Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Snags Early Season 4 Renewal — Plus, When Will Season 3 Arrive?
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.
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 we are thrilled and grateful to continue our voyages together,” it read. “We can’t wait for you to join us and the crew of the Enterprise on another season of exploration and adventure.”
The streamer also revealed that the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ previously announced Season 5 will now be its last.
Set in the years before Kirk takes the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount), Number One Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) and Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Rounding out the crew are Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia).
In Season 2, Paul Wesley recurred as beloved future Enterprise captain James T. Kirk, and Martin Quinn debuted as iconic engineer Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty, in the finale. (Read our interview with the showrunners about Quinn’s special appearance.)
Variety was first to report the news.
How are you feeling about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ renewal? What do you hope to see in the upcoming Season 3? Sound off below!
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is like Star Trek is meant to be: no season-long arcs that drag along like a rubber band but adventures of the week. I love it!
I guess one-off appeal to people with short attention spans.
i have an extremely short attention span but i love season long arcs. i also love episodic. we’re not all like gabby over there.
Or you know, fans are allowed to have different Star Trek shows that are different from one another.
Why the long wait for season 3? They did the same thing with Evil. Can’t stand Paramount.
The VFX work is very time consuming.
Next Generation managed to have 26 episodes on a consistent yearly schedule. It is ridiculous that shows air 10 episodes every 2 years.
Agreed. It’s absurd.
Thank you!
Shows for streaming and most countries outside the US take 9 months or so to film 10 episodes (or less) regardless of the type of show. Even US network shows can’t turn an episode around in under 8 or 9 days now, and the ones that come close to that wind up looking like expensive soap operas.
There was a strike….
The Writers and Actors strike might have something to do with it.
It takes awhile to create new worlds. The reason these shows look so good. The wait will be worth it
Love it!
Glad it got renewed! Wish they would have also renewed Discovery. I enjoy the show.
Lots of Star Trek announcements recently, but people should be aware that Paramount is close to being sold (or the controlling shares being sold), so announcements now may not mean anything in a month. Whoever buys the studio would he well advised to take a minute to reassess the Star Trek situation. SNW has its fans, but the success of Picard season 3 shows that a very big audience would like to see a return to the classic Trek universe. They should probably take a minute to figure out what to do, rather than having three or four different Trek franchises floating around.
I hate it that they are making such a long pause and that it has just ten episode, it is ridiculous for a Star Trek show to be that short.
Geez Season 3 not until 2025? I could be dead by then!
Yes! Keep it coming!
Urrrgh !
Will miss Lower Decks, have enjoyed it much more than SNW and being animated gives it such fun zany stories that would not be physically possible for live action.
But I’m certain you at least watched the crossover episode last season, so it can’t be all bad.
Love Strange New Worlds. It stays close to the original canon. Discovery had potential but fell flat with it’s messaging.
seriously wtf? lower decks ending? budget for that show can’t be that high. most likely strange new worlds will end with 5th season as well given the track record of these shows lately.
Why he’ll does take so long for new seasons to be on. if there value their customers they pick up the place.