Summary
TheStar Trekfranchise’s most exciting ongoing series is just months away from a highly anticipated third season, and the first teaser trailer for the upcoming installment strongly suggests that the show is doubling down on one of its better ideas.
Star Trekhas taken well to the streaming era, with the TV-born franchise launching in theaters under Paramount’s management before finding a permanent home on the company’s streamer, Paramount Plus. One of the more successful ongoing projects isStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, a spinoff ofStar Trek: Discoverythat fans and even critics have enjoyed immensely. The first two installments of the show currently sit north of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a third season is already on the way.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’upcoming third season needs to deliver bigto avoid a mistake the franchise has seen before, as far back asThe Next Generation.
One reason for the show’s popularity is thatStrange New Worldshas taken some big swings with trying new things, most notably with the musical episodeSubspace Rhapsody.Likely inspired by this, series starCelia Rose Gooding gave some other unique ideas for Strange New Worldsto explore new genres in a recent appearance, and it seems the show is well on its way to tackling more of those sorts of ideas. A new teaser trailer for the third season ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldswas released on the officialParamount Plus YouTube channel, complete with a confirmation of a summer release window. In it, fans get a quick sampling of the show’s characters in what appears to be different genre-inspired episodes, ranging from a murder mystery to a perky homage to old Trek shows, all with some very meta-sounding commentary to go along with it.
Strange New Worldshas lived up to its name in a narrative and meta sense, taking fans to strange new places in-universe while employing unique and novel ideas in the way those stories are told to the audience. Gooding’s co-starAnson Mount wants to publish a Captain Pike cookbookbased on his character’s on-screen culinary prowess (and his entirely self-reported IRl skills), and even that character trait is a great example of how Strange New Worlds has given the franchise a new feel. There’s a lot to go through in the newly released trailer, but the main message comes across loud and clear: this next ten-episode installment is going to keep giving fans fun and exciting new ways to enjoy theirTrek.
It’s looking good for the showrunner’s promise thatStar Trek: Strange New Worldswill start shooting a fourth season this year, as the writer’s room for the fourth installment has been up and active for almost a year at this point. With the third season leaning so strongly into this experimental new vibe wholeheartedly, there’s a good chance that Gooding eventually does get herStar Trekmockumentary-style episode sometime soon (if that wasn’t teasing a season three episode to begin with). In the meantime, fans can look forward to an exciting new helping of episodes come summer.
Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis available to stream on Paramount+, with season three set to premiere over the summer.
