{"id":351712,"date":"2026-03-22T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/351712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:10:14","slug":"strange-new-worlds-s4-keeps-experimenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/351712\/","title":{"rendered":"“Strange New Worlds” S4 Keeps Experimenting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Paramount+<\/p>\n

\u201cStar Trek: Strange New Worlds\u201d has already finished filming, the series set to come to a close with its fifth season which wrapped a little while back ahead of airing in 2027.<\/p>\n

Before that though we\u2019ll get the show\u2019s fourth season this Summer and new details have emerged in regards to what to expect creatively.<\/p>\n

Due to the standalone nature of its episodes, the show has been able to take some creative swings, experimenting with tone and form. In the second season that worked well, resulting in a beloved \u201cLower Decks\u201d crossover episode and a well-regarded musical episode.<\/p>\n

Those experimental episodes in the show\u2019s third season however were met with a rougher reception with heavily criticised episodes revolving around a holodeck murder mystery and one serving as a kind of documentary-style take on the crew. That overall season doesn\u2019t appear to have been as well received as the prior two.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with TrekMovie<\/a>, co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers offered insight into the creative direction of the show\u2019s new run. He says going in, the team were unsure if they would get a fifth season and so focused on exploring ideas \u2018Star Trek\u2019 hadn\u2019t really tackled before:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe looked at season 4 and we didn\u2019t know what our future was going to be, so we were like, \u2018What are things that we have never tried that we want to try?\u2019 What is Star Trek that hasn\u2019t been done that we could do? Like, the whole point of doing Strange New Worlds is to visit some strange new worlds.<\/p>\n

Every one of the episodes is strange, new, and different. We want to try some things with Star Trek that is familiar to Star Trek lovers, but also, fresh, new, different, explosive \u2013 we just want to go for something.<\/p>\n

That said, he claims they won\u2019t overdo it with some episodes that still lean into a more traditional format along with the occasional experimental one like the upcoming puppet-focused episode:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like every episode is a puppet episode\u2026 It\u2019s a mix. We have a few genre reaches. We have some real classic episodes, some very, very classic episodes. We try some things that have not been tried in Star Trek before, but still very much at their core, feel like Star Trek.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the full interview, head over to TrekMovie<\/a>. Paramount+ still hasn\u2019t locked in a premiere date for the fourth season of \u201cStar Trek: Strange New Worlds\u201d which is expected to run the usual ten episodes. The fifth season is expected to clock in at a shorter six-episode length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount+ \u201cStar Trek: Strange New Worlds\u201d has already finished filming, the series set to come to a close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-351712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}