{"id":474773,"date":"2026-03-14T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:28:10","slug":"strange-new-worlds-ep-talks-s4-release-date-s5-characters-and-a-return-to-classic-star-trek-trekmovie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474773\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strange New Worlds\u2019 EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To \u201cClassic\u201d Star Trek \u2013 TrekMovie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the first season of Starfleet Academy has wrapped up on Paramount+, the only Star Trek TV left for 2026 is the fourth season of Strange New Worlds. TrekMovie spoke to co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers at the Saturn Awards, where he gave us an update on the series which wrapped production on its fifth and final season last December<\/a>. The executive producer offered up some hints about what\u2019s in store for both of its upcoming seasons and predicted when we should expect the show to return this year.<\/p>\n

Season 4 arriving by late summer<\/p>\n

While there is currently no activity on the Star Trek production front<\/a>, Myers told TrekMovie he is still very busy:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m literally still working on season 4 as well as season 5 right now, so it doesn\u2019t feel like \u2014 we wrapped photography, but we\u2019ll be working on post and editorial and sound and score and all that stuff for another six to ten months. We\u2019ll still be working on [season 5] when you get to see season 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

At New York Comic Con last October, Paramount+ released a clip from Strange New Worlds<\/a>, promising season 4 was \u201ccoming soon.\u201d When pressed on when we will see the show return, Myers first told TrekMovie \u201cI can\u2019t give you dates,\u201d but he did give us an estimated range:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say, [season 4 will arrive] sometime later this year. We\u2019ve been very consistent in the time of year when we come out and we\u2019re going to be consistent again this year. We\u2019ve been told a window, so that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to be, I would say late summer, but take that as a guess and not really a locked date.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the record, season 3 of Strange New Worlds debuted last summer on July 17. Seasons 1 and 2 debuted May 2022 and June 2023, respectively. When asked if the season 4 release date was depending more on when they can complete their work than what is best for Paramount+ and their release calendar, Myers said, \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of both. It\u2019s trying to deliver it so they can air it when that time is available.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anson Mount as Captain Pike in season 4, episode 1 of Strange New Worlds streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs\/Paramount+<\/p>\n

More \u201cclassic\u201d Star Trek in season 4<\/p>\n

Last year, Myers and his co-showrunner have indicated that season 4 will pivot<\/a> in terms of style and tone for the show. At the Saturns, Myers offered some more detail saying:<\/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. 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 \u2014 we just want to go for something.\u201d<\/p>\n

We do know that season 4 will have a puppet episode<\/a>, but the executive producer made it clear that the upcoming season isn\u2019t all about those big genre swings:<\/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

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Martin Quinn as Scotty in season 4, episode 1 of Strange New Worlds streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs\/Paramount+<\/p>\n

Landing the plane in season 5<\/p>\n

As noted by Henry, he is also currently working on post production for the six-episode fifth season of the show, and he confirmed there will be another pivot as the series wraps up:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, for sure [season 5 will be different than season 4]. That\u2019s where we are looking how to land the plane in that season. We are all lovers of Star Trek. We kind of try to look at this like, what is the ending that we would want? We have a lot of gratitude about the fact that when you end your show, you get to decide how and where it ends. And we really want to do that in a way that we appreciate, and that we like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest news we have about season 5 is that the finale will introduce<\/a> Thomas Jane as Dr. Leonard \u201cBones\u201d McCoy and Kai Murakami as Hikaru Sulu. Henry explained why they held off introducing these two classic Star Trek characters until the final episode:<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you don\u2019t have to meet every single person right away. We have a lot of characters, and we want to be able to tell a compelling, interesting story for each of them, to find interesting endings for all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0Akiva Goldsman told TrekMovie<\/a>\u00a0the final episode of\u00a0Strange New Worlds will feature \u201cKirk\u2019s first day of command\u201d of the USS Enterprise. He and Henry are hoping that could be the jumping-off point for a follow-up series they have pitched called Star Trek: Year One.<\/p>\n

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Sybok<\/p>\n

There is a classic character that has already been teased in the series: Spock\u2019s half-brother Sybok, first introduced in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The showrunner was reluctant to reveal anything specific when pressed on whether we will see Sybok on the show, but did offer this:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a future with Sybok where we deal with Sybok, I\u2019m going to say that. You have some future with Sybok to experience on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sybok seen from behind in \u201cThe Serene Squall\u201d in season 1<\/p>\n

Season 4 video<\/p>\n

Here again is the NYCC clip from season 4:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2026 and here is that SDCC puppet episode tease:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nMore from the Saturns\n<\/p>\n

Check out our coverage of Sunday\u2019s event<\/a>, and get Henry\u2019s update on the Star Trek: Year One series pitch<\/a>. We also talked to Starfleet Academy EP\/director Olatunde Osunsanmi<\/a>\u00a0and showrunner Noga Landau<\/a>. There are\u00a0 more red carpet interviews on the way.<\/p>\n

Keep up with news about the\u00a0Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the first season of Starfleet Academy has wrapped up on Paramount+, the only Star Trek TV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}