We’ve got a roundup of news for all the 2020 Star Trek productions today, as we go from a set of new promo videos into award nominations for some of the year’s earlier releases!
The day began with the official announcements for the 72nd Emmy Award nominations — television’s biggest prizes — and the Star Trek franchise was once again named in the mix for this year’s golden trophies.
Star Trek: Short Treks scored its nomination in the category for which CBS was most hopeful it would, Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, where it will be up against a number of web and mobile-format rivals, including digital entries from Better Call Saul and The Good Place, along with two new “quick bite” series on the mobile platform Quibi — The Most Dangerous Game and the revival of Reno 911!.
As for Star Trek: Picard, like Discovery in previous years, the series landed several nominations in technical categories, including Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup, Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup, and Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling, as well as audio categories Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Sound Mixing.
The winners in the 72nd Annual Emmy Awards will be announced on September 20.
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CBS All Access released two new character videos for Star Trek: Lower Decks, featuring young engineer Ensign Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), and the upstart Orion scientist Ensign D’Vana Tandi (Noel Wells).
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In addition to all that, CBS All Access also debuted a new promotional video for the upcoming 23-week marathon of new Star Trek episodes — from the August 6 premiere of Lower Decks through the Season 3 finale of Discovery aimed for January 7 — which also includes a tiny bit of new footage from each upcoming show.
(We’ve embedded both YouTube and Instagram versions of the promo here, as our international friends often encounter region-locking issues due to licensing agreements.)
While the Lower Decks portion of the new promo includes a few beats of action as Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) cracks wise about 23rd century alien encounters, the new footage from Discovery shows off a few new moments between Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and newcomer Book (David Ajala), but also an exciting moments when she seems to use her Red Angel suit to confirm her safe passage through the time-twisting wormhole seen in last year’s finale.
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Finally, Star Trek: Discovery lead Sonequa Martin-Green announced the birth of her daughter on social media today, and we wish her, husband Kenric Green, and their entire family well.
Star Trek: Discovery returns October 15 on CBS All Access and CTV Sci Fi, and is expected to return on Netflix for international viewers on October 16 globally.
Star Trek: Lower Decks debuts August 6 in the US and Canada; international distribution has not yet been announced.