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For the nigh 60 long time thatStar Trekhas been a science fiction staple , fans have been forced to endure long waits between an initial hope made by the franchise and seeing that account come to realisation . Being a long - running scientific discipline - fabrication franchise almost inevitably comes with fallow periodswhere no fresh subject is being produced . Like fellow prospicient - runnersStar WarsandDoctor Who , gap between epoch ofStar Trekhave sometimes survive for year , and it was n’t always certain that there would benewStar Trekshowson the other side of the time lag .
The streaming age has n’t necessarily made thing good forStar Trekfans . Shorter season mean we spend less time with characters we ’d wish to get to recognise . The irregular docket of streaming show meanit ’s hard to make out when any given season ofStar Trekwill arrive … or how long it will be when it does . AfterStar Trek ’s keen year in 2022 , when there was a newStar Trekstory almost every week , the gaps betweenStar Trekstories seem longer than ever . There were , however , much long wait inStar Trek .
1013 Months+
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 to Season 3
shoot ofStar Trek : unknown New Worldsseason 3 was delayed by the SAG - AFTRA and the Writers ' Guild of America strikes in 2023 , so 13 months have go across since the Gorn attack on Federation colony Parnassus Beta inStar Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 2 , episode 10 , " Hegemony " . Some characters must survive the cliffhanger ending to be inStar Trek : The Original Series , butthe destiny of new quality like Captain Marie Batel ( Melanie Scrofano ) still hang in the balance over a year later .
To surge fans over for the clock time being , Paramount put up asneak peep clipping ofStar Trek : unusual New Worldsseason 3at San Diego Comic - Con 2024 and teased that the upcoming time of year would arrive sometime in 2025.As of September 2024,an official dismissal date forStar Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 3 has yet to be confirmed , so the wait could wind up being much retentive than 13 calendar month .
917 Months
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 to Season 3
Less than a yr had spend betweenStar Trek : Discovery ’s first 2 seasons , so it was surprising that fans had to waitress for 17 months to see what was on the other side ofDiscovery ’s wormhole to the hereafter , and how the USS Discovery would get along in the 32nd century . Star Trek : Discoverybenefited from a long period between seasons sinceDiscoveryseason 3 acted as a voiced reboot for Commander Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and the USS Discovery crew .
Freed from its 23rd - hundred setting , Star Trek : Discoverystarted to discover its foothold . With new missionary work to reunify a broken Federation and inquire the cataclysmic Burn , a raw setting 900 years in the future , and great fresh characters like Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) , the wait forStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3could be overlook .
819 Months
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 to Season 2
The wait betweenStar Trek : Prodigyseason 1 andProdigyseason 2 should have been shorter than the 19 month it wound up being . lover of all age who enjoy the adventures of the young USS Protostar crew anticipatedStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , earlier scheduled to pelt on Paramount+ late in 2023 . Those plans changed whenParamount canceledStar Trek : Prodigyand removedProdigyseason 1 from Paramount+ . It did n’t count thatStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 was completed . The show would have to find a new home to be released .
fortuitously , the architectural plan tosaveStar Trek : Prodigyworked when Netflix pick upStar Trek : Prodigy . Netflix addedStar Trek : Prodigyseason 1 to their pour catalog on Christmas Day , 2023 . All 20 episodes ofStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 dropped simultaneously on Netflix on July 1 , 2024 , about a year and a one-half after it was initially expected .
724 Months
Star Trek: Picard Season 1 to Season 2
The 24 - month wait betweenStar Trek : Picardseason 1 and time of year 2 was n’t about as long as the 18 - year postponement between the dismission ofStar Trek : Nemesisin 2002 and Patrick Stewart ’s 2020 return as Jean - Luc Picard inStar Trek : Picardseason 1 . After a relatively normal 11 - calendar month delay between the first two seasons ofStar Trek : Discovery , the already - long reach betweenStar Trek : Picard ’s first 2 seasons was exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic .
To foreclose another 2 - twelvemonth gap between seasons , Star Trek : Picardwas renew for a 3rd season beforePicardseason 2 even aired , andPicard ’s final 2 season were shoot back - to - back . This accommodated the schedules ofStar Trek : Picard ’s dramatis personae and crew , and allowed for the extremely anticipatedStar Trek : The Next Generationcast reunioninStar Trek : Picardseason 3 .
625 Months
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 to Season 5
The 24 months that passed betweenStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 andStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 were the longest stop betweenDiscoveryseasons . On paper , the payoff seemed lowly , since time of year 5 wasStar Trek : Discovery ’s short time of year yet , with only 10 episodes . This seemed to be the unexampled normal forStar Treksince the count matchedStar Trek : Strange New WorldsandStar Trek : Lower Decks ' 10 - episode seasons .
Star Trek : DiscoverySeason
Streaming Dates
look meter Since Last Episodes
Number of Episodes
DiscoverySeason 1 , Chapter One
September 2017 – November 2017
N / A
9 installment
DiscoverySeason 1 , Chapter Two
January 2018 – February 2018
8 week
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6 instalment ( 15 total )
DiscoverySeason 2
January 2019 – April 2019
11 months
14 episodes
DiscoverySeason 3
October 2020 – January 2021
17 months
13 episode
DiscoverySeason 4 , Part One
November 2021 – December 2010
7 sequence
DiscoverySeason 4 , Part Two
February 2022 – March 2022
6 week
6 episodes ( 13 total )
DiscoverySeason 5
April 2024 – May 2024
25 month
10 installment
It was deserving it , though . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 was an action - packed adventure cross outer space and prison term , with measured but organic nods to virtually every past era ofStar Trek , and a whodunit that paid off another long wait . Discoveryseason 5 in the end expanded the narration of the Progenitors fromStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 6 , sequence 20 , " The Chase " . unluckily , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 was also the end ofDiscovery — but withStar Trek : Starfleet Academycoming soon , more thirty-second - C adventures wo n’t be too far aside .
