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

2. THE ANIMATED PITCH YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT!

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There’s one more pitch that's even more overlooked by anyone not following Trek creator social channels. But amid the early hubbub over United in August 2025, Prodigy co-executive producer Aaron Waltke let slip he had a pitch of his own in an online comment thread that some of us picked up on. 

Now, Waltke is currently hard at work developing an Amazon Prime animated series based on the Wings of Fire children’s fantasy novels by Tui T. Sutherland, and he’s mum to share anything about any more Trek details in public until after he can get some meetings on it.

But he told me that for now, here, he'd call it Untitled Adult Animation Anthology Series or thereabouts. We’ll have to leave it there, unless you can entice him into some “sly allusions” for clues to it on his socials, when he takes a break from Wings to come up for air. 

Whatever the format, this sounds like a no-brainer— and especially when animation is used to present any time era, without the budget stress of period sets/costumes/props of live action. 

Status: UNPITCHED, BUT STAY TUNED

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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!