The Star Trek Universe panel is happening now at San Diego Comic-Con and the first big reveal was for the upcoming third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Things get Vulcanized in season 3 clip
Today’s SDCC panel featured an exclusive conversation with cast members Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck alongside executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, and Henry Alonso Myers. They revealed a first look clip from the upcoming third season, which wrapped up filming earlier this year. The third season is set to arrive on Paramount+ in 2025 and a fourth season has already been ordered.
Check it out…
Paramount+ also released 3 new images from the same season 3 episode…
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- From Strange New Worlds season 3 (Paramount+)
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- From Strange New Worlds season 3 (Paramount+)
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- From Strange New Worlds season 3 (Paramount+)
Anson’s message
Series star Anson Mount was set to attend the event but could not due to a last-minute emergency. He is fine but released a video message on social media explaining his absence and wishing the fans well.
Sorry to miss y’all today but a good time awaits! @paramountplus @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus @Comic_Con #ComicCon2024 pic.twitter.com/ZZnwcm0Zks
— Anson Mount 🖖 (@ansonmount) July 27, 2024
Korby returns
During the panel, it was also revealed that the character of Dr. Roger Korby (portrayed in Star Trek: The Original Series by Michael Strong) will be featured during the third season in a recurring role, played by actor Cillian O’Sullivan (In From The Cold).
Cillian OSullivan
According to Trek canon, Korby and Christine Chapel are destined to be engaged to be married before he disappeared prior to the events of TOS. During the season 2 episode “Subspace Rhapsody,” Chapel received a message from Dr. Korby accepting her into a fellowship.
Michael Strong as Roger Korby with Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel in “What Are Little Girls Made Of”
More Star Trek SDCC 2024 to come
More announcements and reveals are expected for the Star Trek Universe panel which also includes cast and creatives from Lower Decks, Section 31, and Starfleet Academy. So stay tuned on Saturday for more announcements. And we will have more coverage of what was said at the panel later this weekend.
Keep up with news about the Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com.
O’Sullivan is a terrific Irish/american actor. Looking forward to how he woos Ms Bush’s character! Should be fun!
I hope S3 is better than the first 2 seasons as they haven’t been very good imo. With the except of 2 episodes (Ad Astra per Aspera & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ) I haven’t been enjoying this show.
It’s mostly the writing I find a bit dull as I feel the writers are trying to emulate Trek but don’t quite know what Trek actually is. So they mess up imo.
Hopefully with SNW S3 the writers took the time to read up on past Trek and learn to do better.
“It’s mostly the writing I find a bit dull as I feel the writers are trying to emulate Trek but don’t quite know what Trek actually is.”
This has been an issue with the Kurtzman Era since day one.
Fully agree there. But I feel it has greatly improved the last few years.
Tend to agree. And it seems as if they never learned.
Agreed on all counts. This is maybe the worst thing I’ve seen yet, and it’s the comic-con clip?
I’m not saying it’s great, but at a dress-up party for folks who love The Funnies it’s a good fit.
God, this is a idiotic clip.
Kirk didn’t do this in “The Enterprise Incident,” nor Troi/Riker in “Who Watches the Watchers,” nor SIsko and company in “Apocalypse rising.”
As any parent has to tell a five-year old on Halloween, dressing up as a Vulcan doesn’t *make* you a Vulcan.
Agreed! And I wasn’t even really talking about that aspect, as much as it’s just bad. The Vulcans being genetically predisposed to emotional supression was already out of the bag last year… It’s one thing to insert comedy into Star Trek. It’s another to turn characters into laughing stocks for the sake of “playing with genre”. (Not to mention, they’re doing that badly). I feel bad for these actors, being asked to do this.
Yep, painful-to-watch comedy is some of the worst kind of comedy…
Also, WHY is it that (almost?) every Vulcan-focused episode on this show is an attempt at doing COMEDY??? 🫲😟🫱
If I see one more episode with a involving Vulcans and out of body experiences, it will be one episode too many. It’s always the fifth episode of the season, isn’t it?
Wild!
Or, rather, this could be how they infiltrate the Gorn Hegemony in Ep1.
Hmmm, ramping up the camp in this video clip.
I hope this means they will continue to give us more depth to the characters. I don’t like when the shows just give us surface level details. Also more stories for Ortegas, Pelia and some of the other characters that just haven’t received as much love as the others. Not sure about the ongoing insults against Spock’s Vulcan heritage….however I guess they are leaning into the difficulties he had growing up in Vulcan. I just think this storyline can get a bit stale after awhile. Might be better to explore other aspects of his character.
I don’t think any of these characters have got any depth to them, with the exception of Una. That’s a real issue with Strange New Worlds- everything is very surface level, as if the writers are too afraid to do anything with any depth.
And it’s quite worrying that they are willing to play racism (the constant mention of Spock “only” being half-Vulcan) for laughs.
Right? Back in the ‘60s that just wasn’t thought of as being racist yet, and so the viewer can fall back on that it wasn’t intentional. This is sooo bad.
