Animated Teen STAR TREK Series a Go at Nickelodeon

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It’s been about two months since the first rumors began swirling about a kid-focused, animated Star Trek television project for the Nickelodeon cable network — but today, CBS has made the news official.

Headed from writers Kevin and Dan Hageman, this untitled “CG-animated” show may not have a name, but it does have a premise: “The show follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation.”

Executive producers and writers Kevin and Dan Hageman. (CBS)

Here’s the full press release on the new project:

A new, original CG-animated Star Trek series that follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation is in the works from Nickelodeon and CBS Television Studios. The show, to be developed by Emmy Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters, The LEGO Movie), and overseen by Ramsey Naito, EVP, Animation Production and Development, Nickelodeon, will debut exclusively on Nickelodeon. The show will be the second upcoming animated Star Trek series, joining Star Trek: Lower Decks, which will stream on CBS All Access.

‘Star Trek,’ Nickelodeon, and the state of animation are doing incredibly ambitious things as of late. We couldn’t be more excited to jump aboard,” said Dan and Kevin Hageman.

The untitled Trek adventure show will be created under the auspices of CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Television Studios’ new animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Trek veterans Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth, along with animation producer Katie Krentz, will serve as executive producers together with Kevin and Dan Hageman. Aaron Baiers will serve as a co-executive producer.

Star Trek’s mission is to inspire generations of dreamers to build a brighter future,” Kurtzman said. “Dan and Kevin have crafted a story that honors its exploratory spirit in a way that’s never been done before, while the Nickelodeon team blew us away with their excitement at bringing Trek to a younger generation around the world.”

So far, no other information on the upcoming show is available — it’s unclear when the series is targeted for debut, though the long lead time needed for animation projects makes us suspect we won’t see it on television until mid-2020 or later, at minimum.

Along with Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, more planned Short Treks, the untitled Captain Picard Star Trek series, the in-development Star Trek: Lower Decks animated project, and the early-days Section 31 show, this new teen-centric project becomes the fifth full-series roject coming out of CBS new galaxy of Trek developments.

We’ll be sure to bring you all the news and information on this upcoming animated project as it breaks1

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