Overview
- Apple released the full Season 5 trailer and confirmed a March 27 premiere, with 10 episodes rolling out weekly on Fridays through May 29.
- Set in an alternate 2010s around 2012, the new season shows Mars’ Happy Valley as a large colony and teases rising Earth–Mars tensions without revealing plot specifics.
- Returning cast includes Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt, joined by new series regulars Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson.
- Apple unveiled first‑look photos for Star City, an eight‑episode prequel billed as a paranoid thriller that explores the Soviet side of the space race, debuting May 29 with two episodes before weekly releases through July 10.
- Showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, with co‑creator Ronald D. Moore, oversee both series, produced by Sony Pictures Television and Tall Ship Productions, with Star City launching the same day Season 5 concludes.