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By Danica Creahan

May 2, 2022 / 5:43 PM EDT / Essentials

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Move over Kirk -- Christopher Pike is the captain now. In "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," a spinoff of " Star Trek: Discovery " and prequel to " Star Trek: The Original Series ," "Star Trek" fans are getting a glimpse of the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is streaming exclusively on Paramount+.

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"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" finds actor Anson Mount reprising his "Discovery" role as Captain Pike. In the new series, Pike retreats to his ranch back on Earth after having caught a glimpse of the grim future that fans know awaits him in "The Original Series." But when the Starfleet standout learns that one of his former crew members desperately needs him, Pike jumps back into the action.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" sees the return of other familiar faces from "Discovery," too, including Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck. Keep reading to find out more about how to watch this new "Star Trek" series, streaming exclusively on Paramount+.  

When does 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' come out?

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" premieres May 5, 2022, with new episodes dropping weekly.

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Where to watch 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

The latest chapter in the "Star Trek" universe is available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.

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Paramount+ has two subscriber tiers -- the $5-per-month "Essential Plan," a budget-minded tier with ads, and the $10-per-month "Premium Plan," which is ad free. Paramount+ offers a one-week, free-trial period, so if you were thinking of trying the platform, you can watch "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and other  new Paramount+ titles  risk free. 

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

When one of Captain Pike's officers goes missing during a secret mission for Starfleet, Pike is forced to emerge from his self-imposed exile.

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The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a contagion that ravages the ship. One by one, the entire crew is incapacitated except for Number One, Una Chin-Riley, who must now confront a secret she's been hiding as she races to find a cure.

While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under an attack from an unknown malevolent force. Pike brings all his heart and experience to bear in facing the crisis, but the security officer warns him that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means.

It's a comedy of manners when Spock has a personal visit in the middle of Spock and Captain Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.

A threat to an idyllic planet reunites Captain Pike with the lost love of his life. To protect her and a scientific holy child from a conspiracy, Pike offers his help and is forced to face unresolved feelings of his past.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Succeeds by Going Back to Basics: TV Review

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For the first 40 years of “Star Trek” history, the character of Christopher Pike was little more than a footnote in the franchise’s lore. Captain of the Enterprise in the failed original NBC series pilot “The Cage,” Pike, as played by Jeffrey Hunter, wound up as the dry run for William Shatner’s James T. Kirk, a square-jawed hero doing square-jawed hero stuff who fell a few inches short of being right for the job. Gene Roddenberry, ever the environmentalist, recycled scenes from that unaired pilot for a two-part episode of the original series called “The Menagerie,” which allowed for, until 2009, Pike’s greatest contribution to popular culture: his transformation into a hideously scarred burn victim who lived in a large black box that beeped whenever someone asked him a question.  

It’s not much build off of, but Pike has become increasingly important to “Trek” as the franchise looks to its past to build a future. Bruce Greenwood played the role J.J. Abrams’ big screen reboot “Star Trek” in 2009, as a mentor figure quickly sidelined for the people who actually mattered, but it wasn’t until Pike became a regular on the second season of “Star Trek: Discovery” that the character came fully into view. Stepping into the vaguely dad-shaped space left by Greenwood in Paramount+’s “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ,” Anson Mount offers up something surprisingly rare on TV these days: a charming, straightforward good guy. His affable presence is maybe not the best reason to produce yet another “Star Trek” prequel series — but it’s not the worst, either.  

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Not that Mount is the only thing “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has to offer. The new series is full of familiar character names, taken both from that failed pilot and from the original series proper. These include Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, both reprising roles they first played on “Discovery,” as well Celia Rose Gooding as communications prodigy Noyta Uhura and Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel. Trivia fans will recognize Doctor M’Benga from two episodes of the original series (here played by Babs Olusanmokun), and the eyebrows of anyone familiar with the franchise will likely be raised at hearing the name of the Enterprise’s new chief of security, La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong).  

As fan service goes, it’s reasonable enough, only occasionally veering into the overly cute. But fan service on its own does not a show make, and the question “Strange New Worlds” has to answer right from the start is: why? “ Trek” has done prequel series before, but both “Enterprise” and “Discovery” at least tried to find new angles on the material, with varying degrees of success. “Strange New Worlds” is telling the story of a captain whose most important action was sitting in a chair before someone else used it. Where’s the novelty? What’s the point?  

Going by the first five episodes of its first season, “Strange New Worlds’” answer is more or less: who cares? The new series wallows in references to the original, and while some of the nods offer a different perspective on established canon (for example, a chance to hear T’Pring’s side of the story a decade before she forces Spock and Kirk to fight to the death in “Amok Time”), there’s no serious attempt at subversion here. Where “Discovery” spent most of its first season putting on and taking off half a dozen different identities, “Strange New Worlds” is content to fall back on the basics: a likable cast traveling the galaxy, having wacky sci-fi adventures, and generally having a hell of a good time.  

