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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for its third season on Paramount+ in 2025, and the streaming service is giving viewers a first look at what's to come. The prequel series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, and Bruce Horak star in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series, which follows Captain Christopher Pike (Mount) and his crew on board the USS Enterprise, years before James T. Kirk took command in the original show.

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Paramount+ unveiled a preview clip of the forthcoming third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at New York Comic Con today, alongside the news that guest star Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death) would be aboard for the ride.

Based on the years Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the CBS Studios-produced series follows the leader and his team, which features Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn), in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the starship, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

While no release date is set, the new installment is set to debut in 2025. The series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

The three-minute clip follows the ship outmaneuvering and eventually outpacing enemy combatants. Its release follows an earlier preview shared in late July, alongside the news of Cillian O’Sullivan...

Paramount+ today held its Star Trek universe panel at New York Comic Con, moderated by featured host of CBS Mornings and CBS News national correspondent Vladimir Duthiers.

The streaming service announced that its original movie Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Friday, January 24, 2025, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and international markets where the service is available. New teaser art for the highly anticipated movie was also revealed.

The Star Trek: Section 31 presentation included a conversation with cast members Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, and Robert Kazinsky, along with executive producer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi. The panel also featured a video appearance from the film’s star, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh.

In the movie, Yeoh reprises her fan-favorite role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou — a character she played in Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season – who joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets,...

Captain Pike and his enterprising crew get very crafty during a relentless attack by the Gorn, as seen in a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 teaser that debuted Saturday at New York Comic Con.

Rhys Darby (photo by Robyn Von Swank)

It was also announced during the afternoon New York Comic Con panel that Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death, Flight of the Conchords) will guest-star during the upcoming season, though no character details were shared.

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Technobabble. It's the bane of every Star Trek actor's existence, especially if their character is in the science department. Still, even those characters who aren't a part of that division can have their fair share of difficult scientific language specific to Star Trek to memorize. On Star Trek: Voyager, Garrett Wong used a workaround by writing his lines on black tape over the Voyager bridge console. Then Tim Russ and Robert Beltran created their own formulas for keeping their lines straight.

So it shouldn't come as any surprise that the tried and true methods are still being used in today's Star Trek. Christina Chong, who plays Lt. Noonien Singh on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds admitted at Creation's Trek to Chicago Convention that she cuts her lines up really small and puts them on the bridge. [via Screenrant].

I put my lines on the bridge. I cut them up really small. ... There's...

The MCU is gearing up to introduce the Mutants, something we’ve known since Disney acquired Fox. While you could argue that the Mutants have already made a few brief appearances, the X-Men themselves haven’t yet entered the MCU.

Although their full debut is still some time away, Marvel has promised a major introduction in the future.

Even though we don’t know all the details, it’s clear that Feige and Marvel are taking their time to get it right. The X-Men’s arrival in the MCU will be a major moment and will shape the franchise for years to come.

Given the importance of this debut, fans are understandably anxious about who Marvel will cast. With an already-established X-Men universe, comparisons between the old and new casts are inevitable.

Although we don’t have any official casting news yet, a Reddit user, Time-Classroom-2442, has shared their own...

The MCU will soon welcome the Mutants. This is nothing new, of course, as we have known this since Disney acquired Fox. You may argue that the Mutants have already made multiple appearances in the MCU, but the X-Men haven’t. Although it will take some time for them to do so, we have been promised a significant debut in the future.

Now, even if we are unaware of all the specifics, we are confident that Feige and Marvel want to do this correctly because the X-Men’s MCU debut will be significant and will influence the franchise for years to come.

With that in mind, it’s easy to see why fans are anxious about Marvel’s casting choices. The X-Men already have an established fictional universe, so comparisons with the MCU version are inevitable. While we still have no idea who will be cast, Reddit user Time-Classroom-2442 has...

