During Star Trek‘s Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Saturday, the executive producing trio of Alex Kurtzman and Strange New Worlds showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers spoke about the series coming to an end with season 5.
However, they told the gathered fans that, if they wanted more, to start a letter-writing campaign to Paramount to say they want a Star Trek: Year One successor series.
Entertainment Weekly caught up with Goldsman and Myers after the panel. The latter confirms it’s “100 percent” the dream plan to have a sequel show that chronicles Paul Wesley‘s Kirk in his first year as captain, though they haven’t had any concrete discussions about it.
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“Nothing would make us happier than to be able to continue telling the stories of how Pike’s crew transitions to Kirk’s crew and how Kirk’s crew sets off,” Myers tells EW. “Obviously, when we come into TOS [The Original Series] it’s not the first day of the job…. Fundamentally, there are relationships that already exist. How did they happen? And, obviously, we have the opportunity for Sulu, and we have the opportunity for McCoy in a longer life, and opportunity for Chekov. So it would be awesome to be able to continue.”
Myers also notes that he and Goldsman “have fates in store for those folks who don’t seem to appear in canon post-our show [Strange New Worlds],” but that “doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
A lot of things would need to happen between now and that proposed future, including whatever shakes out with the sale of Paramount to Skydance. That’s why the showrunners encouraged the fans at Comic-Con to express their interest in the idea. “We dream it loudly,” Myers says. “We like to say vocally that, ‘Hey, we have all of these really great sets. You guys own them. You make money off them.'”
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However, he adds, “All our dreams of post–Strange New Worlds iterations, [pay]checks notwithstanding, we gotta stick the landing.”
And that means delivering a killer final season. Episode 3 of Strange New Worlds season 3 screened early at Comic-Con during the panel and will be available to stream on Paramount+ next week. Meanwhile, season 4, which will introduce a puppet-themed episode, recently wrapped filming. The crew will then beam back up to Toronto sooner rather than later to film season 5, which will mark the final season.
Correction: An earlier version of this article quoted Henry Alonso Myers as saying “opportunity for checkups,” which has been corrected to say “opportunity for Chekov.” We regret the error.
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