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AMC’s Preacher is fast approaching its fourth and final season, and the studio took to San Diego Comic-Con to debut a trailer for the last episodes.

The final season comes with the tagline, “It All Goes to Hell,” and this trailer looks suitably chaotic to fit the theme. It’s chock full of the otherworldly creepiness you’ve come to expect, complete with an apparent nuclear explosion and a very organized apocalypse dossier. It’s our first real look at footage from the season after the short teaser released in April. Check it out below.

Preacher stars Dominic Cooper (Need for Speed) as a man of the cloth, sort of. It’s based on the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic series originally published under the Vertigo label, which was recently retired.

SDCC has also brought plenty of news about AMC’s other adult-oriented comic adaptation, The Walking Dead. The original series is losing one of its biggest stars, while the movie is bringing back another one. Plus its spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead, has been renewed for another season.

One of the most exciting new Star Treks shows on the horizon is called Lower Decks and it’s an animated series from Mike McMahon, a writer on Rick & Morty. During San Diego Comic-Con 2019, attendees of the Star Trek panel were given a little more information about the show–including the fact that it releases on CBS All Access in 2020.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is a show about what happens on the Lower Decks of the ship. According to McMahon, each episode will be 30 minutes long and focuses on four Ensign rank officers on a not very important Starfleet ship. It aims to deliver a mixture of emotional and sci-fi stories.

“It’s all about families. There’s a lot of familiar Star Trek in it. Even though we’re a comedy, it doesn’t make fun of Trek. We focus on people in the ship who are funny.”

Lower Decks is set in 2380, right after Star Trek: Nemesis. The Ensigns mentioned earlier include Tendi (Noel Wells), who is described as having her mind blown every day she’s on the ship. She works in the medical bay and there’s no gross illness that she’s not thrilled to be dealing with. All in all, she’s “a source of joy.”

Another of the Ensigns is Rutherford (Eugene Cordero). “He’s our engineer,” McMahon said. “But unlike Geordi he does not solve the problems by the end of the episode. [He] has a cyborg implant that he just got and is figuring it out.”

According to Alex Kurtzman, who created Star Trek: Discovery and is spearheading many of the upcoming big Star Trek projects, the decision to go with an animated show was inspired by the likes of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

“Some of the best stories that are being told are being told in the animated space,” he said. “Between Spider-Verse and Rick and Morty. Star Trek is limited in what it can be–it has to be more, it can expand.”

As for who the show is aimed at, the Lower Decks team said it’s for “anyone that wants to explore Star Trek and wants more of it.” It has “characters that care about each other and love and grow and change. If you’ve never seen Star Trek before, this could be your first Star Trek.”

At Comic-Con, we also learned more about Picard, Star Trek Discovery Season 3, and upcoming Short Treks.

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It seems Jean-Luc Picard won’t spend the entirety of his new Star Trek series hanging out in France, making wine. A new set of photos out of the Star Trek: Picard panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 take the legendary captain back to space and give more of a look at what we can expect when the series goes to warp later this year.

Before Comic-Con, we knew precious little about the new Picard series, which will air exclusively on CBS’s streaming service, CBS All Access, just like Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Picard was the captain from Star Trek: The Next Generation and four Star Trek movies that followed it, played by Patrick Stewart. We last saw the character back in 2004 in Star Trek: Nemesis when he was still a captain.

The Enterprise crew from Star Trek: TNG more or less disbanded at that point, but the panel at Comic-Con revealed that Picard will feature several Star Trek alumni, including Brent Spiner (Data on TNG), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager), Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh on TNG), Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker on TNG), and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi on TNG). The panel also saw the release of a new trailer for Star Trek: Picard.

A teaser trailer released in May for Picard explained that Picard went on to become an admiral in Starfleet before retiring. The teaser’s voice-over narration states that Picard led the “largest rescue armada” in Federation history 15 years before the show, and apparently saved a lot of lives in doing so. But something tragic also happened during that event, which resulted in Picard abandoning the life of an explorer for a simpler, more terrestrial existence. It’s a retirement we saw hinted at back during the series finale of TNG, “All Good Things,” which showed a flash-forward of Picard tending his family’s vineyard in France.

Check out all the photos above, and check out the rest of our full Picard and Star Trek coverage on our Comic-Con hub.

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Before the release of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, smaller short film-like episodes of a series called Short Treks were released online. During the San Diego Comic-Con Star Trek panel, it was confirmed that six new ones are in production, including three that focus on the USS Enterprise.

