Kicking off the wave of news out of last night’s Star Trek Day festivities are a pair of long-awaited release dates for the next two franchise shows beaming down this fall!
Announced with a brand new trailer for the upcoming animated series, the debut of Star Trek: Prodigy is now set for October 28 on Paramount+ in the United States (and CTV Sci Fi Channel in Canada), with a one-hour opening episode to kick of the show’s first season.
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES? WATCH THE TRAILER AT THIS LINK
Included in the new Prodigy trailer is our first look at holographic Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) aboard the advanced starship USS Protostar, as well as some dazzling new imagery from the show’s inaugural season.
Along with this new trailer comes official key art for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, which features the show’s young leads — joined of course by Emergency Training Hologram Janeway — posing heroically beneath the Protostar starship.
Following just three weeks after the Prodigy premiere is the return of Star Trek: Discovery on November 18, as the flagship franchise series begins its fourth season a year after filming began in late 2020.
No new trailer accompanied the release date announcement; while a short clip of an early Season 4 episode was screened as an exclusive tease for the Star Trek Day in-person audience in Los Angeles last night, the only new Season 4 material released to the public at large is this new photo of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in her new red command uniform.
As you’ve no doubt surmised, the two upcoming shows will overlap for the second half of Prodigy’s season, making this the first time that two Star Trek series are on the air concurrently since Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager were airing together in 1999… so Thursdays will be a busy day around here, no doubt!
Both Prodigy and Discovery will be the focus of panels at October’s New York Comic Con event, so it’s quite likely a full Discovery Season 4 trailer will accompany that event next month.
#StarTrekDiscovery returns November 18, 2021 on @ParamountPlus. Yes, that means for the first time in over 20 years, there will be two #StarTrek shows airing AT THE SAME TIME! #StarTrekDay pic.twitter.com/AJEyItwg05
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) September 9, 2021
We’ll bring you all the news on the upcoming seasons of Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Discovery as it breaks over the next few weeks, so keep checking back to TrekCore along the way!
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