With just 10 Star Trek episodes and a movie, the year 2025 saw a dramatic drop from 2024, when 40 episodes premiered across Discovery season 5, Prodigy season 2, and Lower Decks season 5. This year had the lowest number of new Star Trek episodes since 2018, when only the 6 episodes of Discovery season 1 chapter 2 premiered.
The peak year for New Trek was 2022, when 51 episodes premiered (the rest of Prodigy season 1 and Discovery season 4 and the full Picard season 2, Strange New Worlds season 1, and Lower Decks season 3). The peak year for all of Trek was 1993, when 56 episodes premiered: Deep Space 9 seasons 1 and 2, and TNG seasons 6 and 7.
Looking ahead, 2026 should have 20 episodes, across Strange New Worlds season 4 and Starfleet Academy season 1, 2027 should have the final 6 episodes of Strange New Worlds and Academy season 2, with nothing officially scheduled past that. There is a new movie, with no date yet, which I’ve penciled in for 2028.
How much does this matter to Paramount+ subscribers? I tried to untangle that over on Researchscape.com with a survey:
Now, this is a hypothetical question: how many Star Trek episodes a year are important to subscriptions? With only 10 episodes in the past year (Strange New Worlds, Season 3), the 24% who say they need 20 to 50 episodes to maintain their subscription haven’t canceled yet despite saying they want more episodes than were provided. And the 7% of non-subscribers who said 10 episodes a year are enough (2025’s count) and the 9% who said 20 episodes are enough (which will start to happen with the first season of Star Trek: Academy) have reason to sign up, if this was the only thing important to them.
Hat tip to The Star Trek List and Wikipedia.
