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It's a huge sigh of relief when a spinoff of a classic like the original Star Trek (which ran from 1966 to 1969) is well done, polished, and gripping. Especially when that show stands out in a franchise with twelve - yes, you read that right - twelve corresponding series. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , which serves as a prequel to the original (and iconic) Star Trek series, follows Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) as he leads his crew through the galaxy aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The show, which premiered in 2022, was met with high critical acclaim from the beginning and continues to find fans with each new season - an impressive feat in a time when so many shows get lost in the streaming shuffle. Now renewed for a third season right after its Season 2 finale, here's everything we know so far about the next chapter in the epic space adventure.

With Season 2's finale leaving fans wanting more, it's only natural to be itching for Season 3 to come as soon as possible. While episodes are expected to return in 2024, the production window is from December 2023 to June 2024 for Season 3 , so we may have to wait a bit before we get the answers we're craving .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.

While Strange New Worlds premiered its first two episodes on CBS in 2022, all episodes are now streaming on Paramount+. It can be assumed that the third season of the show will also premiere on the CBS-affiliated streaming service. Subscriptions to Paramount+ are available in two tiers: Paramount+ Essential (with commercials, $5.99/month) and Paramount+ with SHOWTIME (commercial-free, $11.99/month).

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Because production on the third season has yet to begin, there won't be a trailer out for some time.

Leading the charge is fan-favorite Captain Pike , played by Anson Mount. Mount is no stranger to the Star Trek world, as he also appeared in Star Trek: Discovery in 2019. His other credits include films like Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and the Britney Spears -led 2002 drama Crossroads . Ethan Peck 's Spock is another character who appeared in Discovery alongside Mount. Peck also worked on shows like Madam Secretary and 10 Things I Hate About You . The astute La'an is played by Christina Chong , whose credits include Johnny English Reborn and Tom and Jerry .

Erica Ortegas is played by Melissa Navia , whose guest roles include Bull , Homeland , and Billions . Rebecca Romjin plays Una-Chin Riley, Pike's Number One. While Romjin is known for films like X-Men and Austin Powers , perhaps her most unforgettable role was as Cheryl, the gorgeous girl with the disgusting apartment in Season 4 of Friends . Rounding out Pike's crew are Babs Olusanmokun ( Dune ) as Dr. M'Benga, Celia Rose Gooding ( Foul Play ) as Nyota Uhura, and Jess Bush ( Playing For Keeps ) as Nurse Christine Chapel. Arguably, one of the best parts of the Season 2 finale was the appearance of Lieutenant Montgomery Scott ( Martin Quinn ), of the infamous - and incorrect - quote from the OG series: "Beam me up, Scotty!"

Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios , Secret Hideout, and Roddenberry Entertainment, and distributed by Paramount+. The show was created by Akiva Goldsman , Alex Kurtzman , and Jenny Lumet , with Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serving as co-showrunners . Kurtzman, Goldsman, Lumet, and Myers are executive producers on the series, alongside Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin , Frank Siracusa , John Weber , Rod Roddenberry , and Trevor Roth .

With many unanswered questions in the Season 2 finale, there are lots of possibilities for where Season 3 could take Captain Pike and his crew. After the fun and games of the previous musical episode , things switched back to danger mode very quickly, and viewers were ultimately left with a cliffhanger. With the re-appearance of the Gorn (the reptilian-humanoid extraterrestrials first seen in Star Trek in the 1960s), Pike was faced with a decision: heed the commands of the Enterprise not to engage with the Gorn, or do whatever he can to save his people. Pike, being the always-optimistic hero that he is, decides he must try and save his crew. And, when he sees young Gorn working together, his hunch that the species may be able to communicate leads him to want to try and save his crew without violence. While it's unclear how big a role the Gorn will play in Season 3, perhaps Pike's interest in their ability to communicate will be an important factor in not having this happen again. To add (gross) insult to injury, it is revealed that Gorn eggs have been planted in Pike's love interest, Captain Batel, and she may have to sacrifice herself in order to save everyone else. This is also not resolved in the finale, adding another layer to what Season 3 might bring. Will she survive? And if so, what happens to the Gorn eggs? Additionally, diehard Star Trek fans were no doubt thrilled to see Montgomery Scott appear in the Season 2 finale. While the character first appeared in the 1960s, as portrayed by James Doohan , this is his first time on Strange New Worlds. The re-introduction of this iconic character leaves a lot of potential for Season 3.

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S1.E3 ∙ Ghosts of Illyria

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S1.E4 ∙ Memento Mori

S1.E5 ∙ Spock Amok

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S1.E6 ∙ Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach

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S1.E7 ∙ The Serene Squall

Christina Chong in The Elysian Kingdom (2022)

S1.E8 ∙ The Elysian Kingdom

S1.E9 ∙ All Those Who Wander

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S1.E10 ∙ A Quality of Mercy

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The adventures of the USS Enterprise didn’t start with James T Kirk. Star Trek : Strange New Worlds is set around a decade before he embarked on the most famous five-year mission in TV history, and puts his predecessor – Christopher Pike – back in the captain’s chair.

Pike first appeared in original Star Trek pilot ‘The Cage’ back in 1966, but it was his comeback in Star Trek: Discovery’s second season (where he was played by Anson Mount) that earned him his own spin-off show. Pike and fellow ‘Cage’ veterans Number One (played by Rebecca Romijn) and Spock (Ethan Peck inheriting the role made famous by Leonard Nimoy) proved so popular with fans that Paramount Plus decided to make Star Trek: Strange New Worlds the latest addition to Trek’s rapidly expanding shared universe .

And when it launches later this year, the show will feature a few more iconic names from the ’60s, including Nurse Chapel, Dr M’Benga and a genuine Trek legend in the form of Uhura. There’s also a mysterious crew member called La’an Noonien-Singh, whose surname has a special resonance for fans of the final frontier.

With producers promising less serialized storytelling than Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds looks set to get back to the cosmos-exploring traditions of the Original Series and The Next Generation. Here’s everything we know so far – hit it!

What is it? A Star Trek: Discovery spin-off following the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike, science officer Spock and first officer Una Chin-Riley (better known as Number One) on the USS Enterprise, around a decade before James T Kirk takes command.

Release date: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will beam onto Paramount Plus on May 5, 2022 – after Star Trek: Discovery season 4 and Star Trek: Picard season 2 have finished boldly going.

Cast: Alongside its familiar trio of lead characters (still played by Discovery's Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn), six new crew members will be taking their places on the Enterprise bridge. Read more about them below.

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Star trek: strange new worlds release date: may 2022.

It's so long ago that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds got its greenlight (May 2020) that Paramount Plus was still known as CBS All Access at the time.

Unfortunately, coronavirus significantly delayed its departure from Spacedock, and the show didn't make it in front of the cameras until March 2021. Production on Strange New Worlds' 10-episode first season eventually wrapped in October 2021, as confirmed in a video announcement from star Anson Mount:

Incoming transmission from Captain Pike himself Anson Mount ✨ #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds pic.twitter.com/7MzivTtKCH October 11, 2021

Now the wait for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is almost over. StarTrek.com confirmed on January 18, 2022 that the new voyages of the USS Enterprise will boldly go onto Paramount Plus in the US on Thursday May 5, 2022 – coinciding with the conclusion of Starfleet stablemate Picard's second season.

Jess Bush, who'll play Nurse Christine Chapel in the show, celebrated the announcement by posing in one of the Enterprise's Jefferies Tubes with co-star Christina Chong (La'an Noonien-Singh).

