10 longest waits Star Trek has forced fans to endure

For the nearly 60 years that Star Trek Was a science fiction staple, fans have been forced to endure long waits between an initial promise made by the franchise and see the story come to fruition. Being a long-running science fiction franchise almost inevitably comes with fallow periods Where no new content is produced. As a fellow long-distance runner Star Wars And Doctor WhoGaps between periods of Star Trek Sometimes they lasted for years and it was not always certain that there would be new ones. Star Trek Points on the other side of the wait.

The streaming age hasn’t necessarily made things better for Star Trek Fans. Shorter seasons mean we spend less time with characters we want to know. The unpredictable schedules of streaming shows mean It is difficult to know when a given period of Star Trek will arrive…or how long it will be when it arrives. yet Star Treks big year in 2022, when it was a new Star Trek Story almost every week, the gaps between Star Trek Stories seem more than ever. There were, however, much more whites in it Star Trek.

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13 months +

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 to Season 3

Filming of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 has been delayed by the SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America strikes into 2023, so 13 months have passed since the Gorn attack on Federation colony Parnassus Beta in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 10, “Hegemony”. Some characters must survive the end of the cliffhanger to be in Star Trek: The Original SeriesHowever The fate of new characters like Captain Marie Battel (Melanie Scrofano) still hangs in the balance over a year later.

For the time of Tide fans, Paramount provided a sneak peek clip of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 and teased that the upcoming season would arrive sometime in 2025. As of September 2024, An official release date for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 has yet to be confirmedSo the wait could be much longer than 13 months.

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17 months

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 to Season 3

Less than a year has passed between Star Trek: Discoverys first 2 seasons, so it was surprising that fans had to wait 17 months to see what was on the other side of Discoverys wormhole to the future, and how the USS Discovery would be in the 32nd century. Star Trek: Discovery Benefited from a longer period between seasons since Discovery Season 3 acted as a soft reboot for Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery crew.

Released from its 23rd-century setting, Star Trek: Discovery began to find his footing. With new missions to reunite a broken Federation and investigate the cataclysmic burning, a new setting 900 years in the future, and great new characters like Cleveland Booker (David Ajala), the wait for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 may be overlooked.

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19 months

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 to Season 2

The wait between Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 and Prodigy Season 2 should have been shorter than the 19 months it was. Fans of all ages who have enjoyed the adventures of the young USS Protostar crew anticipated Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, originally scheduled to stream on Paramount+ in late 2023. The plans changed when Premount cancelled Star Trek: Prodigy and removed Prodigy Season 1 from Paramount +. It didn’t matter that Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 has ended. The show would have to find a new home to be released.

Fortunately, the plan to save Star Trek: Prodigy Worked when Netflix picked up Star Trek: Prodigy. Netflix added Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 to their streaming catalog on Christmas Day, 2023. All 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 dropped simultaneously on Netflix on July 1, 2024, about a year and a half after it was initially expected.

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24 months

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 to Season 2

The 24-month wait between Star Trek: Picard Season 1 and season 2 was not nearly as long as the 18-year wait between the release of Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002 and Patrick Stewart’s 2020 return as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard Season 1. After a relatively normal 11-month wait between the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, The already-long stretch between Star Trek: PicardThe first 2 seasons were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

To prevent another 2 year gap between seasons, Star Trek: Picard Was renewed for a 3rd season earlier Picard Season 2 even airs, and PicardThe last 2 seasons were filmed back-to-back. This is accommodated the schedules of Star Trek: Picards cast and crew, and allowed for the highly anticipated Star Trek: The Next Generation Throw in reunion Star Trek: Picard Season 3.

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25 months

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 to Season 5

The 24 months that have passed between Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 and Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 are the longest season between Discovery Seasons. On paper, the payoff seemed small, since season 5 was Star Trek: Discoverys shortest season yet, with only 10 episodes. This was the new normal for Star Trek Since the count matched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds And Star Trek: Lower Decks10 episode seasons.

It’s worth it, though. Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 was an action-packed adventure spanning space and timeWith deliberate but organic nods to almost every past era of star trek, And a mystery that paid off after a long wait. Discovery Season 5 finally expanded the story of the progenitors of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 20, “The Chase”. unfortunately, Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 is also the end of Discovery – But with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Coming soon, more 32-century adventures will not be too far away.

