That Rumor About A New Star Trek TV Show is Definitely False

Our hopes of seeing a new Star Trek TV series just got crushed. The latest rumor about the franchise returning to TV is absolutely false.

Yesterday, the Latino Review featured an exclusive report that claims that "CBS is looking to bring Star Trek back to TV.", and the same people who was involved with Star Trek: Federation ten years ago could be supporting this new effort. Robert Burnett is "rumored to be working on a non-Trek project with Skydance Productions" while serving as one of the producers of a new fan movie, Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, which Burnett "can use as an example of how producing a reasonably-budgeted TV series set in the Star Trek Universe this day and age should be a piece of cake.". As much as we would love to see a new Star Trek TV series, sadly, the rumor was debunked by io9.

The site reached out to Burnett to ask about this rumor, and here's what he said:

All of the FEDERATION information is true...but we did that TEN YEARS AGO. The treatment was written but effectively killed when JJ took over. It never went further than the treatment...and no one ever pitched it...and I don't know if Geoffrey wrote a full script. While I have been working on AXANAR, and we are building sets, etc,...I know NOTHING about a new CBS Trek series. As for currently working on something with Skydance? NO COMMENT (but if I WERE, it is NOT related to TREK in any way).

Too bad, the rumor is just speculation and a mix of true information about a 10-year-old project, without any spine to back it up.