Paramount+ Announces Premiere Dates For ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ ‘Strange New Worlds’ And More

Are you ready for enough Star Trek announcements to fill an entire galaxy? Today, Paramount+ dropped a ton of info about all their Star Trek series, including premiere dates for Star Trek: Picard and Strange New Worlds, additional season pickups for Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds, and much, much more.

“Four years ago, we made a promise to grow Star Trek into something it had never been before, and thanks to the incredibly hard work done by our many talented showrunners, writers, and directors, along with the extraordinary support of CBS Studios and Paramount+, we’re keeping our word,” said Alex Kurtzman, architect and executive producer, Star Trek franchise, in a release provided to Decider. “Now our current shows are set up for the future as we work to build Trek’s next phase of programming for years to come.”

Let’s kick things off with Discovery, which is currently halfway through its fourth season. The flagship series will be back for more episodes starting on Thursday, February 10… But in advance of that, the Sonequa Martin-green starring series has also been picked up for a fifth season. Who will return, and whether the show will stick in the distant future it has inhabited since Season 3? Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, Next Generation spinoff Star Trek: Picard finally has a Season 2 premiere date: Thursday, March 3. New episodes will drop weekly, and the show is already in production on a third season. Starring Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Season 2 will find the former Enterprise captain tangling with his old nemesis, Q (John DeLancie).

The highly anticipated Discovery spinoff Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also has a premiere date, Thursday May 5. And not only that, the series, which takes place on the Enterprise before Kirk took charge, has already been renewed for a second season, well ahead of its Season 1 debut. Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Spock.

We’re not done yet, folks. The animated Star Trek: Lower Decks will return this summer with a 10-episode-long third season, exact date TBA, and like the other shows has already been renewed for a 10-episode-long Season 4. The only show without significant news is the currently streaming Star Trek: Prodigy, which will finish up the first half of Season 1 on Thursday, February 3, and then follow with the 10-episode-long second half of the season later on this year.

By now, you’ve probably done the math on all of this, but if you haven’t: yes, Paramount+ is finally getting close to streaming a new episode of a Star Trek series 52 weeks a year. Prodigy ends on February 3, followed by Discovery‘s return the next week on February 10. If there are 13 episodes total (as previously reported), that means Disco will stream until March 17, overlapping with Picard. Picard is expected to run 10 episodes, bringing it to May 19, again overlapping, this time with Strange New Worlds. Though we obviously don’t know how it’ll work yet, it’s distinctly possible that Strange New Worlds will run right into Lower Decks, which will run into Prodigy, and the cycle will begin again.

That all said, these schedules are somewhat speculative, and certainly given the ongoing COVID pandemic: tentative, at best. It’s entirely possible those overlaps will be turned into midseason breaks, something that happened with both Discovery and Prodigy.

Whatever happens, though, there is plenty of Star Trek coming your way on Paramount+. Let’s fly.