It’s been a rough stretch of spacefaring for Star Trek fans. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is now airing its penultimate season, with a truncated fifth and final season in the works. Rookie series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was cancelled after the completion of its second season. In fact, only one Star Trek series doesn’t have an ending on the horizon right now, and that’s the animated Star Trek: Scouts. Will it survive to continue boldly going on YouTube? Collider’s Samantha Coley was at the Star Trek panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con to find out.
Star Trek: Scouts is a preschool-aimed series that intends to serve as an introduction to the franchise for youngsters. It’s the fifth animated Star Trek series. The franchise’s animation history kicked off in 1973, when Star Trek: The Animated Series premiered; a continuation of The Original Series with many of the original crew and cast members, the Filmation series paved the way for the USS Enterprise to return in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Despite a few false starts, the franchise didn’t return to animation until the comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks premiered in 2020, to be shortly followed by the kids’ action series Star Trek: Prodigy in 2021. Rounding out the animation roster is Star Trek: Very Short Treks, a series of surreal animated shorts that commemorated the 50th anniversary of The Animated Series.
As revealed at the Star Trek panel by moderator Scott Mantz, Star Trek: Scouts will return for a second season. What’s more, it will happen sooner than you might think; the second season, which will consist of 30 episodes, will debut on September 8 on Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines YouTube channel. September 8 is Star Trek Day, which commemorates the first broadcast of Star Trek: The Original Series on NBC on September 8, 1966. This year is the franchise’s 60th anniversary, which it has marked with a number of special events and celebrations.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
What Is ‘Star Trek: Scouts’ About?
The series centers around three very young Starfleet trainees in the Scouts program: humans JR (Hudson Brooks) and Roo (Dominique Skye Turner), and cyborg Vulcan Sprocket (Monique Thomas). Assigned to an Earth-like planet, they’re constantly called upon to defend it from any number of spaceborne menaces, and also practice rescue operations on the holodeck. The series premiered on September 8, 2025.
Season 2 of Star Trek: Scouts will premiere on YouTube on September 8, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for all the news coming out of San Diego Comic Con.
