San Diego Comic-Con 2024 featured a huge Star Trek Universe panel, revealing exciting news from Star Trek: Section 31, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Below, you can check out all the big news, including a first look at Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31, other actors reprising their roles as the Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a clip of the crew transforming into Vulcans in season three of Strange New Worlds, and a teaser trailer and premiere date for the fifth and final season of Lower Decks.
Michelle Yeoh reprises role as Empress Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31 trailer
Paramount+ has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming original film Star Trek: Section 31, starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh as Empress Philippa Georgiou.
Yeoh first appeared in Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 as Georgiou, who joins Starfleet’s secretive Section 31 unit to protect the United Federation of Planets, but will also have to “deal with a number of past sins.”
Yeo will be joined by Omari Hardwick (Power), Kacey Rohl (Hannibal), Emmy Award winner Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso), Sven Ryglock (One Piece), Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim), Hanbury Gonzales (Ginny & Georgia) and James-Hiroyuki Liao (Barry).
For those of you who don’t know, on Discovery she played both Starfleet Captain Philippa Georgiou and the cruel, cunning Emperor of a parallel universe where a xenophobic, militaristic humanity holds the helm. After the Starfleet Captain version dies, the Emperor version is persuaded to come to the other universe and act as her alter-ego.
The trailer also gives us our first look at a young Philippa Georgiou, played by Mik Martineau as Kate, and also gives us a look at another version of the character.
Justin Simien and Tawny Newsom’s live-action Star Trek comedy is in the works
A new live-action Star Trek comedy is in the works from Justin Semien and Tawny Newsom, which will tell the story of “a group of Federation outsiders serving on a glitzy resort planet who discover that their daily activities are being broadcast to all quadrants.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy stars Tig Notaro, Oded Fehr, Mary Wiseman and Robert Picardo
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is set to begin production in August 2024, and Paramount+ is celebrating the moment by revealing some of the former Star Trek cast members who will be joining the cast roster for the upcoming series.
Tig Notaro will reprise her role as Jet Reno from Star Trek: Discovery as a series regular, while Robert Picardo will reprise his role as the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager. Non-regular cast members Oded Fehr and Mary Wiseman will guest star as Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly, respectively, from Star Trek: Discovery.
These cast members will join previously announced Holly Hunter and guest stars Gina Yashere and Paul Giamatti.
“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy follows the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets coming of age in one of the galaxy’s most legendary places,” the official description reads. “The series introduces audiences to this group of young cadets who come together to pursue a shared dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful eye of their instructors, they learn what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate budding friendships, fierce rivalries, first love, and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.”
As for the new cadets, you can watch the heartwarming video here or above of Cerith Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Dyane and Zoe Steiner as they found out they’d landed their dream roles on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Star Trek: The New Worlds Season 3 clip shows Enterprise crew members transforming into Vulcans
Fans will have to wait until 2025 for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, but Paramount+ helped tide them over during the wait by releasing an extended clip of a scene from the new episode at SDCC.
In the clip, Captain Pike, Christine Chapel, Ra’an Noonien Singh, Nyota Uhura, and Peliah are given a Kerkovian serum to turn them into Vulcans for the mission. It doesn’t work on Peliah, but the other four are successful in their transformation, reminding Spock that he is only half-Vulcan. They quickly complete the mission, but soon realize that the serum will not change them back.
Also during Star Trek’s SDCC panel, it was announced that Dr. Roger Corby from In From the Cold will be guest starring in Season 3. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Michael Strong originally played him on Star Trek: The Original Series.
Star Trek: Lower Decks final season new trailer and air date announced
Star Trek: Lower Decks will end with another season, and Paramount+ unveiled a new trailer for the animated series at SDCC, also announcing that the fifth and final season will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, October 24. New episodes will be released weekly thereafter, with the final episode airing on Thursday, December 19.
As for what’s to come in season 5, Paramount+ has teased a little bit of what fans can expect.
“In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, the crew of the USS Cerritos is tasked with closing the Space Pothole, a subspace rift that’s causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant,” the official description reads. “The Pothole mission would have been a piece of cake for junior officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford… but they’ve also had to deal with the Orion War, enraged Klingons, diplomatic disaster, a murder mystery and, most terrifying of all, their own career ambitions. The upcoming season, airing on Paramount+, celebrates this underdog crew as they rise from the lower decks to strange new Starfleet roles.”
