Even for those only vaguely paying attention to inside baseball Hollywood tidings, it's safe to say there’s a lot changing with Paramount at the moment. And in the midst of a historic merger, the parent company, which owns the rights to the Star Trek franchise, is almost certainly heading toward some kind of pivot. Whether that pivot is radical or not remains to be seen, but one thing is true: For the first time since Star Trek: Discovery was in production in 2016, there are no new Star Trek TV series immediately in production after the wrap of Starfleet Academy Season 2. At least none that are publicly announced.
As pointed out by TrekMovie on March 3, the conclusion of filming on Starfleet Academy Season 2 brings us to a strange moment in modern Star Trek production history. Discovery was announced in 2016, and production was underway 10 years ago, in 2016. Discovery eventually hit CBS All-Access (now Paramount+) in 2017, and since then, there’s been, if not one, often multiple different Star Trek series in production. Just three years ago, in 2023, fans were reveling in the triumph of Picard Season 3, the highs of Strange New Worlds Season 2, and Season 4 of Lower Decks. 2024 and 2025 saw the franchise start to shrink, with the finales of Discovery and Lower Decks both airing that year, as well as the second season of Prodigy, which seemed to signal the end of that series, too.