Fans got their first glimpse of an out-of-this-world episode of Paramount+’s hit series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Attendees were treated to makeup-room selfies and behind-the-scenes videos from the cast in full Vulcan garb, priming viewers for an episode sure to be one of the most visually arresting installments yet.

The intergalactic transformation is all part of an installment directed by Jordan Canning, set to blast viewers to the final frontier in season 3. Fans will recall Canning elevated the show to new heights with her season 2 comedic tour de force exploration of Vulcan culture. According to cast member Jess Bush, who plays Nurse Christine Chapel, getting a look at the meticulously detailed prosthetics left onlookers stunned: “Everyone looks hot as a Vulcan.”

Off-screen, the musically-inclined Strange New Worlds players continue collaborating beyond their days spent among the stars. Following the runaway success...

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is shaking up its cast for season 3. Martin Quinn, who debuted as future Enterprise Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the season 2 finale "Hegemony," will be joining the main cast. (Quinn is the third actor to play Scotty after James Doohan and Simon Pegg.)

Irish actor Cillian O'Sullivan will also be part of the recurring cast as archaeologist Dr. Roger Korby. Trekkies will recognize that name from "The Original Series," specifically the season 1 episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" In that episode, Korby (Michael Strong) was Nurse Chapel's (Majel Barrett) long lost fiance. The backstory was that he'd gone missing in 2261 (five years before the episode took place) on the planet Exo III. The Enterprise travels to the planet to search for him but all is not well. Korby found the remains of a civilization that built androids in their image, and now wants...

Paramount+ today unveiled a first-look clip from season three of its hit original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds during the Star Trek universe panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. The panel featured an exclusive conversation with cast members Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, alongside executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, and Henry Alonso Myers.

The new season is set to debut in 2025. Paramount+ recently announced the series has also been renewed for a fourth season.

It was also announced during the panel that Cillian O’Sullivan (In From the Cold) will play the legacy role of Dr. Roger Korby, a character first introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series and portrayed by Michael Strong. O’Sullivan will be a recurring guest star in the upcoming season.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series follows Captain Pike,...

When “Strange New Worlds” returns for Season 3 — expected some time in 2025 — Nurse Christine Chapel is headed for serious heartbreak, as Cillian O’Sullivan has joined the “Star Trek” prequel as original series character Dr. Roger Korby.

But Korby isn’t the only original series character coming aboard. After being introduced in the finale of Season 2, Martin Quinn is returning as Montgomery Scott, now a ful time member of the crew.

And during the panel, executive producer Akiva Goldsman hinted that they might be working on a stage musical version of the acclaimed musical episode from Season Two, “Subspace Rhapsody.”

The news was announced Saturday during the “Star Trek Universe” Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

In the original series, Dr. Roger Korby appeared in the Season 1 episode episode “What Little Girls Are Made Of,” played there by Michael Strong. The episode was the first to focus on Christine Chapel — played...

The “Star Trek” Universe uncloaked a litany of first looks during its epic panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, including panels for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” and the first television feature film in the franchise, “Star Trek: Section 31.”

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”

The Footage: “Strange New Worlds” stars Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn and executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman debuted an extended clip from Season 3 of the series, in which several characters — Pike (Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and Chapel (Jess Bush) — are transformed from humans into Vulcans. The chief engineer, Pelia (Carol Kane), also attempts to transform into Vulcan, but the process doesn’t take for her, much to her dismay.

Immediately, all of Spock’s now-Vulcan compatriots zero in on the...

Paramount+ on Saturday unveiled a first-look clip and photos for the third season of its series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, also announcing that Cillian O’Sullivan (In from the Cold) will be joining as a recurring guest star in the upcoming season, playing the legacy role of Dr. Roger Korby.

A character first introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series and portrayed by Michael Strong, Korby is a renowned archaeologist and scientist known for his groundbreaking work in the field of medical archaeology.

