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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.

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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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In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season one episode “Spock Amok,” Spock expressed his distaste for “hijinks.” But because he made that declaration while inside the body of his intended T’Pring, Spock also knows that he cannot avoid hijinks.

The first teaser for Strange New Worlds‘s third season promises further hijinks, hijinks that might irritate fans as much as they do Spock.

The teaser shows a team from the Enterprise getting ready for a secret mission on Vulcan, including Pike, Chapel, La’an, Uhura, and Pelia. Using the same treatment that changed Spock from fully human back to his normal state, the quartet gets transformed into Vulcans. All but Pelia, that is, forcing Spock to take her place.

As the transformation occurs, the four former humans fall to the ground, overwhelmed by the flood of emotions that overtake them. So far, so good, in terms of canon.

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...

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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"The Simpsons" gets a lot of mileage out of its voice actors. Seriously, it feels like half of Springfield is voiced by Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, or Tress MacNeille. Despite the numerous cases of voice actors doubling up, each character in the cast sounds unique and immediately recognizable. Even Maggie Simpson, the perennial infant who never says a word, has her distinctive pacifier sound.

Most of Maggie's baby sounds are provided by Nancy Cartwright (whose primary "Simpsons" is playing Maggie's older brother Bart). On the rare occasions where Maggie does do more than squeal or suck on her binky, the show has brought out some big acting guns.

In season 2's "Bart vs Thanksgiving," Bart imagines his family being angry with him; Maggie declares, "It's your fault I can't talk!" That one line was provided by none other than an uncredited Carol Kane (who these days is rocking it as...

"Star Trek" fans have seen quite a few new uniforms on "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," including standard and dress uniforms for the crew of the Enterprise and live-action versions of the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" uniforms, but one character's uniform offered something totally unique to the franchise. A new Chief Engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise joined the crew in season 2 of "Strange New Worlds," played by comedy legend (and "Star Trek" rookie!) Carol Kane, and she was given a new accessory for her uniform that made Starfleet history. 

While joining host Wil Wheaton on "The Ready Room," a web series that dives into the world of "Star Trek" and provides interviews and behind-the-scenes peeks, Kane shared that she was lucky enough to be the recipient of a unique item for her Starfleet uniform. Kane's character, Commander Pelia, is a Lanthanite who has lived for centuries, even hiding...

At the end of the first season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," the U.S.S. Enterprise had lost its chief engineer, Lieutenant Hemmer (Bruce Horak), to a Gorn egg that had been implanted inside his body. At the beginning of the second season, audiences were introduced to a new character named Pelia (Carol Kane) an engineer who had no intention of serving on board the ship. After a merry misadventure, Pelia decided she liked the Enterprise and its crew and signed onto a senior role on the ship. Pelia was unlike many of the more rule-oriented characters on "Strange New World," rarely abiding by protocol, hoarding strange art artifacts in her room, and generally ignoring orders. She was a wonderful addition to the show, and a worthy successor to the already-great Hemmer. 

Pelia is a Lanthanite, a humanoid species that lives literally thousands of years. It's their longevity,...

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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Los Angeles – September 19, 2023 – With a certified fresh rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes*, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 arrives on DVD, Blu-ray™, and 4K Uhd on December 5th from Paramount Home Entertainment. Join the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise that’s “Beyond impressive” (Rolling Stone) as they go where no season of Star Trek has ever gone before! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 features the first ever Star Trek musical episode, a crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks, and more than 2 hours of special features, including behind-the-scenes featurettes and never-before-seen deleted, extended, and alternate scenes.

The cast includes Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Jess Bush (Halifax Retribution) as Nurse Christine Chapel and featuring Academy Award® Nominee for Best Actress, Carol Kane* (Hester Street) as Pelia.

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The Strange New Worlds finale, “Hegemony,” dropped a lot of big dramatic events, from a Gorn invasion to Pike having to choose between his orders and his duty to his crew in a devastating cliffhanger that has us hoping the AMPTP will immediately fold and concede to all demands so we can get season 3 into production Asap. But among all of those twist and turns, we also saw the beginnings of one of the greatest love stories Star Trek has ever known.

