Star Trek: Discovery's final season doesn't arrive until 2024, but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has already supplanted Disco as the flagship series of Star Trek on Paramount+. Disappointingly, Discovery's upcoming season 5 was announced as the end of the show. Although Discovery season 5 wasn't intended to close out the series, reshoots will commence in 2023 to craft a definitive and appropriate ending to the show that re-ignited the Star Trek franchise in 2017, a year after the last movie entry, Star Trek Beyond, and 12 years after the cancelation of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds launched in 2022 after the wildly popular appearances of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Pike and Number One were legacy characters who were central to the original failed Star Trek pilot, "The Cage", in the 1960s, and they hadn't been seen in canon since Star Trek: The Original Series' "The Menagerie." Pike, Spock, and Number One were so well-received, the audience actually clamored for them to receive their own spinoff aboard the Starship Enterprise. After testing the waters further with the trio appearing in a pair of Short Treks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds became Paramount+'s third live-action Star Trek series – and it quickly became a runaway hit.
