Star Trek Universe Updates From Comic-Con
Paramount+ and CBS Studios returned to San Diego for this year’s Comic-Con International, with a Star Trek Universe Hall H panel that celebrated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, and more.
Announcements from today’s panel, moderated by entertainment journalist Scott Mantz, included the following:
The panel kicked off with a franchise 60th anniversary celebration, featuring opening remarks from Rod Roddenberry and a conversation with iconic cast members spanning the Star Trek universe, including Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo, Dominic Keating, Cirroc Lofton, Doug Jones, Michelle Hurd, Jerry O’Connell, Christina Chong, Karim Diané, and the legendary George Takei.
Panelist and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy star Karim Diané exclusively revealed during the conversation that a new cadet will be joining the Academy. Ruaridh Aldington joins season two of Starfleet Academy as a series regular, playing Keats, a young alien our cadets encounter on an away mission who possesses a mysterious backstory.
When the cadets make the risky decision to bring him back to Starfleet Academy, they realize he’s a wanted man, and his life is in danger.
During the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds panel portion, co-showrunner and executive producer Akiva Goldsman revealed a sneak peek teaser, with the Hall H crowd being the first to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise for the rest of the fourth season.
The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds panelists included Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Paul Wesley, alongside co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
Additionally, Mantz revealed in Hall H that the second season (30 episodes, three minutes each) of the original animated YouTube-first series, Star Trek: Scouts, will debut this year on Star Trek Day (September 8).
As the first preschool extension of the Star Trek franchise, the series follows three 8-year-old friends, JR, Sprocket and Roo, as they train to become future Starfleet Explorers by going on epic, out-of-this-world missions that push them to “discover, grow and boldly go!”
Star Trek: Scouts is developed and produced by Nickelodeon Digital Studio, in association with CBS Studios. Season one is available now on Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines YouTube channel.
