Star Trek: Strange New World Showrunners Want To Make Prequel Show About Paul Wesley's Kirk

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds originative squad revealed astatine San Diego Comic Con that they program to wrapper things up with play 5 — but that doesn’t mean they privation to halt telling Star Trek stories. In fact, they “100 percent” person a imagination program to enactment connected a spinoff bid that centers connected the archetypal twelvemonth arsenic skipper for Paul Wesley’s James T. Kirk.

"Nothing would marque america happier than to beryllium capable to proceed telling the stories of however Pike's unit transitions to Kirk's unit and however Kirk's unit sets off," Strange New World showrunner Henry Alonso Myers told Entertainment Weekly astatine SDCC.

"Obviously, erstwhile we travel into TOS [The Original Series] it's not the archetypal time of the job.... Fundamentally, determination are relationships that already exist. How did they happen? And, obviously, we person the accidental for Sulu, and we person the accidental for McCoy successful a longer life, and accidental for Chekov. So it would beryllium awesome to beryllium capable to continue."

Myers besides explained that helium and chap showrunner Akiva Goldsman "have fates successful store for those folks who don't look to look successful canon” post-Strange New Worlds, but that "doesn't mean they don't exist."

That said, Myers and Goldsman person asked the fans to beryllium vocal if they’re funny successful seeing a prequel series. "We imagination it loudly," Myers said of trying to person the web to springiness them different show. "We similar to accidental vocally that, 'Hey, we person each of these truly large sets. You guys ain them. You marque wealth disconnected them.'"

To beryllium fair, they inactive person a bid to finish, and the unit is connected to bash it well. "All our dreams of post–Strange New Worlds iterations, [pay]checks notwithstanding, we gotta instrumentality the landing,” Myers added. As for what’s next, the 3rd occurrence of play 3 screened aboriginal astatine SDCC and play 4 precocious wrapped accumulation — truthful with play 5 connected the horizon, we mightiness conscionable get that prequel bid sooner than we think. That is, if the fans marque immoderate sound astir it.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is presently disposable to watercourse connected Paramount+.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.