{"id":108030,"date":"2019-04-25T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=108030"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:25:48","slug":"star-trek-new-animated-series-is-heading-to-nickelodeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-trek-new-animated-series-is-heading-to-nickelodeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek new animated series is heading to Nickelodeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new\u00a0<em><strong>Star Trek\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>series on the way, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/intl.startrek.com\/news\/star-trek-nickelodeon-animation\">official franchise website<\/a>. But it&#8217;s taking a slightly different approach to the canon than\u00a0<em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery<\/strong><\/em> or the Picard spin-off series: the new project will be CG-animated, and will debut exclusively in Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n<p>The currently untitled series is being produced by Nickelodeon and CBS Television Studios, and developed by Emmy award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (<em><strong>Trollhunters<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The LEGO Movie<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>It will follow &#8220;a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new series isn&#8217;t the only animated\u00a0<em><strong>Star Trek\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>project in the works &#8212;\u00a0<em><strong>Star Trek: Lower Decks\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is in development for CBS All Access from\u00a0<em><strong>Rick And Morty<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Mike McMahan\u00a0&#8212; but it is the only series to be aimed specifically at a younger audience.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Hagemans said: &#8220;<strong><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong>, Nickelodeon, and the state of animation are doing incredibly ambitious things as of late. We couldn\u2019t be more excited to jump aboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and animation producer Katie Krentz, will serve as executive producers alongside Kevin and Dan Hageman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s mission is to inspire generations of dreamers to build a brighter future,&#8221; said Kurtzman. &#8220;Dan and Kevin have crafted a story that honours its exploratory spirit in a way that\u2019s never been done before, while the Nickelodeon team blew us away with their excitement at bringing Trek to a younger generation around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Star Trek CG-animated series in the works and it&#8217;s heading to Nickelodeon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[96],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/star-trek-the-animated-series-cbs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}