Rick & Morty EP to Helm Animated Star Trek Comedy for CBS
CBS All Access has said Make it So to a Star Trek animated comedy series from Rick and Morty head writer and EP Mike McMahan. Titled Star Trek: Lower Decks, the series will focus on the little people- the heretofore unnamed red shirts that work behind the core crew to keep a starship running.
Alex Kurtzman of CBS TV Studios, Secret Hideout said “Mike won our hearts with his first sentence: ‘I want to do a show about the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end.’” Kurtzer also said that McMahan runs deep with the Star Trek universe, naming his cat Riker, and his son, Sagan. “He’s brilliantly funny and knows every inch of every Trek episode, and that’s his secret sauce.”
As a life-long Trekkie, it’s a surreal and wonderful dream come true to be a part of this new era of Star Trek,” McMahan said. “While Star Trek: Lower Decks is a half-hour, animated show at its core, it’s undeniably Trek – and I promise not to add an episode at the very end that reveals the whole thing took place in a training program.”
