First up, Captain Pike will return for the Season Two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which will be released on 15 June 2023.

Season two of Strange New Worlds includes the previously announced special crossover episode featuring both live-action and animation, and Lower Decks’ Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler joining the U.S.S. Enterprise. The episode was directed by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard actor and director Jonathan Frakes.

That’s not all, Strange New Worlds has also been renewed for 10-episode Season Three! Hit it!

Next, we’re going to be rejoining our favourite gang from the lower deckes – Ensigns Boimler, Mariner, Tendi and Rutherfood – for a fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which will be released this summer.

Plus we’re getting more animated action as the series has been renewed for Season Five, with 10 episodes commissioned.

“Season 4 this summer! Season 5 being written now!” Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan wrote on Twitter after the announcement. “Lower Decks! Lower Decks!

“In Season Four of Star Trek: Lower Decks, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galatic peace,” McMahan further teased. “Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S Cerritos isn’t important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and Provisional Ensign T’Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolant computers, and getting stuck in a couple caves – all while encountering new and classic aliens along the way…”

That’s not all, for the kids (and adult kids), Star Trek: Prodigy will also be returning to our screens for Season Two, which will be heading our way this winter.

“That’s right — more Star Trek: Prodigy coming in 2023!” Prodigy writer Aaron J. Waltke Tweeted. “Season 2. 20 episodes. Wild surprises. Some of the boldest storytelling we’ve done yet, with familiar faces and new ones. Be sure to spread the word — now is the time to catch up! More viewership means more Trek.”

As previously announced, the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discover will premiere in early 2024.

Psst: Want to catch up with the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds? We’re giving away THREE copies of Season One on Blu-ray with our latest competition!

Simply click here and answer the question to be in with a chance! Don’t delay, this competition closes on 6 April. Good luck!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Two will be out on Paramount + on 15 June 2023, Lower Decks Season Four will be out this summer and Prodigy will be released this winter.

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Listen up Trekkies! Paramount+’s Star Trek Day returns for the third time this September and will include back-to-back conversations with casts from across the Star Trek universe, live performances, exclusive news from Star Trek Original Series on Paramount+, a special tribute to Nichelle Nichols and more.

The global live-streamed event, which will be streamed from the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, will take place on Thursday, 8 September at 12pm PT/8pm BST and can be streamed directly from YouTube here.

On 8 September 1966, Star Trek debuted for the first time on television with ‘The Man Trap’, the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Fifty-six years later, this important day and the franchise’s enduring legacy is honoured with the Star Trek Day celebration, providing fans with a memorable way to enjoy and celebrate all things Star Trek.

Here are some of the things you can expect from this year’s Star Trek Day…

Star Trek Day live-streamed celebration

Join Paramount+ and co-hosts Tawny Newsome (Star Trek: Lower Decks) and Paul F. Tompkins (Star Trek: Lower Decks), co-hosts of ‘Star Trek: The Pod Directive’ for two hours of free live-streamed conversations and programming that will unite iconic cast members from the television series as they gather in person to celebrate Star Trek, with a few surprises along the way.

The event will kick off live from the red carpet with co-hosts Jackie Cox (RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Mary Chieffo (Star Trek: Discovery) interviewing “Star Trek” cast members from past to present.

The conversations will include the casts from the following “Star Trek” television series:

• Star Trek: Picard with series stars Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks, with voice cast members Tawny Newsome, Noël Wells and Dawnn Lewis.
• Star Trek: Prodigy with series voice cast including Brett Gray and Kate Mulgrew.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds with series stars Rebecca Romijn, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia and Babs Olusanmokun.

Additional programming also includes:

• Nichelle Nichols Tribute, featuring a special video to honor the impact and influence of Nichelle Nichols.
• Behind-the-scenes set tour of Star Trek: Discovery with Wilson Cruz from Toronto, as he provides fans with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at filming season five of the hit original series, along with appearances from Sonequa Martin-Green and other cast members.
• Put On Your Best Face where a fan will be transformed into a Star Trek alien by a series make-up artist.
• Star Trek Cosplay Runway, hosted by Jackie Cox, fans will strut the runway in their finest “Star Trek” cosplay.

Fans worldwide will be able to live-stream the “Star Trek Day” celebration for free at the Star Trek Day website and on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.

After their initial airing, the conversation portions of the event will be available on-demand on Paramount+.

Star Trek Augmented Reality Delta Portals

Star Trek Day will also be celebrated with a one-of-a-kind opportunity for fans around the world with the debut of in-person Star Trek” Augmented Reality Delta Portals. The Delta Portals will be set up for a limited time in select cities internationally from Wednesday, Sept. 7 to Thursday, Sept 8. Each location will have three Star Trek Deltas, each seven feet tall and featuring QR codes that, when scanned on Instagram, transform the objects into mixed-reality portals that bring the user into the world of Star Trek.

Each augmented reality experience will be based on a current Star Trek series, featuring fully 3D alien planets, classic starships and iconic characters as they interact with both the virtual and physical worlds.

U.S. Locations:

• Los Angeles: The Grove
• New York: Hudson Yards
• Chicago: Water Tower Place

International Locations:

• London, United Kingdom: Science Museum
• São Paulo, Brazil: Shopping Cidade São Paulo (Note: Brazil dates are Thursday, Sept. 8 to Friday, Sept. 9)
• Melbourne, Australia: Federation Square

There’s also plenty more besides for Star Trek Day including the #StarTrekUnitedGives campaign, as well as a special merchandise sale (use the code “STARTREKDAY” for 20% off sitewide here)

Star Trek Day will be taking place on 8 September. Find out more here.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Season One is available now on Blu-ray and DVD from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. To celebrate, we’re giving away a very special copy of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season On on Blu-ray signed by the show’s Emmy® Award winning creator Mike McMahan to one lucky winner!

