Star Trek on the fully grown projection screen might havesuffered a minute of a setbacktoday , but Star Trek on the small filmdom ? gayly chugging away quite nicely , give thanks you very much .
talk as part of an encompassing interview withthe Hollywood Reporterset to be full release tomorrow , Alex Kurtzman ( the mantasked withushering in a new eld ofnon - stop Star Trekfor the CBS All Access streaming help ) confirmed that aside from Rick & Morty author Mike McMahan ’s already planned animated seriesLower Decks — about the hapless support stave aboard a down in the mouth - primal Starfleet vessel — at least one more animated series set in the Star Trek wandflower is in the full treatment .
The Hollywood Reporter frames this series as being “ kids - focussed ” and could potentially have a home outdoors of CBS All Access , but no other details about the project were revealed by Kurtzman :
There ’s other animated thing that we ’re building that are an only different perspective and an entirely different tone [ from Lower Decks ] . What ’s exciting about it is not only looking at each animated series as what ’s the different tone , but what ’s the different technology we can put on to these thing so that visually they ’re entirely dissimilar ?
On top of that , Kurtzman also corroborate the lovely news that two more entries of theexcellent minisode seriesStar Trek : Short Treks , which justrecently concludedits first four - episode running game , will get after the end ofDiscovery ’s second seasonin the leaping . Unlike the four Short Treks we ’ve seen so far , these entrance will actually be animated shorts instead of live - activity :
Our goal is to not only inflate the definition of Star Trek and what has qualify as traditional Star Trek , but also to tell stories that are both self - contained in a very short period of time that also get in touch to the larger picture of what we ’re doing , not only in Discovery but in the world building of Trek in general . And you get to tell these very intimate , worked up stories that are side story to characters . So you get the welfare of the experience in and of itself but then when you watch Discovery you ’ll see that these were all go under up affair in the domain of season two .
Considering Short Treks has given us somemarvelous vignettesof the wider world of Discovery , this is avery good thingindeed — and thrive the concept into other mediums like animation is an interesting way to diversify the variety of narration that can be evidence in the format . Hopefully , there ’ll also be more alive - action ones to go with it in the future !
Star Trek : Discovery season two boldly goes where its first season went ( CBS All Access in the U.S. , and Space in Canada ) on January 17 , before debuting on Netflix internationally January 18 .
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