's season 5.

Paramount+ is rethinking its Star Trek strategy, focusing on made-for-streaming movies and only two live-action series.

The future still looks bright for Star Trek despite these changes, with new Star Trek theatrical movies in development.

Star Trek's upcoming TV and movie slate will have fewer series but new theatrical and made-for-streaming movies. 2022 was a remarkable year that saw a new episode from 5 new Star Trek series streaming on Paramount+ nearly every Thursday of the year. 2023 saw the critically acclaimed ending of Star Trek: Picard, the lauded Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, and Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, perhaps the best run of the animated comedy yet.

Star Trek is in a transitional period in 2024. Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks are both ending with season 5, while Star Trek: Prodigy moved to Netflix. Reflecting industry-wide changes in streaming content, Paramount+ is rethinking its Star Trek strategy, starting with an expansion into made-for-streaming movies that are designed to feel like blockbuster events. Paramount Pictures' Star Trek movies are also showing signs of life, at last. While another moment of change seems imminent for the franchise, the future still looks bright for Star Trek.

A made-for-streaming on Paramount+ movie for Star Trek: Picard's proposed spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy, is reportedly under consideration.

Related Star Trek Is Spread Out Across 3 Streaming Services Now - Where To Watch The Star Trek franchise is split across three different streaming services in 2024. Here's where to watch your favorite Star Trek movies and shows.

8 Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The final season of the Star Trek series that began a new Paramount+ era.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is the show's final season. Star Trek: Discovery has a devoted fan base and should always be remembered as the show that saved Star Trek to ignite the franchise's renaissance. However, Discovery is also now an older series - five seasons for a streaming show is a minor miracle in our current TV era - which means it's getting more expensive to produce at a time where streamers are looking to cut costs. This is likely a contributing factor to Paramount+ closing the curtain on Star Trek: Discovery.

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Initially not designed to be the final season, Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is a reset to a more adventurous tone as Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery go on an intergalactic treasure hunt, running afoul of various new aliens adversaries. Reshoots conducted in spring 2023 added a poignant epilogue that brings closure to Star Trek; Discovery. Following its March world premiere at SXSW, Star Trek: Discovery's final 10 episodes are streaming on Paramount+ in April and May 2024.

The two-part series finale of Star Trek: Discovery is directed by Jonathan Frakes and Olatunde Osunsanmi.

7 Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5

The final season premieres fall 2024 on Paramount+.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks is the only other Star Trek series on Paramount+'s 2024 schedule, and it's also delivering its fifth and final season. Mike McMahan's animated comedy was creatively firing full phaser banks in Lower Decks season 4, promoting the Lower Deckers of the USS Cerritos to junior grade Lieutenants, homaging Star Trek: Voyager's "Tuvix," visiting Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's new Ferengi Grand Nagus, and tying Lt. Beckett Mariner's (Tawny Newsome) backstory to the animated show's namesake, the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks". Star Trek: Lower Decks has won over most fans as a definitive and very appreciated part of the Star Trek franchise.

Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid played Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler in live-action in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' comedic crossover episode.

Unfortunately, Paramount+ has opted to end Star Trek: Lower Decks with season 5, which premieres in fall 2024. This comes as a huge disappointment, especially considering how relatively inexpensive Lower Decks is to produce compared to Paramount+'s live-action Star Trek series. While a fan campaign has begun to save Star Trek: Lower Decks, and there is preliminary talk of finding the animated comedy a new steaming home, the best way to boost Star Trek: Lower Decks' profile is to stream the previous four seasons and season 5 when it premieres in great numbers.

6 Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Premiering on Netflix in 2024

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Star Trek: Prodigy rallied ardent fan support to secure Netflix as its new streaming home after Paramount+ unexpectedly canceled the beloved all-ages CGI animated series. Netflix released all 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 on Christmas Day 2023, and it quickly charted in the Top 10 Kids shows, which bodes well for the yet unspecified 2024 release of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2.

The next 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 launch Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the heroic alien teenage crew of the USS Protostar, now Starfleet warrant officers, on a new time travel rescue mission aboard the USS Voyager-A. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 promises to be even more epic and will tap into every other iteration of Star Trek in the franchise.

The Doctor (Robert Picardo) from Star Trek: Voyager joins Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, and he's just one of many surprise guest stars and callbacks.

5 Star Trek: Section 31

The first made-for-streaming on Paramount+ Star Trek movie

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Long discussed as the premise for an ongoing series, the Section 31 project is now set to be the first Star Trek original movie for Paramount+. Star Trek: Section 31 film is said to delve into the origin and secrets of Starfleet's insidious black ops agency. Star Trek: Section 31 will star Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh reprising her anti-heroine Emperor Philippa Georgiou, the former ruler of the Mirror Universe. Once a ruthless despot, Georgiou's time in Star Trek's Prime universe with Michael Burnham taught her compassion, although Georgiou remains crafty and dangerous.

