{"id":233275,"date":"2025-10-18T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:24:08","slug":"the-final-seasons-of-strange-new-worlds-will-move-away-from-outlier-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233275\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Seasons of ‘Strange New Worlds’ Will Move Away From ‘Outlier’ Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the many criticisms that emerged from\u00a0Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\u2018 uneven third season<\/a> was that the show struggled with the effective balance it had maintained in its first two seasons between classical action-adventure episodes in the vein of\u00a0Star Trek\u2018s past and more outlier (and largely lighter-hearted) one-off episodes that put zany premises over building on character arcs and a broader seasonal narrative.<\/p>\n

Those episodes are clearly not going away as we get closer and closer to\u00a0Strange New Worlds\u2018 end<\/a>\u2014after all, we are getting an episode where the crew becomes puppets<\/a> next season\u2014but they may become a bit more sparse as the show tries to make the most of the time it has left with these characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making season five now, we\u2019re trending towards that, which is probably the center line of Star Trek, right?\u201d Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman told Screenrant of Strange New Worlds\u2018 final episodes. \u201cWe\u2019re trending now, and beginning with season four and through season five, to a much more singular sci-fi, action-adventure, emotional storytelling. And you know, the outliers are getting less and less as we kind of focus on saying goodbye to each other and the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in what\u2019s been a bit of a promotional apology tour<\/a> in the wake of season three\u2019s release, which has already seen the crew behind the show promise fans that the show\u2019s last batches of episodes will be stronger than the unevenness of season three. With season four being the last full installment of the series\u2014season five will be truncated down to just six episodes\u2014the series doesn\u2019t have a lot of time to spend with either its version of classic original series characters and getting them on the path to their places in that show or its remaining original characters that, presumably, have to eventually move on from the Enterprise in one way or another by\u00a0Strange New Worlds\u2018 end.<\/p>\n

It might be a while before we start seeing the fruits of Goldsman\u2019s promises, but at least there\u2019s something to be hopeful for as we wait for season four<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the many criticisms that emerged from\u00a0Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\u2018 uneven third season was that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,4208,11878,32732,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-233275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-paramount","10":"tag-star-trek","11":"tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}