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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

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Strange New Worlds Episode Ranks

The first two seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds were nothing short of a masterpiece. With a creative starting point to circle back into Trek's history with more standalone episodes, the show somehow both emulated what came before and also broke the mold in reinventing the series' modern era.

Visually stunning, expertly crafted and profoundly smart, Strange New Worlds was a complete success in playing with Trek's anthology roots (fantasy, horror, hijinks!) and also integrating serialized elements that developed not only the characters on the screen, but storylines going back more than 50 years.

Below is our TrekRanks breakdown of the first two seasons, complete with five words and a hashtag summaries. (As always, don't forget our lists are completely searchable and sortable.)

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.

Akiva Goldsman
Alex Kurtzman
Jenny Lumet
Anson Mount
Christina Chong
1K User reviews
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9 wins & 32 nominations total

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Trivia Bruce Horak , the actor who plays Hemmer, is legally blind, just like his character's species, the Aenar, who are also blind.
Goofs There are some rank insignia mistakes. Number One is introduced as "Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley" yet she is wearing the rank insignia of a full commander: two full stripes. A Lieutenant Commander's rank insignia is a full stripe under a thin stripe (in TOS it is a full stripe and a staggered stripe). It is not uncommon for a ship's first officer to be a Lt. Commander if they have not been in the position long. Spock at this point is a Lieutenant but he is wearing Lieutenant Commander's stripes; a Lieutenant just has one stripe. La'an is the ship's chief of security and the ship's second officer. She is also wearing Lt. Commander stripes but is addressed as a Lieutenant, but it would make more sense for her to be a Lieutenant Commander. Either way both of their rank insignia are not matching the rank they are addressed by. Ortegas is addressed as a Lieutenant but is wearing Lieutenant Commander's strips. A Lieutenant Commander may be addressed as a Commander or Lieutenant Commander but never as just a Lieutenant, so either her rank insignia or the manner she is addressed by the rest of the crew is in error.

[opening narration]

Captain Christopher Pike : Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finds the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise , under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronting increasingly dangerous stakes, exploring uncharted territories, and encountering new life and civilizations. The crew will embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies.

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.

Key Art for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 showing Captain Pike and the crew on the surface of a Strange New World with the U.S.S. Enterprise behind them and several moons and planets in the sky.

The series follows Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise , as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

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Star Trek: All Strange New Worlds characters ranked from worst to best

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Pictured: Rebecca Romijn as Una, Anson Mount as Pike and Ethan Peck as Spock of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

We all love every single amazing character in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. But how do they rank when it comes to being the best character?

Trekkies, rejoice! We’re talking about our favorite characters from the fantastic TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Yes, I am actually dancing in my seat out of excitement (and, you know, the “Subspace Rhapsody” soundtrack).

From the bridge to the sick bay, each member of this fantastic and irreplaceable crew brings their own flair and kind of star-studded sparkle to the screen. Whether you’re a lifelong Trekkie or a fresh-faced cadet to the Starfleet scene, you’ll find that the heart of this lovely and refreshing series beats with the pulse of its characters; each one navigating the nebula of human (and not human) experience with a flair that’s as unique as a fingerprint on a Dilithium crystal.

Let’s take a look at our very own character ranking of this new Star Trek series, where we explore the vibrant virtues and occasional vulnerabilities that make the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise more than just spacefaring avatars – they make up a truly unique family as they chart the unknown. From Captain Pike’s commanding charm, Nurse Chapel’s healing humor, and Spock’s logic-laced loyalty to the mysterious eyes of Lieutenant La’an, every character is a universe unto themselves, worthy of exploration.

It’s worth mentioning that if you’re not caught up with the second and latest season of Strange New Worlds , there may be some spoilers ahead for you. Read at your own risk!

Grab your tricorder and join us on this mission to celebrate the crew that boldly goes where no one has gone before… when it comes to ranking order, of course.

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Spock, Kirk, Gorn — Oh My! How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Breathed Thrilling New Life Into the 56-Year-Old Franchise

Anson Mount as Pike of the Paramount+ original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in several episodes of the first season of “ Star Trek : Strange New Worlds,” including the season finale, currently streaming on Paramount+.

As with any fandom, Trekkies can be a fickle lot, which makes the enthusiastic reception for “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ” — the latest “Star Trek” TV series, which just concluded its first season — that much more remarkable. Not since J.J. Abrams’ 2009 feature film have fans been this near-unanimous in their appreciation, even adoration, for a new “Star Trek” venture, which is saying something in an era in which “Trek” fans have more viewing options than ever before.

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In its first season, “Strange New Worlds” ranks with “The Mandalorian” in striking a wildly successful balance for a new iteration of a legacy franchise between nostalgic fan service and bold, unexpected storytelling. Which isn’t to say that the series has pleased all the people all of the time.

Set on the U.S.S. Enterprise roughly a decade before the events of the original “Star Trek” TV series from the 1960s, “Strange New Worlds” includes vividly rendered younger versions of several classic “Trek” characters, such as Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), and it’s breathed robust new life into characters from the original “Star Trek” pilot, namely Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his first officer, Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) — known as only Number One for decades until “Strange New Worlds” gave her a full name.

“When someone hands you a ‘Star Trek’ show, you can’t treat it like you’re going to break it all the time and only do what you think is safe,” Myers says. “If you do that, you’re not going to do a good show. That said, choosing to do things that might push the boundaries is going to bug people. I just don’t want that to scare them away.”

To get there, Myers, Goldsman and their team of writers had to learn how to transform one of the most common complaints fans have for a legacy series into an advantage.

“People will sometimes feel like you’re playing with people’s childhoods,” Myers says. “What has been a real freedom for me is to say, ‘I’m not playing with your childhood: The things from your childhood haven’t happened yet.’ I have to act like I don’t know what’s going to happen. Uhura doesn’t know who she’s going to be. Spock doesn’t know who he’s going to be. If you can accept that, you can understand that their experience is real and interesting and happening now .”

In an in-depth interview with Variety , Myers reflected back on some of the biggest highlights and challenges of the first season of “Strange New Worlds.”

“We’re Just Gonna Try to Do Classic ‘Trek'”

When CBS All Access (now Paramount+) re-launched “Star Trek” as a television enterprise in 2017 with “Star Trek: Discovery,” it’d been 12 years since a “Trek” show was last on the air. In that time, serialized storytelling became the dominant narrative model for streaming dramas, especially genre ones; “Discovery” has followed suit, telling a single, ongoing story every season. Starting in 2020, “Star Trek: Picard,” a sequel series to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” starring Patrick Stewart, has done the same.

Fan response has been mixed. “Trek” has ventured into serialization before, with the 1990s series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” and “Discovery” and “Picard” have taken full advantage of the opportunity to paint on a broader narrative canvass. But the original “Trek” series and “The Next Generation” remain among the most beloved — and re-watched — “Trek” series because they adhered to the old school, episodic structure of a brand new adventure every week.

“Telling a really long overarching story is so challenging,” Myers says. “You don’t often get little downtime moments.”

“Strange New Worlds” has forged a middle path, with each episode telling a self-contained story while threading longer character arcs that span multiple episodes — or occasionally, the whole season.

“The other ‘Star Trek’ shows are doing bigger, broader experiments, which I think are cool,” Myers says of “Discovery” and “Picard.” “They’re definitely trying to open up the sandbox and do different kinds of things with ‘Trek.’ We’re sort of the opposite. It’s a little easier to be like, ‘We’re just gonna try to do classic ‘Trek.'”

Most episodes of “Strange New Worlds” focused on one or two characters as the central driver of that week’s episode, and the self-contained storylines allowed the writers more breathing room to allow the characters to simply bounce off each other. “I love genre storytelling, but when it skimps on character, it just never works, and when it delivers on character, it makes everything work,” Myers says. “We get to relish the downtime moments. It’s the comforting part of television that you don’t always get out of movies. If we focus on character, the action will feel like it has more stakes, the romance will feel like it actually matters, and the humor will be funnier, because it’s coming from people that we know and like to hang out with. I think that that’s the thing that we’ve gotten to do a little more than other [‘Trek’] shows.”

“ We Didn’t Know if We Would Be Able to Get Kirk”

One of the most inflexible pieces of “Star Trek” canon is that until the original series episode “Balance of Terror,” it had been 100 years since anyone in the Federation had seen or heard from the Romulans — one of the most lasting and resonant “Trek” villains ever. The “Strange New Worlds” writers solved that problem with its season finale, “A Quality of Mercy,” which transported Capt. Pike into a future, alternate timeline in which he , not Capt. Kirk, was leading the Enterprise during the events of “Balance of Terror.”

