Star Trek is streamlined in 2025, but the franchise will boast a new streaming movie and the return of Paramount+'s new flagship Star Trek series to celebrate Star Trek's 59th anniversary. With the pending sale of Paramount to Skydance and the evolving state of streaming, Star Trek has tightened its belt. Compared to 2022, when five Star Trek series premiered a new episode nearly every Thursday on Paramount+, the streamer has only two Star Trek projects slotted for 2025, but both are highly anticipated.
In 2024, Star Trek on Paramount+ closed the books on Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks, both of which concluded with season 5. But Discovery and Lower Decks also bowed out with strong, crowd-pleasing seasons. In July, Netflix premiered Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, which boasts a perfect 100% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. However, there has been no update on whether the fan-favorite animated series will be renewed by Netflix.
Yet the 10 live-action and 30 animated half-hour episodes that Star Trek fans enjoyed in 2024 was a veritable bonanza compared to Paramount+'s leaner and meaner Star Trek output on tap for 2025.
Star Trek: Section 31
Star Trek's First Streaming Movie Premieres January 24, 2025
9 years after Star Trek Beyond left theaters, Star Trek gets its first-ever made-for-streaming film, Star Trek: Section 31, which premieres Friday, January 24, on Paramount+. Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeney, Star Trek: Section 31 is headlined by Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh reprising her Star Trek: Discovery anti-heroine, Emperor Philippa Georgiou. Star Trek: Section 31's cast of characters include Kacey Rohl as Rachel Garrett, Sam Richardson as a Chameloid named Quasi, and Miku Martineau playing the young Philippa Georgiou.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
Captain Pike & The Starship Enterprise Will Finally Return
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After a two-year hiatus resulting from 2023's SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 will hit Paramount+ in 2025, possibly in the early part of the year. Strange New Worlds is a massive hit with critics and audiences, and season 3 is highly anticipated. Along with resolving Strange New Worlds season 2's finale cliffhanger, season 3 boasts a "Hollywood murder mystery" episode directed by Jonathan Frakes, a comedy where Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise's crew become Vulcans, and plenty of surprises.
Joning Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 as a series regular is Martin Quinn, who plays Lt. Montgomery Scott AKA Scotty. In addition, Cillian O'Sullivan will appear as Dr. Roger Korby, the future fiancé of Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), and Rhys Darby has been announced for a guest spot in a mystery role. Thankfully, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 also starts filming in spring 2025, so fans are assured another batch of 10 episodes will arrive after they enjoy Strange New Worlds season 3, likely in 2026.
Star Trek's 2025 Possibilities
Starfleet Academy News, Tawny Newsome's Comedy & Star Trek's Origin Movie
The rest of Star Trek in 2025 is poised to look ahead in anticipation of Star Trek's 60th anniversary in 2026. At some point in 2025, most likely at San Diego Comic-Con, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will reveal huge announcements. Currently filming seasons 1 and 2 back-to-back in Toronto, Starfleet Academy boasts a talented cast led by Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti, with Star Trek legacy icons like Robert Picardo joined by announced guest stars like Tatiana Maslany. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is set in the post-Star Trek: Discovery 32nd century and will move the franchise forward into a new era.
