Star Trek San Diego Comic-Con Recap
‘Star Trek’ had a lot of announcements of upcoming projects at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, with a lot of new footage for fnas to sink their teeth into. Here’s a rundown of everything that was revealed at the panel!
For casting news, Cillian O’Sullivan will join ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season 3 as a recurring guest star as legacy character Doctor Roger Korby, first introduced in ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ where he was played by Michael Strong.
An extended clip of ‘Strange New Worlds’ was also released, showing the crew turn into Vulcans for a mission.
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season 5 also got a release date, with the announcement that two episodes will premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday October 24, with subsequent episodes following weekly.
A new trailer for the season was released, and a synopsis was provided, explaining that:
“In Season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” — subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford… if they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all — their own career aspirations.”
But while Tawny Newsome’s role is coming to a close in ‘Lower Decks’, that doesn’t mean her time in the franchise is.
Newsome will be partnering with Justin Simien to create a live-action ‘Star Trek’ comedy, with Federation Outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant.
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Turning to ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’, executive producers and co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landa revealed Tig Notaro, Oded Fehr, Mary Wiseman, and Robert Picardo have joined the cast.
Notaro and Picardo will reprise their roles as join Jett Reno and The Doctor as series regulars and Fehr and Wiseman return as Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly as guest stars.
Prior to the Hall H panel,it was revealed that Gina Yashere has also joined the cast as an Academy instructor in a recurring guest role.
A casting reaction video featuring all previous announced actors playing cadets.Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner, was also released.
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A teaser trailer for the upcoming Paramount+ movie ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ starring Michelle Yeoh was released, introducing audiences to its colourful cast of characters.
‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ season two wil be available on digital demand on Monday July 29, and on November 12 on Blu-Ray and DVD with special features.
Alex Kurtzman, ‘Star Trek’ franchise showrunner and executive producer, and Russell T Davies, showrunner and executive producer of the ‘Doctor Who’ universe met for the Intergalactic Friendship Day panel, and spoke about their shared love of storytelling, and the years of nods and references to each other.
During the panel, it was announced that starting on August 1 there will be a limited time crossove event across the mobile games ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks – The Badgey Directive Mobile Game’ and ‘Doctor Who: Lost in Time’.
The final announcement was that writer Ryan North and artist Derek Charm will reunite after their work on “STAR TREK: DAY OF BLOOD – SHAXS’ BEST DAY” to create a new comic series “STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS”, which will feature characters from the animated show.
It will have an episodic structure with each tale being presented by a differeent artist. The first issue releases into stores of November 13.