The episode, Myers says, was the marriage of two ideas floating in the “Strange New Worlds” writers’ room. Idea one: “What if we took a classic ‘Trek’ episode and changed the timeline so we’re retelling that episode with our characters in a high-budget context?” Idea two: “What if your future self comes back and says, ‘Don’t do what you’re about to do’ — how would you respond?”

In the original series, we learn that Pike suffered a horrific, debilitating accident that removed him from command, allowing Kirk to take his place. On “Strange New Worlds,” Pike knows of his eventual fate, and in “A Quality of Mercy,” he tries to change it, causing his future self to appear and show Pike what will happen if he takes that path.

Placing Pike at the helm of the Enterprise when Kirk was meant to captain it also presented the tantalizing prospect of having the two men share the same scene — but that meant finding an actor to play Kirk. Myers says that after extensive auditions, they ended up offering the role to “The Vampires Diaries” star Paul Wesley , but the decision came down to the wire.

“Part of that episode ended up being about the differences of command the differences between Kirk and Pike and how they approach things very, very differently,” Myers says. “But there was a brief moment when we didn’t know if we would be able to get a Kirk. I wrote two versions of the script, one with Kirk and one without.”

“There’s a Reason People Haven’t Touched the Gorn”

The reptilian aliens made their debut in an episode from the first season of the original series, “Arena,” in which Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) is pitted in a fight to the death on an alien planet against a Gorn captain. Since then, the species has occupied the fringes of the “Trek” universe, showing up again only fleetingly over the years, most often in animation. That’s because on the original series, the Gorn looked like, well, a man in a giant rubber lizard suit.

“You couldn’t do the Gorn now the way they did the Gorn,” Myers says. “I think audiences would have an instinctive organ transplant rejection to the classic version of the Gorn. Audiences now are sophisticated, they expect a certain level of effects work, of verisimilitude.”

But Myers says that Goldsman “has wanted to do something with the Gorn forever,” and made resurrecting the species a goal for Season 1 of “Strange New Worlds.”

“I mean, look, I love ‘Arena.’ ‘Arena’ is a great episode. But there’s a reason people haven’t touched the Gorn much since then,” Myers says. “They’re extremely hard to do. It’s expensive, it’s challenging. You have to reimagine them.”

Doing so meant bending “Trek” canon a bit, and reconceiving the Gorn as at once highly intelligent and yet feral in their primal, ferocious aggression. It also meant keeping the species largely off screen, since making them look realistic to 21st century eyes required a full, and costly, CGI redesign. The result maintained the feeling from “Arena” that the Gorn were unrelentingly dangerous while deepening their mythology enough to place them on par with the A-list of “Trek” alien adversaries.

“I’m aware of some of the the canon challenges,” Myers says. “Knowing that you’re going to have to change them is an opportunity to try to do something different.”

“We Wanted to Show That There Were Stakes”

Characters die all the time on “Star Trek,” but it remains exceedingly rare that it happens to a member of the main cast — and even then, it’s because the actor involved wanted to leave the show. That wasn’t the case with Hemmer (Bruce Horak), the irascible chief engineer on Enterprise who sacrifices himself at the end of Episode 9, “All Those Who Wander,” after his body is implanted with Gorn offspring. The writers knew from the start that they were going to kill Hemmer off.

“When we cast Bruce, we told him,” Myers says. “He was like, ‘Great. I’m down. This is awesome!'”

The issue, Myers explained, was that “Strange New Worlds” had to make clear the characters were at real risk. “One of the knocks on a prequel is that we know Uhura’s going to make it, we know Spock’s going to make it,” he says. “We wanted to show that there were stakes in this show.”

Don’t worry: While Hemmer is dead, the actor who played him is not gone. “We are finding and have currently found ways to have Bruce circle back in our universe in a very classic ‘Trek’ way,” he says. “It won’t be the last you see of Bruce Horak.”

“It Was All About Telling the Story About Spock”

Perhaps the most surprising twist in Season 1 of “Strange New Worlds” was the revelation that Spock’s fiancée T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) is unknowingly overseeing a Vulcan prison that houses Spock’s half-brother, Sybok. The character was introduced as the main villain in the 1989 feature film “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,” as played by Laurence Luckinbill (after Sean Connery couldn’t do it), but the movie is widely considered one of the worst “Trek” films ever, and the character has since faded into obscurity. (It didn’t help that Spock had never mentioned Sybok before “Star Trek V,” either.)

Myers can’t remember who had the idea to bring Sybok back into the “Trek” fold, but says it grew out of the conception of Episode 7, “The Serene Squall,” which centered on Angel ( Jesse James Keitel ), a nonbinary space pirate who befriends — and then betrays — Spock in an (initially successful) attempt to commandeer the Enterprise.

“We wanted to do a villain that harkened back to classic ‘Trek’ — a really fun, scenery-chewing villain who you just want to see again and again and again, but also could be a villain that we can only do now ,” Myers says. “In doing a story about someone who’s nonbinary, it really tied into the story about Spock reckoning with his identity. The Sybok piece was an interesting way to tie into Spock’s past, and to reclaim a piece of ‘Trek’ lore.”

Despite Sybok’s dubious origins in “Star Trek V,” Myers and the writers liked that the character’s decision to forsake logic and embrace his emotions contrasted with Spock’s dogged pursuit of pure logic.

“You know, look, that movie is, uh — let me just say it’s not my favorite of the ‘Trek’ movies,” Myers says with a laugh. “But even in the ‘Trek’ movies that don’t work as well, there’s always something interesting. I liked that character, and the idea of a Vulcan who is wrestling with emotion. Science fiction is about playing with ideas. We’re not just moving chess pieces around.”

Sybok appears only from the back at the very end of “The Serene Squall,” and that’s the last we see of him in Season 1. But Myers is tight-lipped on when, or whether, he may show up again. “Sometimes you do these things in TV where you pull the thread just to see where it gets you,” he says. “You don’t have to wrap everything up. We wanted to throw out some more ideas that may come back and intersect with the show in the future.”

“This Is the Pike Show”

The future of “Strange New Worlds” is, at least in part, already written: The series wrapped production earlier this month on Season 2, and will feature Wesley as Kirk years before he becomes a Starfleet captain.

When Mount, Peck and Romijn were first cast, it was for Season 2 of “Discovery” — with no sense at the time that they would ever be spun-off into their own show. Now that Myers has actors for Kirk, Spock and Uhura, however, it’s hard to ignore the prospect of continuing the “Star Trek” story into the era of the original series.

“Look, I would love nothing more than to then to go all the way forward to the future, and eventually do that with them,” he says. “But there’s a lot of stories before that. I’ll tell you what Kirk isn’t: He isn’t the replacement captain. This is the Pike show. This is the Spock show. This is the Number One show. We have a lot of stories yet to tell with them. That said, who knows what the future holds. We would be so lucky to have that Enterprise.”

He pauses, and answers with a knowing glint in his eyes. “I think that that would be an unbelievably interesting experiment,” he says. “But I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, because I love this show. And I hope we get to do it for a while.”

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Continues To Rank In The Streaming Top 10

| August 25, 2023 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 44 comments so far

The second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a certified hit, with continued appearances on Nielsen’s top streaming chart.

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The latest streaming charts from Nielsen again feature Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in the top 10 original streaming programs covering the last two weeks of July. This period included the release of three episodes of Strange New Worlds due to the surprise early release of the Lower Decks crossover (episode 207, “Those Old Scientists”) during San Diego Comic-Con. After dropping off the chart for a week, the show returned for the week of July 17-23 (which also included the release of episode 206 “Lost in Translation”). Strange New Worlds jumped back in at number 10 (with 324 million minutes viewed).

For the latest chart covering the week of July 24-30 (which included the release of episode 208 “Under the Cloak of War”) SNW moved up to 9th place on the chart with 395 million minutes viewed. The latest charts show Strange New Worlds it is not far behind the latest Marvel show Secret Invasion in terms of viewed minutes, even though that show streams on Disney+ which has significantly more subscribers.

All in all Strange New Worlds has ranked on Nielsen’s Top 10 original streaming shows chart for five out of the first seven weeks of its second season run. Strange New Worlds has now jumped ahead of the third season of Star Trek: Picard which ranked on this same chart 3 times during its 10-episode run. Since Nielsen started measuring Paramount+ data earlier this year, only the two Star Trek shows and the Yellowstone prequel 1923 have appeared on the original top 10 chart.

