The rumored rumblings of a Star Trek Universe crossover are really true, as today Paramount+ formally revealed that the crews of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will meet in the next season of Captain Pike’s adventures!
The surprise announcement came at the tail end of today’s 90-minute Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic Con, as Star Trek: Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome (Beckett Mariner) and Jack Quaid (Brad Boimler) crashed the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds segment of the event.
The Lower Decks crew bum rushed the Strange New Worlds portion!
STAR TREK CROSSOVER COMING YOUR WAY! 🖖🏻😎 https://t.co/KT1U0uncuj pic.twitter.com/niqPzRzLwf
— christine dinh (@chrissypedia) July 23, 2022
First teased by franchise boss Alex Kurtzman during the June 9, 2022 edition of The Ready Room with Wil Wheaton, this big crossover event will take place in the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — expected sometime in 2023 — where Mariner and Boimler will somehow meet Captain Pike’s Enterprise crew, through a combination of animated and live-action production. (It’s not quite clear, however, which portions of the upcoming episode will be in each format.)
If that wasn’t enough, tying the whole crossover together will be the directorial hand of Star Trek: The Next Generation vet Jonathan Frakes, the veteran television director who has helmed more than Trek 20 episodes and films during his time with the franchise.
The Lower Decks cast had a ball when they showed up to the April Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention in full Starfleet costume (and purple hair, in Jack Quaid’s case) — so if the two leads of the animated show will finally get a chance to join the live-action ranks of Trek actors, that is something we’re most definitely looking forward to seeing.
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— TrekCore.com 🖖 (@TrekCore) April 9, 2022
No other details about the upcoming crossover episode have been revealed at this point, but as soon as we know more about this big event, we’ll be sure to let you know right here!
Star Trek: Lower Decks will return for its third season on Paramount+ in the United States and Canada on Thursday, August 25, and will follow on Amazon’s Prime Video service in many other international territories. The series has already been renewed for a fourth season, now in production.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return in 2023 for an already-filmed Season 2, currently in post-production. The last few episodes of Season 1 will continue to roll out to the UK and Ireland on Paramount+ this summer; additional international distribution has not yet been announced.