Cillian O’Sullivan

The team also today revealed that Scotty, the iconic Star Trek character known for serving as chief engineer aboard the starship USS Enterprise, will be a regular presence across Season 3. Additionally, per EP Akiva Goldsman, the season will feature “a Hollywood murder mystery [episode] rooted in Star Trek reality.” View the Strange New World clip above and check out the new series of photos above and below.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was on point, so to speak, as the popular series and its actors returned to Hall H as part of the Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con — and the audience was all ears for it.

Castmembers Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, who missed last year’s panel due to the writers and actors strikes, beamed up onstage alongside executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers.

The panel featured a first-look clip from the upcoming third season of the show, set to debut in 2025.

The show, based on the years that Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, follows Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Peck), Number One (Romijn) and the crew of the ship before Captain Kirk boarded it as they explore new worlds around the galaxy. The cast also includes Jess Bush, Christina Chong,...

The Enterprise crew’s newest mission is a fascinating one, to say the least.

A first-look clip released during Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday found Captain Pike (played by Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an (Christina Chong) and Pelia (Carol Kane) injected with a serum that transformed them into Vulcans — though Pelia was somehow immune. But something went awry, and it looks like they’ll stay that way… indefinitely!

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In the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode "As Astra per Aspera", Commander Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) faces a court-martial for lying on her Starfleet Academy application. She claimed to be a human, but was, in fact, a genetically enhanced Illyrian. Thanks to the disastrous, long-ago Eugenics Wars, genetic tinkering is strictly verboten in the world of "Star Trek." As such, lying about your genes is a particularly grievous offense. Captain Pike (Anson Mount), wanting to help his first officer, seeks out the legal aid of Neera Ketoul (Yetide Badaki), an Illyrian defense lawyer who will be brave enough to stand up to Starfleet's prosecution. Ketoul was also a childhood friend of Chin-Riley, and they have some bad blood about the latter's need to hide here identity to join Starfleet. 

Neera Ketoul is an interesting character for "Star Trek," as she has made it her job to make civil rights cases ... against the Federation.

“As a huge Trekkie myself, I am always tempted to use the theme, to install all these little Easter eggs,” reveals “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” composer Nami Melumad. about the most exciting parts of the show’s score; the orchestral melodies that duck and dive between robust action drama and beloved old-school flourishes like the instantly recognizable original series theme. For our recent webchat she adds, “I think for all composers who work on ‘Trek’ you have to be very aware of when you’re choosing to use the ‘Star Trek’ theme. You want to bring it when it’s earned, otherwise, if you just continue to use it all the time, it loses its effectiveness. It’s like the icing on the cake, it’s like something we’re all always so looking forward to.” We talked with Melumad as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the...

Christina Chong has several notable projects on her portfolio with her ongoing work being Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The Paramount+ series stars her as La’an Noonien Singh who is relatively new but shares a great connection with the Star Trek saga due to her notorious ancestor, Khan Noonien-Singh, one of the franchise’s infamous villains.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [Credit: Paramount Network]As the character quickly gained its spot in the fan-favorites characters list, the actress subtly reflected on one thing that made this show better than Discovery and The Next Generation.

Christina Chong Reflects on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Role

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is surely making a grave impact in the sci-fi franchise that continues to leave fans hooked on its new adventures. First premiered two years ago, it is already extending to a third and fourth season.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is not going anywhere anytime soon. The sci-fi series has already been renewed for a fourth season ahead of its season three release. Paramount+ previously renewed the series for a third season ahead of its season two premiere in March 2023. The end of animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks was also announced.

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series, which stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, and Bruce Horak, follows Captain Christopher Pike (Mount) and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise, before Kirk's time as Captain in the original Star Trek series.

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Ethan Peck as Spock in ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season 3 (Photo Credit: Marni Grossman / Paramount+)

It’s good news and bad news for Trekkies. Paramount+ confirmed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season. However, the streaming service also confirmed the upcoming fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be the animated series’ final season.

Strange New Worlds is busy shooting season three now, with Paramount+ planning a 2025 premiere. Lower Decks is currently in production on its fifth season. The final season is expected to debut this fall.

