Just breaking out of San Diego Comic Con is news that the next round of Star Trek Short Trek stories will include not one, not two, but three entries all centered around Captain Pike and his crew of the USS Enterprise.

Joined on stage by Ethan Peck (Spock) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One), franchise boss Alex Kurtzman announced that three of the upcoming six Short Trek tales will be Enterprise crew tales, including Spock’s first arrival aboard ship as an ensign, the Vulcan’s misadventures with Number One in a turbolift (written by “Calypso” scribe Michael Chabon), and a new story which bring those fuzzball tribbles to Pike’s ship… with guest star H. John Benjamin along for the ride.

In addition to these three live-action Enterprise shorts, the next Short Treks will also feature a Star Trek: Picard prequel tale, sent about fifteen years before the upcoming series to give backstory to Jean-Luc Picard’s time away from Starfleet — and the other two Short Treks will be the Discovery-related animated tales first announced in January 2019.

The new Short Trek episode titles are: “Ask Not” (series unknown), “Q&A” (Chabon-written Enterprise story), “The Trouble with Edward” (Enterprise tribble story), “The Girl Who Made the Stars” (series unknown), “Ephaim and Dot” (series unknown), and “Children of Mars” (likely the Picard tale — Mars is the father of Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology).

Keep it locked to TrekCore all day for Star Trek news as it breaks!