THR: 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Pike and Spock Series Set at CBS All Access

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

CBS All Access is firing up the USS Enterprise.

The streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for Star Trek: Discovery spinoff Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The drama will see Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn reprise their respective Discovery roles as Capt. Christopher Pike, Spock and Number One as the series explores the years the former manned the helm of the Enterprise. The show follows the trio in the decade before Capt. Kirk boarded the Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Alex Kurtzman will oversee the drama, as he does with all things Star Trek for CBS All Access. The series premiere was written by Akiva Goldsman, who collaborated with Discovery bosses Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet on the story. The trio exec produce alongside Henry Alonso Myers, Kurtzman's Secret Hideout topper Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. Aaron Baiers, Akela Cooper and Davy Perez co-exec produce.

"When we said we heard the fans' outpouring of love for Pike, Number One and Spock when they boarded Star Trek: Discovery last season, we meant it," said franchise captain Kurtzman. "These iconic characters have a deep history in Star Trek canon, yet so much of their stories has yet to be told. With Akiva and Henry at the helm, the Enterprise, its crew and its fans are in for an extraordinary journey to new frontiers in the Star Trekuniverse."

Strange New Worlds marks the third live-action scripted Star Trek series and fourth overall for CBS All Access, joining the flagship Discovery, Patrick Stewart vehicle Picard and forthcoming animated series Lower Decks. Another Discovery spinoff — Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh — is also in development for the streamer. A younger-skewing CG-animated series is also in development for CBS All Access corporate sibling Nickelodeon. All of them are exec produced by Kurtzman. Goldsman, it's worth noting, will remain an executive producer and on Picard. All of the series hail from CBS TV Studios, where Kurtzman is under a rich overall deal, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

‘Star Trek’ Pike and Spock Series Set at CBS All Access

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn will reprise their 'Discovery' roles for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' on CBS All Access.

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finally! hit it!

Cross-Section · May 15, 2020

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

The streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for Star Trek: Discovery spinoff Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The drama will see Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn reprise their respective Discovery roles as Capt. Christopher Pike, Spock and Number One as the series explores the years the former manned the helm of the Enterprise. The show follows the trio in the decade before Capt. Kirk boarded the Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Please please please get a better creative team on thi-

Alex Kurtzman will oversee the drama, as he does with all things Star Trek for CBS All Access

Oh godfucking damnit

SirMossyBloke · May 15, 2020

Oh fuck yeah. If this sticks to the same style as Disc S2 it should be great.

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

Mezentine said:
Please please please get a better creative team on thi-

Oh godfucking damnit

He's in charge of all of Trek so he oversees everything

Rassilon · May 15, 2020

Mezentine said:
Please please please get a better creative team on thi-

Oh godfucking damnit

this is some monkey paw bullshit

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

Stop. Hiring. Kurtzman.

Deleted member 8860 · May 15, 2020

The Enterprise crew was the best part of Disco S2. Looking forward to this.

DrEvil · May 15, 2020

Excellent News.

thecowboypoet · May 15, 2020

Nice, Alex Kurtzman has done a great job with Discovery, I'm excited to see more Pike and Spock.

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

I will say if they stick to the "modern interpretation of the classic Enterprise interior design" I'll watch this purely for the fanservice so fuck it, I guess they got me

kadotsu · May 15, 2020

So many ancient evils to discover.

Bus-TEE · May 15, 2020

Three big swings at new Trek seasons from Kurtzman and three misses.

I have no reason to think that this would be any different.

However Anson Mount was excellent as Pike so I'll probably check out at least the first episode of this.

*sigh *

Slayven · May 15, 2020

I want some future track. 50-100 years post Voyager or Picard. That way the sets and sfx makes sense.

Seriously them having touch screens before Kirk and Archer fucks with my "will actually" nerd bone

JonnyDBrit · May 15, 2020

If Kurtzman can restrain the urge to do some season spanning save the galaxy shit, I'm in.

If he can't, I'm still mostly in, but dammit I know I'm likely gonna be disappointed with where that sub-plot goes, whatever it is

Cross-Section · May 15, 2020

I will say Picard made me realize how much I actually enjoyed Discovery by the end there, so I'm in.

