Fans of Star Trek: Discovery will be pleased to learn that the series will boldly go into more adventures for CBS All Access. The streaming service has renewed the Star Trek prequel for a third season, which will continue to follow the Discovery and Sonequa Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham on their ongoing mission.
The third season will also see Michelle Paradise (The Originals) joining the series as co-showrunner alongside Alex Kurtzman. “Her grasp of character and story detail, her drive and her focus have already become essential in ensuring the ‘Trek’ legacy, and her fresh perspective always keeps us looking forward,” Kurtzman said in a statement.
This continues a revitalization of Star Trek on television. Star Trek: Discovery was the first series of the franchise to air on television since the conclusion of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005. There is only more Star Trek to come as Patrick Stewart will reprise his iconic role as The Next Generation‘s Jean-Luc Picard in a new series that will focus on Picard’s life after the destruction of Romulus in the Prime timeline, seen in the 2009 Star Trek film. Alongside Picard’s return is an animated Star Trek series from Nickelodeon as well as a Discovery spin-off focusing on Michelle Yeoh’s Phillipa Georgiou and the Federation’s shadow black-ops organization Section 31.
Star Trek: Discovery is currently airing its second season which sees Anson Mount (Marvel’s Inhumans) as Captain Christopher Pike and Ethan Peck (I Ship It) as Spock as the U.S.S. Discovery joins forces with Pike to investigate seven red signals and the mysterious entity called the Red Angel. While the crew must work together to unravel their meaning and origin, Michael Burnham is forced to face her past with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY follows the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself. The series features a new ship and new characters while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
Star Trek: Discovery season 2 airs on Thursdays.