L-R Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga and Anson Mount as Capt. Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+

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Strange New Worlds certainly deserves to be a hit; the whole creative team is doing a fabulous job!

I think I may have watched “Subspace Rhapsody” for 395 million minutes all by myself. :-)

IMO most of the episodes this season are not merely rewatchable, but demand multiple viewings. I am still in awe that we got “Those Old Scientists” AND “Subspace Rhapsody” in the same season. For my money this has been the best season of Star Trek 3.0, and ranks right up there with some of my favorite seasons of DS9, TNG, and TOS.

And S1 gave us “Strange New Worlds,” “Children of the Comet,” and “The Elysian Kingdom,” all of which I thought were fabulous. I just wish SNW’s seasons were longer…

Tell me about it. What I wouldn’t give for a 23 episode season of SNW!

Honestly if they are going to stop making year long Treks which I totally see coming after PIC and Protigy are now gone and Discovery is about to be, I can see them extending SNW to a 15 ep run, esp after these kinds of ratings.

I remember Anson Mount advocating for shorter seasons after doing season 2 of Discovery because the shooting schedule was so long. Besides that, it is a question of budget. I’m not sure how many people cancel their subscription immediately after a season ends but doing 15 instead of 10 episodes would probably not bring in 50% more money. I know that CBS All Access used to say that they wanted new Star Trek out all year but the new motto seems to be: “How little can we get away with before we lose subscriptions in droves?”

Yes, yes, YES!!!

I’m happy you enjoyed the musical. I liked some eps better than others, but this whole season was a big win. I must confess I’ve enjoyed “Subspace Rhapsody” five times now.

So much goodness this season!

I can’t seem to STOP watching the songs from “Subspace Rhapsody” on YouTube; I’ve also bought the soundtrack and listen to it while folding laundry or doing other mindless chores. I wasn’t sure about the idea of a Star Trek musical when they first mentioned it, but the execution was just STUNNING; I love it so much!

Wow I see you really loved the musical. Always happy to hear when you truly enjoyed something. 🙂

Aw, thanks! What did you think of it?

I adored the heck out of the musical — and man, Celia has got PIPES!

But I did wish that they weren’t telling us that Spock became the controlled Vulcan we know and admire in TOS because Chapel broke his heart. THAT doesn’t sit well with me at all.

But aside from that, it was all just stunningly well done! I even love it that Anson Mount can’t really sing, because it makes it all much more realistic. Like, if I were on a starship and HAD to sing, people would be covering their ears and fleeing. Being a good scientist or security guard or pilot doesn’t necessarily come with singing skills, no matter what the anomaly of the week makes you do. :-)

This might explain why CBS is running two eps for Star Trek Day episodes on their affiliates. If ratings are good? We may see the rest of the eps air weekly. That gives them 20 weeks of SNW and 30 weeks of Picard. I don’t know if it makes sense to air DSC on CBS. (I do like DSC.)

Sadly, it is airing on a Friday. The ratings won’t be good.

It’s because Star Trek Day is on Friday this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if SNW gets some other showings after big sporting events. Besides, there is little to no new content this year with the CBS franchise model. NCIS Boise, etc. aren’t returning until 2024. It’s a good business move to show Par+ content on broadcast TV to drive subs. I think SNW just might surprise everybody with good ratings if given a chance.

They tried DSC on CBS. It bombed.

That was three years later though, and DSC never really had particularly good word of mouth. SNW has better chances, but the Friday night death slot does it no favors.

It doesn’t really matter right? It’s just there to fill in content. It’s not going to live or die by how many people it grabs on CBS every week. It’s doing great in its real home, that’s all that matters.

There might be non-Paramount+ subscribers who get an opportunity to see it for the first time.

There will be a contingent of “fans” who will come out of the woodwork to tell us these ratings show SNW is a flop on broadcast TV and this proves that no one watches the show, Paramount’s number are bogus, etc. Just wait.

I mean at the end of the day Star Trek is SciFi. Heck, it is the epitome of SciFi. On non-Cable Network TV, SciFi doesn’t have the best track record (minus the CW post the death of UPN/WB). Heck look how many horrid deaths Fox gave us! (RIP Firefly and Sarah Connor Chronicles!) Now by no means does that mean SNW is a failure. The fact that it can go toe to toe with the likes of Disney+ and Netflix is incredible and extremely impressive!

Yeah true, but amirami already said it for me. It’s being played on a Friday for a reason. And that’s because most space opera shows in general just doesn’t pull large numbers anymore. I have said this many times, there is probably a reason not a single space show is not on a traditional TV, either on a network or a cable channel. The last two space shows that was on TV was The Orville and the Expanse. One started on FOX, the other on the Syfy channel and they both got moved to streaming.

It’s not the 90s anymore where sci fi was a bigger thing and you had tons of Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Stargate among others running in syndication or on a network. It seems to all do better on streaming today. None of them probably get anywhere close to what Enterprise was getting ratings wise by the end of its run on UPN, but with streaming they don’t have to either.

We all love Star Trek, but we have to face the reality it’s still more of a niche franchise today instead of a broad mainstream franchise. SNW is in the top 10 which is great but it’s funny it’s nowhere close to a show like Jack Ryan which seems to be a a huge hit for Amazon and double the minutes SNW has and yet they already said season 4 would be it’s last. The metrics in streaming is so weird.

It’s being played on a Friday for a reason.

Because Star Trek fans have no social life? ;-)

Although the irony is both TOS and ENT got cancelled when the shows were moved to Friday because not enough fans were around watching that day.

Or maybe Friday is Dungeons and Dragons night and they refused to reschedule. ;)

Carrying on the tradition of Star Trek in Friday death slot like Season 3 of TOS … at least, it doesn’t matter much this time since Star Trek is carrying P+

That is great, they’ve got a good set up and some “Strange New Worlds” in the show, but just think of the audience if they go all in on hardcore exploration in an age of discovery, throw in some story arcs and set up an ultimate Connie on D-7 battle (WOK style complete with strategy, boarding parties, damage control, etc), final frontier action! Can’t help but feel that as they achieve success they can’t help but TNGize and dumb it down that it self destructs like Prodigy. Already you see the colors on the bridge change to monochrome as if they can’t help but want it dull dull dull. Remember Pic S3 worked because they TOS TMPed it and made the ENT-G something from TMP. TOSize and wake people up, avoid TNGize and putting people to sleep. Save that for the comedy series.

That guy always makes me laugh. Old fan who just can’t let go bro. Just can’t let go.

It’s great to see the show doing so well. I don’t think anyone doubted Those Old Scientist would land in the top 10. I think the musical episode will be even bigger with all the curiosity about it.

Happy TOS was such a hit! They have to do another one in the future.

They should definitely do another crossover together in the future. The SNW show runner has said he would love to do crossovers with the other shows like Prodigy, Picard and even Discovery. I think after doing so well with LDS it will be easier to try with those other shows/characters too.

If I saw Murf on SNW I think I would pass out LOL

LOL me too. I would love to see Murf on that show.

Totally! And with what Pike has been through in his life I bet it wouldn’t even phase him (pun intended lol)

Makes sense. Other than the very disappointing Rigel VII episode, season two was really good.

I know I’m in the minority, but I think SNW is pretty mediocre. Don’t care for how Spock is written to be a fool, the total lack of respect for canon and the sometimes silly tone the series takes…All involved are talented, but hasn’t really worked for me to this point.

I agree with all of your points, but realize that at 57, this show isn’t being written for me. That said, there are a number of episodes I’ve enjoyed over both seasons so far, and I’m glad the show is doing well. I do think overall the actors are much better than the material they’ve been given to work with.

Spock’s also written as a complete tool towards women. It wasn’t even five minutes after T’Pring called a break in their engagement, and he was kissing Christine and (presumably) falling into bed with her.

I also find SNW very mediocre. It’s just not my cup of tea although I did love the musical and the Lower Decks crossover.

Agreed! I don’t count SNW as canon or Star Trek. But, I’m 41 and I’m not the target audience. However, I do like LD and Prodigy. So, there is plenty to choose from.

This is awesome. If P+ survives the strikes I’m sure this means at least Trek will survive via this show!

What’s not to like about the show, EVERYONE is awesome. I’m with others, they really need to make more than 10 episodes per year. I would watch everyone!

I really really hope LDS makes the top 10. At least once would be something special.

We do need a strong reliable metric for streaming ratings, and the WGA and SAG certainly are pushing for that. But it’s gratifying to see Star Trek shows being this popular – with Paramount+ being at a disadvantage when it comes to subscribers, it proves these shows are outsized performers to compete so well against the heavy hitters who have a huge advantage there.