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor, and we’re elated to...

We are right in the middle of that time of year where we learn whether shows are renewed or canceled, and we just found out what’s happening to two series in the Star Trek universe!

Paramount+ has revealed the future of the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks and the live-action Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Keep reading to find out more…

According to Variety, Lower Decks will come to an end with the previously announced fifth season.

“We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures,” executive producer Alex Kurtzman and showrunner Mike McMahon said in a statement. “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.”

Lower Decks stars the voices of Tawny Newsome,...

Paramount+ today announced that its hit original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season. The series is currently in production on its third season, which is set to debut in 2025.

Additionally, the previously announced fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which is also currently in production, will mark the series’ final season and premiere this fall on Paramount+.

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President of Programming at Paramount+. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has found the perfect blend of action, adventure, and humor, and we’re elated to announce another season ahead of our season three premiere.”

He continued: “Similarly, Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to...

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

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

Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan and executive producer Alex Kurtzman posted a statement on the Star Trek website about the decision to conclude the animated series: “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,...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will fly among the stars for a while longer.

Paramount+ has renewed the sci-fi series for Season 4, TVLine has learned. The show is currently in production on Season 3, which eyes a 2025 debut.

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In a joint statement, executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman expressed their gratitude for the early renewal.

“On behalf of the cast and crew of Strange New Worlds...

Production on the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently underway, and one former Star Trek cast member has an idea of how they could be brought back. John Billingsley played Dr. Phlox on Star Trek: Enterprise, and although Strange New Worlds takes place a hundred years after Enterprise, he notes that nothing has been established regarding the lifespans of Denobulans.

“I was on the strike line and some of the Strange New Worlds guys were coming up and saying ‘How long do you think Denobulans live?’” Billingsley told TrekMovie. “I said ‘Long. Long, long, long. Definitely long enough to be on your show if that’s what you’re getting at.’ So who knows? I mean, I would happily come back. And I figure, hell, even if I’m dead, my son Phlox Jr. is still around, and he is the spitting image of his old pop.

“We beat Taylor Swift for 10 minutes!” Celia Rose Gooding cheers, referring to the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds musical episode album. With the end of the year comes the perfect time to take a look back at some of 2023’s highlights, among which is, of course, this first in Star Trek history: that musical episode. TV Insider had Christina Chong (La’an), Gooding (Uhura), and Ethan Peck (Spock) do just that in the video interview above. Spock was the one to kick it off, with “Status Report” featuring the crew, confused, as they sang what would in other circumstances be dialogue. “It was an honor to sing first,” Peck, who was the most hesitant about the musical, says. “I was very surprised, but it kind of makes sense because Spock would be the one you wouldn’t expect to sing first.” Adds Gooding, “They reminded us where we are in our headspaces.

In 2022, the Star Trek universe got a little bigger with the premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The Paramount+ series follows the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise – under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) – as they explore uncharted territories and encounter new life and civilizations.

The streaming service was so confident that the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff would be a hit with fans that they ordered a second season months before the series premiered. Then, in March 2023, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was renewed for season 3, several months in advance of the June 2023 season 2 premiere.

So, when will Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 premiere, and what can fans expect from the new episodes? Here’s what we know so far.

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Say what you will about the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" musical episode (and people have certainly said a lot), but whether you loved "Subspace Rhapsody" or thought it missed the mark, it's hard to deny the emotional truth of the experimental hour. Whether we were listening to budding comms officer Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) singing about the loss that's underscored her career or witnessing Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) tell Spock (Ethan Peck) she's eager to leave for her big research fellowship, the tunes of "Subspace Rhapsody" allowed us to overhear the innermost thoughts of the Enterprise crew in true musical tradition.

Musical episodes always tend towards campiness, and while I think "Strange New Worlds" was mostly saved from as much by its undercurrent of earnest emotion, the episode still allows for some purposely silly concepts -- like when the Klingons suddenly start singing a K-pop-style boy band number. In an interview with TrekMovie.

