Star Trek fans are in for a treat as even more CBS shows are on the way.

Ahead of the new season of Star Trek: Discovery, boss Alex Kurtzman has revealed that there are plans for at least one more animated series, as well as more instalments of Star Trek: Short Treks – also animated.

It comes after the previously announced animated spin-off series Star Trek: Lower Decks, as well as a new Picard series and a planned spin-off for Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou.

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"Our goal is to not only expand the definition of Star Trek and what has qualified as traditional Star Trek, but also to tell stories that are both self-contained in a very short period of time that also connect to the larger picture of what we're doing, not only in Discovery but in the world building of Trek in general," Kurtzman told The Hollywood Reporter.

"And you get to tell these very intimate, emotional stories that are side stories to characters. So you get the benefit of the experience in and of itself but then when you watch Discovery you'll see that these were all setting up things in the world of season two."

He promised a "minimum of two" animated series, adding that each new show will have "its own identity".

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Kurtzman continued: "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?"

The producer added that he wanted to appeal to children too, explaining: "I go back to my childhood and Luke Skywalker, the [Star Wars] farm boy who looks out at the twin suns of Tatooine and imagines his future.

"Trek never gave me that. Trek was always fully formed adults, already in Starfleet and people who have decided who they are. And it never was aspirational that way. It's important to me to find a way to go back and reach younger kids in a way that Trek should and never really has."

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 begins January 17 on CBS All Access in the US and January 18 on Netflix in the UK.



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