Friday, October 26, 2018

Rick and Morty’s head writer is making an animated Star Trek series

Back in June, CBS Television Studios announced it had signed a five-year deal with Star Trek: Discovery co-creator and executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who would develop a number of future entries in the utopian TV franchise. At the time, it was reported that those shows would include a soapier Starfleet Academy show from the creators of Gossip Girl and Marvel’s Runaways; two limited series, including one based on The Wrath of Khan; and an animated series. Today, the studio announced more details on that animated project: it’ll be an adult cartoon called Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Rick and Morty head writer Mike McMahan.

Described as focusing on “the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships,” the new...

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