These new Short Treks will feature stories focused on Pike, Number One, and Spock, three major characters in current Star Trek fiction. Additionally, two of these new Short Treks will be animated. Further details on exactly what they’ll involve weren’t revealed, but there will no doubt be more information as they get closer to release. They’re said to be “very fun standalone stories” but that everything connects. Their titles are:

• “Ask Not”
• “Q&A”
• “The Trouble With Edward”
• “The Girl Who Made The Stars”
• “Ephaim And Dot”
• “Children Of Mars

We did learn that the last one will be a teaser for Picard, which “will give you a sense of some background 15 years before the series.” You can watch the first Short Treks trailer here.

The Star Trek panel also delivered details on Season 3 of Discovery which, according to creator Alex Kurtzman, is heading further into the future than any Star Wars series before it. There will be a new character called Cleveland “Book” Booker, who is a bit of a rule-breaker. You can learn more about Star Trek: Discovery Season 3’s new details here.

For more on San Diego Comic-Con as a whole, check out our SDCC 2019 hub. All the latest news, whether it’s for TV, movies, comics, or collectibles, can be found there.

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During SDCC 2019, a new trailer for the upcoming Watchmen HBO series was released. The trailer further details the escalating conflict that will take center stage in the show: A world set after the events of the legendary comic series where police have elected to wear masks like vigilantes following a coordinated attack on cops everywhere–what’s the difference between a masked policeman and a dangerous vigilante, though? That’s the rub. The trailer also takes time to flesh out the motivations of some of the key characters, some more familiar for fans of the comics than others. You can watch the new San Diego Comic-Con trailer above.

Based on the comic of the same name, Watchmen takes place in an alternate version of the US in which vigilantes rose to prominence and then quickly became outlawed after billionaire “philanthropist” Adrien Veidt staged a catastrophic attack on New York City to prompt a sort of unification of the world in shared terror of extraterrestrial threats. Seriously, there’s a giant squid and everything–it’s just as crazy as it sounds.

In the show, however, costumed heroes as criminals and the police have stepped into their place, wearing masks and bending laws and reigning terror down on the people they’re supposed to be protecting. Superheroes may still exist in this new status quo, however–several characters from the comics are featured in the trailer, including Hooded Justice and the omnipotent blue Doctor Manhattan, who moved to Mars during the events of the comics and apparently remains there.

Watchmen has always been, at its core, an exploration of the “reality” of a society populated with vigilantes–superpowered or otherwise, and a text looking to question the ability of anyone to engage in violent actions with little accountability. The trailer suggests that tone will be maintained, though from a completely different angle.

Airing on HBO, Watchmen will debut in October 2019.

During the Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Star Trek Discovery creator Alex Kurtzman provided some new information about the show’s upcoming third season. Discovery kicked off the panel and Kurtzman confirmed that the show will take a “radical jump 1000 years into the future.”

This leap of time, he noted, was further than any Star Trek has gone before. As such, the show will introduce numerous changes. There will be “things you recognize, things you don’t recognize,” Kurtzman said. “We get to honor canon, but shake it up quite a bit. It’s still Star Trek, and it will always be Star Trek the way Roddenberry wanted it.”

Continuing, David Ajala was introduced and confirmed to be playing a new character, Cleveland Booker, nicknamed Book. He’s a character that is described as written to “break the rules a little bit.” Ajala added: “And we do break the rules at the start of the season.” Book is also said to be someone you don’t initially expect.

The crowd was then shown a photo of Book and Burnham, the protagonist of Discovery played by Sonequa Martin-Green, wearing long coats standing by the water. The photo was taken in Iceland. Martin-Green stated, “We go to the deepest level of Discovery in Season 3 because we’re in this new place together. We have to figure out where we are and who we are. It’s exciting.”

Kurtzman continued, “They (the discovery crew) choose each other for eternity and leave their families behind. People you’ve met will take center stage, there will be a ton of new characters. The thing that defines Trek is that it’s always about the little, always about the humans, the interspecial interaction. Our focus is on what does it mean and what does it do for the characters?”

One key question is who will be captain, and that’s a subject left intentionally unanswered during the panel.

Expect quite a bit more on Star Trek, including details on Picard. For more on what’s been happening at the show, check out our SDCC 2019 hub, where you’ll find all the latest news. We’ve also put together a roundup of all the coolest trailers from SDCC, so it’s the place to go if you want to catch up on what TVs and movies have in store for us.

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