Despite burning up the box office, Star Trek is finally headed back to the small screen. The Star Trek website is reporting that a new chapter in the space-faring science fiction series is currently in development and will air January 2017 on US channel CBS.
The return of Trek will bring with it new characters, imaginative new worlds and never-before-seen alien races and civilisations. Presumably, there will also be snazzy uniforms, transporter beams and swivel chairs.
The long-running franchise celebrates it's 50th anniversary next year, and according to CBS chief David Stapf, there's never been a better time to give Star Trek fans a brand new series.
Detail are a little thin on the ground, but we do know that the coming series will be helmed by Alex Kurtzman (Fringe, Sleepy Hollow) who will best best known to Star Trek fans for his contributions to the 2009 reboot and its sequel Into Darkness.
StarTrek.com is trumpeting the fact that the franchise receives in excess of a billion social media impressions every month. This sounds impressive, but we're willing to bet most of these come from Picard memes than from people actually talking Trek. Still, if Kurtzman and co. can tempt even a fraction of that number into checking out the new series, CBS could have a real winner on their hands.
Interestingly, the series will kick-off with a special preview broadcast on CBS proper before heading to its new home on the VoD and streaming service CBS All Access.
Early word suggests the series will have no ties to the upcoming Star Trek Beyond movie, which seems like something of a missed opportunity; we think a Star Trek universe that spans both big and small screens could be quite interesting.
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