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While we know Strange New Worlds will stream on Paramount Plus in the US, it may vary depending on where you are. The streamer is set to launch in the UK in 2022, and we'd expect to see Strange New Worlds debuting on there – especially after the recent controversial announcement that Discovery's fourth season has been shifted from its traditional international home on Netflix, to help launch Paramount Plus around the world.

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There's no sign as yet, but with less than three months until the series' launch, it can't be long until we get to see a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trailer. Indeed, with Star Trek: Discovery returning from its mid-season break and Picard's second season kicking off in early March, Paramount have a pair of tentpoles they can hang a promo off.

That said, journalists at the show's Television Critics Association panel on February 1, 2022 were treated to first-look footage focussing on Cadet Nyota Uhura (played by Celia Rose Gooding), the character made famous by Nichelle Nichols in the Original Series. Den of Geek reported that most of the bridge crew were also accounted for in the clip.

Back in September 2021, the Star Trek Day event also unveiled a brief teaser introducing the cast. It contains a few stills from the new series, including a glimpse at the new-look USS Enterprise uniforms – a modern riff on the classic gold, blue and uniforms we saw in ’The Cage’ and the original series.

Meet the cast of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 💫 https://t.co/M6D2tyQuBA pic.twitter.com/z6ImvEKwZV September 9, 2021

Going back even further in time, leads Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn beamed in an announcement video in May 2020:

As you’d expect, the party line was very much that the show exists because of fan demand. “Without you this wouldn’t be happening,” says Peck, while Mount explains a bit about the tone of the series. “[It’s] a classic Star Trek show that deals with optimism and the future.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds poster: the frontier is waiting

While Paramount are keeping us waiting for a trailer, the tantalizing new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds poster is doing more than enough to get us excited about the show. It features Captain Pike on horseback in what looks like his home in the Mojave desert – but the real excitement comes from what's in the sky above him. The iconic USS Enterprise is hovering in front of a pair of alien worlds – and, no doubt, several new life forms and new civilizations.

If the "The frontier is waiting" tagline isn't enough to get Trek fans firing up their warp drives, chances are nothing will.

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“We wanted [the poster] to reflect that the [concept] of the final frontier is at just the beginning,” executive producer (and Star Trek's de facto commander-in-chief) Alex Kurtzman told the show's TCA panel (via Syfy ) . “We think it brings the sense of nostalgia hope, optimism, exploration and sense of adventure."

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast

Star trek: strange new worlds cast: who’s beaming onto the enterprise bridge.

The principal Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast looks like this:

Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike
Ethan Peck as Mr Spock
Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley/Number One
Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel
Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh
Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura
Melissa Navia as Lt Erica Ortegas
Babs Olusanmokun as Dr M'Benga
Bruce Horak as Hemmer

Ever since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was confirmed in 2020, we've known that three actors would be reprising their roles from Discovery.

Anson Mount is back in the captain’s chair as Captain Christopher Pike. Meanwhile, after proving himself worthy of donning the pointy ears that once belonged to Leonard Nimoy, Ethan Peck returns as Spock. Rebecca Romijn continues as first officer/helmsperson Number One.

A ‘start of production’ video released in March 2021 introduced five other members of the cast:

The five new additions to the USS Enterprise bridge crew are Melissa Navia (from Dietland), Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Christina Chong (Doctor Who, Line of Duty), Babs Olusanmokun (Black Mirror), and Jess Bush (Skinford).

At the Star Trek Day panel in September 2021, it was finally confirmed who each of them would be playing. We also learned that the full name of Number One is Una Chin-Riley – the first time this has been confirmed in the character’s 56-year history.

Intriguingly, three of the new cast members are playing characters who – like, Pike, Number One and Spock – were first established in the 1960s.

The most famous of these roles goes to Celia Rose Gooding, who plays a younger version of Nyota Uhura, the Enterprise communications officer famously portrayed by Nichelle Nichols in the original series and first six Star Trek movies. (Guardians of the Galaxy's Zoe Saldana took on the role in JJ Abrams' rebooted Trek.)

Gooding explained to the assembled journalists at the TCA event in February 2021 that this will be a much less experienced version of the communications officer we saw serving alongside Captain Kirk in the Original series.

“Nichelle had a level of understanding and clarity [in her portrayal], but we're showing different parts of her humanity, which isn't as sure and asks questions as we go along,” the actress explained. “Getting to represent an iconic character in a multi-faceted way is an honor and now we're getting to see other sides of Uhura that go outside of the limitations set for Black women in the '60s."

Babs Olusanmokun plays Dr M'Benga (originally played by Booker Bradshaw), a character who filled in as the Enterprise's chief medical officer when Dr McCoy was absent in the original series. Jess Bush, meanwhile, inherits the role of Nurse Christine Chapel, who worked alongside McCoy in the Enterprise Sick Bay.

Chapel is one of two Strange New Worlds characters who were originally played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry back in the 1960s – the other is Number One, who made her one-and-only vintage Trek appearance in 'The Cage'. (Barrett-Roddenberry also went on to play Lwaxana Troi and voice the Enterprise computers in The Next Generation.)

Of the Starfleet newbies, Bruce Horak's Hemmer is a member of the Andorian species. The fact he's wearing a red shirt – aka Star Trek's sartorial kiss of death – doesn't bode well for his life expectancy. The same could be said for Melissa Navia's Lt Erica Ortegas.

The most mysterious addition to the cast, however, is Christina Chong's La'an Noonien-Singh. The fact she shares a surname with The Wrath of Khan's Big Bad can't be a coincidence, but seeing as Trek canon tells us the cryogenically frozen 20th century villain won't be thawed out until after Kirk has taken command of the Enterprise, it's unclear how they're linked – but there definitely is a connection.

"She's related to Khan for sure, and, uh, the deal will unfold...” co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman confirmed at a Television Critics Association panel in February 2022 (via the Hollywood Reporter ).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds already has its first great mystery...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds story

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Star Trek: Discovery spoilers ahead – proceed with caution if you haven't seen season 2.

Pike, Spock and Number One have been part of the Star Trek story even longer than James T Kirk – they were on board the Enterprise in original Star Trek pilot ‘The Cage’, unaired in the ’60s and set more than a decade before Kirk’s famous five-year mission. Jeffrey Hunter, Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett originated the three roles.

While we know that the trio have been together at least three years by the time Star Trek: Strange New Worlds kicks off and that a tragic fate awaits Pike – more on that later – most of their voyages remain undocumented. That means it’s prime storytelling territory and – after the more serialized Discovery and Picard – a chance for Trek to get back to the standalone stories of its earlier years.

“We’re going to try to harken back to some classical Trek values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic,” executive producer Akiva Goldsman (and director of the Strange New Worlds pilot episode) told Variety in May 2020. “Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you’ve seen in either Discovery or Picard.”

The ability to visit a huge galaxy of, well, strange new worlds, should allow the show to feel different from week to week – after all, this versatile formula is a big reason for the franchise’s longevity.

“We want to do Star Trek in the classic mode; Star Trek in the way Star Trek stories were always told,” fellow EP Henry Alonso Myers said at a Star Trek Day panel (via TrekMovie ). “It's a ship and it's traveling to strange new worlds and we are going to tell big ideas science fiction adventures in an episodic mode. So we have room to meet new aliens, see new ships, visit new cultures..."

Strange New Worlds won't be entirely devoid of serialization, however, as writer Akela Cooper explained: “While we'll have individual one-off plots, the character arcs are what's going to carry us through in a more serialized fashion. There's probably one point that we will be sprinkling through this series until we actually get to the episode. And that's all I can say about that.”

