8 Harsh Realities For Fans

Regardless of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, 2025 was a bumpy 12 months for Star Trek as followers proceed to deal with a number of harsh realities about our favourite sci-fi franchise. Star Trek is sort of 60 years outdated and has seen a number of levels of ‘deaths’ adopted by superb rebirths.

2025 has been someplace in between. The 12 months started with promise, regardless of a vastly decreased output of recent content material on Paramount+. Star Trek solely had one film, Star Trek: Part 31, and one season of TV, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, in 2025.

Neither Star Trek: Part 31 nor Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3 lived as much as all the pieces followers hoped for. Nonetheless, 2026 appears brighter. Star Trek is fueled by optimism, and there are indicators that Star Trek‘s sixtieth anniversary 12 months might reinvigorate the franchise.

New York Comedian Con in October will offer a glimpse of Star Trek‘s 60th year celebrations by hyping up Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1 and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 4.

Within the meantime, nonetheless, Star Trek followers carry on enduring the next harsh realities as 2025 winds down.

Star Trek’s New Reveals Don’t Have Sufficient Episodes

Maybe the commonest and frequent lament from Star Trek followers is that there merely isn’t sufficient new Star Trek on tv. Paramount+ mandates a 10-episode season for its streaming Star Trek sequence, which is out of the creators’ palms.

10 episodes for series like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is not sufficient, contemplating the present’s large forged and episodic format, which might lend itself to a extra ample exploration of characters and alien planets with basic Star Trek’s 22-26 episode construction.

Sadly, Paramount+ exhibits no indication of accelerating Star Trek‘s 10-episode-per-season format. Sadly, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5 would be the first Star Trek season to clock in at solely 6 episodes for its last run on Paramount+.

Paramount+ Canceled Nearly Each New Star Trek Present

2024’s disheartening Star Trek cancellations rolled over into 2025. Though three Star Trek sequence aired in 2024 – Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, and Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 – it additionally ended up being the ultimate season of all three exhibits.

Star Trek: Discovery was originally expected to run for seven seasons just like the Nineteen Nineties Star Trek exhibits executive-produced by Rick Berman, however Paramount+ unexpectedly canceled Star Trek: Discovery, making season 5 its last season earlier than granting Disco an prolonged sequence finale.

Star Trek: Prodigy was canceled by and purged from Paramount+ in 2023 earlier than a passionate fan marketing campaign introduced Netflix to the rescue.

Though Star Trek: Prodigy seasons 1 and a pair of, totaling 40 half-hour episodes, streamed on Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service did not order extra episodes, which successfully ended the beloved animated sequence.

Star Trek: Decrease Decks additionally ended with season 5, regardless of the present being comparatively cheap to provide and having the potential to run for a lot of extra years. Plus, Star Trek: Lower Decks starred Jack Quaid, a bona fide film star who additionally occurs to like Star Trek.

In comparison with the fantastic 12 months of 2022, when five Star Trek series streamed a brand new episode on Paramount+ each Thursday for nearly the complete 12 months, 2025 appeared destitute regardless of Star Trek: Part 31 and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3.

10 12 months Wait (And Counting) For New Star Trek Films

2025 marked 12 months 9 with none new Star Trek theatrical films. Regardless of repeated guarantees that Star Trek 4, the fourth outing of J.J. Abrams’ Starship Enterprise crew, would occur, and the forged’s publicly said need to return, no film has materialized.

In 2024, Paramount introduced a Star Trek Origins prequel film directed by Toby Haynes would hit theaters in 2025 or 2026. The previous did not occur and there is no probability of this movie arriving in theaters for Star Trek‘s sixtieth anniversary in 2026, both.

Skydance Media’s acquisition of Paramount International got here with guarantees to make Star Trek – and Star Trek films – a precedence for the studio. Earlier than the merger, X-Males producer Simon Kinberg was employed because the czar overseeing new Star Trek films.

Maybe 2026 will lastly see an announcement for a Star Trek film that may really then go into manufacturing and be launched in theaters, however as 2025 involves an in depth, Star Trek followers have ample motive to stay uncertain.

Star Trek Nonetheless Can’t Get Primetime Emmys Recognition

Star Wars: Andor season 2 acquired a number of Primetime Emmy Award nominations in 2025 and gained the prize for Excellent Writing in a Drama Collection. It is a feat no model of Star Trek has completed, regardless of producing over 900 episodes of high quality tv for nearly 60 years.

An Emmy marketing campaign for the critically lauded Star Trek: Picard season 3 in 2023 disappointingly did not garner arguably the very best season of Paramount+’s Star Trek franchise a coveted Primetime Emmy nomination.