I really really wish they gave more to Ortegas like others. I still don’t understand how she has been developed so little? She’s quickly becoming the Travis or Sulu of the show. Yeah others can still get more but they gotten SOMETHING at least.
I do like Una got more last season but others complained she got very little in first season outside of the episode she was revealed to be a mutant, ah, augment! Keep confusing those for some reason.
Can anyone direct me to where I can find that season 3 clip? It’s geoblocked in Canada.
EDIT: Refreshed the page and it seems to be working now
Oh man another great Vulcan comedic episode! They knocked it out of the park with Spock Amok and Charades so can’t wait to see what goes down in this one.
I thought “Spock Amok” was terrific. “Charades” was, overall, okay.
This looked positively dreadful. “Spock’s Brain”-level dreadful. I’ll try to keep an open mind, but maybe they should have quit while they were ahead.
All you can do Michael. I honestly like this clip though. But I have certainly liked episodes many thought were also dreadful like Move Along Home and A Night in Sickbay, although more people seem to like that one than I thought. And I sure you have as well.
Hopefully the episodes itself will win morre people over but it already sounds like it’s going to be pretty divisive lol.
I’m exhausted just watching that clip. Can’t we just tell good, interesting sci-fi instead of reaching for comedy-fueled gimmicks? I’m being an ass, I know…
No you’re just being honest but I personally love these comedy episodes. I have always seen SNW as a more lighthearted show (outside the Gorn stuff) so happy ro see it continue.
But I do hope we get some deeper sci fi stories as well. Oh and actual exploration would be nice too.
My problem is they’re laughing AT Star Trek, not inserting comedy into it. I’m sorry Tiger, I just can’t agree with you on this one. This clip actually pisses me off, to be honest.
Don’t worry you’re certainly not the only one lol. I been getting some push back in other places over this clip, mostly YouTube. But at least you’re polite and civil about it. Someone on another site yesterday told me to stop eating the ‘crap’ Kurtzman keep shoveling in my mouth, grow a brain and stop being a blind apologist for all the subpar shows Kurtzman Trek only knows how to produce and start watching ‘real’ Star Trek to understand the difference. That’s almost word for word. I substituted one word which I think you can guess.
I replied to them I plan to do better in the future.
Anyway, I can see most people here are not happy about it and certainly other places. All I can say is I did love the other two Vulcan comedic episodes and at least at the time people seem to mostly like them too? But I don’t think you were a fan of either of those too. And maybe now it is going too far for others to the point of being offensive.
Make no apologies for what you like, Tiger. My tone has gotten inflammatory about this in places, but in no way would I want that tone to be toward any person, particularly anyone that likes it. Believe me, I wish I could turn my baggage button off. Call me out if I ever come off as disrespectful toward you or anyone else. At the end of the day, this is just my opinion, but it is a strong one. I have some strong criticism of the creatives, and some interpret that as personal. It’s not. I just don’t think they’re very good.
No I’ve always love reading your thoughts, even when we disagree from time to time. You always just give your personal thoughts on something and never attack others for theirs, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. I ignore the ones who constantly attack, harass or call out others because they simply can’t deal with a difference of opinion. Fourtunely the worst culprits have been booted from here lately.
And I know you’re not the biggest fan of SNW in general. I like it more than you but I been pretty critical of a lot of it too, especially how loose they been with the canon issues. Still deeply bothers me lol.
And this clip seems to be getting very mixed thoughts in general which is understandable if people think they are taking the Vulcan jokes too far.
I wouldn’t mind if the comedy was a little more seamlessly integrated rather than episodes being such a tonal shift (the season 2 finale was such a 180 from the week prior), but that’s better than no comedy at all. TOS-ENT let every character have a hand in showing a lighter side. Discovery relegated comedy largely to Tilly, Reno and occasionally Emperor Georgiou, which was limiting – Trek shows should balance weighty drama with levity.
I agree about the integration of comedy. IMO The Orville took a more masterful approach to this throughout its run, and this show right here could really learn from it… 🫤
No, you’re not. This looks awful.
I can barely breathe after “Number One, four and one half Vulcans to beam down.” LOL
Spock’s reaction is what did me in.
Will they just admit that they “softly” rebooted the Prime timeline and get it over with. It’s obvious that when time reinserted itself that it altered the Prime timeline. …..There will be a TOS show after this with Paul Wesley as Kirk. They will tell stories around the five year
mission. Book it. The more you encroach on the original series The more you will have to change. Tpring and now Korby. Is this the red Angels doing?
Just blow up the damn ship already and get it over with at least until you hit the 24 century.
I love this show by the way…..
I always thought they gave fans an out in the episode Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow. When they changed Khan’s rise to power and all. Personally I think it plays better when you don’t canon watch but that’s just me. I don’t want them to redo TOS though. It’s so unnecessary. I would rather see another spin off from this series than that. However I know it’s got its supporters.
There was a line in the episode ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ about how the Temporal Cold War had screwed up some aspects of the timeline.