Goldsman explained a bit more about the structure of the show in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter in April: “If you think back to the original [Star Trek] series, it was tonally more liberal – I don‘t mean in terms of politics but it could sort of be more fluid. Like sometimes Robert Bloch would write a horror episode. Or Harlan Ellison would have ‘City on the Edge of Forever’, which is hard sci-fi. Then there would be comedic episodes like 'Shore Leave’ or ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’. So [co-showrunner] Henry Alonso Myers and myself are trying to serve that. We’ve all become very enamored, myself included, with serialized storytelling. Picard is deeply serialized but Strange New Worlds is very much adventure-of-the-week, but with serialized character arcs.”

Going on Mount’s performance in Discovery, Pike is the ideal captain for an optimistic mission of exploration.

“The writers have done a magnificent job of establishing this captain as his own iteration of what a Starfleet captain should be, independent of other captains in canon,” the actor said at the TCA panel (as reported by Syfy ). “Humility is a big part of his character. And his father was a science teacher and scholar of comparative religion, so exploration is a big part of Pike. He’s looking at the things that made us see what’s next over the horizon? Are we searchers or conquerors?”

We can also expect to see a Spock more prone to displays of emotion than his Original Series counterpart, as the younger version of the character struggles to balance his logical Vulcan side with his human urges.

Indeed, in ‘The Cage’, Number One was the more buttoned-up, logical member of the crew – her personality traits passing to the Vulcan when Star Trek went to series. “She's way more complex than y'all know,” actor Rebecca Romijn teased in the cast introduction video released on Star Trek Day, and she expanded on the theme in the panel.

“'The Cage' being such an old pilot, the writers have this very unique opportunity where they've had this character that's existed since the beginning of the canon, but she's never been written,” Romijn pointed out. “I can't wait to find out how vast her skill set is. What are the arrows in her quiver? My number one question is, 'What's her backstory?’ [The writer's room] floated an idea for Number One's backstory that I'm not going to share right now because it blew my mind when they said it.”

Despite being made more than half a century after the Original Series, the look of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will echo those early ’60s designs – from the Enterprise starship interiors to the Starfleet uniforms.

“It’s a fine line because, obviously, we want to keep continuity with the storytelling and the style, but we also want Strange New Worlds to be a different show,” Goldsman told the Hollywood Reporter. “It’s not Discovery. There are a few more reach-backs [to the Original Series] and the uniforms have been adjusted slightly, the sets are slightly different. Remember, the Enterprise existed as a little piece [of Star Trek: Discovery], but now it’s its own object. When you close your eyes and think of the key sets and situations that you think of the Original Series, that’s what we’re looking to do.”

Intriguingly, at this point in the Star Trek timeline , Kirk and other members of the original crew must be out there somewhere in the universe, so the smart money would be on a few headline-grabbing (recast) guest appearances – as the older members of the Original Series line-up, McCoy and Scotty would seem prime candidates.

If a few familiar faces do turn up, however, we may have to wait a while to see them, with Goldsman telling the TCA panel that bringing classic characters back into the fray isn't a priority.

“We’re starting wth this crew and don’t want to bring folks into the show to be splashy,” he said. “We want to dig deeply into the characters in this ensemble. We’re open to widening our arms, but right now, and this is said in the best possible way, what you see is what you get."

Perhaps the biggest elephant on the Enterprise bridge, however, is Pike’s tragic story…

When we meet him in Original Series two-parter ‘The Menagerie’, it’s revealed that he’s been left severely disabled by a radiation leak. In Discovery, he’s forced to endure a vision of that future, so it'll be intriguing to see how that knowledge preys on his mind, and how much it plays into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ story.

“The most honest thing I can say is, I'm still figuring out,” Mount explained at Star Trek Day. “Pike didn't just learn how he dies, he learns in what circumstances. So we do know that at some point he's going to be presented with a promotion opportunity to Fleet Captain. And he has to accept that in order for the fate to come into existence. So what is it that's going to allow him, both in terms of circumstance and emotion, to accept that promotion? It's a tough question but I think we'll figure it out together.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 is already confirmed

The show hasn't even aired yet and Strange New Worlds: season 2 has already been confirmed by Paramount Plus via StarTrek.com . In fact, the streaming service is so engaged by the prospect of a follow-up season that it's already shooting – one journalist at Strange New Worlds' TCA panel on February 1, 2022 noted that Ethan Peck was wearing his Vulcan ears and costume because he was already working on the new season.

At the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #TCA22 panel, Ethan Peck has his costume and Vulcan ears on. He's currently shooting. February 1, 2022

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In the ever-innovating landscape of television, what was old is suddenly new again.

Netflix is contemplating a subscription option with commercials. Hulu broke out of the small-batch programming rut by renewing a sitcom for a whopping 20-episode season. And, after a string of spinoffs characterized by gritty darkness or twisty mythologizing, Paramount+ may have cracked the Star Trek code with a new series that’s bright, optimistic and fundamentally episodic in nature.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Airdate: Thursday, May 5 (Paramount+)

Cast: Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia

Creators: Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet

I actually kinda liked both Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard . Both have ideas that interest me and performances I’m happy to support. But they’re both shows that, once I fell a little behind, I never felt any desire to catch up on.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the tenth overall Star Trek spin-off series, and the first direct spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery that was announced on 15 May 2020 . It was produced by CBS Studios and stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike , Ethan Peck as Spock , and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley .

2.1 Starring
2.2 Special guest stars
2.3 Recurring roles
3.1 Season 1
3.2 Season 2
3.3 Season 3
3.4 Season 4
4.1 Inception
4.2 Development
4.3.1 Products
5 Related topics
7 External links

Premise [ ]

The official announcement stated that "the series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the USS Enterprise , as they explore new worlds around the galaxy." [1]

Executive Producer and Co-creator Akiva Goldsman told Variety , " We're going to try to harken back to some classical 'Trek' values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic. Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you've seen in either Discovery or Picard . ... I imagine it to be closer to The Original Series than even DS9 . We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece. " [2]

When talking to Deadline on 16 August 2020 Co-executive Producer Alex Kurtzman elaborated, " I think Strange New Worlds , under the guidance of [showrunners] Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, it's going to be a return in a way to TOS [ Star Trek: The Original Series ] . We are going to do stand-alone episodes. There will be emotional serialization. There will be two-parters. There will be larger plot arcs. But it really is back to the model of alien-of-the-week, planet-of-the-week, challenge-on-the-ship-of-the-week. With these characters pre-Kirk's Enterprise ... I think what people responded so much to in all three characters is this kind of relentless optimism that they have. And that they are at the young phase of their careers. " [3]

Starring [ ]

Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike
Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock
Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel
Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh
Celia Rose Gooding as Ensign Nyota Uhura
Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas
Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. Joseph M'Benga
Bruce Horak as Hemmer (Season 1)
Rebecca Romijn as Number One

Special guest stars [ ]

Eugene Cordero as Sam Rutherford (voice)
Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner
Jerry O'Connell as Jack Ransom (voice)
Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler
Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi (voice)
Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk

Recurring roles [ ]

Shawn Ahmed as Shankar
Rong Fu as Jenna Mitchell
Adrian Holmes as Robert April
Jennifer Hui as Christina
Dan Jeannotte as George Samuel Kirk
André Dae Kim as Kyle (Season 1)
Gia Sandhu as T'Pring
Melanie Scrofano as Marie Batel
Carol Kane as Pelia (Season 2)

Episode list [ ]

Season 1 [ ].