No, we don’t mean Spock and Nurse Chapel. Or Pike and Batel. We don’t even mean Kirk and Spock, or my personal favorite, Picard and Q. We are taking about the timeless, enduring love story of a simple, salt-of-the-earth lad from Aberdeen, and a big, beautiful, tritanium-alloy lady named Enterprise.

Kirk might think that the Enterprise is his first love,...

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...

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,...

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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...

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 10

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 is honestly an astounding achievement. It not only pulled off a musical episode and a live-action crossover with a cartoon, its traditional installments were virtually nothing but straight bangers, rattling off war stories, showstopper courtroom trials, and heartrending journeys through time that rank up there with the best the Star Trek franchise has ever offered. We are so lucky to have this show, and it has generally exceeded every expectation I could have ever set for it.

So when I call the season 2 finale “Hegemony” a generally fine conclusion to this run of episodes, I mean it in the most expansive sense of the word. A “fine” Strange New Worlds episode is still pretty outstanding television, and as a season-ender, “Hegemony” is certainly an action-packed adventure, one that...

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

The more time passes, the closer "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" gets to the original 1966 TV series. "Strange New Worlds" takes place seven or eight years prior to "Star Trek" and its second season has already teased some of the eventual connective tissue to its forebear. Kirk (Paul Wesley) is still only a first officer aboard the U.S.S. Farragut, but has been on the Enterprise an awful lot, and has already met future crewmates Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Spock (Ethan Peck). The series has been fleshing out the romance between Spock and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), but is carefully arranging their relationship to be more professional as it will be seen later in the "Star Trek" timeline. It's also likely that, before "Strange New Worlds" comes to an end, the Enterprise will...

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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...

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.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9 “Subspace Rhapsody.”] If the musical proves one thing, it’s that “Strange New Worlds is not going to jump the shark,” Dermott Downs, who directed the groundbreaking episode (a first for Star Trek!), tells TV Insider. That was a concern of his, when he first heard about it, he admits, “but there’s such great writers on [the show], and once you understand the conceit of the music anomaly, when Carol Kane [who plays Pelia] says, ‘Well, have you tried bouncing music at it?’ and it comes back into the ship. Once you’re going with it, then it just became better and better because the more you sang, the more your vulnerabilities were coming out through the music.” He continues, “every song was different, to the amazing credit of the songwriters and the screenwriters. It wasn’t just like, ‘Ok, we’re going to go ...

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...

Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is set to go where no Star Trek has gone before. Details about the first-ever Star Trek musical episode were revealed during the “Star Trek Universe” panel at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con.

The musical episode will feature 10 original songs, and Paramount+ confirmed episode nine of season two is titled “Subspace Rhapsody.” Episode nine is set to air on Thursday, August 3, 2023. The season two finale follows on August 10th.

Paramount+ offered this description of the musical episode: “The special musical episode ‘Subspace Rhapsody’ will feature 10 original songs, plus a ‘Subspace Rhapsody’ version of the series’ main title, with music and lyrics by Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo) and Tom Polce.”

Season two’s cast is led by Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley, Ethan Peck as Spock, Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, and Christina Chong as La’An Noonien-Singh. Celia Rose Gooding...

Captain Pike, Spock and Number One are dusting off their singing pipes on “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”.

Season 2 of the Paramount+ series will feature the “Star Trek” franchise’s first musical episode, it was announced Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con. The episode, titled “Subspace Rhapsody,” will air as the ninth hour in the current season and be available to stream beginning Aug. 3 on Paramount+.

The episode will feature 10 original songs, as well as a special version of the series’ main titles, with music and lyrics by Kay Hanley (“Letters to Cleo”) and Tom Polce.

As part of the announcement, Paramount+ released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming musical instalment, which features the USS Enterprise crew singing and dancing in elaborate numbers — and also finding themselves entangled in very interesting relationship moments.

“People celebrate with song,” Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) says. “Do you know the odds of all...