Did you know that the Gorn have lips? 

Evidence presented in the 1967 "Star Trek" episode "Arena" might stand counter to that assertion, as the mask worn by (alternately) Bobby Clark, Gary Combs, and Bill Blackburn didn't have an articulated jaw or mouth. Indeed, the Gorn mask has been widely giggled at by Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike. The fight between the Gorn captain and Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is usually considered broadly campy, what with its stiffness and slowness. 

But the Gorn -- an aggressive reptilian species -- actually do speak their own language. In "Arena," the Gorn captain (voiced by Ted Cassidy) spoke to Captain Kirk using a miniature, hand-held translation device. He explained that the Federation had set up a colony on Cestus III, which was unknowingly a Gorn world. The Gorn, rather than negotiate or file a complaint, merely laid waste to the colony and killed everyone living there.

CBS is boldly bringing Star Trek back to broadcast TV.

The Paramount+ hit series Strange New Worlds is getting an airing on CBS in early fall as part of a “Star Trek Day” celebration.

CBS will air the show’s series premiere, “Strange New Worlds,” as well as the show’s second episode, “Children of the Comet,” giving broadcast viewers a chance to sample the streaming series.

Strange New Worlds recently finished airing its second season, which received a fair amount of acclaim from critics and viewers alike, and is considered to have helped breathe some new life into the TV franchise.

Sept. 8 has been christened Star Trek Day because the original series premiered on that date in 1966.

Paramount+ also announced Star Trek Day special hosted by Jerry O’Connell that’s “a salute to the franchise,” saying, “the special program will include segments that look back at memorable moments over...

As much as "Star Trek" prides itself on taking a forward-looking approach to sci-fi, even this storied franchise isn't immune to bursts of nostalgia every now and then. There's a reason why the J.J. Abrams movies, after all, brought back Leonard Nimoy as Spock despite going out of their way to reboot the timeline. Much of "Star Trek: Picard" (and practically the entirety of its third and final season) felt like a grand reunion special, catered specifically to the long-suffering fans who never quite got a satisfying sense of closure from the movies centered on the cast of "The Next Generation." And now, even a spin-off/prequel like "Strange New Worlds" has found itself introducing more and more of the famed crew of the USS Enterprise -- most recently in the season 2 finale, with Martin Quinn's portrayal of the engineer Montgomery Scott.

Although the series is still years away...

The fifth episode of the second season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" was called "Charades," and featured a plot that would be at home in a modern-day farce. Spock (Ethan Speck) and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), while on a shuttlecraft mission together, were grievously injured in an accident. Fortunately, a species of non-corporeal aliens happened to be nearby, and their medical technology allowed them to handily repair any damage done to Spock and Chapel. Unfortunately, the aliens didn't quite understand why Spock had both human and Vulcan DNA, so they reconstructed him using Nurse Chapel as a model, transforming Spock into a full-blooded human.

The episode that follows is a comedy about Spock's newfound loss of control. As a human, he smiles more easily, is quick to anger, admits to having a supercharged libido (they compare his transformation to puberty), and is terrified that his future in-laws might find out.

"Strange New Worlds" might be less than two seasons old, but the almost universally well-received "Trek" series has already made a name for itself by consistently taking bold swings -- in multiple directions. As much as the recent musical episode or the crossover special with "Lower Decks" reaffirmed that the writers on this show thrive when they allow themselves to get a little silly, there have been several episodes that tackled much darker themes with an impressive amount of nuance and hard-hitting emotions. There's the entire matter of Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) tragic backstory and his foreknowledge of what's to come, of course, but "Strange New Worlds" has also shown a willingness to go to some seriously, well, serious places when the character and story call for it.

One such instance came early on this season with episode 4, titled "Among the Lotus Eaters." The plot brings Pike and the...