SNW Season 1 , 10 episodes:

Season 2 [ ]

SNW Season 2 , 10 episodes: [4]

Season 3 [ ]

SNW Season 3 , 10 episodes: [5]

Season 4 [ ]

SNW Season 4 , 10 episodes: [6]

Production history [ ]

When the news of showrunner Alex Kurtzman 's five-year Star Trek development deal with CBS All Access was announced on 19 June 2018, a show dealing with Christopher Pike, Spock, and the USS Enterprise was not considered for inclusion in any Star Trek line-up. [7]

Star Trek: The Original Series characters, Christopher Pike , Number One , and Spock , were introduced for season two of Discovery and were signed only for that season. [8] [9] It prompted Anson Mount to quip with a "#WillActForFood" hashtag on his Twitter account, making it known that he and Spock performer Ethan Peck were on the job market again shortly after live-action production on season two had wrapped. [10] Following the positive reception to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery , fans circulated a petition in support more appearances of Mount as Captain Pike and Peck as Spock, including the idea of a full new series. [11] Mount expressed support for the fan petition, stating he felt "humbled and deeply touched by this amount of love" in an 14 April 2019 Facebook entry. [12] [13] Peck also expressed interest in returning to the role of Spock. [14]

Mount, Romijn, and Peck reprised their roles in three late 2019 season two episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks .

Inception [ ]

In January 2020, Kurtzman confirmed he and Akiva Goldsman were having "active conversations" about a new series involving the crew of the Enterprise . [15]

On 15 May 2020, CBS announced a new series "based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the USS Enterprise ." [16] The announcement included that Strange New Worlds would feature Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, all reprising their roles from the second season of Star Trek: Discovery .

Development [ ]

TRR : " Hide and Seek " presented " The Cage " as the pilot to this series, as opposed to Star Trek: The Original Series .

Prior to its premiere, Paramount+ specifically suggested that viewers could prepare for the launch of the new series by checking out the following DIS Season 2 episodes:

Episode 1 - " Brother "
Episode 8 - " If Memory Serves "
Episode 12 - " Through the Valley of Shadows "
Episode 14 - " Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 "

StarTrek.com presented its own list of episodes to watch before the premiere. In addition to the aforementioned Discovery episode "Through the Valley of Shadows", this list of original series episodes served more as a primer for familiarizing or refamiliarizing viewers with the series' cast:

" The Menagerie, Part I "+" The Menagerie, Part II "
" Space Seed "
" Journey to Babel "
" Mirror, Mirror "
" The Deadly Years "
" A Private Little War "

Promotion [ ]

Products [ ]

In March 2021 , Eaglemoss/Hero Collector 's Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection premiered at retail. A new starship miniatures partwork and product line, it would have featured Strange New Worlds starships, combined with ships from Star Trek: Discovery (after the release of issue 33 of the DIS partwork ) and Star Trek: Picard . The line's manager indicated that CGI assets of SNW's starships had not yet been received from the show's producers, as of February 2021, which was not that surprising as actual production on the new series had yet to start at that point in time. [17]

Eaglemoss' bankruptcy on 5 August 2022 thwarted all intents to release Strange New Worlds starships and none were, save one. Replicas of Pike's USS Enterprise though, had previously been produced by the company as part of the Discovery partwork collection, as it had already debuted in that series.

External links [ ]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at Wikipedia
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at the Internet Movie Database

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3: Cast, Story, Updates

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 filming began in December 2023 and is expected to last until May 2024.
Strange New Worlds season 3 likely won't premiere until 2025 but the show has been renewed for season 4.
Season 3 will explore the fate of Captain Batel and the captured Enterprise crew, as well as introduce Nurse Chapel's fianc Roger Korby, and other exciting storylines.

Anticipation is high for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 following season 2's nail-biting cliffhanger. Strange New Worlds season 2's finale, "Hegemony," saw Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise defy Starfleet orders to rescue Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) and the colonists of the planet Parnassus Beta. By the end of Strange New Worlds ' thrilling season 2 finale, Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Lt. Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte, Dr. Joseph M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), and Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) are captured by the Gorn and Batel has become a host to the terrifying alien species' parasitic eggs.

When the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns in season 3, it will be to a very different Star Trek on Paramount+ landscape. Star Trek: Discover y will have ended with season 5, essentially passing the torch to Strange New Worlds as the flagship Star Trek on Paramount+ live-action series. Star Trek: Lower Decks also will have ended with season 5. The next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , will begin production in fall 2024. The first made-for-streaming Star Trek on Paramount+ movie, Star Trek: Section 31 starring Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh, is completed and awaits a Paramount+ premiere date. But it's safe to say Strange New Worlds will be the franchise's new crown jewel series, especially after the positive reception to season 2.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale nailbiter brings back the fearsome Gorn and ends with Captain Pike facing an impossible choice.

Production started in December 2023 and is expected to last until May 2024

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was ready to begin filming in May 2023, but production was halted and delayed for 7 months thanks to the dual Writer's Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes. When the picketing was over, Strange New Worlds season 3 production finally began filming in December and is expected to last until May 2024 . Producing director Chris Fisher is directing Strange New Worlds season 3's premiere, which will resolve Strange New Worlds season 2's Gorn cliffhanger. Fisher directed Strange New Worlds season 1's finale , "A Quality of Mercy," and Strange New Worlds season 2's premiere, "The Broken Circle."

Other directors lined up for Strange New Worlds season 3 are Jordan Canning, who helmed Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 2, and Dan Liu, who takes over for Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 3. Canning directed the Vulcan comedy romp Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 5, "Charades," while Liu helmed the tense Strange New Worlds season 1, episode 4, "Memento Mori," and Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 6, "Lost in Translation." In addition, Jonathan Frakes will direct a "Hollywood noir" episode of Strange New Worlds season 3 after he was lauded for directing Strange New Worlds ' comedy crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks .

The other Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 directors are Valerie Weiss, Sharon Lewis, Andrew Coutts, and Maja Vrvilo.

The wait for Strange New Worlds season 3 will likely last until 2025.

Realistically, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 probably won't premiere on Paramount+ until some time in 2025 . When filming finally wraps in May 2024, post-production and visual effects for Strange New Worlds season 3's 10 episodes will take time to complete. Further, Paramount+ will need Strange New Worlds season 3 as the centerpiece of Star Trek in its 2025 schedule. However, this doesn't stop eager audience members from hoping Strange New Worlds season 3 could split its release and drop the first episodes by the end of 2024, mainly so that they can see the resolution of Strange New Worlds season 2's cliffhanger .

Expect more "big swings" from Strange New Worlds season 3

As well as resolving the fate of Captain Batel and the captured Starship Enterprise crew, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has already set up multiple storylines for season 3 . One of the biggest storylines will be the arrival of Nurse Christine Chapel's (Jess Bush) fiance Roger Korby which will create new a love triangle involving Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck). Other big storylines set up in Strange New Worlds season 2 include Dr. M'Benga and his dark secrets from the Klingon War, the impending fatherhood of Lieutenant James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley), and Kirk's promotion to Commander aboard the USS Farragut. Scotty (Martin Quinn) also joined the cast of Strange New Worlds and could recur in season 3.

The USS Enterprise will have a new Science Lab in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Viewers can also expect some big genre swings to follow in the footsteps of Star Trek 's first-ever musical episode and the animated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks . Already announced is Strange New Worlds season 3's "Hollywood Noir" episode directed by Jonathan Frakes. Most excitingly for fans of Star Trek: The Original Series will be a chance to see the young Montgomery Scott learn and grow into the USS Enterprise's legendary Chief Engineer. There are still at least six years before Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) takes command of the Starship Enterprise giving Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 plenty of ground to cover when it returns.

