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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” 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.
Before that though we’ll get the show’s fourth season this Summer and new details have emerged in regards to what to expect creatively.
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 “Lower Decks” crossover episode and a well-regarded musical episode.
Those experimental episodes in the show’s 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’t appear to have been as well received as the prior two.
In a new interview with TrekMovie, co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers offered insight into the creative direction of the show’s new run. He says going in, the team were unsure if they would get a fifth season and so focused on exploring ideas ‘Star Trek’ hadn’t really tackled before:
“We looked at season 4 and we didn’t know what our future was going to be, so we were like, ‘What are things that we have never tried that we want to try?’ What is Star Trek that hasn’t been done that we could do? Like, the whole point of doing Strange New Worlds is to visit some strange new worlds.
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 – we just want to go for something.
That said, he claims they won’t 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:
“It’s not like every episode is a puppet episode… It’s 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.”
For the full interview, head over to TrekMovie. Paramount+ still hasn’t locked in a premiere date for the fourth season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” which is expected to run the usual ten episodes. The fifth season is expected to clock in at a shorter six-episode length.