While we wait for news on when we will see season 3, Paramount is already moving ahead on the fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series set on Captain Pike’s USS Enterprise began production on its fourth season on Monday.
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News on a new season was announced officially via Star Trek social media and the official site. This was accompanied by a photo from the set on the CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario. Anson Mount (Pike) holds a clapboard while standing next to Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura) and Ethan Peck (Spock). The post announced that: “Production on season four of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is officially underway!” The production start comes about 9 months after filming for season 3 wrapped last year. At the time star Anson Mount stated they would be back for filming season 4 in the spring of 2025, but later other members of the cast revealed the plan had moved up.
Dream pitch and more canon characters?
As the third season is still to come, there is very little known about plans for the series in the fourth season. Work had already started last summer with co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman revealing during Comic-Con press coverage they had the 10-episode season planned out with the writers room already breaking stories. At that time co-showunner Henry Alonso Myers revealed they will be doing a “dream pitch” of his for season 4, saying “What I really want to do I can’t talk about right now, but it will come in season 4.” Goldsman hinted that one of the things Myers is particularly interested in is including Spock’s half-brother Sybok (who was teased in season 1), but neither confirmed he is part of season 4.
It’s also a good bet season 4 will include more canon characters from Star Trek: The Original Series. We saw Scotty arrive at the end of season 2, with Scottish actor Martin Quinn confirmed as a series regular in season 3. The upcoming season will also include Irish actor Cillian O’Sullivan in a recurring role as Dr. Roger Korby (portrayed in Star Trek: The Original Series by Michael Strong). Both showrunners have indicated more canon characters are to come with Goldsman telling Variety, “We will continue on for as long as Paramount lets us. We will drive right into The Original Series.”
Paramount has not set a release date for season 4, but we expect the now filming season to be released around the same time in 2026.
Season 3 coming this year
For now we continue to wait for word on season 3, with no exact release date has been given by Paramount besides confirming season 3 will be released sometime this year. But we did get a look at the opening minutes of the season in a clip released at NYCC 2024 showing how the show will pick up right after the season 2 finale cliffhanger, right into a conflict with the Gorn. Watch that below.
And at Comic-Con over the summer of 2024 Paramount revealed a lighter moment from season 3 with a clip featuring some members of the crew being turned into Vulcans…
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