By and large, this approach works. While it lacks “Discovery’s” ambition, “Strange New Worlds” also avoids that show’s struggles with serialization and scope, as each episode limits its focus to the story at hand. The result is as straightforward and direct as the show’s leading man, and nearly as likable. There’s no strain here, and while the more episodic style may be old-fashioned, it’s refreshing to watch something that isn’t pretending to be a 10-hour movie. There’s none of the bait-and-switch that so often plagues modern streaming shows, the promise that the fireworks factory will be along soon, provided you keep watching. Characters develop and change, but their narratives don’t display the overstuffed exhaustion that comes from needing to drag a single plot out over the span of an entire season.  

Anyone who’s watched a modern “Trek” show will recognize the franchise’s current fixation on broad emotional beats, with every heartfelt moment landing with all the subtlety of a Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial. It’s an approach that can wear thin over time, especially given the soundtrack’s insistence on underlining every earnest confession and inspiring speech with the musical equivalent of a firehose. But even there, the episodic storytelling helps, as the show rarely gets bogged down for long by angst or despair. In some ways, the broadness feels reminiscent of the original series, back when every scene felt about three minutes away from a fist-fight or a hook-up, and if the vibe these days is more family friendly, that may be for the best.  

It helps that the cast is clearly enjoying themselves. Mount’s brand, “chill silver fox with occasional worries,” sets the tone; efforts to tie in his time on “Discovery” with the current series are somewhat strained, but the overall effect of his performance is laidback and welcoming. Peck remains a strong presence as Spock, lacking Nimoy’s intensity but balancing the character’s stoicism and drier-than-dry wit with aplomb; Romijn gets more to do here than on “Discovery,” and rises to the occasion admirably. Of the rest, Chong’s security chief may be the standout, if only because her grim practicality helps to differentiate her from what is, on the whole, an aggressively lovable bunch. But there’s no deadweight to speak of, and the first five episodes give all of the main ensemble their chance to shine.  

“Strange New Worlds” isn’t trying to break new ground, which is something of a relief. The show looks great, moves quickly, and does everything it can to keep the audience entertained. At times, its excess of charms can border on cloying, and some of the attempts at moral lessons are distractingly ham-fisted, but everything passes by so smoothly it’s hard to hold a grudge. The going may not be as bold as it once was, but it’s fun and rarely insulting, and most of the time, that’s enough.  

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” premieres May 5 on Paramount+ in the U.S., with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays.

Correction: Dr. M’Benga appeared in Season 2 and Season 3 of the original series of “Star Trek,” not in the original pilot, “The Cage.”

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Gets Season 4 on Paramount Plus

Fifth season of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ will be final one

Paramount Plus has ordered a fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , and said the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be the final one. Season five of Lower Decks comes out in the fall.  

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we're so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, executive VP, programming, Paramount Plus. “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor, and we're elated to announce another season ahead of our season three premiere. Similarly, Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.”

Strange New Worlds is based on the years Capt. Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise . The cast includes Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn. 

Lower Decks is an animated comedy about the support crew on the not so important U.S.S. Cerritos. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid are in the voice cast. 

“ Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are integral to the Star Trek franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said David Stapf, president, CBS Studios. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, [executive producers] Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.”

Star Trek: Discovery debuted its fifth and final season on Paramount Plus April 4.   

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Scores Early Season 4 Renewal, ‘Lower Decks’ to End With Season 5

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds shall live longer. The live-action Paramount+ series has been renewed for Season 4. Its animated sibling, Star Trek: Lower Decks , was previously renewed for Season 5, but Paramount+ has announced that Season 5 will be its last.

Star Trek: Strange New World ‘s renewal is an early one; the series is currently in production on Season 3, which will premiere in 2025.  Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 is also currently in production and will debut this Fall 2024 on Paramount+.

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek   universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+, said in a statement on Friday, April 12. “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor, and we’re elated to announce another season ahead of our Season 3 premiere. Similarly, Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.”

“ Lower Decks   and Strange New Worlds are integral to the Star Trek franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Studios. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.”

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Star Trek: Discovery recently premiered its fifth and final season on April 4. Paramount+ says that the new original movie  Star Trek: Section 31 starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh recently wrapped production, and the new original series Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy will begin production later this year.

Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount , Rebecca Romijn , Ethan Peck , Jess Bush , Christina Chong , Celia Rose Gooding , and more.  Lower Decks stars the vocal talents of Tawny Newsome , Jack Quaid , Noel Wells , Eugene Cordero , Dawnn Lewis , Jerry O’Connell , and more.

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Strange New Worlds

• Episode aired May 5, 2022

Captain Christopher Pike comes out of self-imposed exile to rescue an officer gone missing during a secret mission. Captain Christopher Pike comes out of self-imposed exile to rescue an officer gone missing during a secret mission. Captain Christopher Pike comes out of self-imposed exile to rescue an officer gone missing during a secret mission.