It was hugely anticipated, loudly touted, and blown completely out of proportion for what should've been a novel one-off curiosity, but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 7 delivers the Star Trek: Lower Decks crossover like the bombshell G.O.A.T. event it was always meant to be.

Not only do Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid manage to manifest their animated personas in live-action form perfectly, but the Mariner-Boimer brand of chaos proves to be a catalyst for character growth throughout the crew.

It's incredibly fitting for Tptb to release this story of Starfleet's biggest fanboy meeting his heroes as a surprise treat during the biggest fan convention weekend. Happy birthday, Captain Pike, and Happy Comic-Con to all of us!

And while I pride myself on nuanced and balanced narrative analysis and character development, you'll forgive me for gushing over the brilliant detail and loving callbacks this adventure showcases so well.

Trekkies were given a lot to be excited for during Paramount’s Star Trek Universe presentation Saturday with three new teaser trailers for “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Lower Decks” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”

The announcements, which came out of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H, previewed the upcoming fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” one of Paramount+’s longest running original dramas that will premiere in early 2024; Season 4 of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” which will premiere with its first two episodes Sept. 7; and “Subspace Rhapsody,” the musical-themed ninth episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”

Check out the respective trailers below.

“Star Trek: Discovery” Final Season Sneak Peak

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Surprise, Star Trek fans!

The Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks crossover is coming sooner than you can imagine. In fact, following the advanced screening during San Diego Comic-Con, the episode is going to be available Saturday at 7 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Pt on Paramount+.

Since Episode 7 is debuting early, there is now an updated release schedule for the rest of Strange New Worlds Season 2. See that below:

Saturday, July 22 – Episode 207, “Those Old Scientists” Thursday, July 27 – Episode 208, “Under the Cloak of War” Thursday, August 3 – Episode 209, “Subspace Rhapsody” Thursday, August 10 – Episode 210 (Season Finale), “Hegemony”

During the panel, fans also learned that Episode 9, “Subspace Rhapsody,” is a musical episode. That marks a first for the Star Trek franchise. With the announcement came a teaser for that episode, which can be seen above.

“Subspace Rhapsody” will feature 10 original songs, plus a special version of the series’ main title, with music and lyrics...

Grief is a hard thing to talk about and an even harder one to confront. On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 6, we finally have the opportunity to deal with Hemmer's tragic and horrific death from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1.

Pelia is in the unenviable position of replacing him as Chief Engineer, where her style and approach will invariably be compared (and found lacking) to Hemmer's. Her interaction with Una illustrates this vividly.

Meanwhile, Uhura's relationship with the late Chief Engineer was one of both professional and personal mentorship. That bond can resemble a parent-child connection, and it's not surprising that his death reminds her of the loss of her family.

There are a lot of backward glances at previous missions seeded throughout the narrative and one very significant nod to a future working relationship we all know is coming.

For those keeping track, this is the...

It was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con last year that there would be a special crossover episode between Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Flash forward one year later, and that crossover episode will premiere early for the fans at Comic-Con.

As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are both on strike, you shouldn’t expect any actors or writers to take part in the Star Trek Universe Comic-Con panel, but Paramount still has a lot to present. The panel will take place on July 22nd (Saturday) at 1:30pm in Hall H and will feature “exclusive reveals and surprises from upcoming and current seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” All of that, plus the premiere screening of the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover episode.

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This week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds asked a provocative question: What would you do if you had the opportunity to go back in time and kill a mass murderer before they grew up to commit such atrocities?

After a gravely wounded stranger appeared aboard the Enterprise, urging La’an to stop an attack before it was too late, the security chief found herself stuck in Toronto in the past, and in an alternate timeline with a version of Captain Kirk who was born in space aboard the U.S.S. Iowa rather than on Earth. (Fun fact: In the 2009 film Star Trek,...

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With the third episode of its second season, Strange New Worlds seems to rewrite the canon of The Original Series. But what makes “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” so interesting is that the episode itself is smartly understated. Despite the seismic events within the story — including at least one parallel timeline and the death of a major character — this episode still feels intimate, in the tradition of The Original Series, specifically the classic “City on the Edge of Forever.”