Star Trek has gained many technical and Inventive Arts Emmy Awards, but essentially the most prestigious prizes in tv proceed to elude even the very best choices from Star Trek on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Part 31 Was An Epic Disappointment

The shortage of recent Star Trek theatrical films quickly stung much less because of the arrival of made-for-streaming Star Trek films on Paramount+, which probably provided new prospects.

Sadly, the primary and solely Star Trek streaming film, Star Trek: Section 31, was thought-about a dud by most Star Trek followers upon its premiere in January 2025.

A generic sci-fi actioner with merely a Star Trek sheen, Part 31 was a disappointing comeback for Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou.

Though Star Trek: Part 31‘s streaming scores had been respectable, Paramount Skydance’s new regime introduced it has no real interest in extra Star Trek streaming films, successfully turning Part 31 into a wierd outlier within the franchise.

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3 Was Problematic After A 2-12 months Wait

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was the one nice hope for Star Trek followers in 2025, because it was already the preferred live-action Star Trek on Paramount+ present with Trekkies and mainstream audiences.

As a result of mixed WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3 was delayed for 2 years. Premiering in June 2025, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3 offered its uncompromising imaginative and prescient of exploring various kinds of genres.

By the again half of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3, nonetheless, Star Trek followers began to insurgent, casting blame like ‘an excessive amount of comedy’ and ‘not sufficient Star Trek‘ at season 3’s dedication to being as entertaining as potential.

Whereas it is exhausting to argue in opposition to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 having problems, it additionally delivered crowd-pleasing episodes like “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” and “Terrarium.” Nonetheless, many Star Trek followers felt season 3 wasn’t definitely worth the two-year wait.

Star Trek’s Future Is Hopeful, However Unclear

Star Trek followers in 2025 can solely look forward with hope in the direction of 2026 and Star Trek‘s sixtieth anniversary, which will probably be marked by the premiere of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s well-received teaser trailer at San Diego Comedian-Con delivered a primary look that provided sufficient tantalizing sights to offset the truth that it is partly a sequel to the much less well-liked Star Trek: Discovery.

But Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will arrive with plenty of positives, like a scorching younger forged led by Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter and Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti, in addition to the live-action return of Robert Picardo as The Physician from Star Trek: Voyager.

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 4 appears to be like to maneuver previous season 3’s missteps and ship extra character-driven, episodic Star Trek that harkens again to the exploratory spirit of Star Trek: The Unique Collection, which Unusual New Worlds will hyperlink as much as when it ends in season 5.

Star Trek Day in September 2025 introduced many new partnerships to ring in Star Trek‘s 60th year in 2026, together with a float on the Rose Bowl Parade and a fan-pleasing partnership with LEGO.

Nonetheless, the true hope for Star Trek followers lies in what Paramount International might announce in 2026, reminiscent of possible new Star Trek shows or new films. Whether or not that may include a brand new inventive imaginative and prescient after 10 years of stewardship by Alex Kurtzman and Secret Hideout is anybody’s guess.

2025 lacked concrete guarantees for the way forward for Star Trek, however 2026 appears to be like to actually start Paramount Skydance’s imaginative and prescient of what is subsequent for the ultimate frontier.

Star Trek: Legacy Most likely Received’t Occur (The Approach Followers Hoped For)

2025 marked two years of fans demanding Star Trek: Legacy, the proposed spinoff arrange by the ending of Star Trek: Picard season 3, and getting nothing in return however disappointment.

In 2025, Star Trek: Picard season 3’s showrunner and Star Trek: Legacy’s mastermind, Terry Matalas, executive-produced and filmed Imaginative and prescient Quest for Marvel Studios. With an more and more full dance card of initiatives, the window for Matalas returning to Star Trek is quickly closing.

But Star Trek: Legacy stays essentially the most requested and hoped for brand spanking new Star Trek challenge, and its potential forged, like Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, and Ed Speleers, proceed to be vocal about their need to guide the brand new voyages of the USS Enterprise-G.

There’s hope that Paramount Skydance’s new management might see the potential of Star Trek: Legacy and greenlight it, finally. Whether or not Star Trek: Legacy could possibly be an ongoing TV sequence, or a theatrical film, or whether or not it might have Terry Matalas overseeing it creatively, stays unknown.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds are solely assured two extra seasons on Paramount+, and each could possibly be over by 2027. What occurs after that may hopefully be a brand new renaissance for Star Trek that may go away the sturm und drang of Star Trek followers in 2025 behind for good.

Launch Date

Could 5, 2022

Community

Paramount+

Showrunner

Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman