11 months after season 1 wrapped up, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns with a brand new 10-episode second season this week. We have details along with new images from the season premiere SPOILERS.
“The Broken Circle”
Episode 1 of Strange New Worlds’ second season is called “The Broken Circle.” The episode was written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman, and directed by Chris Fisher. It debuts on Paramount+ on Thursday, June 15.
Synopsis:
A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
NEW images from episode 1:
Jess Bush as Chapel (Paramount+)
Anson Mount as Capt. Pike and Ethan Peck as Spock (Paramount+)
Abbas Wahab as Ror’Queg (Paramount+)
Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura and Ethan Peck as Spock (Paramount+)
Jess Bush as Chapel and Christina Chong as La’an (Paramount+)
UPDATE – more NEW images from episode 1:
Christina Chong as La’an (Paramount+)
Rong Fu as Mitchell, Ethan Peck as Spock and Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas (Paramount+)
Ethan Peck as Spock, Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga, Jess Bush as Chapel and Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura (Paramount+)
Jess Bush as Chapel (Paramount+)
Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga (Paramount+)
Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura (Paramount+)
Previously released images from episode 1:
Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura (Paramount+)
Ethan Peck as Spock (Paramount+)
Jess Bush as Chapel and Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga (Paramount+)
Season 2 videos
There isn’t a trailer yet for episode 1, but here is the full trailer for season 2.
And here is the special episode of The Ready Room previewing the season.
Season 2 will premiere Thursday, June 15 on Paramount+ in the U.S, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The second season will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in South Korea, with premiere dates to be announced at a later date. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode season will drop weekly on Thursdays.
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I’m eagerly awaiting Season 2.
[sarcasm]Those Klingons contradict canon. They should be played by white actors in blackface to adhere to The Original Series. [/sarcasm]
It would make more sense if they were just played by actors with shorter haircuts and no prosthetic make-up, but there’s no reason that the two types of Klingons can’t both exist in this era.
Even the three types could and should co-exist.
I assume the third type is the Discovery Klingons?
Correct.
You’d think there was some kind of Empire where an Emperor (or their replacement Chancellor) and military that ruled over various races and successfully conquered others along those lines.
Okay.
…and it’s Monday, and StarTrek.com still doesn’t have the special edition Ready Room posted in a global version.
They have the First Look posted for the premiere episode but they seem to have completely dropped the ball on making a region-free version of the Ready Room available.🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏼
Also, still no confirmation on where to watch SNW in Nordics and other parts of Europe and the world…
If I don’t get to watch it on Friday the same week as it drops in the US, I’m going to be quite mad. … And then I’ll download it and watch it regardless.
I really WANT to watch it legally, and I really WANT to support Trek by adding my playback to the official viewership stats. But if Paramount doesn’t give me a chance to do it, then I simply can’t. Being told to wait indefinitely because of a previous-century mindset of regional audiences is not something I’m willing to accept, however.
With the Klingons. I get the feeling their trying to meld the TNG and DSC looks.
This is the 3rd revision of the DSC Klingons, right?
I don’t see that at all It just looks like they went back to the original look we got in the classic shows. The Klingons in season 2 of DIS felt like a meld between the two since they still had the four nostrils but here it just looks like the ones we got in the past, just maybe an upgrade to the make up I guess.
It seems that they mostly melded TOS together with its movies and added a sprinkling of TNG.
big debate…..La’an or Nurse Chapel? there’s no wrong answer ;)
I’m gay so Hemmer
For the folks who favor ciswomen here, I see no reason to eliminate anyone from the conversation.
Probably La’an. I like an ath-e-lete.
I’m gay. So, Spock 100%.
That said… Also, not cool to be judging women like objects to choose. I’m not saying thinking someone is hot is wrong. I am saying that men evaluating women on looks is basic, boring, oppressive primitive sexism. How far would humanity be in advancements if we hadn’t subjugated, and as part of that, objectified 50% of our population for thousands and thousands of years? Reducing women to objects useful only for male sexual desire and not full capable people has had horrific consequences for women and girls… and humanity as whole. Sexism – and how it has stolen and wasted 50% of the intellectual capacity and contribution of our species to solve problems and create solutions – is why, for example, we don’t have cities on the moons of Saturn, cures for cancer and a cure for aging in general, etc. Name a problem. It could hav been solved long ago if we had 50% more brains contributing to the knowledge pool to solve it over generations. The reality that we live in today is one that was handicapped and shaped by sexism. It didn’t have to be this way. For example, cancer could have been cured in 980AD by a female scientist. Who knows? And it’s not our actual 980AD that existed that I’m talking about, obviously. All of history has been debilitated and degraded by sexism. And part of that holding humanity back is demeaning women’s value by talking about them like sex objects. So can we get rid of this nonsense asap so we can fully benefit from the contributions of all of the female brains out there to solve urgent problems? :)
Here here. Always found the Seven of Nine comments creepy as well.
That being said I am happy we see multiple intelligent women in positions of command. Yes, Una, Chapel, La’an, Uhura, all are very attractive and the actresses are amazing!!!
I also getting awesome Engineering vibes from Pelia. Don’t have to be a super model to be awesome.
Maybe the commenter was seeking to compare and contrast the entire personhoods of the two females — but why put words into someone’s mouth when you can cram an entire essay …
“Hey, which of these two do you find more attractive?” doesn’t inherently objectify women writ large. There’s nothing to indicate that physical appeal is the only value someone has to the original questioner (me? I happen to enjoy Jess Bush’s photography, and also enjoy Christina Chong’s enthusiasm for TikTok dances.) You can find people physically appealing and still value you them as people.
Some of y’all need friends.