The must-have collection is packed with hours of exclusive special features, the highlight of which is ‘Lower Decktionary,’ a multi-part exploration of the series’ music, art design, animation process and more. Plus, the collection features exclusive interviews with the voice cast, deleted scenes and a fan-forward exploration of the series’ many Easter eggs.

From two-time Emmy® Award winning creator Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty) and executive produced by Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Discovery), Star Trek: Lower Decks Season One is the first animated Star Trek series in almost 50 years.

It focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome, Space Force), Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid, The Boys), Ensign Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero, Kong: Skull Island) and Ensign D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells, Master of None) have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

The Starfleet characters that comprise the ship’s bridge crew include Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis, The Rich & the Ruthless); Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War); Lieutenant Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms); and Doctor T’Ana (Gillian Vigman, Roswell, New Mexico).

The Blu-ray and DVD of Season One offer fans all ten episodes from the debut season and nearly two hours of exclusive special features including:

• Crisis Point: The Rise Of Vindicta Trailer (Exclusive) – An exclusive, over-the-top action trailer based on the in-episode movie from “Crisis Point.”
• Faces Of The Fleet – A deep dive into the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos, alongside producers, writers and the cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Highlighting character backstories and the behind-the-scenes development of their hilarious on-screen personalities, this exclusive featurette takes a look at Ensigns Beckett Mariner, Ensign Brad Boimler, Ensign Samanthan Rutherford, Ensign D’Vana Tendi and more.
• Hiding In Plain Sight (Exclusive) – An inside look at canon and hidden Easter eggs throughout the series, including freeze frame images and insightful commentary from producers, creatives and cast.
• Lower Decktionary 
• Joining Starfleet (Episode 101) (Exclusive) – Producers and crew discuss the development of season one from storyline to visual artistry.
• Aliens Among Us (Episode 102) (Exclusive) – Dives into the different aliens Ensigns Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner encounter as they escort K’orin to the Tulgana 4 planet.
• The Animation Process Episode 103) (Exclusive) – A look at the efficiency and creativity needed to put together an episode of “Lower Decks” in this other-worldly look at the animation process.
• The Main Titles (Episode 104) (Exclusive) – Immersed in the creation of the episode’s title sequence, the featurette explores the graphic design and thematic music developed for Lower Decks.
• Art Design (Episode 105) (Exclusive) – A look at characters’ style and the sets that elevate the animated on-screen adventures of the U.S.S. Cerritos.
• The Holodeck (Episode 106) (Exclusive) – Including interviews with cast and creatives, the featurette highlights what Holodeck experience they would like, how characters use it, and how it’s not only used for skills training, but sanity.
• Division  14 (Episode 107) (Exclusive) – Not everything goes right for Starfleet – catch up with Division 14 who is tasked with dealing with all the unexpected mishaps.
• Deck Dynamics (Episode 108) (Exclusive) – A dive into the upper and lower deck dynamics, and how their comedic interactions contribute to the storyline throughout season one.
• The Music Of Lower Decks (Episode 109) (Exclusive) – Star Trek music is iconic. Explore how traditional themes have been integrated into Lower Decks and the episode’s in-story movie in this deep dive into the differences of scoring for animation versus live action, and comedy versus drama.
• All In The Family (Episode 110) – As the debut comes to a close, fans can take a look at evolution of the crew and their relationships over the last year, and how Lower Decks fits into the Star Trek family as a few legacy characters appear.
• Full length animatic
• Deleted animatics (exclusive)

See more details about the home media release here.

Want to be in with a chance of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season One on Blu-ray with all of the extra features above PLUS signed by creator Mike McMahan? Answer the simple question below…

This competition closes on 15 December so get those answers in now!

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Ones available on Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray SteelBook® now! Read our review of Season One here.

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Fancy heading back to the U.S.S. Cerritos to hang out with Boimler and the gang down at the lower decks? Well, good news everyone, the second season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be back on our screens this summer!

Check out the trailer…

Developed by Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty), Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

Star Trek: Lower Decks features the voice talents of Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noël Wells, (Wander Over Yonder), Eugene Cordero (The Good Place), Dawnn Lewis (iZombie), Jerry O’Connell (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War), and Gillian Vigman (Aliens in the Attic).

The second season of the series will comprise of ten episodes and will roll out weekly, with the Season Two finale dropping on Friday 15 October. Read our review of Season One here.

Star Trek: Lower Decks will launch on Friday 13 August on Amazon Prime Video.

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We’re very excited about this! Amazon Prime Video has announced that it will be the home of the new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks in the UK and it will be coming to our screens in the new year!

Check out the hilarious trailer below…

Developed by Emmy Award-winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty), Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

Star Trek: Lower Decks features the voice talents of Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noël Wells, (Wander Over Yonder), Eugene Cordero (The Good Place), Dawnn Lewis (iZombie), Jerry O’Connell (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War), Fred Tatasciore (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge) and Gillian Vigman (Aliens in the Attic).

The series also includes special cameos by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard actors Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as well as John de Lancie as Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

All ten episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will launch on Friday 22 January 2021 on Prime Video.

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