Captain Kirk's green uniform in Star Trek: The Original Series is part of an overall happy accident. Originally, William Ware Theiss, who designed Star Trek's original Starfleet uniforms, intended Kirk's costume to be lime green. But in 1966, color televisions were still relatively new, and the green uniform appeared gold on-screen. The latest Star Trek series to hit Paramount Plus premieres this May in the form of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. A spinoff of Discovery, the series will serve as a prequel to The Original Series A new promotional video was just shared with the Star Trek Day audience. In it we are re-introduced to Anson Mount(Pike), Ethan Peck (Spock), and Rebecca Romijn (Number One), who we saw in As part of Star Trek Day, which commemorates the anniversary of Star Trek 's first airing on NBC on September 8, 1966, Strange New Worlds will air the first two episodes of its first season on CBS And this includes Star Trek, with Strange New Worlds getting pride of place in a new TV spot. Trek in “Popular is Paramount” At present, Netflix skews hard to younger adults. Paramount+ has revealed that the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will premiere June 15th, with new episodes appearing each Thursday. While the streaming service isn't saying much The first trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has arrived ahead of the show’s May 5th release date on Paramount Plus. The new series is a prequel set 10 years before Star Trek: The The younger Spock and Uhura in Strange New Worlds are the Prime Universe versions who will eventually become the Vulcan and Communications Officer played by Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek: The Original Series. In Strange New Worlds season 1, Cadet Uhura is a new arrival to Captain Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) USS Enterprise ZBu3HED.