CultBox is raising a question that's been humming through Trek fandom for months: could Star Trek: Year One represent the next major chapter for the entire franchise? The production update signals that this project is very much a live conversation — and that means one thing for casting fans: the roles are still wide open.
A New Crew, A Blank Canvas
What makes Year One so tantalizing from a fancasting perspective is the sheer scope of possibility. Whether the series revisits the earliest days of Starfleet, chronicles a pre-Kirk era aboard the Enterprise, or charts entirely new territory, it will almost certainly need to fill out a full bridge crew from scratch. That means a captain — arguably the most mythologized role in all of science fiction television — plus a first officer, a chief science or medical officer, a chief engineer, a helmsman, and communications and tactical officers. These are the archetypes that Star Trek has defined and redefined across decades, and Year One offers a rare chance to reinvent all of them simultaneously. The debate over who belongs in that command chair is exactly the kind of casting conversation that can run for years.
What myCast Fans Are Already Thinking
Here's the honest truth: the fancasting community is sitting on a goldmine of untapped potential right now. There are already multiple Star Trek fan-cast stories live on myCast — including Star Trek with 9 roles mapped out, Star Trek with an impressive 54 roles defined, and Star Trek covering 11 key positions — but the votes are still at zero across all three. Zero. That means the conversation hasn't started yet, and whoever gets in early gets to shape the entire fan consensus.
Think about what that means. The 54-role story at Star Trek is essentially a full production waiting for a fandom to adopt it. These stories are frameworks just sitting there, ready for Trek fans to flood them with picks and turn them into the definitive community vision for what Year One could look like. This is genuinely rare — usually by the time a project generates this much buzz, the top slots are already locked in with thousands of votes. Right now, your pick for captain could be the one that sets the standard.