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

3. STAR TREK: TRAVELERS

Blink and you missed it! Again, back in 2024: an informal but sincere idea mentioned online in passing — though judging by TrekCulture viewers, a sure-fire winner.

We’re talking, for starters, about Prodigy Season 2 writer Jennifer Muro's post, well after that series bowed on Netflix with a plot arc that featured Wil Wheaton back as Wesley Crusher in scruffy Traveler mode. Muro tweeted that if Prodigy didn't get a Season 3 renewal she’d love to create an animated “Star Trek: Travelers” series so a Doctor Who-like Wesley could do more of the same—with her deserving friend Wil and “endless stories” possible.

If that concept seems familiar, well — here at TrekCulture, we recently released an unrelated but serendipidous proof-of-concept video, sparked by the Picard live-action surprise of Wesley teaming up with Kore Soong. A show that would follow them both as time-traveling Supervisors through history? Allons-y!

That video shot to over two million views on TrekCulture's Facebook page in just a few days. While the idea of Wesley as a timey-wimey time fixer has long been touted on this channel (inspired by that scene in Star Trek: Picard’s S2 finale Farewell), the reaction to that video reveals audiences are hungrier than ever for such a concept. Simply put, the time is now!

And if we want to keep the Picard set-up of Kore as a companion (ahem), producing in animation would likely now be key. With her career skyrocketing, actress Isa Briones' starring turn on HBO's The Pitt (plus any ongoing Broadway musical roles) mean she'd find voice actor studio mode a lot easier to squeeze in on her crowded calendar.

Meanwhile, I checked in with Jennifer to update her tweets of 2024: the Wesley idea remains atop her list but no, it has not been formally developed — for now. Wait until the dust settles for a clearer picture with all things Paramount over the next year, she says — and there's a break from her current work on the animated Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 over at Netflix.

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Authored by Larry Nemecek

Contributor

Back when nerds and geeks were just called "hobbyists," Larry's ninth-grade science teacher ended a bewildering conversations with him about Halkans by finally saying, "Oh Larry — don't tell me you don't know Star Trek!"— along with a commandment to go home and begins watching the daily after-school rerun. The rest is history — well, future history, anyway. Larry had always been a NASA kid and a history fan (not so much sci-fi), so Star Trek fit right in: for the phenomenon that was worldbuilding before the term was invented, Larry felt passion-called to take up "backgrounding" and gap-filling before the term "retcon" was invented. Star Trek is fun and inspiring, but it doesn't pay the bills —at least in those days— but after college and work in theatre and print news, Larry somehow managed to combine both fields with his non-fiction Trek fandom and created the monster that today is Dr. Trek. His self-published, pre-Internet star charts and TNG Concordance were precursors to the official Stellar Cartography map set and the bestseller TNG Companion, after a move to Hollywood /SoCal in the 1990s boom years. Add in a stint as managing editor of official ST Communicator magazine, the first editor and later content producer of the original startrek.com, and the franchise consultant for everything from the Star Trek World Tour to the storied Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. When Star Trek went wandering in the wilderness for the first time in 18 years amid the "Paramount divorce" of 2005-06, so did Larry — until, finally, the entrepreneur web world eventually found a path and a way to stay afloat. Since then, Larry's "Trekland" has come to mean more media projects and podcast/streaming alongside the old standbys like convention guest speaking and even text writing. Sure, there's The Trek Files for Roddenberry, his own Trekland Tuesdays Live, and Dr. Trek;s Second Opinion reaction shows — but that passion for spotlighting and archiving the creatives of Trek across all arenas and eras still drives him to pioneer experiences like the monthly backstage Portal 47 features, and the Trekland Treks day tours of Trek location sights. And now ... in-depth Dr. Trek turns for TrekCulture, too!

Posted On: 1st Jul 2026

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