Of course I’m glad for Star Trek to be getting attention, especially given its lot of being stuck on the worst streaming service. I just wish we got better content out of it. I truly loved Picard S3, but SNW is too hokey for me. The crossover with LD solidifies for me that its characters don’t act like adults. This is in complete contrast to TOS, where everyone is just so dang intelligent and competent. Ever since SNW remade Balance of Terror, it’s been glaringly obvious which version of Star Trek was well-written, and which is a poor imitation. If SNW had good writing, Star Trek would truly be a cultural force again.

If they did they’d have locked Boimler & Mariner in quarters or the brig for the duration and there wouldn’t have been much of an episode. That was a bit of a necessary plot hole for the episode to work.

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The first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is essentially perfect television, a delightful space adventure whose episodic storytelling has allowed it to explore many different kinds of genres. From tense submarine thrillers and goofy bodyswap romantic comedies to fantastical children’s tales and dark horror stories , each hour manages to be entertaining in its own right while still telling us, as viewers, something worthwhile about the characters we’re watching. Honestly, as we look back on season 1, it feels as though there’s essentially nothing this show can’t do.

However, its predominantly episodic format means that the bulk of season 1’s stories are tied up each week. There aren’t any larger puzzle box mysteries to try to solve, and the series’ outstanding plot threads tend to focus on ongoing emotional arcs rather than shocking cliffhangers meant to leave us counting the days until the season 2 premiere. That’s not a bad thing; one of the most appealing aspects of this show is the incredible care with which it treats its characters and their journeys, but it does mean that there’s not a lot of reason to spin out elaborate fan theories or speculation during the series’ hiatus. (I welcome all your thoughts on Pike’s sartorial and grooming choices throughout the season, however.)

Here’s a rundown of how everything wrapped up across season 1’s final episodes—and what it all might mean for Strange New Worlds season 2.

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Pike Finds Peace…For Now

One of the best things about Strange New Worlds season 1 is the deft way it has managed to explore Captain Christopher Pike’s inner struggle in the face of the foreknowledge of his own death without getting repetitive or overly saccharine about it. Happily, his story isn’t one of despair over his circumstances, nor is it overly fixated on the things he’s lost or those he’ll never get to have. Instead, the show seems determined to find new ways to explore questions of fate and consequences, and “A Quality of Mercy” presents him a vision of a different future and the unexpected cost of changing his fate: Spock’s life.

Apparently, there’s a timeline in which Pike can not only avoid a future of agonizing pain and disfigurement—but it’s also one where his attempt to save himself (or more correctly, save the cadets he knows are destined to die) dooms his friend instead, leaving Spock in a lifetime of physical agony and kicking off a war with the Romulans that will leave millions dead. Learning that, of course there’s only one choice a man like Christopher Pike could ever make.

By the end of the hour, Pike seems to have made a tentative kind of peace with his own future and ends the season with a seemingly much lighter heart than he began it. (Not that I’m complaining about the pilot’s unshaven, rustic day drinker look, mind you!) Whether that’s because saving Spock—whom Pike is told is destined for a world-changing future—has made his choice more personally immediate, or simply because he’s not the kind of person who would ever consider trading his life for millions of other people he’ll never meet, isn’t explicitly stated. Either way, he seems more determined than ever to embrace the time he has left and make some memories on his adventure (something the finale’s closing credits song backs up.)

Una Is Arrested

Though much of “A Quality of Mercy” is essentially erased by Pike’s decision not to tell his future cadets about the dire fate that’s waiting for them in just a handful of years, its final moments see his sometime girlfriend Captain Batel arrive to take Una into custody for violating the Federation’s genetic modifcation laws. (She is actually Illyrian and has been hiding her true identity since joining Starfleet.)

Pike, of course, is furious—and I suspect his romantic relationship with Batel is very much done after this—but there’s little he can do at the moment. How he’ll get his first officer back—and who turned Una in, given that only a handful of Enterprise crew members were even aware of her deception—are questions we’ll have to wait for season 2 to answer. But on the plus side, we’re likely to finally get a chance to really dig into Una’s character next year, one of the few weak areas of Strange New Worlds ’ first season.

Spock Gets In Touch with His Emotions

Spock’s struggle to both understand and accept his unique dual identity as half human and half Vulcan has been a major part of his character arc since Ethan Peck took over the role on Star Trek: Discovery . Strange New Worlds has further complicated this journey by introducing his Vulcan fiance T’Pring, his jailed half-brother Sybok , and a warm friendship/maybe something more with Nurse Christine Chapel .

In “All Those Who Wander,” Spock is forced to tap into the rage he so often suppresses in order to successfully battle the Gorn who are trying to kill the crew. But once he allows his anger to flow freely, he discovers he doesn’t quite know how to turn his emotions off again. Though he turns to Chapel for guidance, it’s unclear how much this will impact his mental state in season 2.

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La’an Takes a Leave of Absence

As a rare survivor of a Gorn attack, Enterprise security officer La’an Noonien-Singh has spent most of her adult life trying to process the trauma of that experience (and her choice to essentially leave her brother for dead). In Strange New Worlds season 1, she gets the chance to face her greatest fear not once but twice, as the crew manages to survive both a run-in with a Gorn ship and an attack by juvenile versions of the creatures who hatched from eggs implanted in a handful of rescued refugees. (Don’t ask, it is exactly as gross as it sounds.)

During their attempt to escape the crashed Peregrine in “All Those Who Wander,” La’an helps rescue a young girl named Oriana, whose experiences are frighteningly close to her own youth. She digs deep into her own past to help motivate the child to keep fighting, and when they’re all safe back aboard the Enterprise La’an requests a leave of absence so that she might help Oriana find her family. (The one thing La’an herself never got the chance to reclaim.)

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On the surface, this seems like a neat way to write the character of La’an out of the show, but it’s hard to imagine her leave will keep her away from the Enterprise for long. After all, Pike’s promised her she always has a place on his crew, and we have to image La’an will want to help get Una—one of the scant handful of people she seems to genuinely care about—out of prison. It’s even more difficult to believe that Strange New Worlds purposefully gave this character the last name of Noonien-Singh and allowed her to leave the canvas for good without ever exploring what living with that legacy is like.

The Enterprise Needs a New Engineer

At the end of season 1’s penultimate episode, Enterprise Chief Engineer Hemmer sacrifices himself to prevent the Gorn eggs he’s been infected with from hatching. A shocking, dramatic death that is both moving and narratively relevant—Hemmer’s species believes that death does not come for you until you have fulfilled your larger life purpose, and saving his crew was apparently his—many viewers are likely still reeling from what is Strange New Worlds’ first real loss.

But Hemmer’s death does open up space for some interesting and necessary speculation. Who will become the Enterprise’s next chief en gineer ? In “A Quality of Mercy” we hear the voice of Montgomery Scott from the ship’s engine room, though we don’t see him. Is that a hint that some version of Scotty is headed our way? Or will Strange New World use this as an opportunity to introduce some new characters to the Enterprise engine room?

Uhura Chooses Her Path

Though it’s hard to imagine a world in which Nyota Uhura isn’t on board the U.S.S. Enterprise , it’s apparently something that came super close to happening. Upon completion of her Academy training, Uhura was still unsure of her purpose and was planning on returning to Earth—the crew even threw a farewell party for her!

But in the wake of Hemmer’s death, and in response to his final exhortation that she stop closing herself off to real connection and grab a chance to make a future for herself with both hands, she decides to take Pike up on his offer and remain part of the Enterprise . And though she doesn’t yet realize what a momentous choice this is….we do, and the concluding shot of her looking over the communications console is genuinely lovely.

The Long-Awaited Arrival of James T. Kirk

Though we already knew that Paul Wesley would be portraying iconic Star Trek : The Original Series character James Kirk in Strange New Worlds season 2, his appearance in the season 1 finale came as something of a shock. Granted, Wesley’s technically playing a version of Kirk—the captain of the U.S.S. Farragut —in “A Quality of Mercy” that doesn’t exist anymore, but his presence will likely still impact next season anyway.

After all, Kirk’s older brother Sam already serves on the Enterprise —and Pike is now aware of just how much potential the younger Kirk possesses. We’re clearly going to see him again, perhaps in a way that’s similar to how Spock’s fiancee T’Pring has appeared in multiple episodes this season. But since we’re still the better part of a decade away from Kirk taking command of the Enterprise , it seems unlikely that he’ll join the crew full-time, even at a lower rank. It’s not completely out of the realm of possibility, but it’s pretty hard to imagine, especially given how many secondary characters (Una, M’Benga, Uhura, Nurse Chapel, La’an) the show already has to balance.