In fact, despite all the specific easter eggs, in many ways, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” is one big easter egg for “City.” With that in mind, here are the spoiler-filled references and callbacks for “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” complete with stone knives and bear skins.

Denobulan Cadet

At the beginning of the episode, we see a Denobulan cadet arguing with La’an.

Oh, the layers of meaning and nuance on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 3 are truly impressive.

For an offering that could easily be written off as a buddy-romcom time travel side adventure, there is a plethora of character development for LA'an and multiple on-ramps for future plotlines, including the intriguing potential of a LA'an-Kirk romance.

Bringing the Temporal Wars into the mix is a ballsy move; as we all know, messing with the space-time continuum always leads to shenanigans.

The timing of LA'an's adventure is awfully on the nose, seeing as she's still struggling with Una's revealed identity as an Illyrian, a perceived betrayal in light of the name LA'an carries.

Her sparring session with M'Benga underscores the emotional baggage she can't unload, while her personal logs indicate her isolation in her role as Chief Security Officer.

Where Hemmer and Uhura had a lot of bonding time on...

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When engineer Pelia strutted her way onto the Enterprise bridge in the premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season two, blatantly ignoring the evacuation warning and acting Captain Spock’s orders, viewers simply assumed she was just another one of the delightfully odd characters played by Carol Kane. From The Princess Bride and Scrooged to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Taxi, Kane has established herself as a master at playing wonderful oddballs, squeaky-voiced agents of chaos who disrupt the status quo simply by showing up.

And to be sure, that’s exactly what Pelia does. Not only does she see right through Spock’s (literally) textbook plan to falsely sabotage the ship and steal the Enterprise but she also offers a much more elegant solution, helping the skeleton crew answer a distress call from the erstwhile Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh.

Why...

You're forgiven if Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 1 evokes strong feelings of déjà vu.

After all, the entire plot of the recently concluded Star Trek: Picard Season 3 hinges on stealing a starship. Also, Captain Seven is challenged to coin her engage phrase on Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 10, just like Spock here.

Finally, the ship launching from underground caverns? We've seen that in animated forms on both Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 7 and Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 2.

All that being said, familiarity breeds no contempt as we slip into the comfortable, chummy embrace of our pined-for Enterprise ensemble.

With the Season 1 finale leaving us on tenterhooks about Una's fate, the writers subvert expectations by delaying that question by shipping Pike off-site for the entire premiere adventure.

Instead, we bring LA'an back into the fold as her quest to reunite fellow Gorn-surviving girl warrior, Oriana, with...

When Carol Kane was approached about joining “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” for its second season, the celebrated 70-year-old actor had to make a confession: She’d never watched a single minute of the venerated franchise.

“The science fiction world has not really been attractive to me for some reason,” Kane says. “Now that I’m in it,” she adds with a laugh, “I’m very excited about it. It just wasn’t on my path until now.”

Clearly the producers were on to something. Kane’s role on the Paramount+ series fits neatly within her wheelhouse of sublime eccentrics, from her Emmy-winning role on “Taxi” to for-the-ages supporting turns in “The Muppet Movie,” “The Princess Bride,” “Scrooged” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Here, she plays Pelia, the new chief engineer of the Enterprise and a member of an alien species never before seen on “Star Trek”: Lanthanites, who are...

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 1

On paper, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the most traditional entry in the current Star Trek franchise, with its more episodic weekly adventures, light-hearted feel, and open embrace of the wonders inherent in space exploration. But, for all its old-school vibes, nothing about this show feels stodgy or stuck in the past. In fact, Strange New Worlds is at its best when it’s gleefully subverting our expectations about what a show like this is supposed to be and do from week to week, embracing shifts in genre, tone, and format that somehow manage to make even the most familiar story beats feel fresh and new.

So it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Strange New Worlds season 2 premiere continues to choose the unexpected path, and does exactly the opposite of what...

