Star Trek is boldly going to a new frontier - Nickelodeon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Viacom-owned Nickelodeon network is nearing a deal for an animated
Star Trek series that will reportedly target a younger audience.
Star Trek Executive Producer, Alex Kurtzman, will oversee the series which will be written by Emmy-winning writers Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman, known for
Trollhunters,
The LEGO Movie, and
Ninjago. Aside from the fact that the show will target younger viewers, we don't really have any other details. However, Kurtzman previously hinted at animated projects with "an entirely different perspective and an entirely different tone" from what we're used to with the franchise.
"There's other animated things that we're building that are an entirely 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 apply to these things so that visually they're entirely different?"
This new animated series on Nickelodeon will be the third animated series in franchise history. CBS All Access has a two-season order for the animated
Star Trek: Lower Decks, which will be the first
Star Trek cartoon since
Star Trek: The Animated Series which ran for two seasons and 22 episodes from 1973-74.
Nickelodeon's animated series will also be one of the few times
Star Trek lands at a network outside of NBC, besides
Discovery and
Lower Decks on CBS All Access.
Between
Star Trek: Discovery, the Patrick Stewart-led series, another spin-off series featuring Michelle Yeoh, and now this Nickelodeon animated series, it's clear that Alex Kurtzman is dedicated to expanding the
Star Trek universe to a new generation.