This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

When Scotty (Martin Quinn) showed up in the season 2 finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" this week, chiding Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and LA'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) for mucking up his Gorn trap, I didn't see it coming. In fact, even as Scotty began explaining the mechanism of the tech he built in an enthusiastic Scottish brogue, it took me a few seconds to process who he was, to connect this man to one of the most beloved characters from "Star Trek: The Original Series." That's because with the Scotty introduction, "Snw" did something it hardly ever does anymore: let a surprise be a surprise.

In the current leak-heavy pop culture landscape, the process of keeping key cameos and twists in franchise films and shows under wraps has all but become a cottage industry in its own right.

Spoilers for the season two finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is now streaming in its entirety, and while the finale dealt with some heavy subject matter, there was some fun as well in the form of an appearance from a very well known Star trek character.

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The majority of the main cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds play characters who were first introduced to audiences in The Original Series. In last year’s finale, we saw Paul Wesley step into the role of James T. Kirk, and this year’s finale brings another iconic Star Trek character to life: Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty, the future chief engineer of the Enterprise.

The new version of Scotty is played by Martin Quinn and Strange New Worlds co-showrunner...

Set phasers to spoilers: This article discusses events from the season 2 finale of "Strange New Worlds."

If it seems like every generation of "Star Trek" must always contend with their own unique existential threat, that's because they do. For James T. Kirk in "The Original Series," real-world Cold War anxieties manifested themselves through the fearsome Klingon Empire and their numerous skirmishes with Starfleet as the two galactic powers constantly stood on the brink of all-out war. For Jean-Luc Picard in "The Next Generation," the horrifying Borg Collective instantly became the franchise's most iconic villain -- not only as a physical threat, but one that channeled technological fears of the 21st Century by stripping away our very identities through their assimilation tactics. And for Benjamin Sisko in "Deep Space Nine," no greater threat than the Dominion would eventually land on Federation borders, bringing a darker and more paranoia-driven flavor to "Trek...

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot developments for the Season 2 finale of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

The second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” took a large number of big swings: Spock (Ethan Peck) becoming human for a time; an alternate universe James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) romancing La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) in 21st century Toronto; the crossover episode with the animated series “Star Trek: Lower Decks”; and the musical episode featuring a Klingon boy band group.

The Season 2 finale, “Hegemony,” attempts to top them all. The terrifying reptilian aliens from Season 1, the Gorn, return with a vengeance, decimating a brand new human colony that the Gorn believe falls within their territory. That would be trying enough for Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the Enterprise to deal with, but the Gorn also happened to attack the colony while Pike’s girlfriend,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 finale “Hegemony.”] The good news: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has already been renewed for a third season. The frustrating news: No matter what the wait is for it, it’s going to seem like too long after the Season 2 finale cliffhanger. When Batel’s (Melanie Scrofano) crew — which includes Chapel (Jess Bush), on her way to her fellowship — runs into some serious trouble (the Gorn!), Pike (Anson Mount) and the Enterprise rush to their rescue. Along the way, they meet a certain Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn), Spock (Ethan Peck) and Chapel save each other, Batel is infected, and La’an (Christina Chong), M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Ortegas (Melissa Navia), and Sam (Dan Jeannotte), along with others, are taken by the Gorn … and that’s how the finale ends. Below, executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers break down the Season 2 finale. Why...

This post contains spoilers for Season Two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount+.

Over the last year, we’ve said goodbye to some all-time television shows, and the void each one leaves can be impossible to fill. But you keep looking, and hoping that something comes along to at least approximate the feeling you got from watching the original. And sometimes, that feeling comes up again in the most unlikely of places. Case in point: the show that has most reminded...

This post contains major spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

As I watched the season 2 finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," titled "Hegemony," it took until the closing five minutes for me to ask: "How are they going to resolve this?" The Enterprise is locked in combat with a fleet of Gorn ships. Those reptilian predators have abducted key members of the crew. Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) is on borrowed time before a Gorn chestburster kills her while Captain Pike (Anson Mount) can't decide whether to push on and save his people or obey Starfleet and retreat.