Captain Pike, Mr. Spock, Nurse Chapel and the rest of the Enterprise crew are preparing to beam onto Paramount+ for a new season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” on Thursday, June 15. The show follows the crew of the Ncc-1701 before James T. Kirk settles into the captain’s chair, through a set of galactic adventures that brings out the best in each of the ship’s crew. You can watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 2 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus. You can also watch with Amazon Prime Video.

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We’ve been bingeing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in my house lately. In addition to the underrated spinoff’s individual merits, it’s striking to be reminded of the differences between the era where every successful show made 20-plus episodes a year, and this current one, where 10 episodes per season is the most given to almost everybody, including modern-day Trek shows like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

There were definitely downsides to the old system. Unevenness was inevitable when producing that much content each season. As we near the...

Plot: The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories, and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies.

Review: After the end of Picard and the announcement that the upcoming fifth season of Discovery would be its last, fans have only one live-action series left in the Paramount+ era of Star Trek. Strange New Worlds debuted last year after the debut of Anson Mount and Ethan Peck as Christopher Pike and Lt. Spock in the second season of Discovery. The series harkened back to the more episodic style of the Original Series and was a fan-favorite. With the new second season continuing the adventures aboard the USS Enterprise and a third season already greenlit, Strange New Worlds’ sophomore run feels...

The upcoming second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will include a crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks, but if the cast have their way… it won’t be the last crossover for the series. While speaking with SFX Magazine, Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount (Pike) and Ethan Peck (Spock) are holding out hope for a crossover with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

“I’d have to say The Next Generation,” Ethan Peck said, “Just because I’ve gotten now to work with Jonathan Frakes and I’ve gotten to know some of the cast. They’re so fun and wonderful and I’ve become a fan of the show. Furthermore, I think Data is my all-time favourite character. It would be a dream come true to have a scene between Spock and Data. Played by Brent Spiner, of course.“

Anson Mount agreed, and...

The premiere of the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is just two weeks away and Paramount+ has a special treat for those wanting to catch up on the series. All ten episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been made available for free on YouTube for a limited time.

Unfortunately, these episodes are region-locked to the United States, so if you live elsewhere as I do, they won’t be available for you.

Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Christoper Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas, and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga. The second season also features Carol Kane as Chief Engineer Pelia. Paramount has already renewed the series for a third season,...

It was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con last year that there would be a special crossover episode between Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Paramount+ has released a new trailer for Strange New Worlds season 2, which teases that Lower Decks crossover.

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 trailer includes the first look at Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler in live-action. Boimler’s purple hair made the leap to live-action, although not quite as vibrant as his animated counterpart.

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Star Trek legend Jonathan Frakes directed the crossover episode and offered a few details while speaking with TrekMovie last month. “Mariner and Boimler just happen to cross over from their animated world into the ship with Anson (Pike), and Rebecca (Number One) and...

Strange New Worlds fans get their first real sneak peek at the much-anticipated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks live-action crossover in the official season two trailer. The new season premieres on June 15, 2023 on Paramount+ and stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley, with Lower Decks‘ Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler popping in for the special episode.

Season two also stars Ethan Peck as Spock, Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’An Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas, and Babs Olusanmokun as Joseph M’Benga. Paul Wesley returns in a special guest-starring role as James T. Kirk, and Carol Kane joins the series in a recurring role as Pelia.

Season two’s 10 episodes will arrive on Thursdays.

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers guide season two as co-showrunners.

Something weird is afoot in Season 2 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”

The next chapter of the Paramount+ series will feature a crossover with fellow “Trek” series “Lower Decks.” Crossovers aren’t unusual, but in this case “Strange New Worlds” is a live-action show, and “Lower Decks” is animated.

All will be explained in due time, but somehow “Lower Decks” crewmembers Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) will board the U.S.S. Enterprise “in the flesh.” Check out the promotional photo below:

Tawny Newsome as Mariner and Jack Quaid as Boimler in the trailer of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (Paramount+)

The crossover episode, which will also feature animation, was directed by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Picard” actor and director Jonathan Frakes. The shows also take place in two different time periods — “Strange New Worlds” in the 23rd Century and “Lower Decks...

Two Star Trek universes will collide this summer on Paramount+.

