Aside from that, we\u2019ve been promised a push towards Kirk and Spock\u2019s iconic friendship this season, which could be what \u201cHuman Best Friend\u201d is hinting at. \u201cOnce La\u2019an a Time\u201d may give us a hint to where Christina Chong\u2019s La\u2019an Noonien Singh character is off to once the Enterprise transitions from Captain Pike to Captain Kirk. Another episode to keep an eye on is \u201cOrders of Magnitude.\u201d Assuming there isn\u2019t a surprise, this episode will air on Sept. 10, two days after the franchise\u2019s 60th birthday. And who knows that \u201cLevel-Five Transporter Accident\u201d could possibly be in reference to<\/a>? We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n The episode title reveal was done via social media along with character graphics.<\/p>\n Oh, Baby<\/p>\n We learned that David Marcus, Kirk\u2019s son introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, will be featured in at least one episode this season. The show opened the door to this in Season 2 when Paul Wesley\u2019s Kirk told La\u2019an Singh that things were messy with someone he was seeing because they were expecting a baby. Per Memory Alpha, that episode (\u201cSubspace Rhapsody,\u201d the musical) takes place in 2260, and the finale of Season 3 is roughly a year later. So it\u2019s fair to say, barring a time jump, little David is pretty young.<\/p>\n In an interview with Cinemablend<\/a>, showrunner Henry Alonso Meyers says this is what the team is going for.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to call it a rewrite, but it\u2019s like a rethink. The experience of David was not a part of the series because they didn\u2019t really figure David out until the movies\u2026.Kirk is heroic, and none of us wanted to imagine that he is a lousy father, so that offered a lot of opportunities about how to get into his mind, emotionally.\u201d \u2013 Henry Alonso Meyers<\/p>\n This doesn\u2019t technically run afoul of the continuity in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where it\u2019s clear Kirk and David are estranged and at the very least haven\u2019t seen each other since David was a child. In the movie, Kirk asks David\u2019s mother, Carol Marcus, why she didn\u2019t explain to David that it was her wish that Kirk \u201cstay away.\u201d So, it\u2019s plausible that Kirk was there at least in part in the beginning before Carol asked him to shoo.<\/p>\n Merrit Butrick as David, left, and William Shatner as his father, Captain Kirk, right, in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (Paramount)<\/p>\n Some Tricky Vulcans<\/p>\n It\u2019s also been revealed a pair of high profile Vulcans that have admitted to filming episodes of Strange New Worlds, but we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s Season 4 or 5.\u00a0It is only logical that James Frain\u2019s Sarek from Star Trek Discovery return, and Frain seemed to confirm it in a now-deleted Instagram<\/a> post, but this will be another tough needle to thread for the writers. In the Season 2 episode of Star Trek, \u201cJourney to Babel,\u201d it\u2019s clear that Kirk doesn\u2019t know who Spock\u2019s parents are and that Spock and his father haven\u2019t spoken in some time.\u00a0Still, Frain was in 11 episodes of Discovery to develop Michael Burnham, who grew up with Spock as Sarek\u2019s adopted daughter.<\/p>\n Plus, character actor and comedian Patton Oswalt said (on Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s podcast<\/a>) he is reprising his role as Doug the Vulcan at some point before the show ends. He appeared in the Season 3 episode \u201cFour-and-a-Half Vulcans\u201d as a Vulcan fascinated by human culture, but not very fluent in it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe War Without, the War Within\u201d \u2014 Episode 114 \u2014 Pictured: James Frain as Ambassador Sarek of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Jan Thijs\/CBS \u00c3\u0082\u00c2\u00a9 2017 CBS Interactive. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n Welcome Aboard<\/p>\n Stick with TrekMovie for recap\/reviews every morning a new episode comes out on Paramount + followed by analysis every Friday on the All Access Star Trek podcast, starting with a season preview tomorrow. We will also have an early (mostly spoiler-free) review of the first half of the season next week.<\/p>\n We also have interviews coming up with the cast soon, look for that on the site ahead of the premiere. After episode one we will have an interview with execututive producer Chris Fisher, who directed the premiere. As we have in previous seasons, TrekMovie will have more of these \u201cpost mortem\u201d interviews with more episodes in the coming months. To get you started, we just posted a new interview with Melissa Navia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The fourth season debuts Thursday July 23, and we anticipate the fifth season coming along in 2027, plus the second and final season of Starfleet Academy.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the latest trailer for SNW Season 4.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Keep up with everything to do with the\u00a0Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/st2-twok-dc-2920-640x269.jpg\")
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