You don’t bring on a legacy figure like Captain Kirk and then do nothing with him—but you also can’t risk doing too much with him, particularly given the narrative constraints imposed by The Original Series canon , especially the events of “The Menagerie.” Will Strange New Worlds season 2 manage to balance these competing priorities in a way that makes longtime fans happy and respects the new stories the series is telling? Fingers crossed.

Lacy Baugher

Lacy Baugher is a digital producer by day, but a television enthusiast pretty much all the time. Her writing has been featured in Paste Magazine, Collider,…

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There are always cheerful flames flickering on the hearth in Captain Pike’s cabin on the Enterprise of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Often he has guests—crewmates and confidantes who’ve flocked to those flames, and to the warmth of their captain’s company. At Pike’s collegial Round Table, the dress code is casual, rank is irrelevant, and even ensigns speak freely. Sometimes the captain cooks, eschewing the ease of the replicator in favor of the human, homemade touch. (The man makes a mean waffle.) Then he does dishes, an apron protecting the uniform that he has to keep pristine in case a priority one message from Starfleet interrupts the bull session and beckons the captain to the bridge. The vibe and decor in Pike’s quarters are retrofuturistic—sleekness and swank crossed with common-room hominess. It’s my 2022 TV happy place. I want to boldly go to there .

The greatest strength of Strange New Worlds is that I wouldn’t mind if that summons from Starfleet never came. As far as I’m concerned, the Enterprise could crawl along at the slowest warp factor, ferrying fuel to a distant base or mapping some new star system, if it meant more time to hang with my new Star Trek TV dad and his merry band of best friends/loyal lieutenants. Yellow alert? More like mellow alert. The series’ first season has been over for only a few hours—its 10th and final episode was released on Thursday—but I already miss my adopted, 23rd-century sci-fi family. “I hate goodbyes,” Uhura says in the season’s penultimate episode, echoing the sentiments of most of the series’ audience. Even knowing that production on the second season has already wrapped , it’s hard to dis engage from a show whose comforting familiarity belies its title. After finishing the finale, I felt like a kid reluctantly returning to real life after an extended stay at space camp. Is it possible to feel homesick for a fictional starship?

Unlike The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine , Strange New Worlds didn’t start at sublight speed. The series was fully formed and functional from the get-go, partly because it relies on some legacy characters and because it spun off from the second season of Discovery , a series that leaped far into the future and, in the process, ran off the rails after parting ways with Pike and Co. Small-screen Star Trek has arguably never been better than this: Even before the finale, Strange New Worlds had garnered both near-unanimous critical acclaim and the highest average IMDb user rating of any live-action season in franchise history. (Its rating was tied, perhaps only temporarily, with that of the also-excellent second season of the animated Lower Decks .)

It helps, of course, that the era of shorter TV seasons has spared Strange New Worlds the need for fluff and padding that caused the quality of its predecessors to fluctuate wildly from week to week. Keep only the top 10 installments from one of TOS , TNG , or DS9 ’s 26-episode seasons, and those shows would’ve had higher average ratings, too. In that sense, then, Strange New Worlds is, like its captain and its version of the Enterprise , an ideal blend of old and new: the episodic structure of OG Trek , coupled with the quality control of a more manageable streaming season.

Strange New Worlds squeezes a more extended season’s worth of extrasolar exploration, adventure variety, and fleshed-out characterization into its reduced screen time. As advertised, there are, in fact, some strange new worlds; the Enterprise is the only constant in the peripatetic series’ exotic tapestry of settings. The ship’s travels bring our heroes face-to-face and antennae-to-antennae with an assortment of Star Trek tropes, including but not limited to unending wars resolved by playing fast and loose with General Order 1 ; mysteriously sentient space entities; deserted or distressed colonies; deceptive distress calls; insidious, parasitic infections; elaborate fantasy scenarios constructed by telepathic, incomprehensibly powerful beings; body swaps, and time travel.

More exciting than the changes of scenery and the variety in mission objectives, though, is the elasticity of the series’ tone, which ranges from the tense naval combat of “Memento Mori” to the comic relief of “Spock Amok,” the poignant playfulness of “The Elysian Kingdom,” and the Alien -inspired horror of “All Those Who Wander.” It’s hard to provide a capsule summary of a standard Strange New Worlds episode, save for the fact that it’s unfailingly rooted in classic Star Trek optimism and in the bonds between crew members, whose personal and professional lives intertwine during their long-term mission.

If there’s a criticism that could be levied against the series—aside from its regrettable lack of nonhuman leads —it’s that Strange New Worlds is more of a Star Trek remix than the new frontier for the franchise that the poster promised. Pike incorporates aspects of other Trek captains; his crew includes characters from other Trek crews; and their adventures often hearken back to other Trek episode plots. Yet the ingredients are mixed in such a sublime, loving, and artful way that the results feel fresh. The recipe for the series reminds me of Pike’s approach to turning leftover spaghetti into appetizing pasta mama: “Just add eggs, parmesan, lightly sautée, and it transforms from leftovers into something new.”

Pike himself embodies that new/old duality. Like Captain Kirk, he roams the heartland and romances humans and aliens; like Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, he’s an equestrian; like Benjamin Sisko, he cooks for himself and his crew. (Though Pike’s skills with a skillet actually help him out of jams —and in contrast to Kirk or Commander Riker, he doesn’t offer only eggs on the menu.) Like Picard and Sisko, he’s something of a throwback—or as one of his love interests, Captain Batel, puts it, a “man out of time.” He doesn’t love baseball (like Sisko) or quote Hamlet and cosplay as a character from a fictional hard-boiled detective series (like Picard), but his anachronistic quirks make him feel like a well-rounded, idiosyncratic character (and also make him more relatable to us primitive, pre-warp viewers).

As I mentioned in a piece at the start of the season, Pike is also a throwback in another way: He’s a white guy like Kirk and Picard, a relative rarity (though not unheard of ) in the post- TNG era of Sisko , Janeway, Burnham, and Freeman . But Pike is no clone of Kirk, Picard, or any Star Trek captain who came before him. He has some of Kirk’s boldness and Picard’s cool under pressure, but unlike every other sometimes stern or withholding captain who’s come after Kirk, his sympathy and support are never in question. The crew craves his approval and recognition, and they know that they have it; Pike is both leader and cheerleader, and his understanding, like his starship, knows no bounds. Emotionally, he has no Neutral Zone . (Questions about Pike to ponder during the time between seasons: Is it possible to be too handsome , charismatic, compassionate, and sensitive?)

Anson Mount is so set-phasers-to-stunning in the role that he seems as destined to sit in the captain’s chair as Pike does to sit in his life-support chair . He can play the fearless, the puckish charmer, and the smoldering (albeit respectful!) seducer, but he can also play vulnerable, brooding, and even silly, as in the divisive (but in my mind, mostly effective and touching ) “The Elysian Kingdom.” His Pike sometimes calls his subordinates—including Enterprise helmsman and Pike protégé Lieutenant Ortegas—by their first names, in an affectionate, familiar manner. And he fully leans into the notion of service in Starfleet as a way to find a family. “You get the supplies to K-7,” he tells Number One in “All Those Who Wander,” as he suggests that the Enterprise leave him and his away team behind to investigate a remote outpost. “I’ll pile the kids in the station wagon, take a road trip.” Greeted with blank looks and consternation, he continues, “Anybody has to go, now’s the time. Do not make me turn this car around.”

Endearing. Adorable. Dad-like. By the time a pre- Enterprise Captain Kirk pops up in the season finale, in advance of a recurring role in Season 2, his presence seems somewhat extraneous; Pike is commanding and magnetic enough without the enticement of another link to Trek’s past. (Especially because new Kirk Paul Wesley looks like original Pike portrayer Jeffrey Hunter.)

Crucial as a captain’s appeal is to a Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds doesn’t live by a great head of hair alone. With a few epic, centuries-spanning, hard-sci-fi exceptions—the once-thought-to-be- unfilmable Foundation and Dune , for instance—a space-based sci-fi series is only as compelling as its crew. From Star Wars to Stargate , Battlestar Galactica to Guardians of the Galaxy , The Expanse to Firefly , and Futurama to For All Mankind , a core group of personable protagonists in a cozy base or ship is essential to situating the audience in an infinite, forbidding universe. As Enterprise engineer Lieutenant Hemmer tells Uhura in one of his last lines , “Make a home for yourself among others and you will find joy more often than sadness.”

