Recently, Paramount+ announced that their hit series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would end after a five-season run. They announced this news ahead of the third season premiere in July, which seemed baffling to fans. Even if they knew internally at Paramount the show would end at season five, why announce it nearly two years early? Well, at a recent appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Strange New Worlds showrunner Akiva Goldsman seemed to hint strongly that while Strange New Worlds might be ending, it could be leading to a sort of reboot of Star Trek: The Original Series. Here’s what Goldsman had to say, via TrekMovie:
Right now [the characters] are in mid-stage development. How do they become who they are? What happens to some of them? Those are questions that we knew we needed to answer and promised to answer. And so that’s our five-year plan. And then we run into TOS. [Switching to conspiratorial tone] But they’re not dying. And we have those sets…”
Time to put our Trekkie tin-foil hats on. First off, next year is the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. There’s no new movie on the horizon, at least not in time for next year. The Starfleet Academy series will likely premiere in 2026, but that doesn’t seem like something big enough for a milestone anniversary. However, announcing a revival/reboot/prequel to the original series that started it all? That will get a lot of attention. Strange New Worlds already has a lot of the TOS cast of characters introduced already. Spock, Kirk, Uhura, Scotty, Chapel, M’Benga are already in place. All they really need now is Bones and Sulu, as Chekov didn’t appear until TOS season 2.
And then, there’s the William Shatner of it all. Recently, the iconic original Captain Kirk actor said Paramount had approached him for something Star Trek-related. Yes, we know Kirk died in Star Trek: Generations, but Picard season 3 broadly hinted at a resurrection. What if it’s an elder Kirk in his twilight years, dictating his early adventures as Enterprise captain, with the younger Strange New Worlds cast in those roles? The return of Shatner in any capacity to Trek is headline-making. The original Star Trek was a five-year mission, but we only saw three years of it. A new reboot/prequel could chronicle those early adventures. As Goldsman said, they have all the existing sets and most of the characters already cast.
We have no idea if any of this will happen, but some of it at least seems likely. Most fans would prefer a full fifth season of Strange New Worlds, and then a sixth and seventh. But in the streaming era, five seasons seems like the max any series runs for. Streamers gain new subscribers based almost entirely on new projects, and not new seasons of longer-running shows. Long gone are the days when networks shelled out millions for ninth and tenth seasons of hits like Friends and The X-Files to retain viewers. Since a new iteration of classic Star Trek might bring more eyeballs to Paramount+ than season six of Strange New Worlds, don’t be surprised if our theories prove true.
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