Surprise! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Drops Lower Decks Crossover Early — Plus, Get Sneak Peek at Musical Episode
Good news, Trekkies: That bonkers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds crossover with the animated series Lower Decks is beaming your way much sooner than you think.
Paramount+ announced Saturday during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con that the anticipated crossover episode will be available to stream this evening at 7/6c on Paramount+ — five days ahead of its previously planned July 27 release date.
Additionally, the streamer revealed that a musical episode of Strange New Worlds is on the way. The hour, titled “Subspace Rhapsody,” will air on Thursday, Aug. 3. Catch a sneak peek in the above video.
The Lower Decks crossover early drop means that the remaining Season 2 episodes of Strange New Worlds will also be bumped up on the schedule. Episode 8 is now set for Thursday, July 27; followed by Episode 9 — the musical episode — on Thursday, Aug. 3; and Episode 10, the Season 2 finale, on Thursday, Aug. 10.
The crossover episode will include both live-action and animation when Lower Decks’ Ensign Beckett Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) drop by the Enterprise.
It’s hard to imagine the circumstances that bring the Enterprise crew together with the typically two-dimensional Cerritos ensigns, but Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers promises that this baffling concept will make sense when fans see the episode.
“This is a classic Star Trek episode,” he previously told TVLine. “You will watch this and feel like, ‘Oh, I completely understand, because it’s Star Trek, exactly why this makes sense.’ Everything will make sense.”
Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman added, “And I will say the words that are very familiar to all Star Trek fans: ancient artifact.”
Are you ready for this Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks crossover? Looking forward to the musical episode? Share your thoughts and predictions below!
Eating lunch instead of running to Hall H is paying off! Yes!
Lower decks cross over, yes please. Musical episode? I look forward to being surprised.
A musical episode of Star Trek, WTF, I’ve never heard a dumber idea. Why is Paramount trying to kill Star Trek?
Nope, it is the whiney fans that are trying to kill Star Trek. So far they have failed… again and again, yet learned nothing from it.
As a former producer, I would never consider airing a musical episode. To me “it breaks all the rules.”
You work so hard to portray your characters in the roles they play and I feel musical episodes totally breaks that bond between the characters and the viewers.
I’m gonna guess you didn’t watch Buffy
Or Once Upon A Time
Before ‘Strange New Worlds’ was even in production, one of the ‘Small Trek’ scenes alongside ‘Discovery’ showed Number One welcoming Spock aboard the Enterprise for the first time — and singing a Gilbert & Sullivan song with him in a turboshaft car. If that didn’t establish a “musical” pattern, what could?
I hate these absurd make-believe episodes. How come shows such as “Band of Brothers” never had a musical episode?
Comparing Star Trek to Band of Brothers? Seriously?
As if Star Trek is real and not make believe?
I trust them, and I’m in for the musical!
Alright, so I’ll skip the musical episode. I really hate those, so let’s hope they don’t continue this tomfoolery.
if you don’t like tomfoolery why the hell are you watching star trek? 😂
You may not have noticed, but tomfoolery, shenanigans and hijinks are the Strange New Worlds brand. Fewer than 20 episodes in, they’ve already given us a body swap episode, a swords-and-sorcery fever dream, multiple time travel romps, ghosts, space pirates, Spock-as-a-human and a crossover with a cartoon. This is totally a show that was going to do a musical sooner or later.
… and TOS gave us Sulu as D’Artagnan; the ‘Shore Leave’ planet; Uhura singing while Spock harped (not often enough)… while TNG gave us the crew as Robin Hood and his Merry Men; numerous Q-changes and holodeck-fantasy scenes (the latter a pattern continued by DS9 and Voyager — Tom Paris reprising Flash Gordon, anyone?); and Picard playing on an alien flute. How is THIS the step too far?
Definitely not a fan of musical shows or movies and typically when a show that’s not musically oriented does a musical episode it’s not great. Love the new Star Trek shows though. Hopefully they won’t make it so miserably boring which is what I have come to expect from this type of thing. Keeping my fingers crossed I’m not rolling my eyes wondering why I just wasted an hour of my life. So far the show has been great even if an episode here and there is a little slow.
It’s a talented cast, and I’m looking forward to what they do with this. Even in the worst case, which I don’t think will be realized, I’m glad they’re out there taking chances. Not that it’s that much more of a stretch than a lot of what SNW, and TOS, have already done.
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The two seconds of Christina Chong standing up were beautiful, and I was glad that whoever edited the video thought so too. Wonderful posture, good mechanics, very graceful. Alexander technique?
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If there are any Doctor Who fans wondering where they’ve seen her before, it was “A Good Man Goes to War.” A strong performance, quite different from La’an..