Half a minute before the credits rolled, the answer hit me — the resolution isn't coming, at least not yet. Sure enough, the episode ends with a title card "To Be Continued..." Those are words once synonymous with TV, but streaming has put them out of fashion.

By ending on a cliffhanger,...

After a blockbuster musical episode, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is closing out its second season in much more serious fashion. The sci-fi series’ season finale “Hegemony” will pit the crew of the USS Enterprise against a classic enemy of old. And in a first look at the finale, exclusively shared with IndieWire, it’s revealed that said enemy is one of the most dangerous in the “Star Trek” galaxy: the Gorn.

The Gorn, a race of hostile reptellian humanoid aliens, first appeared in “Arena,” one of the most iconic episodes of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series. In “Strange New Worlds,” the species appeared twice in the show’s first season: “Memento Mori,” where a Gorn military ship attacks the Enterprise, and “All Those Who Wonder,” where hatchlings from the species caused the death of Enterprise engineer Hemmer (Bruce Horak). The finale marks the first and only appearance of the species,...

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Andorian chief engineer Hemmer was one of the highlights of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, thanks in large part to actor Bruce Horak’s gruff sweetness. Fans truly felt the loss when Hemmer sacrificed himself to save the crew from the Gorn in “All Those Who Wander,” even if it made way for the equally wonderful Carol Kane as new chief engineer Pelia.

But that didn’t mark the end of Horak’s time in Star Trek. We got a brief glimpse of Hemmer as both a zombie projection and a priority one YouTube video in season 2’s “Lost in Translation,” as Uhura called upon the teaching of her old friend to solve a complex communication problem. Now, Horak is back in the new musical episode, “Subspace Rhapsody,” but not as Hemmer.

In addition to the sudden...

In “Subspace Rhapsody,” the penultimate episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” second season, a mishap involving a recording of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” and a “subspace fold” causes what the franchise’s technobabble labels an “improbability field:” a glitch in reality that forces the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to behave like they’re in a musical, bursting into song at inopportune times. Immediately after the big stage-setting ensemble number, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) holds a meeting to figure out what happened, and security officer La’an (Christina Chong) rolls her eyes and asks “What’s next? More improbability, or will we suddenly just poof into bunnies?”

The joke, in the context of the episode, feels slightly random and out of step with the show’s typical sense of humor. But for anyone who has ever watched “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the reference to bunnies instantly...

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22 years ago, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" made the musical episode blueprint. Before and since then, announcements about one-off episodes of much-loved series set in musical reality have elicited eye rolls, but "Buffy" got it pretty perfect. With "Once More, With Feeling," the show not only delivered extremely catchy tunes, but also genuine emotion; instead of making its plot superfluous, episode writer and series creator Joss Whedon decided to do the exact opposite. This hour was a chance for big moments to unfold and revelations to come to light -- breakups, fights, guilty admissions, and even swooning, old Hollywood-style kisses all play out via song. If you skipped the "Buffy" musical episode, you would have no idea what was going on the next week.

"Subspace Rhapsody," the ambitious and largely rewarding "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode...

Season 2 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is almost over and it didn't miss a chance to leave its mark on "Star Trek" history. The ninth and penultimate episode, "Subspace Rhapsody," is the first "Star Trek" musical episode. Like any good musical, it opens with a group number, branches off into solos, and then reunites the cast for a grand finale.

But wait, you might ask, how does the show justify such an odd premise? "Strange New Worlds" is the show that, back in season 1's "The Elysian Kingdom," turned the Enterprise crew into characters out of a child's fairy tale. A musical episode is well within the show's tonal range and ability to excuse.

At the start of the episode, the Enterprise is investigating a "naturally-occurring subspace fold" — Starfleet hopes the fold can be harnessed to enable faster communication. When Uhura and Spock send a song into it hoping for a response,...

