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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Renewed for Fourth Season
The acclaimed hit original series is currently in production for its third season.
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Red Alert!
[url=https://www.startrek.com/series/star-trek-strange-new-worlds]Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for a fourth season.
Co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers and executive producer Alex Kurtzman confirms in a statement, "On behalf of the cast and crew of ‘Strange New Worlds’ we are thrilled and grateful to continue our voyages together. We can't wait for you to join us and the crew of the Enterprise on another season of exploration and adventure."
The third season, set to debut in 2025, is officially under way with production continuing in Toronto.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites from Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery — Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series follows Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Una Chin-Riley (Number One) in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also stars Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’An Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners. Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet serve as executive producers in addition to Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and Aaron Baiers.
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What mirror universe is this?!?
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(04-24-2025, 11:35 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: What mirror universe is this?!?
Sounds F.U.N.! They just need a virtual Hasselhoff...
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Quote:Jun 12, 2025 8:00am PT
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season
By Adam B. Vary
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In something of a surprise, “[url=https://variety.com/t/star-trek/]Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has been renewed for a fifth and final season, Paramount+ announced on Thursday, over a month before the third season premieres on the streamer on July 17. The concluding season will run for six episodes, whereas the other four seasons are comprised of 10 episodes each.
In a joint statement, executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman said they were “deeply grateful to Paramount+ for the chance to complete our five-season mission, just as we envisioned it, alongside our extraordinary cast and crew.”
“From the very beginning, ‘Strange New Worlds’ set out to honor what ‘Star Trek’ has always stood for — boundless curiosity, hope and the belief that a better future is possible,” the statement continued. “And to the passionate fans who’ve boldly joined us on this journey — thank you. With three more spectacular seasons ahead for you to see and enjoy, this adventure is far from over.”
As a prequel series, “Strange New Worlds” has never been coy about where it’s ultimately heading. The show takes place in the years when Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) led the USS Enterprise before James T. Kirk (played on “Strange New Worlds” by Paul Wesley) took command — as depicted on “Star Trek,” the original series in the 1960s. On TOS, Pike is introduced as a man who’s been horribly disfigured and paralyzed, and on “Strange New Worlds,” Pike knows of his eventual tragic fate even as he forges ahead as the Enterprise’s captain.
Goldsman, Myers and Kurtzman’s statement that the series is ending “just as we envisioned it” does suggest the show would deal with the full story of what caused Pike’s accident in some meaningful way. The question is when that event would occur on the show in relation to the series finale, especially considering the reduced episode count for Season 5.
Another major curiosity is whether the “Strange New Worlds” story would continue in a spin-off series set on the Kirk-era Enterprise. Several other actors on the show also play iconic “Trek” characters who debuted on TOS, including Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Chapel (Jess Bush) and the newest addition to the “Strange New Worlds” cast, Martin Quinn as Scotty. And the showrunners have not been shy about their desire to keep telling stories about those characters.
In 2022, after the Season 1 finale, Myers told Variety that he “would love nothing more” than to continue the story of the TOS-era Enterprise. The following year, Goldsman told Variety that “given our druthers — because Henry and I are both greedy and gluttons for punishment — we’d go right into the TOS era and see what happens.”
Whatever happens on the show, Season 5 won’t arrive on streaming for a least a couple of years. Season 4 is currently in production, and likely won’t premiere until mid-to-late 2026. The show is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Alan McElroy, Robbie Thompson, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Chris Fisher, Anson Mount, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth all serve as executive producers.
Well, we already know what will become of Captain Pike. He does too. It was revealed to him in a time travel episode.
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S3ep1 was the conclusion of the cliffhanger from last season's conclusion. The Enterprise is fighting off a Gorn invasion. Like the Klingon mutation, the new Gorns are like Aliens, mostly CGI. I need to rewatch Arena because this totally messes with canon. Uhura is there in SNW so she sees the Gorn, but when she sees them on TOS she recoils in disgust and surprise. Plus TOS Gorns wear clothes. I enjoyed the adventure of it - big space battles - but the Gorn anomaly is annoying.
S3e2 is an alternate episode where Spock marries Chapel. It's manipulated by a Trelane-like being played by Rhys Darby. The monster Easter egg here is that the story ends like The Squire of Gothos (TOS) with the energy ball being 'parents' coming in the rectify all the problems caused by their 8000+ year old child. That is voiced by John de Lancie, who played Q. I have always thought that Trelane was a being like Q. It's been asserted in ST Beta canon. This ep was on the silly side, but the Trelane connection is never detailed - I respect that. For those who know trek, it's obvs and brilliant. It just warps over the heads of nooBs. Additionally, there's a point when Spock punches out Chapel's fiancee. That's also never explained but true Trekkies can connect it to the emotional state Vulcans enter in the kal-if-fee. The Spock/Chapel romance is also defiant of TOS canon, but the new cast is owning their variation like the Kelvin timeline. And TNG Chapel is uber hawt.
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Guess what is now on Netflix?
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(07-18-2025, 12:55 PM)Greg Wrote: Guess what is now on Netflix?
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A zombie ep!
It was so sustaining to come home to a fresh ep
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This is the ep that was previewed in Hall H
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E5 wasa bit of a dud, the first mediocre ep of the season. It had to do with some sort of cause/effect warp, kind of a tomb raider story, but ultimately it defaulted to too much technobabble as ST can do. Perhaps it would've been better if I had a better grasp of what they were talking about.
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E6 was a Kirk ep - his first time in the chair. It was ok - interesting take on his early character development. Thought they were going to reference the Kobayashi Maru, which was set up by Spock in the Kelvin timeline. Not sure if SNW timeline haas a name yet.
Also Pelia claims she was a roadie for the Dead.
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What is Starfleet? (ep7) started out a bit rough. It was done in documentary style, the premise being Erica's brother tasked to make a documentary. It opened with a statement from Starfleet, and was done with an 'amateur' cinematographic style where the 'official' Enterprise cameras were footnoted. SNW is always pushing boundaries, like it should, some work, some don't. This wasn't quite working for me because Erica's bro was labelling Starfleet as colonizers, which it kinda is sometimes, but his character, and the ultimate resolution of his story, wasn't that satisfactory.
The mission was about a space kaiju that was weaponized - a moral dilemma for the crew. As the documentary progressed, there were some snapshots of the crews' backstories - Spock, Uhura, Dr. M'Benga - not overly revelatory but well done. And then the resolution was beautiful. The ultimate definition of the Starfleet was spot on. Gave me the feels.
Gotta hand it to SNW. They keep it coming in fresh new ways.
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