What's happening with Star Trek's live-action comedy?

The next series that Star Trek has expressed interest in is the jointly-created live-action comedy from Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien. The show involves two resort workers, which some fans are speculating work on Risa, that discover their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to an entire quadrant of the galaxy. Currently, the series has not been greenlit by Paramount, but according to Newsome, who is one of the writers, she is being told to keep writing.

In a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Newsome said that "we keep writing it, and we keep turning things in, and they keep saying, 'Please keep writing.' So, as long as they allow us to do that and they don't say, 'Stop. Close your computers and go home,' we'll continue making it."

Paramount asking for more scripts is a definite strike in the win column for the fledging series, as this makes it apparent executives are liking what they are reading. That's no guarantee, of course, but the franchise is getting a little light on series with Star Trek: Lower Decks coming to an end. Starfleet Academy is the next new series, and Paramount has kept new episodes of Star Trek coming since 2017 (off and on because of Covid-19 and the writers' strike). There doesn't seem to be any indication that Paramount wants to stop that trend.

A new movie, Section 31, will debut on Paramount+ in January 2025, and Alex Kurtzman has already expressed interest in making additional made-for-streaming movies. Fortunately, that means the franchise isn't slowing down, even though it also means we might be getting series and/or movies that aren't everyone's cup of tea.

This live-action comedy by Newsome, who is also writing for Starfleet Academy, and Simien has already gotten some negativity from fans, but there are also many more fans who are looking forward to the series, especially since Newsome indicated that the idea came about because of her and Simien's love of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's bottle episode, like the ones with Quark.