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8 years +

Star Trek next to Star Trek 4

From 2009 to 2016 Star Trek NextJJ Abrams Star Trek Kino sustained the franchise when it seemed like Star Trek Happened to TV shows. With the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery In 2017, however, Star TrekThe streaming era has pivoted attention away from the Kelvin Timeline films and sent Star Trek 4 In development limbo for 8+ years.

In those 8 years, Star Trek 4 has taken various forms, with multiple rewrites and a revolving door of directors, ranging from Quentin Tarantino to his current attached director, AndrS Toby Haynes. Plot details of Star Trek 4 are still under wraps, Although if Abrams Star Trek Movies continue to pay homage to their Prime Universe counterparts, time travel may be involved. If and when Star Trek 4 Incidentally, it will be the last Kelvin timeline Star Trek Movie for Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto’s Spock, and Zoe Saldaña’s Nyota Uhura.

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10 years

Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: The Motion Picture

yet Star Trek: The Original Series was canceled for the third and final time in 1969, There was no guarantee that fans would actually reunite with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner).Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelly). A strong showing in syndicated reruns prompted the creation of Star Trek: The Animated Series In 1971, however, the Filmation cartoon rarely matched the quality of live-action Star Trek.

Interest in continuing the Starship Enterprise’s live-action adventures peaked with the success of Star Wars in 1977Proving that audiences really would come out to theaters for a space-based sci-fi movie. Elements of Roddenberry’s failed Star Trek strain, Star Trek: Phase IIare folded into a new script, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture In theaters in 1979, 10 years later Star Trek: The Original Series His final episode aired.

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12 years

Star Trek: Enterprise to Star Trek: Discovery

Between the end of Star Trek: Enterprise In 2005 and the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery In 2017, 12 years passed in which fans are not sure that Star Trek Would ever return to television. Star Trek: Discovery represented Star Treks rebirth into a new television landscapeWith a new format on streaming service CBS All Access (now Paramount +), deep serialization and a darker vision of the future as Star Trek had everything.

Star Trek: Discovery was a new and different name Star Trek Which was based on the way that JJ Abrams’ Kelvin Timeline films reinvigorated the franchise. Despite its rocky beginnings, Star Trek: Discovery Nevertheless blazed a trail for new ones Star Trek 21st century series to followJust like Star Trek: The Next Generation did in the 1980s and 1990s.

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18 years

Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: The Next Generation

After the 1969 cancellation of Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek Fans lack an ongoing Star Trek TV series for 18 years. The premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation In 1987 promised a brand new take on Star Trek, With an entire century separating Captain Kirk’s original Enterprise and the 24th-century adventures of the brand new USS Enterprise-D crew under Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Fans were initially skeptical about a new Enterprise and a new crew, not to mention Michael Dorn’s Lieutenant Warf as the first Klingon in Starfleet. of course, Star Trek: The Next Generation Endured for 7 years and became the definitive one Star Trek For a whole new generation of fans, spawning Star Trek: Deep Space Nine And Star Trek: Voyager As spin-offs of themselves, as well as 4 Star Trek: The Next Generation Movies.

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58 years

Star Trek “The Cage” to Strange New Worlds

With the longest time between a pilot and production of a Star Trek show, It took 58 years to make the show that Roddenberry first promised With the 1965 pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series“The Cage”. As a TOS earlier, Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 hinted at the voyage of a pre-Church USS. Enterprise, including Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Commander Una-Chin Riley (Rebecca Romijn), and Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck). Fan demand for a Star Trek Series led by Discoverys charismatic enterprise trio inspired the creation of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 2022.

Star Trek It is responsible for much of the social progress that allows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds exist, as we have collectively experienced the criticism that “The Cage” faced in its day. Star TrekThe female captains combat the skepticism of NBC executives who protest Number One (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) as a first officer. Modern audiences are looking for smart storytelling, and Star Trek deliversWith an ever-expanding franchise that honors different demographics and tastes. The success of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Proves that some things are worth the long waits that Star Trek Fans have had to endure.