Paramount is doing a Star Trek… radio play?

I mean, they’re calling it something else.

Star Trek: Khan, the scripted audio series first announced in 2022, is coming this year as Paramount announces Lost actor Naveen Andrews as the title role.

Joining Andrews as Marla McGivers, the Enterprise crew member who joined Khan and his crew at the end of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Space Seed,” is Wrenn Schmidt — known for For All Mankind.

“How did Khan go from a beneficent tyrant and superhuman visionary with a new world at his fingertips to the monster we think we know so well? Recently unearthed, the rest of Khan’s story will finally be told in Star Trek: Khan,” says Paramount’s formal announcement.

And that doesn’t… sound so horrible, actually? I like radio plays. A suitably scene-chewing Khan Noonian Singh would translate well to that format. God knows it won’t be a budget-buster. It Might Not Suck.