Pluto · May 15, 2020

Mezentine said:
Please please please get a better creative team on thi-

Oh godfucking damnit

He has done a pretty good job so far imo, I love Discovery and Picard was good even if it had flaws.

Fliesen · May 15, 2020

thecowboypoet said:
Nice, Alex Kurtzman has done a great job with Discovery, I'm excited to see more Pike and Spock.

I completely agree.

Didn't like Picard, but Discovery, and Mount's portrayal of Pike were completely up my alley.

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

Slayven said:
I want some future track. 50-100 years post Voyager or Picard. That way the sets and sfx makes sense.

Seriously them having touch screens before Kirk and Archer fucks with my "will actually" nerd bone

that's gonna be Star Trek discovery s3

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

JonnyDBrit said:
If Kurtzman can restrain the urge to do some season spanning save the galaxy shit, I'm in.

If he can't, I'm still mostly in, but dammit I know I'm likely gonna be disappointed with where that sub-plot goes, whatever it is

I guarantee someone will be special because of their blood, literal or metaphorical

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

Slayven said:
I want some future track. 50-100 years post Voyager or Picard. That way the sets and sfx makes sense.

Seriously them having touch screens before Kirk and Archer fucks with my "will actually" nerd bone

Do we have any idea what Discovery S3 actually is so far? Its been my hope that it will be exactly this

VorpalNonsense · May 15, 2020

FINALLY
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS
I"M IN

Duffking · May 15, 2020

I didn't love or hate Discovery but good lord did Picard make me realise how much worse it could have been. I don't have high hopes for this at all though, it needs a big shift in leadership. Shame they can't get someone like Simon Pegg as a showrunner.

Serebii · May 15, 2020

About time

Gambit · May 15, 2020

Instantly my "most wanted" Trek series now. Loved Pike in Discovery, Spock was ok, and Number 1 was promising.

Still a bit disappointed about Picard, though. That was supposed to be "it" for me!

Elegant Weapon · May 15, 2020

ok cool but when does Disco Season 3 premier? I'm trying to be patient but I've been ready

I like Pike but didn't LOVE him like so many other people but I'm really interested in seeing more of Number One, Spock and that dope Enterprise set

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

Gambit said:
Still a bit disappointed about Picard, though. That was supposed to be "it" for me!

Picard is why I'm worried about this. The worst Kurtzmanisms combined with the worst trends of modern serialized storytelling. If this ends up more like Discovery I'll be happier

Perkin_Warbeck · May 15, 2020

We had no Star Trek on tv for over 10 years, now we have three shows! I enjoyed both Discovery and Picard so I expect I'll like this.

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

Elegant Weapon said:
ok cool but when does Disco Season 3 premier? I'm trying to be patient but I've been ready

I like Pike but didn't LOVE him like so many other people but I'm really interested in seeing more of Number One, Spock and that dope Enterprise set

I believe they are waiting for the music to be recorded for discovery s3 and that might take a while because of the way the world is

imbarkus · May 15, 2020

I'd be down for something a bit more episodic. This sounds like a nice setup for that, and a chance for the creative team to return to some classic format a bit.

It'd be kind of ironic if this new totally serialized batch of Trek was invigorated by an episodic series. Kind of the mirror image of what happened last time with DS9.

Bigkrev · May 15, 2020

I'm just happy that I will have such a deep backlog of Star Trek to watch whenever they retire CBS All Access and roll it into a HBO Max type subscription with Showtime

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

Bigkrev said:
I'm just happy that I will have such a deep backlog of Star Trek to watch whenever they retire CBS All Access and roll it into a HBO Max type subscription with Showtime

hopefully that happens soon

Lucreto · May 15, 2020

Excellent news.

I am loving all this new Trek.

Deleted member 1478 · May 15, 2020

Looking forward to giving this a watch. I really liked them in Discovery.

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

Spectromixer said:
I believe they are waiting for the music to be recorded for discovery s3 and that might take a while because of the way the world is

Score the entire thing with tracks from TOS. Boom. Done.

Star Trek background music.

Audio rights goes to Paramount and Gene Roddenberry.

youtu.be

Elegant Weapon · May 15, 2020

Spectromixer said:
I believe they are waiting for the music to be recorded for discovery s3 and that might take a while because of the way the world is

I know... I'm just being impatient lol

It'd be nice if they dropped the entire season to binge instead of making us wait to watch new episodes weekly

Mezentine said:
Score the entire thing with tracks from TOS. Boom. Done.