Star Trek: Section 31 wrapped filming in March 2024, and what's revealed about the film indicates it will be set in Star Trek's "lost era" of the 24th century before Star Trek: The Next Generation. Excitingly, Section 31's characters include a young version of Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl), the future Captain of the USS Enterprise-C. Star Trek: Section 31 is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi from a screenplay by Craig Sweeny, and is expected to release in late 2024 or 2025 on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Section 31 is hopefully the first of a new wave of made-for-Paramount+ Star Trek movies to be released every 2 years.

4 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

The next Star Trek TV series is in development at Paramount+

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Another long-gestating project, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was officially announced in early 2023. While details about the YA-aimed series, developed by Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman and Nancy Drew writer Noga Landau, are under wraps, it's confirmed that Starfleet Academy will be set in the post-Star Trek: Discovery 32nd century and will spotlight a diverse assortment of alien and human teenage Cadets, with possible guest starring roles from familiar Discovery faces.

Starfleet Academy will film on the largest set ever built for Star Trek, and will return the school to its original Earth location of San Francisco after the Academy reopened in outer space in Star Trek: Discovery season 3. Kurtzman has also hinted at Starfleet Academy's young characters questioning the decisions and even fixing the mistakes of past Starfleet Officers. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will begin filming in late summer 2024, although the series may not premiere on Paramount+ until 2026.

Star Trek: Lower Decks' Tawny Newsome, a self-described Star Trek "continuity cop," is part of Starfleet Academy's writer's room.

3 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 & 4

Strange New Worlds is getting two more seasons.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 finally began production in December 2023 after being delayed 7 months by the combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The next 10 episodes of Strange New Worlds are slated to film until May 2024. While Strange New Worlds season 3's premiere will pick up and resolve the Gorn cliffhanger of Strange New Worlds season 2 finale, season 3's episodes will see the return of directors Chris Fisher, Valerie Weiss, Dan Liu, Jordan Canning, and Jonathan Frakes, who is directing a Hollywood noir episode.

Jonathan Frakes calls his Strange New Worlds season 3 hour "the best episode of television I've ever done."

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 will debut a new Science Lab set on the USS Enterprise, and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) wears a new hazmat suit in a photo released to promote season 3. Excitingly, Paramount+ gave Star Trek: Strange New Worlds an early season 4 renewal, which essentially makes the series the new flagship of Star Trek on Paramount+ after Star Trek: Discovery bows out. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is expected to premiere on Paramount+ in 2025, although fans want to see the new episodes as soon as possible.

Current/Upcoming Star Trek Series Seasons Streaming Service Star Trek: Discovery 5 Paramount+ Star Trek: Picard 3 Paramount+ Star Trek: Lower Decks 5 Paramount+ Star Trek: Prodigy 2 Netflix Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4 Paramount+ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1 Paramount+

2 Untitled Star Trek Origin Movie

Premiering in theaters in 2025

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Paramount Pictures officially announced an Untitled Star Trek Origin Movie for a targeted 2025 premiere in theaters. Directed by Toby Haynes, who directed Star Wars: Andor and the "USS Callister" episode of Black Mirror, the Star Trek Origin movie is written by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter). The Star Trek Origin Movie is produced by J.J. Abrams and is set "decades before" Abrams' Star Trek (2009). When, exactly, in the Star Trek timeline the origin movie is set, and what characters or starship it will be about, is all under wraps.

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1 Star Trek 4

The final chapter of Chris Pine's Starship Enterprise crew is in development

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Nearly a decade after Star Trek Beyond was released in 2016, Star Trek 4 is seeing progress toward becoming a reality. Billed as the "final chapter" of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, the fourth film about the USS Enterprise led by Chris Pine's Captain James T. Kirk has a new screenwriter in Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant). No director for Star Trek 4 has been named, but fingers are crossed that the Starship Enterprise of the alternate Kelvin Timeline will finally make its big-screen return. Star Trek 4 possibly releasing in 2026 would be an ideal way to mark Star Trek's 60th anniversary.

Every Star Trek series except Star Trek: Prodigy is streaming on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Prodigy is streaming on Netflix

Cast Tawny Newsome , Jack Quaid , dawnn lewis , Noel Wells , Eugene Cordero , Gabrielle Ruiz , Fred Tatasciore , Jerry O'Connell Seasons 5 Streaming Service(s) Paramount+ Franchise(s) Star Trek Writers Mike McMahan Showrunner Mike McMahan Where To Watch Paramount+

Cast Sam Richardson , Omari Hardwick , Robert Kazinsky , Kacey Rohl , Humberly González , Joe Pingue , Michelle Yeoh Franchise(s) Star Trek Writers Craig Sweeney Director Olatunde Osunsanmi Studio(s) CBS Distributor(s) Paramount Pictures