Unusual New Worlds will finish with a truncated fifth season

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will solely go to round 26 unusual new worlds earlier than shuttling into that cancellation sundown. The present will finish with a truncated fifth season of six episodes, .

This information is comparatively shocking, on condition that Unusual New Worlds looks like the preferred and profitable present of the trendy period. Nevertheless, not a single newer Trek sequence has made it previous 5 seasons, so perhaps that is simply the way in which issues go now. It is value remembering that Captain Kirk’s narration within the unique Nineteen Sixties Star Trek spoke of a five-year mission.

“We’re deeply grateful to Paramount+ for the possibility to finish our five-season mission, simply as we envisioned it, alongside our extraordinary solid and crew. And to the passionate followers who’ve boldly joined us on this journey,” government producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman mentioned in a joint assertion offered through press launch.

It is a bummer, as Unusual New Worlds is a incredible watch, however it’s not the tip of the world. The present is about to premiere its . A full fourth season is already in manufacturing, and the shortened fifth season will ramp up someday within the subsequent 12 months. So there are nonetheless 26 episodes left to observe. That is a very good quantity of Trek.

It is also not the tip of live-action Star Trek on tv screens. The upcoming Starfleet Academy has already , although that is the one new present on our radar. There have been rumblings of films, however we aren’t certain what’s really being made. A movie chronicling the formation of Starfleet , however there hasn’t been any information since then. Patrick Stewart has been overtly campaigning for a Captain Picard film, however, effectively, he is 84 as of this writing.