The Enterprise of Strange New Worlds provides one such home for fans because of its ensemble, which lacks a weak link. New characters like Lieutenants Ortegas and Noonien-Singh and Dr. M’Benga feel as real and vital as preexisting characters such as Uhura, Number One, Nurse Chapel, and Spock, all of whom have richer backstories and emotional lives than they did in The Original Series . Ethan Peck’s Hot Spock is as useful a foil for Pike as Leonard Nimoy’s Spock was to Kirk, as well as a source of indelible, only-on-Vulcan commentary like, “Another human drinking game. Does their number have no limit?” And the series not only established a riveting new villain in Captain Angel but also repurposed and improved an old one in the Gorn .

Part of Strange New Worlds ’ hypnotic appeal is attributable to its palate - cleansing episodic format, which preserves the progress of relationships among characters but wipes the slate mostly clean from a plot standpoint each week. As one of the only episodic scripted series in my live-action TV rotation, Strange New Worlds is a welcome respite from the burdens of lore and lasting stakes. Compared to last week’s apocalyptic conclusion to Stranger Things Season 4 or this week’s superpowered crescendo to The Boys Season 3—both satisfying in their own, very different fashions—the finale of Strange New Worlds is almost a breather between spectacular struggles. Yes, there’s a standoff with the Romulans and the prospect of a galaxy-spanning conflict to defuse, but the make-or-break moment lies years in the future, and for now, it’s easily averted by touching a time crystal .

The finale’s real battle takes place inside Pike, who begins and ends the season by confronting his fate. The finale wasn’t the first time in the series that Pike wrestled with his knowledge of the accident that awaits him, and it likely won’t be the last, but in “A Quality of Mercy,” he seems to accept that there’s no escape from his disfigured future. The weight of knowing what comes next lies heavy on some prequels ( see Obi-Wan Kenobi ), but because Strange New Worlds is so much fun from week to week, because it doesn’t aspire to serialized storytelling with timeline-altering stakes, and because the various eras of Star Trek have historically been backdrops to tell smaller-scale, self-contained tales, the series largely sidesteps the prequel curse . We know what’s in store for Pike, just as we knew what lay ahead for Obi-Wan; the difference is that Pike has seen his destiny too, and that foreknowledge is part of the pathos of the show.

“Have I mentioned that it’s good to be home?” Sisko once asked . Star Trek ’s new home doesn’t look quite like Deep Space 9 or Picard’s card table , but it’s just as inviting. “We’ve seen some things together,” Pike tells his bridge crew in the season’s second-to-last episode. “We’ve survived some things together. We are bonded now and forever by the family that is Starfleet.” There’s also a bond between the creators, cast, and characters of Strange New Worlds and their audience, which has waded through the ups and downs of latter-day Trek in pursuit of a series and season like this. I can’t wait for the family reunion.

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What a time to be alive: Fans of sci-fi and workplace shows have three solid Star Trek spinoffs to enjoy. Strange New Worlds is wrapping up its second season, Lower Decks is slated to return for season four in September, and Discovery will be back for its fifth and final season in 2024. Strange New Worlds in particular is such fun to watch, reveling in the freedom of episodic storytelling to explore a bunch of different genres and tropes including body-swapping, being trapped in a fairy tale, and, most recently, boldly going right to an unlikely, delightful musical reality. But the fun of watching the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise week to week can obscure how much sadness and grief they’re all carrying around. From First Officer Una Chin-Riley being forced to hide her Illyrian identity on pain of being expelled from Starfleet to Spock’s surprisingly emotionally tortured logic, this crew needs a hug.

Of course, the various buried traumas that none of them want to acknowledge is at the heart of what makes Strange New Worlds tick; it’s so much easier for this crew to develop aspirationally rich work relationships than to confide in one another about their painful pasts. But the truth will out, as we saw in musical episode “Subspace Rhapsody,” and as awkward as it is to have all your messy emotional stuff out there like so much space junk, it’s also freeing. As the second season concludes on a whopper of a cliffhanger , let’s assess who’s the saddest of them all, from the least burdened to the gloomiest Gus.

10. Erica Ortegas, Helmsman

Is she sad? More righteously furious than sad, but only on occasion. Okay, why? Put it down to her service in the Klingon War. In the Strange New Worlds continuity, that conflict ended a few years ago, and although everyone serving on the U.S.S. Enterprise is far safer than they were during the war, those feelings can and will erupt from time to time, such as when former Klingon general/current peace negotiator Rah pays a visit in “ Under the Cloak of War .” How she’s hiding her fury: Ortegas isn’t so much hiding her feelings as focusing on other things, such as spectacularly daring flying and being a supportive friend to Nurse Christine Chapel.

9. James T. Kirk

Is he sad? Not exactly. Okay, what does that mean? In “ Subspace Rhapsody ,” the U.S.S. Farragut ’s new No. 1 describes himself to La’an Noonien-Singh as having a complicated life. Complicated is messy, but it’s not quite the same as being sad. How he’s hiding his sadness, or whatever complicated emotion it is: Future Enterprise Captain Kirk is famously breezy. Often infuriatingly so, especially if you are his future long-suffering bestie, Mr. Spock. He’s not incapable of seriousness, though. In “Subspace Rhapsody,” Kirk felt some genuine pangs when explaining to La’an that he and his on-again, off-again partner, Carol Marcus, are expecting a baby. In the same scene, he also grieved a bit for an alternate reality he doesn’t remember, in which he and La’an caught feelings for each other. He was murdered in that reality, but lacking any memory of it, Jim doesn’t have to drag that particular sadness around with him the way La’an does.

8. Una Chin-Riley, First Officer

Is she sad? She’s emerging from a decades-long crushing sadness and fear of discovery. Progress! Why is she sad? Being part of an ethnic minority barred from Starfleet service and forced to hide a crucial aspect of her identity? That’s pretty tragic! By rights, Una has reason to be even sadder than she is. The ordeal of facing legal and professional consequences for having the gall to serve the galaxy as a genetically modified Illyrian was bad enough. Knowing that the treasured home and found family she’s built over the course of a sterling career could have been snatched away from her on outdated and bigoted grounds would enrage a lesser person (it’s me; I’m the enraged lesser person). How is she hiding her sadness? As will soon start to sound like a broken record, Una’s first and favorite method is unfailing professionalism and commitment to her job. As she counsels La’an later in “Keeping Secrets,” being her own best friend and confidante has worked in the past, but she can see now that “it doesn’t serve me anymore.” The hopefulness of her charming waltz duet with Kirk, “Connect to Your Truth,” suggests that a somewhat more vulnerable and authentic approach will suit her better.

7. Nurse Christine Chapel

Is she sad? Sadder than you might imagine. Why is she sad? Christine has an intense combo pack of PTSD from her service in the Klingon War and an acute case of the common heartache affliction first described by the great 20th-century pop diagnostician Dr. Sting as “ If You Love Someone, Set Them Free ”–itis. Cautioned by one of the Below Decks visitors that in their future, Spock is definitely not a smiley, good-time-Charlie kind of guy, Christine breaks up with him to make sure their love doesn’t get in the way of his attaining his destiny as a great man of their age. How is she hiding her sadness? Christine is usually pretty carefree and easy-breezy in a way that is never grating, which covers a lot of ground. It’s worth noting that even in her big ensemble number, “I’m Ready,” she frames her inner conflict as a matter of ambition versus romance. Like Una, she’s very good at keeping secrets. I’m curious as to the fate of her fellowship (and her fate, in general) following the season finale’s massive cliffhanger.

6. Commander Pelia, Head of Engineering

Is she sad? Absolutely. Why is she sad? Pelia is a nearly immortal Lanthanite, she’s a genius, and she has magnificent hair – what’s to be sad about? Well, as any vampire can tell you, immortality sucks, actually! Knowing you have centuries, or even millennia, ahead of you while you watch your friends and loved ones age, wither, and die is enough to trigger a long-term existential crisis in anyone. Here’s hoping season three will tackle this aspect of Pelia’s character in more depth. How is she hiding her sadness? Pelia is another character married to her work. That’s treacherous emotional ground, though, because she’s taken over as head of engineering from the late, lamented Hemmer, who was one of her best students from her teaching days at Starfleet Academy. It’s hard to say to what degree Pelia’s puckish sense of humor is rooted in melancholy, her self-proclaimed aversion to boredom, or innate exuberance, but it certainly contributes to her slight air of daffiness, which is also a helpful uncomfortable-emotions-deflection tool. The arrival of Montgomery Scott looks like it’ll prompt some very funny moments next season — funny for viewers, at least. Scott and Pelia have a history of grinding each other’s gears, but here’s hoping having two engineering geniuses on the crew will yield more than just conflict.