Expect Strange New Worlds to help celebrate Star Trek's 60th anniversary

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds received an early season 4 renewal from Paramount+. Although Strange New Worlds season 4 won't film back-to-back like Strange New Worlds seasons 1 and 2 did, it's possible that production for the show's fourth season could begin in late 2024 or in 2025 after a hiatus. This projects Strange New Worlds season 2 to premiere on Paramount+ in 2026, which would help mark Star Trek 's 60th anniversary. Given that very little has been revealed about season 3, it's too early to tell what Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will be about, but it's thrilling to know that more voyages of Captain Pike's Starship Enterprise are assured.

All episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are streaming now on Paramount+

Cast Bruce Horak, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Christina Chong, Anson Mount

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Showrunner Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the eighth live-action television series in the Star Trek universe. Depicting the iconic U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, the series is set about a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series .

Intentionally a more "traditional" Star Trek series than its predecessors Discovery and Picard , Strange New Worlds returns to an episodic story structure, with a core premise of exploring... well... strange new worlds. In some aspects it goes all the way back to the beginning of Star Trek , with main characters who first appeared in the original series ' unaired pilot episode " The Cage ".

Anson Mount reprises his role from the second season of Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Pike, as do Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley, better known as Number One. The main cast also includes several other characters from TOS , including Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M'Benga. Newly-created main characters include Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia as helmswoman Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak as Hemmer note an Aenar: a blind telepathic albino subspecies of the Andorians and Carol Kane as Pelia down in Engineering. The series has also featured several guest appearances by Paul Wesley as an up-and-coming lieutenant named James Tiberius Kirk .

The series premiered on Paramount+ on May 5, 2022. The second season premiered on June 15, 2023, notably including a crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks . A third season has been greenlit, but delayed due to actors' and writers' strikes.

A five issue comic book mini-series, Star Trek Strange New Worlds The Illyrian Enigma , was published between seasons 1 and 2, bridging the gap between them.

This series contains the following tropes.

Adaptational Diversity : The Original Series was already fairly diverse according to human ethnicities, but in part due to budget Spock as a Half-Human Hybrid was the only alien. It filtered into the general lore for the Next Generation era that despite an open door policy Starfleet still remains largely human-centric or human-like. Other shows, starting with Star Trek: The Animated Series which by virtue of being animated could show Kirk's Enterprise with more diverse alien crewmembers (particularly a pair of recurring Caitian and Edosian bridge officers), would make an effort to display Starfleet as much more exotic, which has filtered into this show by including Lt. Hemmer, an Andorian Aenar, as the Chief Engineer and Una, an Illyrian, as the Executive Officer . Even beyond that, there are more female than male cast members, which is a first for any series. Episode five also has one unnamed Bolian female in a science division uniform. In season 2, Hemmer's death, and replacement by Commander Pelia, another Human Alien , makes the cast even more mostly female.
Adapted Out : Absent from the Enterprise crew are Phil Boyce, J.M. Colt, and Jose Tyler. Only the former has a replacement in the form of Joseph M'Benga. As the series takes place 5 years after the events of "The Cage" they presumably did not return to the crew for the 2nd 5 year mission.
Apocalypse How : Planetary. Captain Pike shows aliens footage of what happens when a planet goes full nuclear exchange... by showing them documentary footage from Earth, circa the 2030s to 2060s. The Second American Civil War coincides with the Eugenics Wars in South Asia, eventually spiraling into the 27-year-long World War III that triggers a global thermonuclear exchange between the Western states and the Eastern Coalition sometime between 2040 and 2060. We see Paris, Washington D.C. and New York vaporized in fireballs visible from space. Pike states that a third of the human species dies in the conflict. (Don't worry, the Vulcans make first contact in 2063 and uplift humanity out of the ashes.)
Animated Episode : " Those Old Scientists " is a crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks , and the prologue and epilogue both take place in the cartoon USS Cerritos , over a century in SNW's future. Then we cut back to the present-day Enterprise , where the crew tries the Orion version of a Gargle Blaster and turn into a Lower Decks -style cartoon themselves.
The Enterprise retains its rework design from Star Trek: Discovery , which is a(n anachronistic) halfway point between the TOS design and the TMP redesign.
Season 1 is utterly devoid of Klingons, but when the ship appeared on Discovery , Klingons had the redesign from that show. Season 2's trailer depicts Klingons using the makeup introduced in TMP and used throughout the 24th-century shows, which is not the orc-esque head-bulge look used for DISCO or the TOS " Ambiguously Brown with distinctive hairstyles" look.
Broad Strokes : The series doesn't try too hard to be consistent with the exact details of canon established in the Original Series.
"Strange New Worlds" asks whether Pike and the civilization of Kiley 279 can escape their fate or whether they are doomed to suffer painful and disfiguring events. (By extension, it's also asking this question about the audience, many of whom will be around to be vaporized in the global thermonuclear exchange in the 2050s.)
In each plotline of "Ghosts of Illyria" the crew encounters the negative consequences of trying to be someone they are not.
In "Spock Amok" the characters are forced to practice empathy and see things from a different perspective in order to succeed.
In "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" Pike and M'Benga have to grapple with how much to sacrifice in the pursuit of a worthy goal.
In TOS, the Gorn were depicted as Anti Villains who, while unfriendly to the Federation, are otherwise are a civilized race with a government, diplomatic relations, etc. In this show, they're a race of Always Chaotic Evil Social Darwinists who raid ships and colonies for prisoners to use for reproduction or kill for sport. "All Those Who Wander" is a blatant Whole-Plot Reference to Aliens , with a trio of Gorn hatchlings standing in for the xenomorphs. Admittedly, Strange New Worlds is set eight years earlier in the timeline, where formal first contact hasn't occurred and the Gorn are still Inscrutable Aliens , but it's still hard to reconcile these two depictions of the species.