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• Nurse Christine Chapel

• La'an Noonien-Singh

• Cadet Nyota Uhura

• Lt. Erica Ortegas

• Dr. M'Benga

• Admiral Robert April

• Lieutenant George Samuel 'Sam' Kirk

• T'Pring

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• Trivia Until now, there has been much speculation about how many deaths there were in WW III. Pike has made it canon that 30% of the Earth's population - between 2.1 and 2.4 billion people were killed and 600,000 species of plants and animals were eradicated.
• Goofs Chapel is able to make several crewmen resemble the native residents of Kiley 279 by injecting them with gene therapy based on the genetic code of the planet's inhabitants. As Starfleet has not made contact with the planet (other than the three missing officers from the Archer), there is no way she would have genetic material from its inhabitants to use in her work. However, even on 21st century Earth, complete genome sequences (and other biological information) are widely available online. Chapel could easily have accessed the planet's equivalent of the internet. Moreover, Una's ship could have had samples of biological material which she could have accessed.

Captain Christopher Pike : [Pike - in disguise - and an undisguised Spock reveal themselves deliberately] Take me to your leader.

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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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Scotty Will Return in Season 3 of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

Martin Quinn's version of the character first appeared in season 2's finale.

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• Martin Quinn to bring authentic Scottish flair as Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Quinn adds a new perspective to the character previously played by actors from Canada and England.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to explore the adventures of the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike.

A classic member of the Enterprise crew will return for the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . After debuting in the final episode of the show's second season , Martin Quinn will stay on board as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the upcoming season of Paramount+'s newest Star Trek series. As reported by BBC Scotland in an interview with Quinn, the character will recur on Strange New World 's third season, which is currently filming in Toronto, Ontario.

Quinn is the first-ever Scot to play the character, who was previously played by a Canadian ( James Doohan ) and an Englishman ( Simon Pegg ), and the interview notes that he's adding authenticity to the character, making sure that the show's writers use authentic Scottish slang: "They let me put in the word 'baw-heid' instead of 'turnip-heid'. Maybe they think all Scottish people are farmers? But they were very gracious about it." Quinn is from the town of Paisley; he has previously appeared on episodes of Limmy's Show , Annika , and Derry Girls .

Who is Montgomery Scott?

Played by Doohan in Star Trek: The Original Series , Scott is the ever-capable head engineer of the USS Enterprise , famed for his ability to solve catastrophic problems in short periods of time. After the series went off the air, Doohan reprised the role in Star Trek: The Animated Series and in all six of the feature films starring the series' original cast. He also returned for a cameo in Star Trek: Generations , attending the launch of the USS Enterprise-B , and guest-starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", where he is discovered by the Enterprise-D 's crew a century in the future, having been preserved in a transporter buffer. Pegg took on the role for J.J. Abrams ' cinematic reboot of the franchise, and reprised it for its two sequels; a fourth film is still up in the air .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds features the adventures of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) prior to The Original Series . It has so far featured two different chief engineers. Hemmer ( Bruce Horak ) was a member of the Aenar species, and sacrificed himself in the show's first-season finale to save the rest of the crew from the Gorn. His replacement was Pelia ( Carol Kane ), a long-lived Lanthanite, who joined the crew in the show's second season.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently filming its third season; no release date has yet been set . Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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.

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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 two of Star Trek: Discovery , Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed As ‘Lower Decks’ Sets Ending After 5 Seasons

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season ahead of the show’s Season 3 premiere which is slated for 2025 and currently in production. Additionally, the previously announced fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will serve as its final. New episodes of the final season, currently in production, will arrive this fall.

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“Our incredible cast, crew and artists have given you everything they have because they love the characters they play, they love the world we’ve built, and more than anything we all love love love Star Trek. We’re excited for the world to see our hilarious fifth season which we’re working on right now, and the good news is that all previous episodes will remain on Paramount+ so there is still so much to look forward to as we celebrate the Cerritos crew with a big send-off,” they added.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is an animated comedy series following the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos. The crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes the voices of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero; the bridge crew is voiced by Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman.

The series is produced by CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios’ animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. Titmouse serves as the animation studio for the series which streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Latin America and is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

It stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia and Babs Olusanmokun, along with special guest stars Paul Wesley and Carol Kane. The series is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Jenny Lumet, Henry Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Davy Perez, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.

“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,” said Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman in a statement.

The expanded world of Star Trek on Paramount+ also includes the fifth and final season of Star Trek : Discovery, currently airing; the original film Star Trek : Section 31 starring Michelle Yeoh, which recently wrapped production; and the new original series Star Trek : Starfleet Academy, slated to begin production later this year.

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‘star trek: lower decks’ to end with season 5.

However, Paramount+ renewed 'Strange New Worlds' for season four.

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Paramount+ has made two big decisions about its Star Trek universe.

Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season, while Lower Decks will end with its previously announced upcoming fifth season, expected to air sometime this year.

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Meanwhile, Strange New Worlds is currently in production on its third season, which is set to debut in 2025.

“ Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are integral to the Star Trek franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said David Stapf, president of CBS Studios. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago.”

Strange New Worlds is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the  U.S.S. Enterprise . The series follows Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, Number One and the crew of the  U.S.S. Enterprise , in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the starship, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy. It stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush and Christina Chong.

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