There have certainly been musical moments in “Star Trek” before: Uhura sang while Spock played his lyre in “The Original Series”; Data and Picard duet to Gilbert and Sullivan in “Insurrection”; James Darren played a holographic nightclub singer on “Deep Space Nine.” But it took “Strange New Worlds,” the critically revered Paramount+ series nearing the end of its second season, to stage an entire musical episode.

In “Subspace Rhapsody,” Anson Mount’s Capt. Pike falls to his knees singing an emo song to his girlfriend (somewhat embarrassingly in front of everybody on the bridge of the Enterprise); Paul Wesley’s Kirk strikes a Donny Osmond-esque pose; Jess Bush’s Nurse Chapel is hoisted aloft on her back like Satine in “Moulin Rouge!”; Ethan Peck’s Spock croons about his heartbreak; Christina Chong’s La’an gets her own Howard Ashman-style “I want!” song; and actual Grammy-winning singer/Broadway...

There has never been Trek like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9, and there may never be again, which would be a galactic shame.

Ever since Paramount+ released the news at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 that the penultimate offering of the season would be a musical, the fanbase has been split between the canonical stick-in-the-warp-core gatekeepers and those who embrace all that Trek can be.

Haters can just jettison their vitriol now. This is the biggest swing the series -- nay, the franchise -- has ever taken, and they blast it so far out there they probably broke temporal protocols.

It was always meant to be.

Ever since Una confessed her love of Gilbert & Sullivan to Spock on Star Trek: Short Treks Season 2 Episode 1, treating him to a performance of the "Major-General's Song" from The Pirates of Penzance, we've itched to know what Spock would sing, given the chance.

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses plot — and musical! — developments in Season 2, Episode 9 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

Since premiering in 2022, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has already embraced body-swapping comedy, storybook fantasy and a crossover episode with the animated series “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” So perhaps it’s not surprising that for the penultimate episode for Season 2 of “Strange New Worlds,” executive producers Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman would mount the first-ever full-on musical episode in “Trek” history.

Entitled “Subspace Rhapsody,” the episode opens with the crew of the Enterprise investigating one of those deliciously nerdy “Trek” inventions: a naturally occurring fold in subspace. When Ens. Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) suggests using scanning the phenomenon with music to test its properties, the signal instead causes a tear in space-time that plunges the crew into an alternate reality in which everyone starts singing out their...

Yes, "Star Trek" can be silly sometimes. One might recall the original series episode "Shore Leave" wherein the crew of the Enterprise saw their thoughts and fantasies -- including knights and anthropomorphic white rabbits and samurai -- manifested in android form. Then there's the "Next Generation" episode "QPid" wherein the Enterprise-d crew were magically transformed into characters from Robin Hood. There's also the "Deep Space Nine" episode "If Wishes Were Horses" wherein the DS9 crew unwittingly manifested characters out of their brains, like Rumpelstiltskin and ultra-horny doppelgängers of their co-workers. And then we have the "Voyager" episode "Bride of Chaotica!" wherein the Voyager crew re-enacted a 1950s sci-fi serial, complete with cheesy special effects and black-and-white photography. 

These "wacky" comedy episodes, while not always necessarily funny, tend to serve an important function in "Star Trek." Specifically, they break up the monotony. Both the viewers and the makers of the show...

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to swing for the fences in its second season, repeatedly going where literally no one has gone before in this franchise. And if you thought that things couldn’t possibly get more delightfully chaotic than the episode that brought several Lower Decks animated characters into the world of live action, you definitely weren’t prepared for the series’ foray into musical storytelling, an installment that is potentially the most purely fun hour of Star Trek I’ve ever watched. Is it silly? Absolutely. Occasionally cringe-worthy? Kind of. But somehow still perfect in spite of it all? 100% yes.

Most viewers likely assumed that the much-ballyhooed Star Trek musical episode would basically be a marketing gimmick, a silly, largely disposable hour with little to offer besides the chance to see...