In the Short Treks episode "Q&A," Number One advised Spock to "keep your freaky to yourself" if he wants to climb the ladder to command — and when he asked what she has been hiding, delivered a flawless rendition of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General." But here, it turns out that what she's actually been hiding is her Illyrian heritage and associated genetic modifications, which if detected would have her drummed out of Starfleet and imprisoned.
Cerebus Rollercoaster : Season 2. The odd-numbered episodes grow increasingly light-hearted as it progresses (with the exception of the drama-heavy "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"), while the even-numbered ones grow increasingly dark. It kicks off with one which starts with the Enterprise crew stealing their own ship and ends with Spock defusing a diplomatic situation with the Klingons through a bloodwine drinking contest, which is followed by a Courtroom Episode which sees Una facing life in prison. It becomes particularly noticeable toward the end — the last four episodes are, in order, a crossover with Lower Decks , an episode about war crimes and PTSD, a Musical Episode and an Aliens -esque one which sees the crew in a confrontation with the ferocious Gorn and the Federation on the brink of war.
The first episode presents Captain Pike riding on horseback, as "The Cage" and "Q&A" presented as being a hobby of his. One of the promotional posters even shows Pike on a horse as the Enterprise hovers in the background.
The full trailer features a few sound effects from TOS (such as the medical bay beeps), and the musical cues include snippets from the TOS theme.
The opening theme music is recognizably the TOS theme, albeit in a much more bombastic adventurous spectacle.
In the first scene Pike is watching The Day The Earth Stood Still on what looks like an anachronistic plasma TV. In "The Cage", Pike is shown to collect antique technology, including an ancient TV.
The shuttle bringing Pike to the Enterprise is named Stamets . While the fate of Discovery may be classified, clearly its crew is not entirely forgotten by Starfleet.
Dr. M'Benga keeps his daughter's pattern in the transporter buffer to save her from an incurable disease, noting that doing so essentially keeps her in suspended animation as long as he rematerializes her once in a while so her pattern doesn't degrade. In TNG 's "Relics", Scotty pulled a similar trick to store himself in the pattern buffer of the Jenolan after it crashed, though he had to rig the transporter's diagnostic mode to maintain their patterns to avoid the need to rematerialize and further drain the ship's limited power. As Scotty and Dr. M'Benga served on the Enterprise together — M'Benga actually appears in two episodes of TOS — the implication is Scotty learned the trick from him.
"Memento Mori" purposefully evokes elements from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the TOS episode "Balance of Terror" in its plot - both of whom drew heavily from classic submarine movies . The Enterprise is ambushed with its shield down by an enemy, grievously damaged, forced to escape in a space phenomenon where sensors and shields are rendered useless to even up the score, where a game of cat and mouse ensues - all heavily resembling the plot of Star Trek II . And like "Balance of Terror" the plot is kicked off by the Enterprise responding to the distress call of a colony under attack, where the survivors have been used as bait to draw the Enterprise , and feature an enemy that the crew has not encountered before.
Boimler's farewell to the landing party occurs at the moment before the end credits roll... in his native show, which leads to Mariner ensuring the plot lasts longer.
Cool Starship : The Enterprise is still as beautiful as ever, featuring a bright, spacious and welcoming interior. As per being a Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel with modern production values, technical effects, and a better budget, the original 1701 Enterprise has been reshaped to more closely resemble the Movie-period refit, such as the more robust inter-hull neck, more curvy engineering hull, and backswept nacelle pylons (making the refit far less drastic than compared to the TOS rendition of the Enterprise ) while still retaining the classic 1960s Sci-Fi Zeerust appeal, with the tubular red-capped nacelles, gold-plated externalized deflector dish, and white glowing dorsal/ventral domes on the Saucer hull. She also has hull section proportions far closer to the TOS model than the JJ Abrams movies' Enterprise (particularly the engineering hull).
Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel : Like its predecessor, SNW is presented as taking place before TOS , but its costumes, set design and visual effects are much more advanced than the Original Series. It definitely provides an interesting contrast with both the Kelvin-timeline films and DSC , especially in how it adds warmer tan and maroon coloring to evoke the color scheme of the ships interior from the original show, all while using more modern fiberglass paneling and LED lights.
Costume Evolution : The uniforms have been redesigned from their appearance in Discovery to hew closer to the TOS era, removing almost all costume quirks of the previous show (particularly a high, asymmetric collar) and focusing more on the classic look of black pants and boots with colored tunics. The primary new addition is the embroidery moved towards the shoulders, along with the tunics having visible zippers.
Crystal Spires and Togas : Majalis is full of gold and silk and shine, looking like a royal palace from Star Wars . There is no poverty, and no disease, even though it is suspended above a hostile surface of lava and acid. But the hidden facility where the "First Servant" is hooked up to the power generator for this paradise has a grim Used Future look, not having been altered since it was built by the ancients.
Captain Pike has seen his own near-death 10 years in the future.
Commander Chin-Riley concealed her identity as an augmented Illyrian to get into Starfleet, a secret she kept successfully for decades.
Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh gets a twofer: not only is she the direct descendant of one of Earth's most notorious warlords and therefore the target of bullying as a child, she's also the sole survivor of her colony ship which was abducted by the Gorn.
Cadet Uhura was orphaned in a tragic accident, joining Starfleet to escape the grief of her family's death.
Doctor M'Benga's daughter contracted a terminal illness and he keeps her suspended in a transporter to stall its progress in the hopes that somewhere in space he'll find a cure.
Lieutenant Spock's adoptive sister was fired into a wormhole to the future. Also, his dad Sarek practically disowned him when he joined Starfleet instead of the Vulcan Science Ministry. Also, he was mind-boggled by the experience of viewing time non-linearly and regressed to a near-catatonic state. Spock's had a rough year.
Starfleet observes "Remembrance Day" in which officers wear a pin that commemorates a lost ship or shipmate. Everyone is wearing these pins, which statistically has dark implications for Starfleet personnel. Of course, there was a recent war.
M'Benga, Chapel and Ortegas were part of the Federation-Klingon War that played out in season one of Discovery . M'Benga and Chapel in particular suffer from PTSD from the war, having been on the frontlines in infantry combat and witnessed horrific slaughter. Ortegas doesn't elaborate on her experience much, but it's implied she served in starship combat, given her recounting of the Klingons shouting "Remain Klingon" over the comms.