5. Nyota Uhura, Communications Officer

Is she sad? Sure is. Why is she sad? Captain Pike calls Ensign Uhura the Voice of the Enterprise . She’s very unassuming, but it’s an apt moniker for the ship’s hypercompetent communications officer. Uhura’s sadness has many layers; she joined Starfleet to take her mind off the tragic deaths of her parents and brother in a shuttle crash, and her grouchy yet wonderful mentor, Chief Engineer Hemmer, sacrificed his own life at the end of last season to save the rest of the crew. How does she hide her sadness? Uhura is the youngest crew member by far, something her colleagues tend to lose sight of because she’s so capable and eager to learn. Uhura’s sunniness and desire to help others are both sincere, giving her huge “a pleasure to have in class” energy, a very powerful mask for complicated feelings.

4. Mr. Spock, Science Officer

Is he sad? Look up “emotionally tortured” in your handy Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Feelings and you’ll see this guy’s face. Why is he sad? Feeling insufficiently human and insufficiently Vulcan, combined with the isolation of having zero peers who share his multi-species identity, has done a number on Spock. He cares deeply for Nurse Chapel — they’ve got a genuine friends-to-lovers thing going on, and I am here for that particular trope — but she’s broken things off with him, ostensibly to pursue a really cool-sounding three-month fellowship in archaeological medicine, and he feels like a chump. It was risky to lean into his humanity by not relying on rigorous Vulcan logic to keep those outsize feelings in check, and now he’s paying the price of being plunged into a very emo place. How is he hiding his sadness? Logic to the rescue! And throwing himself into his work! Singing his way through it in “Subspace Rhapsody” was probably helpful, but let’s not forget, Christine broke up with him in front of a huge crowd who was singing and dancing right along with her. That’s gotta sting with the pain of an entire hornet’s nest. But his underlying affection and collegial concern for her can’t be logic-ed away, and that’s all to the good, as it leads to them rescuing each other from the wreckage of the U.S.S. Cayuga following a massive Gorn attack in the second-season finale. That hand-holding as they watch the wreckage of the Cayuga hurtle away can’t mean nothing .

3. Captain Christopher Pike

Is he sad? You might think that being space’s greatest silver fox would be an unbreachable bulwark against melancholy, but you’d be wrong. Why is he sad? Everyone’s favorite Space Dad knows he’s going to die in order to save others (especially Spock, who has a very big future ahead of him) and has accepted this fate with grace. That doesn’t mean it’s not a far-out bummer! Perhaps even worse, his beloved Captain Batel is incubating Gorn eggs, and the window to save her is swiftly closing. The season finale ending on an image of his anguished face suggests he may be deep into it’s-better-to-have-loved-and-lost territory by the end of the third-season premiere. How does he hide it? On a ship of workaholics, Pike is a good role model for maintaining outside interests. Feeding the people he leads and loves with delicious quarters-cooked meals is Chris’s love language, and absent that outlet, he would probably go entirely off the rails. It’s a classic — and delicious! — avoidance strategy that’s got to fail at some point.

2. Dr. Joseph M’Benga, Chief Medical Officer

Is he sad? Dr. M’Benga is very, very sad. Why is he sad? When M’Benga’s daughter, Rukiya, developed a rare, incurable (fictional) disease, cygnokemia, he bought them both some time by suspending her in the pattern buffer of the medical transporter in the Enterprise sick bay. In “Under the Cloak of War,” we see that this on-the-fly emergency-medicine strategy is one he’s had up his sleeve since at least the Klingon War — he uses it to keep a critical patient alive while his and Nurse Chapel’s field hospital is under attack. His attempts to discover or develop a cure were to no avail, and he eventually agreed to let go of his dream of a cure, sending Rukiya’s consciousness to live in incorporeal form in a nebula at the end of season-one episode “The Elysian Kingdom.” Weep, weep. Also, he has PTSD from his experiences as a very effective special-ops assassin in the Klingon War. He’s got a lot going on! How is he hiding his sadness? Like many of his fellow sadsters in Starfleet, M’Benga focuses pretty ruthlessly on work, pouring his free-floating care for others and his own grief into helping his patients. He’s also an A+ friend and mentor to Nurse Chapel and a skilled martial artist. “Under the Cloak of War” is reminiscent of the more serious episodes of M*A*S*H , making me think it would be a good idea for Starfleet Command to establish a corps of psychological health officers to make the rounds of the fleet to check in on and treat Klingon War veterans. Wouldn’t a Sidney Freedman –type character fit nicely into this ensemble?

1. La’an Noonien-Singh, Chief of Security

Is she sad? Oh, my, yes. This poor woman is the saddest tough cookie. Why is she sad? How much time do you have? First of all, she’s her family’s sole survivor of a gruesome attack by the Gorn. All she has left of her parents and brother are her memories and her surname, but even that’s a source of terrible pain, grief, and shame. To be a Noonien-Singh is to walk around with a big flashing sign reading “DESCENDENT OF A TYRANNICAL EUGENICIST MANIAC” over her head. Not unrelatedly, she’s also been dragging her own heart around since meeting, falling for, and losing Jim Kirk in the alternate-timeline episode “ Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow .” Her pain has been multiplied and basically unprocessed because the laws of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff prevent her from speaking of it to a single creature. How does she hide her sadness? Excruciating professionalism and reserved decorum to the rescue! She’s got an “Elinor Dashwood in Space” routine down to a science — basically, Be Like Una, Only More So — but as she learned through her big solo ballad, “How Would That Feel,” and then through the sisterly advice of Una’s “Keeping Secrets” in “Subspace Rhapsody,” that can only take her so far. Christina Chong, who plays La’an with such sensitivity, remarked in a recent episode of “ The Ready Room ” that viewers can expect to see a somewhat changed La’an going forward. She has more than earned some carefree times, and to see her take a chance or two — for romance, or just for fun, because she can — would be such a refreshing and heartwarming treat after the intense suffering of the last two seasons.

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Star Trek Producers Try To Follow One Rule With Strange New Worlds

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Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have used "Strange New Worlds" to explore the fun side of space travel and push the envelope. From the spooky horror elements of "All Those Who Wander" to the romantic comedy of "Charades," the series has experimented with various genres to tell different stories. Despite the variety on display, however, the creators still have guidelines to adhere to.

While speaking to Variety , Goldsman and Myers revealed that their only rule is to make each season feel episodic. "You shouldn't have to watch a 'previously on' to watch our show," Myers said. This means viewers can pop in whenever they feel like it, knowing that the series isn't 100% beholden to pre-existing "Star Trek" media.

Goldsman and Myers intend to stick to the formula that's worked so well until now, so viewers can expect more genre-hopping adventures and episodic storytelling moving forward. Of course, the "Strange New Worlds" producers aren't the only "Star Trek" alums who've had to follow a rulebook throughout the years, as the franchise used to be much stricter.

Star Trek rules were made to be broken

"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry was protective of his baby. As such, he devised a franchise rulebook that other producers, showrunners, and writers are supposed to abide by. Roddenberry's bible covers everything from character relationships to instructions on how "Star Trek" should approach the sci-fi genre, but some people have disobeyed the mastermind's edicts. One rule regarding "Spock" even caused a behind-the-scenes fight on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and a change was implemented as a result.

While shows like "Star Trek: Discovery" have continued to break Roddenberry's rules , their existence shows this franchise is treated with care. The creators must consider the bigger picture when developing new projects, even if they occasionally stray from the path. "Strange New Worlds" might have its own rules to follow, but the series actually breaks one of Roddenberry's, as he didn't want characters from "Star Trek: The Original Series" to be used in other shows. Times have changed since then, though, and "Strange New Worlds" is exploring new frontiers for the long-running sci-fi franchise.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed For Season 4 At Paramount+

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for Season 4 at Paramount+, despite currently being in production on its third season.

On the other hand, it has been revealed that the animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks , will end with Season 5 on the streaming platform. The final season will premiere this fall.

Strange New Worlds centers around Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) is the USS Enterprise commander at this point in the Star Trek universe. He is joined by younger versions of several legacy characters, including Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Kirk (Paul Wesley).