Star Trek background music.

Audio rights goes to Paramount and Gene Roddenberry.

youtu.be

2) Put that shit on CBS All Access
3) Profit

Make it so

WillyFive · May 15, 2020

Need more new stuff, enough with the prequels.

Gambit · May 15, 2020

Mezentine said:
Picard is why I'm worried about this. The worst Kurtzmanisms combined with the worst trends of modern serialized storytelling. If this ends up more like Discovery I'll be happier

Totally agree with you. The meandering pace of Peak-TV is really grating when it's not done by the Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan and David Chase's of this world.

But I always find myself optimistic again at the time of such announcements.

Spectromixer · May 15, 2020

woo!!! hit it!

imbarkus · May 15, 2020

Bigkrev said:
I'm just happy that I will have such a deep backlog of Star Trek to watch whenever they retire CBS All Access and roll it into a HBO Max type subscription with Showtime

Just add CBS as a channel through Prime. Great streaming quality for Trek, plus 30 years of The Young and the Restless!

But seriously. Artists charge for content, can we get over that yet?

JonnyDBrit · May 15, 2020

Mezentine said:
Do we have any idea what Discovery S3 actually is so far? Its been my hope that it will be exactly this

Season 3 is, per the ending of season 2, set

950 years after Discovery seasons 1-2 took place - aka, around the start of the 33rd century. The Federation has apparently all but fallen apart, reduced to a rump state, though this is by inference of the flag in the trailer

Bigkrev · May 15, 2020

imbarkus said:
Just add CBS as a channel through Prime. Great streaming quality for Trek, plus 30 years of The Young and the Restless!

But seriously. Artists charge for content, can we get over that yet?

But I already can stream all of start trek on Prime without needing a CBS Subscription!
I get that Artists have to charge for content, but CBS is asking for $10 a month and there is literally nothing else on their service

CD_93 · May 15, 2020

Printing money with this. Mount is outstanding.

gofreak · May 15, 2020

Here for this. Mount's Pike is so extremely charismatic.

imbarkus · May 15, 2020

JonnyDBrit said:
If Kurtzman can restrain the urge to do some season spanning save the galaxy shit, I'm in.

If he can't, I'm still mostly in, but dammit I know I'm likely gonna be disappointed with where that sub-plot goes, whatever it is

Blame the Kelvin movies for making six times the revenue of anything else with the name on it. But yes, your post is accurate to my response as well. I'm hoping for episodic, maybe a few plot threads from season to season TNG style or some two-and-three part épica like Manny Coto's Enterprise. Guess we'll see, won't we? ;)

Mezentine · May 15, 2020

Bigkrev said:
But I already can stream all of start trek on Prime without needing a CBS Subscription!
I get that Artists have to charge for content, but CBS is asking for $10 a month and there is literally nothing else on their service

I for one feel that they provide a very robust catalog. Why just the other night I was watching The Twilight Zone, followed by the 1960s Mission Impossible show! I can't count the number of good shows on one hand

UnknownSpirit · May 15, 2020

Mount's Pike is the best Pike.

I will watch for him and seeing the Enterprise again.

imbarkus · May 15, 2020

Bigkrev said:
But I already can stream all of start trek on Prime without needing a CBS Subscription!
I get that Artists have to charge for content, but CBS is asking for $10 a month and there is literally nothing else on their service

How many new Star Trek series are worth $10 a month appears to be the operative question. Unless you're also a fan of The Mentalist. It is nice having 60 Minutes on demand.

I let my mom watch Y&R and Bold and the Beautiful through my login when DirectTV and CBS had a contract dispute, too.

I waste $10 a month on dumber shit, guaranteed. I spend that in Steam games I never launch, for sure.

SolidSnakeUS · May 15, 2020

Good shit. This should be a really good trio for a new show. The new Pike is so damn good.

19thCenturyFox · May 15, 2020

This has serious potential and I love the Enterprise sets in Discovery Season 2 more than I love anything in the franchise since TNG has ended. One of my biggest questions is whether they will have Dr Boyce from the original pilot as a regular on the show. The dynamic between him an Pike was really interesting.

I mean just look at that...

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