Thanks to the short-form series’ Emmy nomination last month, CBS has now made the six Star Trek: Short Trek tales released in late 2019 available for free viewing to promote the production for award consideration.
Launching this morning on CBS.com, the network’s mobile apps, and on YouTube, the six most recent Short Trek episodes will be available for free through the end of this month, including:
- The Captain-Pike-and-Enterprise-crew stories “Q & A,” “The Trouble with Edward,” and “Ask Not,” which serve as unofficial prequels to the in-development Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series coming 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6s_zfgv4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx0Eg5NvDbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAEBJ7xKv4
- The animated Star Trek: Discovery tie-ins “Ephraim and Dot” and “The Girl Who Made the Stars“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGOsa4Ojiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72w6-qP0Ve0
- The Star Trek: Picard prequel short “Children of Mars,” which is set years before the events of the series on a day that changes the Federation forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hot0uT8c3ys
Unfortunately, as is to be expected, the video links are region-locked to the United States only — as international distribution is contractually outside of CBS’s purview — but fans still have the ability to watch the Strange New Worlds and Discovery shorts on the recent Short Treks Blu-ray release, and October’s Star Trek: Picard — Season 1 Blu-ray set will include “Children of Mars” as one of its bonus features.
Franchise boss Alex Kurtzman has recently talked about his desire to produce more entries in the Short Treks series, with some potential ideas shared in the interview we covered last week.
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