Star Trek Universe had a big panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, as we got exciting news from Star Trek: Section 31, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
You can check out all the big news below, including a first look at Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31, Star Trek: Voyager’s Doctor and more reprising their roles for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a clip from Strange New World’s third season of the crew turning into Vulcans, and a teaser trailer and premiere date for Lower Decks’ fifth and final season.
Star Trek: Section 31 Teaser Shows Michelle Yeoh Back In Action as Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Paramount+ revealed the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Section 31, its upcoming original movie starring Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou.
Yeoh first appeared as Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, and this movie will see her joining a secret division of Starfleet called Section 31 to protect the United Federation of Planets. However, she will also have to “face the sins of her past,” which are many.
Joining Yeoh will be also stars Omari Hardwick (Power), Kacey Rohl (Hannibal), Emmy-winner Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso), Sven Ruygrok (One Piece), Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim), Humberly Gonzalez (Ginny & Georgia) and James Hiroyuki Liao (Barry).
For those unfamiliar, Discovery saw her portray both Starfleet Captain Philipa Georgiou and a brutal and cunning emperor from a parallel universe where a xenophobic militaristic humanity was running the show. After the Starfleet Captain version met her end, the Emperor version was convinced to come to the other universe and act as her other self.
We will also get to see another version of the character, as the trailer showed a first look at a young Philippa Georgiou played by Kate’s Miku Martineau.
A New Star Trek Live-Action Comedy Is In the Works From Justin Simien and Tawny Newsome
A new Star Trek live-action comedy is in the works from Justin Semien and Tawny Newsome, where “Federation Outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Adds Tig Notaro, Oded Fehr, Mary Wiseman, and Robert Picardo To Its Cast
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is set to begin production in August 2024, and Paramount+ celebrated this moment by sharing a few of the legacy Star Trek castmembers that will join the roster of the upcoming series.
Tig Notaro will once again play Star Trek: Discovery’s Jett Reno as a series regular, and she will be joined by Robert Picardo, who will reprise his role as The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager. While they aren’t series regulars, Oded Fehr and Mary Wiseman will have guest starring roles as Star Trek: Discovery’s Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly, respectively.
These cast members will join the previously annonuced additions of Holly Hunter and guest stars Gina Yashere and Paul Giamatti.
“STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy,” the official description reads. “The series will introduce viewers to this young group of cadets as they come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.”
As for these new cadets, you can watch the heartwarming video of Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner finding out they got the roles of their dreams in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy right here or above.
Star Trek: Stange New Worlds Season 3 Clip Shows Members of the Enterprise Turning Into Vulcans
While fans will have to wait until 2025 for Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Paramount+ has helped with the wait at SDCC with an extended clip of a scene from a new episode.
In the clip, Captain Pike, Christine Chapel, La’an Noonien-Singh, Nyota Uhura, and Pelia are given a Kerkhovian Serum to turn them into Vulcans for a mission. While it doesn’t work for Pelia, the other four succesfully transform and remind Spock he is only half Vulcan. They quickly complete their mission, but soon after discover the serum is not turning them back.
It was also revealed at Star Trek’s SDCC panel that In From the Cold’s Dr. Roger Korby will be joining the fun in Season 3 as a guest star. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Michael Strong first played him in Star Trek: The Original Series.
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Final Season Gets a New Trailer and Two-Episode Premiere Date
Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending after its next season, and Paramount+ released a new trailer for the animated series at SDCC. Furthermore, it was revealed that this fifth and final season will debut on Thursday, October 24, with two episodes. After that, a new episode will drop each week until the finale airs on Thursday, December 19.
As for what Season 5 will be about, Paramount+ has shared a bit about what fans can expect.
“In season five of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing ‘space potholes’ – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant,” the official description reads. “Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…if they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. This upcoming season on Paramount+ is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles.”