It debuted in 2022 and had an epic second season that included a musical episode and a crossover episode with Lower Decks , helping it climb aboard Nielsen’s chart of the 10 most-watched streaming original series over multiple weeks.

“On behalf of the cast and crew of ‘Strange New Worlds,’ we are thrilled and grateful to continue our voyages together,” said executive producers and showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, along with executive producer Alex Kurtzman in a statement according to Variety . “We can’t wait for you to join us and the crew of the Enterprise on another season of exploration and adventure.”

Lower Decks is set in the years following the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis and centers around the junior officers of the USS Cerritos: Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ), Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ), D’Vana Tendi ( Noël Wells ) and Sam Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero ).

The series also featured voice cameos from several Star Trek alumni including George Takei , Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Will Wheaton, Armin Shimerman, Nana Visitor, and Robert Duncan McNeill.

Although some aspects of the storyline make it appropriate to conclude the show, Kurtzman and executive producer and showrunner Mike McMahan are leaving the hull open for future iterations.

“We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures,” they said in a message to fans. “While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we’ve spent making this show has been a dream come true.”

Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is slated to premiere in 2025.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed For Season 4 At Paramount+

I’m Glad Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Has Been Renewed For Season 4, But It’s A Shame There’s Also Some Bad News For The Franchise

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Anson Mount as Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+

One of the best reasons to have a Paramount+ subscription is so you can access the modern era of Star Trek TV. Ever since Star Trek: Discovery premiered on then-CBS All Access in 2017, the small screen corner of the sci-fi franchise has been revitalized, with some of the other shows including Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks . Well, there’s some good news and bad news that’s come in today. Strange New Worlds has been renewed for Season 4, but Lower Decks will be ending.

For those of you who’ve enjoyed watching the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise in the immediate years ahead of The Original Series , there’s yet another batch of episodes on the way, though it’ll be a while until that specific group arrives since Strange New Worlds Season 3 isn’t expected to premiere until 2025. Unfortunately, those of you who have enjoyed the comedic hijinks of Boimlier, Mariner, Tendi and Rutherford on the animated Lower Decks must now prepare for the last hurrah with Season 5, which will premiere later this year on the 2024 TV schedule . Executive producers Mike McMahan and Alex Kurtzman released the following statement regarding the news:

We wanted to let you know that this fall will be the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we’ve spent making this show has been a dream come true. 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. Finally, thank you for always being so creative and joyful, for filling convention halls and chanting “LOWER DECKS!” We remain hopeful that even beyond season five, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures. LLAP

Now it is worth noting that Star Trek: Lower Decks ending shouldn’t come as a complete shock. Last October, Mike McMahan told CinemaBlend’s own Mick Joest that he wasn’t sure if Season 6 was in the cards , saying that “ you shouldn’t assume that this stuff is gonna stick around unless you vocally and watch it early on.” Sure enough, Season 5 will be the show’s last, so hopefully the writers were able to craft a conclusive ending rather than leave fans with any lingering plot threads.

All this being said, just because Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending doesn’t mean we’ll never see its characters again. After all, Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome played Boimler and Mariner in live-action for last year’s Strange New Worlds / Lower Decks crossover , so perhaps there’ll be another opportunity for them to return to that show or some other live-action venue. Maybe they could even be joined by costars like Noël Wells or Eugene Cordero. And then, of course, these characters could simply keep being explored in books and comic book series.

As for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Season 2 ended with Pike being forced to decide whether he should follow Starfleet’s orders and retreat from the battle with the Horn, or defy them to save his captured crew members. So with Season 3 needing to resolve that plot thread and explore various other stories, it’ll obviously be a while until we learn what Season 4 holds in store.

The upcoming Star Trek TV shows lineup also includes Starfleet Academy , and the Michelle Yeoh-led Section 31 movie will also exclusively play on Paramount+. Meanwhile, the theatrical side of the franchise is beginning development on a Star Trek origins movie , so keep visiting CinemaBlend for the biggest updates on all these projects.

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Star trek: strange new worlds season 4 needs another lower decks crossover.

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.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 needs to have another crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks.
More opportunities for the casts to meet include Lt. Spock meeting fellow Vulcan Lt. T'Lyn.
Strange New Worlds season 4 is the best chance to see the Lower Decks cast again in a further mix of animation and live-action.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 needs another crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks . Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7, “Those Old Scientists, ” saw Lower Deckers Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) time travel to encounter Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise crew in the 23rd century. The exciting and emotionally resonant Star Trek crossover was lauded by fans of both shows and provided important character and narrative development.

The renewal of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for season 4, alongside the news that Star Trek: Lower Decks will not be renewed after season 5, is a bittersweet reality check for fans but may also present an opportunity to capitalize on the success of the first crossover between these two shows with another one in Strange New Worlds ’ season 4. The growing prominence and influence of Tawny Newsome over Star Trek’ s modern shows and Strange New Worlds showrunners’ interest in further collaboration suggests that another crossover may be a possibility .

Tawny Newsome is a writer on Paramount+'s upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series as well as voicing Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Strange New Worlds Season 2 Cast Guide — Every New & Returning Star Trek Character

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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Tawny Newsome says there's no crossover episode in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, but the possibility of reuniting the USS Enterprise and USS Cerritos casts remains open. Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler visited the Starship Enterprise in Strange New Worlds season 2's crossover, but a sequel could see additional USS Cerritos officers’ involvement or even fully bring the live-action USS Enterprise crew into the world of animation, allowing fan-favorite characters like Lt. D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Lt Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) to interact with other Star Trek characters .

Imagine Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) meeting Star Trek: Lower Decks ’ Vulcan Lieutenant T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz).

Imagine Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) meeting Star Trek: Lower Decks ’ Vulcan Lieutenant T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) or a live-action Dr. Migleemo (Paul F. Tompkins) showing Dr. Joseph M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) the finer points of food-metaphor psychiatry. The dynamic between characters like Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Lt. Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore), and Dr. T’Ana (Gillian Vigman) could also create engaging storylines, allowing options for additional animation. With the success of the first Strange New Worlds crossover and both shows’ strong fan base, another joint-venture episode in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ’ season 4 seems a natural progression , continues important character developments, and, most importantly, allows for a continuation of Star Trek: Lower Decks .

Strange New Worlds Season 4 Is The Best Chance To See Lower Decks Again

Strange new worlds can bring the enterprise and cerritos crews back together..

When Star Trek: Prodigy was canceled by Paramount+, an online fan campaign successfully saved the show, with Netflix acquiring it for a second season. This suggests a similar option exists for Star Trek: Lower Decks to continue with a new streaming provider. However, with Lower Decks having already completed a five-season run and fans not responding with the same umbrage and passion that saved Star Trek: Prodigy from cancelation, the likelihood of this happening remains uncertain. Nevertheless, there are still avenues – and interest – for the USS Cerritos crew to embark on new adventures.

Star Trek: The Next Generation icon and Commander William Riker actor Jonathan Frakes directed the Strange New Worlds & Lower Decks crossover episode, "Those Old Scientists."

A second crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds offers the most promising chance to see Lower Decks again after it ends with season 5. Given how well-received Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7 , “Those Old Scientists" was, there is scope and precedent for further development of this collaboration. Strange New Worlds season 4 presents the best chance for Star Trek: Lower Decks to make a triumphant return . Both Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks' diverse creativity and genre-blending offer numerous possibilities for an engaging and innovative second crossover, including the potential for a multiple-episode story arc.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks are available to stream on Paramount+.

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Ranks aboard Pike's Enterprise? [SNW] : r/startrek
2. aaronupright. • 2 yr. ago. In real life there were only three shipboard ranks. Captain, Lt and Ensign. Over time smaller ships got officers (usually of Lt Rank) as CO who were given the appointment of Master and Commander, which later became the rank of Commander. Lt got split into two grades.
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Starfleet ranks were identifying titles of rank for the officers and enlisted members of Starfleet denoting the chain of command under both United Earth and the United Federation of Planets. These titles were generally adapted from earlier Earth naval forces. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever", ENT: "Storm Front") By the development of the NX-Alpha in 2143, the Starfleet rank structure ...
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The earlier ranks followed that of the US Navy (four stripes equals captain; in ENT and DIS, four pips). TNG returned to this, but with pips. ( Here's a helpful pic with both TOS and TNG ranks presented. The distinguishing characteristic is who's in command yellow. For Pike, Una, Duke, etc., they're in the command division, so they use the TOS ...
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is slated to premiere in 2025. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for Season 4 at Paramount+, despite currently being in production on its third season. On the other hand, it has been ...
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