After a difficult ending to a very uneven third season, it looks like Strange new worlds is beginning to realize that his next mission is a course correction.
At New York Comic Con today, Paramount revealed our first proper look at the penultimate season of Star Trek prequel show, after teasing some puppet-based shenanigans at SDCC over the summer. The extended sequence strikes a much more serious tone in stark contrast, as the U.S.S. EnterpriseAttempts to respond to a Starfleet distress transmission lead to the ship becoming trapped in a strange phenomenon that robs the ship of all but a tiny bit of its power.
Even leaving aside Captain Pike literally telling Number One (and the audience) that they wanted weirder new worlds, choosing a clip with a more traditional tone as our introduction to Season 4 certainly seems intended to address criticisms of Strange new worlds‘third season.
While Season 4 itself doesn’t act as a direct response to these criticisms – filming wrapped last August, before Season 3 concluded – the choice certainly echoes recent comments from Strange new worlds producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers that the new season aims to address some of those criticisms anyway.
“We just had more time [for season 4]. I just had more time, more continuous time,” Goldsman said. TrekMovie of the mixed reaction to season 3. “We didn’t have personnel changes. We didn’t have a strike. The strike caused changes. These things are real. And starting, shutting down and starting again is complicated.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds It is expected to return for its fourth season next year. The show will end with a truncated six-episode fifth season, which is currently in production.
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