Pike is haunted by the vision of his future that he was shown by the Time Crystal, believing it to be how he dies. However, the audience knows that not only will he survive, but be taken to live out the rest of his life on Talos IV. note Given it shows that fate in at least one of those flashbacks, he regards what becomes of him as the "death" of who he is now, even if not literally so.
Both of the Enterprise medical staff lying about how Ambassador Dak'Rah died in "Under the Cloak of War" will, in a way, eventually lead to the deaths of numerous Federation citizens, such as the crew of the yet to be constructed USS Grissom and even the son of Enterprise's next captain.
Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong : Episode 9 establishes that the Gorn, despite being the franchise's most iconic example of Lizard Folk , reproduce like parasitic wasps: they implant their eggs in captured humanoids and the hatchlings eat their way out.
Pike is well aware of his eventual Fate Worse than Death , and it haunts him. As the trailer shows, Spock assures him that the future is not written in stone, and it can be whatever path we chose. Unfortunately, the audience knows as well as Pike that he will not be able to avoid this. S1 finale “A Quality of Mercy” really hammers this home, as a time-traveling alternate future Pike shows current Pike any attempts to avert his fate will result in disaster for the entire Federation and/or galaxy, and the deaths of Spock in every timeline. Yikes.
While Spock and T'Pring are (evidently happily) engaged at the start of the series, the relationship will eventually fall apart by the time he becomes Enterprise 's First Officer, leading to the events of "Amok Time". The series takes advantage of the previously established flirtation between Spock and Nurse Chapel to create a Love Triangle where Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder .
Genre Roulette : Season 2 goes crazy with this trope, from an action episode to a Courtroom Episode to a traumatizing time-traveling romantic drama to a memory-loss episode to a whimsical episode about Spock being human to a horrifying hallucinations episode to the Star Trek: Lower Decks crossover to an episode dealing with wartime PTSD to a Musical Episode to another battle with the Gorn.
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act : This actually serves as part of the plot of "Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow" as the plan by the Romulans is to kill Khan Noonien-Singh, thereby preventing the Eugenics Wars from ever occurring and the constant struggles that strengthen humanity to help become a founding member of the Federation and become a massive thorn in their side in the first place. It's also discussed why this doesn't end up working in the long run as it is explained that even when events are successfully erased in continuity from how they should have been, either other factions or time itself will correct the actions if the original place in the timeline can no longer logically exist, as explained when the Temporal Cold War forced the Eugenics Wars to be moved up several decades from the 90s rather than cease to exist altogether — only a full blown immutable paradox (such as killing Khan himself, a historically significant figure) can drastically alter the continuity of the universe in a way that timelines wildly diverge.
Hope Spot : Majalis' medical knowledge is so far ahead of the Federation's that the Enterprise's sickbay might as well be a medieval barber's, and could treat M'Benga's daughter—but they are bound by a Prime Directive-like stricture not to share their knowledge with "less advanced" civilizations.
Hotter and Sexier : Present, but downplayed. The series premiere has Pike and Captain Batel in the wake of a sexual encounter at Pike's home in Montana, while shortly afterwards, Spock and T'Pring get a case of Interrupted Intimacy when Pike calls to inform Spock that the Enterprise is returning to service early. It's certainly more explicitly present than earlier Star Trek series, while not at the sex-appeal level of, say, Enterprise (with its infamous decon chamber scenes) or the recent trio of alternate reality films .
Ink-Suit Actor : Inverted in Season 2; Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid, voice actors for Ensigns Mariner and Boimler on Star Trek: Lower Decks , reprise their roles in live-action, which is simple for them to do as their characters were designed to resemble the actors.
Interrupted Intimacy : Spock and T'Pring are interrupted by an emergency call from Starfleet. T'Pring proposes marriage to Spock and he accepts, but the very same night he is called away by a Starfleet emergency. This event in 2259 foreshadows their estranged relationship and eventual split in 2267, culminating in the events of "Amok Time".
It Will Never Catch On : When told that the prohibition against interfering with pre-warp civilizations will be renamed the Prime Directive, Pike comments "Well, that'll never stick".
Lighter and Softer : The series as a whole when compared to its immediate predecessors Discovery and Picard . The showrunners consciously chose to produce a more upbeat, classically styled episodic action-adventure show in the vein of The Original Series and The Next Generation , with more talking-out of problems, less gratuitous violence, and fewer swear words (one almost-case of a Precision F-Strike was actually a Curse Cut Short ). As a result, most episodes are rated "TV-PG", as opposed to the "TV-14" and "TV-MA" ratings of its aforementioned contemporaries.
Love Triangle : Spock/T'Pring/Chapel, as a Call-Forward to Star Trek: The Original Series . In " Strange New Worlds ", Spock gets engaged to T'Pring (his New Old Flame in " Amok Time "), but during their duty-induced separations he also becomes attracted to Enterprise Nurse Christine Chapel (who carried an obvious torch for him in TOS). It comes to a head in " Charades ": Spock becomes irritated with his mother-in-law-to-be's anti-human racism while performing engagement rituals with T'Pring and her family, and reveals that he had passed her tests while fully human (because of plot shenanigans ). T'Pring is hurt that he didn't read her in and asks to take a break, and he ends up sleeping with Chapel On the Rebound , only to have her break up with him in " Subspace Rhapsody ".
Multi-Gendered Outfit : In " The Serene Squall ", Dr. Aspen ( who is actually the Space Pirate captain "Angel" ), played by non-binary actress Jesse James Keitel , uses "they/them" pronouns and wears an embroidered black bodystocking and combat boots. They have a couple significant conversations with Spock about his being a Half-Human Hybrid , suggesting he view being half-Vulcan, half-human as a point on a spectrum instead of trying to fully be one or the other.
Mythology Gag : Erica Ortegas got her surname from Gene Roddenberry's first pitch for the original series; in that pitch, the character that became Lt. José Tyler was named José Ortegas.
Opening Narration : The classic "Space, the final frontier..." narration is back, as shown in the page quote. It uses the phrase "Its five-year mission" from the original version in TOS , while keeping the updated "where no one has gone before" from TNG .
Plot Armor : Pike's In-Universe future fate appears to give him this. It's part of how he knows the Enterprise won't be crushed by the black hole in Episode 4.
Powered by a Forsaken Child : For reasons unexplained, the founders of Majalis designed the mainframe of the system keeping their civilization literally afloat to require the developing neural pathways of a child. A process that is explicitly said to cause the child agony and will eventually leave said child a desiccated husk. Unsurprising, given the episode's inspiration .
One-Steve Limit : Played with. We have Christopher Pike and Christine Chapel on board, with the nickname for both names being "Chris" (though Christine is never called that).
Real Life Writes the Plot : Pike has a limited amount of screen time in the first three episodes of season 2, allowing Anson Mount to spend more time with his wife and their newborn child.
Retcon : During the original series' runs, the Eugenics Wars and World War III were distinct, separate events, the former beginning in the 1990s. Strange New Worlds changes it so that they are a single, prolonged series of events, with multiple names note though, since the "Eugenics Wars" are usually talked about in the plural , nothing prevents there from having been multiple Eugenics Wars in the 1990s and the 21st century . The season 2 episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" reveals that the Temporal Cold War shifted the Eugenics Wars from the 90s to the 21st century. Sera suggests that time itself may also be responsible for the shift, as factions remove it from the timeline, time reinserts it back in at a later date.
Revisiting the Roots : Hard to be closer to "the roots" than taking characters from the original pilot episode and finally giving them a full series, complete with the original Enterprise . The show has also chosen to avoid the heavy Myth Arc driven narratives that contemporary shows had skewed towards in favor of more episodic adventures like the original series.
Saved by Canon : Owing to the fact Strange New Worlds is a prequel series to the original Star Trek series, whatever else happens in the series Pike, Spock, Uhura, Kyle, Chapel, M'Benga, and the Enterprise herself will survive the series.
Schrödinger's Canon : With only one episode to their name (until one cameoed in late Enterprise ), much of the Gorn was developed by Expanded Universe materials, which have been self-contradictory and were never officially canon to begin with. Gorn in EU run the gammut from misunderstood good guys to brutal-but-noble Blue-and-Orange Morality . None of this EU material is compatible with the Gorn as presented in this series, where they are described by the writer as "totally evil."
Second American Civil War : The first episode reveals that the United States has a second one in the 21st century during the lead up to the World War III .
Series Continuity Error : Everyone referring to George Samuel Kirk as "Sam". It was a brief but significant plot point in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" that only Jim called him Sam. They eventually backtracked in the second season by revealing that Kirk thought he was the only one who called him Sam, and La'an is visibly confused because he's always gone by Sam with them too.
Soft Reboot : The second season of Discovery was something of a Poorly Disguised Pilot for this show, especially the last two episodes which ends with the Enterprise repaired from the climactic battle and heading back out to explore. The first episode of this show reimagines the events, saying it took much longer for the Enterprise (over a year compared to 4 months in DSC ), Pike is still recovering emotionally from the events of Discovery , the supporting cast is overhauled and some other changes are made to set design and costumes. It is pretty standard when it comes to pilot-to-series development, but this is unique when applied to a Star Trek series.
Star-Crossed Lovers : La'an and alternative timeline Kirk fall for each other, and she even floats the idea of him coming to her timeline. But he dies. She contacts her timeline's Kirk, but he's a different person, shaped by different events, who’s a complete stranger to her—and he's already in a relationship with Carol Marcus to boot.
Swiss-Cheese Security : In the first episode. The medical bay and indeed the rest of the ship is not locked and one of the prisoners is allowed to run around the Enterprise.
Title Drop : Inverted. The series subtitle is derived from a portion of the Captain's Monologue heard in the title sequence in previous series set on the Enterprise , with SNW being the latest to use the monologue.
Trailers Always Spoil : The teaser for season 2 has several scenes with Una serving as the first officer , suggesting that the season 1 cliffhanger is likely to be resolved fairly quickly and the status quo restored. Sure enough, it happens two episodes in.
Trashy Tourist Trap : The teaser of "Subspace Rhapsody" establishes that Pike and Batel are planning a trip together. Pike has a This Is Gonna Suck face when describing Batel's chosen destination of Crivo, which he considers "cliché," "touristy" and "like my nightmare."
" A Quality of Mercy " revisits the Romulan raids on Federation border outposts from " Balance of Terror " in defiance of the treaty, this time with Captain Pike in the Enterprise 's command chair. He misjudges the Romulans' intentions and a full scale war breaks out.
Feigned in " The Broken Circle ". A group of renegade ex-Klingon and -Federation soldiers fly a salvaged Federation starship in a false flag attack on a Klingon D7 battlecruiser. This is supposed to look like a breach of the ceasefire between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, meant to restart the war and increase profits from the dilithium mine the renegades are guarding . The Enterprise destroys the ship before it can do any damage and Spock is able to convince the Klingon captain that the Federation wasn't involved .
True Companions : Each of the trailers have shown that everyone on the Enterprise views one another as family, and have faith in one another's abilities. She wouldn't have the finest crew in Starfleet otherwise.
Wagon Train to the Stars : Strange New Worlds explicitly calls back to this formula embodied by TOS, TNG and Voyager, as opposed to the more Myth Arc based recent series like Picard and Discovery .
Whole-Plot Reference : "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" is based on Ursula K. Le Guin 's short story " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ". There is an entire colony of people who have walked away.
World War III : While Star Trek has long established that World War 3 was a devastating nuclear war that occurred sometime before 2063, we have never seen footage of the conflict until Strange New Worlds. Pike states that a third of Earth's population dies as a direct result.
Zeerust Canon : The production design intentionally adopts elements of classic 1960s and 1970s Trek. The Enterprise is extremely 70s in its decor: cream and red with polymer appliances and recessed lighting. The control panels are almost as goofy and sparkly as the original. There are crisp OLED screens instead of 70s transparencies, but they kept the same font as the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture . But the CGI Enterprise exterior shots are quite modern.