58 Years+
Star Trek Beyond to Star Trek 4
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From 2009to 2016’sStar Trek Beyond , J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies maintain the franchise when it seemed likeStar Trekwas done with telly shows . With the premier ofStar Trek : Discoveryin 2017 , however , Star Trek ’s streaming geological era has swivel attention aside from the Kelvin Timeline filmsand sentStar Trek 4into exploitation limbo for 8 + years .
In those 8 eld , Star Trek 4has take various forms , with multiple revision and a revolving door of directors , tramp from Quentin Tarantino to its current attached manager , Andor ’s Toby Haynes . plot of land particular ofStar Trek 4are still under wraps , though if Abrams’Star Trekmovies proceed to pay court to their Prime Universe counterparts , time travel may be involved . If and whenStar Trek 4happens , it will be thelast Kelvin TimelineStar Trekmoviefor Chris Pine ’s James T. Kirk , Zachary Quinto ’s Spock , and Zoe Saldaña ’s Nyota Uhura .
410 Years
Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: The Motion Picture
AfterStar Trek : The Original Serieswas canceled for the third and final clock time in 1969,there was no guaranty that devotee would in reality reunify with Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) , Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) , and Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) . A strong viewing in syndicated reruns prompted the creation ofStar Trek : The Animated Seriesin 1971 , but the Filmation sketch seldom matched the quality of lively - actionStar Trek .
Interest in continuing the Starship Enterprise ’s unrecorded - action adventures top out with the winner ofStar Warsin 1977 , proving that audiences really would come out to theaters for a space - based sci - fi movie . Elements of Roddenberry’sfailedStar Trekspin - off , Star Trek : Phase II , were fold up into a new script , andStar Trek : The Motion Picturehit theaters in 1979 , 10 years afterStar Trek : The Original Seriesaired its final installment .
312 Years
Star Trek: Enterprise to Star Trek: Discovery
Between the end ofStar Trek : Enterprisein 2005 and the premiere ofStar Trek : Discoveryin 2017 , 12 years passed in which fans were unsure thatStar Trekwould ever yield to television . Star Trek : DiscoveryrepresentedStar Trek ’s rebirth into a new television landscape painting , with a new format on cyclosis service CBS All Access ( now Paramount+ ) , deep serialization , and a drab vision of the future thanStar Trekhad ever had .
Say what you will about Star Trek : Discovery , but the dissentious show doubtless added to the unnumbered diversity of the Star Trek franchise .
Star Trek : Discoverywas a young and dissimilar take onStar Trekthat built off of the way that J.J. Abrams ' Kelvin Timeline films reinvigorate the franchise . Despite its rocky start , Star Trek : Discoverynonetheless blaze a trail for newStar Trekseries of the twenty-first century to follow , just asStar Trek : The Next Generationhad done in the 1980s and 1990s .
218 Years
Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: The Next Generation
After the 1969 cancelation ofStar Trek : The Original Series , Star Trekfans lacked an ongoingStar Trektelevision serial publication for 18 year . The premiere ofStar Trek : The Next Generationin 1987 assure a brand - new take onStar Trek , with a full century separating Captain Kirk ’s original Enterprise and the twenty-fourth - century dangerous undertaking of the stain - unexampled USS Enterprise - D crew under Captain Jean - Luc Picard .
Although there were deliberately very few reference toStar Trek : The Original SeriesinStar Trek : The Next Generation , theTNGpremiere , " Encounter at Farpoint " , guest starred DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy to cement the connection between the old and new series .
Fans were initially skeptical of a new Enterprise and a new work party , not to mention Michael Dorn ’s Lieutenant Worf as thefirst Klingon in Starfleet . Of naturally , Star Trek : The Next Generationendured for 7 years and became the definitiveStar Trekfor a whole new generation of buff , spawningStar Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : Voyageras spin - offs of its own , as well as 4Star Trek : The Next Generationmovies .
158 Years
Star Trek “The Cage” to Strange New Worlds
With the longest clock time between a pilot and yield of aStar Trekshow , it take 58 years to make the show that Roddenberry first promisedwith the 1965 pilot ofStar Trek : The Original Series , " The Cage " . As aTOSprequel , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 2hinted at the voyage of a pre - Kirk USS Enterprise , including Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) , Commander Una - Chin Riley ( Rebecca Romijn ) , and Lieutenant Spock ( Ethan Peck ) . Fan demand for aStar Trekseries led byDiscovery ’s magnetic Enterprise trio inspire the creation ofStar Trek : Strange New Worldsin 2022 .
We ’ve conjointly breeze past the criticism that " The Cage " faced in its day .
Star Trekitself is responsible for much of the societal advance that letStar Trek : Strange New Worldsexist , as we ’ve together with breeze past the criticism that " The batting cage " faced in its day . Star Trek ’s female captainshave combat the skepticism of NBC executive director resist Number One ( Majel Barrett - Roddenberry ) as a First Officer . Modern audience attempt out fresh storytelling , andStar Trekdelivers , with an ever - expanding franchise that honors different demographic and perceptiveness . The succeeder ofStar Trek : unknown New Worldsproves that some things are well worth the recollective hold thatStar Trekfans have had to endure .