The streaming service on Thursday debuted the official trailer for the highly anticipated second season of its critically acclaimed original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

As previously reported, the series will premiere Thursday, June 15, on Paramount+ in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

The second season will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in South Korea, with the premiere date to be announced at a later time.

Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode season will drop weekly on Thursdays.

The trailer also gives us our first glimpse of Star Trek: The Lower Decks' Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler in live-action form aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

The episode, which will also feature animation, was directed by "Star Trek: The Next Generation...

Set your phasers on fun.

Paramount+ on Wednesday released the full trailer for Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — which among other things lets slip a first peek at the previously announced crossover episode that guest-stars Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid, as live-action versions of Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler.

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A photo of said crossover was also released,...

Anson Mount as Captain Pike of the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Photo Cr: Pari Dukovic/Paramount+ Tm & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. Paramount+ has revealed the official teaser trailer for the highly anticipated second season of its hit original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. New season two teaser art featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise was also released. Season two will premiere Thursday, June 15 on Paramount+ in the U.S, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The second season will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in South Korea, with premiere dates to be announced at a later date. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode season will drop weekly on Thursdays. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike commanded the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan...

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" was a warm, exciting surprise addition to the "Star Trek" franchise, reintroducing fans to new versions of old favorites from the original series and telling the story of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount). The first season was a total blast with a little something for every kind of "Star Trek" fan, and now the trailer for season 2 is here and it looks even better than the first. That's right, the Enterprise is back, bringing Pike, Una (Rebecca Romijn), Spock (Ethan Peck), and the rest of the courageous and charismatic crew. We already know about some of what we're going to see in season 2, like the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" crossover episode directed by Jonathan Frakes and an episode giving Ortegas the starring role, but the trailer gives us even more of an idea of what the upcoming season will hold.

Are you dying for more Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?

Paramount+ today revealed the official teaser trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, and it promises more mystery and adventure than before. 

The highly-anticipated season will launch Thursday, June 15, on Paramount+ in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

The second season will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in South Korea, with premiere dates to be announced at a later date.

Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode season will drop weekly on Thursdays.

The live-action spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike commanded the U.S.S. Enterprise.

The series features fan favorites Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as LA'an Noonien-Singh,...

The “Star Trek” universe continues to expand, with fan favorites returning and new shows (and worlds) to explore on the Paramount+ streaming service even as “Star Trek: Picard” comes to an end.

“Strange New Worlds” and “Lower Decks” are eyeing a summer return, with “Prodigy” slated for a winter release.

They’re also several projects in development, including a “Starfleet Academy” focusing on young cadets, and a “Section 31” movie centered around Michelle Yeoh’s deliciously evil anti-hero from “Discovery.”

Below we run down every upcoming new “Star Trek” TV series coming to Paramount+.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (Season 2) Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Celia Rose Gooding (Photo credit: Paramount+)

Premiere Date: June 15, 2023

Cast: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura,...

The arrival of James T. Kirk seems to make a big impression on at least one Enterprise crew member in a newly released trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ second season.

Paul Wesley — who previously appeared as Kirk in Strange New Worlds‘ freshman finale, albeit in an alternate timeline — will show up as the real Kirk in Season 2. And, as Rebecca Romijn’s Una observes in the trailer above, Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh radiates a certain “energy” when Kirk beams onto the Enterprise.

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The first season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" concluded on July 7, 2022, with the finale rounding out what might be one of the strongest debut years in "Star Trek" history. It's commonly accepted among Trekkies that Trek shows -— however interesting their cast, characters, and setting -- start at a low ebb in writing and quality; Trek is the poster child for the phrase "It gets good in season 3." "Strange New Worlds," breaking the trend, was good right out of the gate. Trek functions best as individual episodes (as opposed to season-long story arcs like those attempted in "Discovery" and "Picard"), as well as a workplace show. The characters' personal lives matter less than how they behave when they're on the clock.

It might have been expected that "Strange New Worlds" was renewed for a second season, as Paramount+ is putting all its eggs in one starship (the service has...