13 Star Trek Pitches Out There (And Where They're At)

5. STAR TREK: YEAR ONE

In earlier times, this would seem to have been a sure thing.

One year later, San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H saw the floating of yet another pitch-not-yet-sold. Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman spilt the beans on Star Trek: Year One, a formal name for his long-held dream of rolling the evolving “visiting Kirk” moments of Strange New Worlds right into the day James T. takes the Enterprise center seat himself, hopefully utilizing those sets already built and in place.

Back in 2018, Anson Mount's visiting Captain Pike on Discovery became such a hit that a series built around his crew blew up the existing bullpen of future Treks, and moved quickly to the front of the line. But Peak Cinematic TV was a fading memory by the time of that San Diego Hall H moment in 2025, when Goldsman revealed the show title while at the same time asking fans to mount another support campaign to demand Kirk's crew and Year One. His live appeal met with a muted reaction that day, however, as if many fans were either confused or already in support of Legacy, knowing the Trek series pipeline was clearly narrowing.

Since then, Goldsman and Henry Alonzo Myers, his Strange New Worlds co-EP, have said they’ve formally pitched Year One direct to the new Paramount regime earlier this year. Fair to say, though: those Enterprise sets and assets in Toronto have all been struck and are being auctioned off in batches. Just sayin.’

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