"The decision was made to avoid confusion in the marketplace"With the new movie Star Trek Beyond set to be released July of 2016, CBS President Les Moonves revealed that a deal was made to wait 6 months before the release of the Star Trek TV series.
"When [CBS] split from Viacom ten years ago, January 1, 2006, one of the big sticking points, as you can imagine, was "Star Trek", said Moonves, You know, we both wanted it. [Paramount] said "It's a movie!" and I said, "No, no, no, it's a TV show." Actually, we're both right. So they kept the feature film rights, we kept the television rights; they have [Star Trek Beyond] coming out July 22. Our deal with them is that we had to wait six months after their film is launched so there wouldn't be a confusion in the marketplace."
The series is not connected to the movies whatsoever even though it is being produced by Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness co-writer Alex Kurtzman. Paramount will have the option in the future to create a 4th movie, if it chooses, before the franchise gets passed to the series.
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