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

5. STAR TREK: YEAR ONE

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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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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!