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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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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.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds renewed for Season 4 statement from Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman

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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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

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Spun from the second season of "Star Trek Discovery," and set in the same time frame predating the original series, this applauded effort follows Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) as he helms the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise with the assistance of science officer Spock (Ethan Peck), nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and first officer Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), b/k/a Number One. Christina Chong, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Bruce Horak also star.10 episodes on 3 discs. 8 2/3 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

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Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.81 x 5.39 x 0.55 inches; 3.84 ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD
Run time ‏ : ‎ 8 hours and 44 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2023
Actors ‏ : ‎ Babs Olusanmokun, Celia Rose Gooding, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Melissa Navia
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Needs Another Lower Decks Crossover

Star trek: discovery revealed season 5’s true villain (& it's not the breen), star trek: discovery’s neelix reference reveals what happened after voyager.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, "Labyrinths".

Star Trek: Discovery canonizes Lower Decks' Hysperia, a Renaissance Faire planet with unique charm & whimsical culture.
Lower Decks' Hysperians embrace a party lifestyle similar to Risa, maintaining a themed fantasy world of endless festivities.
Hysperia's inclusion in Discovery expands Star Trek lore, in a rare case of a live-action show referencing an animated series.

Star Trek: Discovery makes Hysperia, the Renaissance Faire planet from Star Trek: Lower Decks, live-action canon in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, "Labyrinths", written by Lauren Wilkinson & Eric J. Robbins, and directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour. Debates over whether animated Star Trek "counts" have existed ever since Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry denounced the canonicity of Star Trek: The Animated Series, but Star Trek: Lower Decks has always been part of the Star Trek canon. Lower Decks ' impressive references to other Star Trek shows cements its place in Star Trek 's 2380s, after Star Trek: Nemesis but before Star Trek: Picard.

Despite Star Trek: Lower Decks ' myriad references to other Star Trek shows, it's rare for a dramatic live-action Star Trek series to return the favor. Only Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with its ability to navigate shifting genres, pulled it off when Ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) appeared in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7 , "Those Old Scientists". Excluding the Strange New Worlds crossover, the mention of Hysperia in Star Trek: Discovery marks the first time that something that originated strictly in Star Trek: Lower Decks makes its way to a live-action Star Trek series.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is confirmed and the best chance to see Star Trek: Lower Decks when the animated show ends with season 5.

Tig Notaro's Jett Reno Visited Star Trek: Lower Decks' Renaissance Faire Planet

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While brainstorming a solution for combating the Breen's shield tunneling technology in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8 , "Labyrinths", Commander Jett Reno (Tig Notaro) offhandedly mentions working on comms relays near Hysperia, the Renaissance Faire planet introduced in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 7, "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie". Hysperia's society is notably based on the anachronistic muddle of references to historical Europe commonly found in fantasy fiction, not unlike modern Renaissance Faires. Instead of hiding Star Trek 's advanced technology, Hysperia simply reframes technology as magical, using fantasy-themed names like "dragonsbreath engines" for warp drive.

In Star Trek: Lower Decks , Lt. Commander Andy Billups (Paul Scheer), the USS Cerritos' Chief Engineer who also happens to be the heir to Hysperia's throne, explains that the fantasy trappings of Hysperian culture came about because Hysperia's native fauna look like medieval dragons. The "Ren Faire types" who originally settled Hysperia just kind of ran with it. Billups abdicated his birthright in favor of a Starfleet career, so to bring Andy back home for good, Billups' mother, Queen Paolana (June Diane Raphael), invokes Hysperia's custom of nobles rising to power after losing their virginity, and tries to trick Billups into a sexual encounter with the royal guards. (It doesn't work.)

Lower Decks' Hysperia Is a Star Trek Party Planet

"hysperians really know how to party".

Commander Reno mentions that the Hysperians "really know how to party," drawing parallels to Star Trek 's more famous party planet, Risa . While Risa is like a planet-wide beach resort known for its natural beauty and generous people, Hysperians live in an endless Renaissance Faire, and they don't want to break character. Every part of Hysperian culture, from fashion to architecture, was created with the Renaissance theme in mind. Mead and ale flow freely from replicators, starships have stables for horses, and people keep dragons as pets. Hysperians encourage others to go along with the facade they've so proudly built, easily drawing visitors into Hysperia's sexually-charged theme park party atmosphere.

Hysperians embrace whimsy like Vulcans embrace logic.

Star Trek: Lower Decks frequently references the Star Trek shows that came before it, and Hysperia pays homage to the themed planets from Star Trek: The Original Series that exist because costumes and sets from other productions were used as cost-saving measures. Instead of being explained as a parallel development to Earth, however, the Hysperians embrace whimsy like Vulcans embrace logic, making Hysperia an attractive vacation destination. As someone in the area, Star Trek: Discovery 's Commander Jett Reno likely had to see what Hysperia was all about for herself, making Star Trek: Lower Decks' Renaissance Faire planet canon by mentioning Hysperia in Star Trek: Discovery.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an American television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet for the streaming service Paramount+.It is the eleventh Star Trek series and was launched in 2022 as part of Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe.A spin-off from Star Trek: Discovery, it follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise as they ...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Synopsis: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) as they explore new worlds around the galaxy. *The 4K UHD SteelBook is in Dolby Vision Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike Ethan Peck as Spock
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Despite Star Trek: Lower Decks' myriad references to other Star Trek shows, it's rare for a dramatic live-action Star Trek series to return the favor. Only Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with its ability to navigate shifting genres, pulled it off when Ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) appeared in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7, "Those Old ...

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S1.E1 ∙ Strange New Worlds

S1.E2 ∙ Children of the Comet

S1.E3 ∙ Ghosts of Illyria

S1.E4 ∙ Memento Mori

S1.E5 ∙ Spock Amok

S1.E6 ∙ Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach

S1.E7 ∙ The Serene Squall

S1.E8 ∙ The Elysian Kingdom

S1.E9 ∙ All Those Who Wander

S1.E10 ∙ A Quality of Mercy

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Production started in December 2023 and is expected to last until May 2024

The wait for Strange New Worlds season 3 will likely last until 2025.

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Expect Strange New Worlds to help celebrate Star Trek's 60th anniversary

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