Well...it’s finally happened. It looks like last week’s story about a new Star Trek series in production wasn’t just a rumor. Because on Friday, CBS All Access announced a series order for a brand new Star Trek series, called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Straight from the press release: the series will be “based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise.”

This is the Pike/Spock/Number One series that fans have clamored for since the first appearance of those characters in Star Trek: Discovery season two. Strange New Worlds brings back Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Spock. According to CBS All Access, “the series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.”

The core production team of Strange New Worlds will be largely the same as those of other Trek series currently in production. Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet and Akiva Goldsman will executive produce, as well as Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. The premiere was written by Goldsman, and with Kurtzman and Lumet also claiming story credit.

Star Trek head honcho Kurtzman was frank in giving fans credit for making Strange New Worlds a reality. “When we said we heard the fans’ outpouring of love for Pike, Number One and Spock when they boarded STAR TREK: DISCOVERY last season, we meant it,” he said. “These iconic characters have a deep history in ‘Star Trek’ canon, yet so much of their stories have yet to be told. With Akiva and Henry at the helm, the Enterprise, its crew and its fans are in for an extraordinary journey to new frontiers in the ‘Star Trek’ universe.”

Congratulations to the whole team - and the fans - for getting Captain Pike back on the bridge...it only took 55 years for that pilot to finally get picked up.