Wow it’s pretty cool we are going to see the Klingons in the first episode. I did not expect that at all. I thought they were going to just be in one episode and much farther in the season. And I’m one of those people who had gotten really tired of the Klingons in the way others are tired of the Borg. But I have to say, not having them since season 2 of Discovery in live action (sans Worf) I now miss them lol.
So pretty excited to see them so soon!
I just hope they let the Klingons be the villain Klingons from TOS who just took over 1/4th of Federation territory but with the ST3 design.
And eventually they’ve got to set up that Connie vs. D-7 battle to the death Star Trek II style. It’s been like 60 years coming.. and it should not be just them firing phasers at each other and one knocked out in 10 seconds.
Bring on the Klingons!!!!
Very excited to see this season (even if the cast should not repeat the PR talking points of taking “big swings” so specifically over and over. It’s kinda cringe. Obviously, they were told to use this phrase but it seems too scripted and kills any authenticity when they all say it like, well, actors reading a script.)
LOL yeah it is feeling a big scripted now when EVERYONE is saying it. I don’t mind it too much, but considering all the shows and seasons this franchise has been around, I don’t remember people sounding so in sync before discussing a new season.
I’m excited to see them myself. I personally hope they go back to the dynamic they had in TOS and the TOS movies were it’s like hey look I know we have our differences but we can be friends!
I know some people here only want to see humans fighting other species, including other federation members, but if you want that go watch Star Wars and lots of other shows. War does have its place in Star Trek but not too often otherwise it just loses sight of what Trek should be. Trek should still be the show where you see people working out their differences and becoming friends.
That tangent aside. I know they were overused too, I don’t disagree. They’re not my favorite species but I’m glad to see them here too. Time to put the Federation back on the path towards peace with them because as we see in DS9, they’re like some of the best friends the Federation could ask for. Yeah they had their fights and there’s the occasional rogue Klingon but that’s like normal friendship things.
Personally never got as sick of the Klingons as the Borg.
Int3eresting that the show has a more ensemble feel in season two. Probably a good idea, although I wonder if there’s a production reason for that.
Not surprised. Even in season one, they said the style would feel more like TNG did and more of an ensemble.I originally thought they were going to do the trifecta approach like TOS with Kirk, Spock and McCoy but only with Pike, Una and Spock, but I’m glad that didn’t happen. That was great for TOS, but I really like later shows focusing on everyone.
I am loving that too. Excited we are getting a helmsman that loves to pilot, a comms officer that loves linguistics, a science officer that loves science, engineers that know their engines and everyone has to work together as a team. Loving how everyone is at different stages in their lives too, some learning, some accomplished, some on their final Captaincy.
Also enjoying that the ship can function in dangerous situations without everyone needing a psychologist and crying to worry about their emotional well being, very refreshing that they can help each other and are teaching/learning.
Spock on the comet telling Uhura to get it together despite the danger in episode 2… soooooo good.
This is pretty much the situation in every show. I can’t think of a chief engineer that didn’t love their engines for example minus Discovery since we never met their chief engineer. Sigh
OK, O’Brien seemed more peeved than anything working on DS9 lol.
I was finding with Discovery and some of the new Trek you had it where everyone knows everything and functions were starting to get iffy – you didn’t need a comms officer, you don’t need a science officer, your science officer pilots the ship, your android or hologram can do everything, etc.
Sooo good to have a Chief Science Officer for instance again. I mean for ships exploring the galaxy, that seems more critical than say, ship shrink.
So good… granted Discovery had that too but the bridge crew never seemed to have to function as a crew, might be that they were not tasked with a mission of exploration/only ship in the quadrent
OK fair enough.
<i>Excited we are getting a helmsman that loves to pilot, a comms officer that loves linguistics, a science officer that loves science, engineers that know their engines…</i>
We’ve never seen any of those before, of course. /s
Truthfully, what might actually be original would be for a Trek series to show, for example, a chief engineer who decides he’d rather be on the command track but feels pigeonholed and unable to transfer.
I get that this situation might be uncommon, because Starfleet has shown a willingness to provide cross-functional training to its officers. Still, it might be interesting to see the process in action. The closest we’ve ever gotten is seeing Worf move from security to command, or Geordi from command to engineering — but in both of those cases, it was like “poof, the transfer happened.”
Well, if you can believe it, there have been Trek shows where ship had no Chief Science Officer or if they were aboard they were deemed unnecessary on the bridge vs. say Councillor.
Much prefer the TOS stations where it seemed like learning, dealing with the unknown and trying to talk with alien species was of paramount value and not assumed to be common place/run of the mill.
Agreed with all of this! It would be nice NOT to have someone so committed to their job for a change. Even on Voyager, most of the Maquis basically became super committed to their positions onboard and running the ship. But to be fair they kind of had to be if they wanted to get home, a much smaller crew and you couldn’t exactly transfer out either.
But for the most part, everyone seems to love what they do. You have people wanting promotions, especially in command positions but few rarely go to another department outside of Worf and Geordi as you said.
The reason why we have roles is so people can work as a team, that’s what i think gets lost in new Trek. If everyone is generic and everyone’s business is everyone’s and then you meet, it’s just a lot of people talking over themselves.
Yes, it is good to move around, yes it is good to be multi-disciplined (especially when you are moving up to command) but it is critical for teams know that in a pinch when meeting the weapons officer for instance is talking weapons, the radar officer is talking the contacts and then Lieutenant is putting it all together (and you’ve got a Chief in charge of making sure they do do what he/she says!). And if you don’t have a science officer or a communications officer in the meeting, you are implying that science and/or communications just ain’t worth a subject expert, which I think is a huge mistake!
This is why SNW briefings and discussions I think are flowing (along with great characters) recapturing the magic of space exploration in ways lost to other Trek
Less COVID restrictions maybe during season 2?