Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise led by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his faithful crew prior to Captain James T. Kirk taking the center seat. In September, the series concluded its third season, which was the lowest-rated season of the series on Rotten Tomatoes with a 52% audience score.
Production on Strange New Worlds Season 4 wrapped this summer, and filming on Season 5 is already underway. The cast of the show, along with its co-showrunners, Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, touched on some aspects of Season 4 at the Star Trek panel during New York Comic-Con, per TrekMovie. The panel was made up of Strange New Worlds’ stars Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Martin Quinn, as well as executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
Season 4 of the show has already been teased by producers as being the best installment of Strange New Worlds in the series’ history, but at Comic Con, Myers elaborated on the statements. “All I would say about Season 4 is that we wanted to go for broke,” he began. “We really wanted to not leave anything behind, which is a broad way of saying: Go in every day like this is the last time you’re going to get to do it. What is it you want to do? Let’s do those. That’s what I would say about Season 4,” Myers said.
Gooding, who plays Ensign Nyota Uhura in Strange New Worlds, echoed Myers’ statements. “We just finished an incredible season, Season 4. Just when you think that we’ve pulled all the punches we can, we’ve taken the biggest swing possible, we get a new script, and we’re like, ‘Oh, okay, we’re going to do this, too. Fun, fun fun!’ It’s a wealth of playtime that we get,” she said.
Why Season 4 Will Be Better Than Season 3
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In a previous interview, Goldsman talked about why the forthcoming Season 4 will be better than Season 3. “We just had more time [for Season 4],” he said. “Just had more time, more continuous time. We didn’t have staffing changes. We didn’t have a strike. The strike caused change. Those things are real. And starting up and shutting down and starting up again is complicated,” Goldsman said.
Myers added, “We know our cast deeply. We knew a lot of people’s strengths. We were able to lean into their strengths and have them try things that they hadn’t gotten to try, that we could see on screen. The usual thing that we talk about on the show is that when we’re having fun, it’s usually a good sign. And [Season 4] was really, really fun.”
Strange New Worlds debuted a teaser clip for Season 4 at New York Comic Con. While a date has not been set for the Season 4 premiere, the clip revealed that it will be “coming soon.” The first three seasons of Strange New Worlds are streaming on Paramount+.
Release Date
May 5, 2022
Network
Paramount+
Showrunner
Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
Anson Mount
Captain Christopher Pike
