Star Trek: Every In Development Movie & TV Show, Ranked

4. Starfleet Academy TV Show

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Another planned live action TV series, which was first announced back in June 2018, is due to follow life at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. The show is currently being developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage who recently worked on Marvel's Runaways.

Details are scarce at the moment, but the idea is one which has long been suggested - even as far back as the late 1980's where the series was a possibility before Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) was created. There were episodes of TNG which depicted the Academy and Wesley Crusher's career there after he left the Enterprise, while novels, comics and other tie in media have gone into detail about some other major Trek character's school days.

The new series is reportedly likely to aim for a young adult audience - not a bad thing in itself though there must be a fear that this will turn into a lightweight, high school/teen TV show. If done well, however, it could provide an intriguing insight into the place which shapes Starfleet officers - and maybe even help the franchise to bring in a new generation of fans.

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