Im already there, so that’s not my issue with this. My issue is that it’s awful.
I respectfully disagree. Discovery was awful. I actually think Strange New Worlds is the best thing they have going. I have only enjoyed SNW and Picard Season 3 under the Kurtzman era of Trek. SNW has been a highly rated critically acclaimed show. Sure, it completely upends the 60s incarnation which I am not mad at. My issue is that they won’t admit it openly.
Have you seen Star Wars lately. I will take what Trek is offering any day over that mess they have going on at Disney. Not to mention Dr. Who. I will take the “Timeless” children for 200 Alex.
I am intrigued by this Roger Korby thing. So Spock and Korby will not meet before the events of the original series. (Okay Face) That Temporal Cold War was no joke.
Well, for me, They’re not injecting humor. They’re treating the source material as a punch line. They have no reverence for Trek, even if you take the canonical issues out of it. Call this show something else, and maybe that makes it ok and maybe enjoyable. As it is, it’s anger inducing and sad.
PRODIGY already addressed how screwy the Prime Timeline is, so, unless you want an answer from the producers of the franchise, there you go.
I LOVE Carol Kane’s LSD comment, 1960s, 19902, last week….
OK very off topic but I was just on Reddit to find there is a Section 31 trailer up but it went to private at the moment and people who seen it are trashing it…hard.
Seen it but…the section 31 panel hadn’t started yet when it was initially released
so maybe came out too early. . Will save all future comments for an article we get on that one ;)
It is now all over Facebook.
Funny how the serum also changed their hairstyles. Powerful stuff.
That’s one of the sadder parts of this clip for sure… “let’s brush over LOGIC (of ALL things in a VULCAN episode) for… comedy’s sake!!!”
Naw, thanks. 🙁
The “racism for laughs” is another one.
And I usually liked this show so far.
Looks absolutely dreadful I miss when Star Trek was a science fiction series
100% agreed
I’m with you.
I completely agree. I’m just so tired. You can never go home again…
Yes, yes, they never had zany situations in the gilded past.
“I am not a merry man!”
“Cover ’em, Spocko!”
“HAH! You’re no match for Arachnia!”
… are all from episodes that are firmly grounded in serious science.
“I am not a merry man!” <– you mistake the fish out of water scenario for the slapstick here.
“Cover ’em, Spocko!” <– that was SNL, not actual Trek.
“HAH! You’re no match for Arachnia!” <– that was a holodeck show, not “real life” Trek.
In any event, none of these examples is considered a shining example of Trek.
Or… you could just accept and respect other fans have different opinions to yourself and not attempt to tell them they are wrong?
If I contradicted anyone, it may be because I also have a point of view.
I feel that is generally how The Comments work. IMHO. Depending on the context.
For me. IDK. You might be right. Depends. Just sayin’.
Anyway, I didn’t say it’s not dreadful, it’s just that a lot of Trek is dreadful… and I still love it.
I’ll give you that I may have been deep in the Romulan Ale when I pulled those quotes from my dorsal plasma vent…NEVERTHELESS, my point is that Trek has not always been brilliant or serious. There is actually a significant number of weird choices made because the show has dared to see what’s possible. I also reject the concept of “real life” Trek and even canon. It’s all Trek. Especially the lies.
It is a science fiction series. Just… not a very good one.
Yikes, this was bad. Plus inaccurate to Vulcans.
Vulcans aren’t a monolith. They are… like, a polylith, or something, and in their great numbers there is bound to be great diversity, including these silly types.
Logical and emotions controlled via serum? That’s not how it works.
It does now! LOL
Actually though, let’s explore this. If the same serum, an antidote to the genetic re-arrangement done by the Kerkhovians, does not control logic and emotions, then did Spock in fact have no issues other than the anatomical ones in Charades? His mind should have remained the same throughout. Maybe the ability to mind-meld is anatomically based, so you can keep that dramatic challenge, but his ability to suppress emotions should not have been diminished as he did not loose his training.
It might all have something to do with being cooked by sentient non-corporeal lifeforms that inhabited interdimensional space. Maybe.
Dude has a High Top 🤣🤣🤣
Oh my god. I want to watch that episode NOW!
At least Discovery and Prodigy were earnest. Strange New is just one big goof, even more than Lower Decks, which at least from time to time remembers where it came from. Anyway, all that matters is that this schlock brings in younger viewers (as in younger than 40). Seems like it’s accomplishing that. Glad people are enjoying whatever this is.
Campy, silly, one more big swing we didn’t ask for plus many more reasons why a lot of people won’t like the SNW clip. I love it. They all look badass stunning as Vulcans.
Lol me too. I think some people feel they are turning Vulcans into a joke on this show but I love it.
It’s got to be done right. The dynamic between Spock and T’Pring is hilarious. That Vulcan officer in LDS is hilarious, Spock acting like an absolute dumb bro is idiotic and insulting to the character… but this here is funny as hell. Pike’s mesa hair is obviously meant as a joke on his hair in the series. I love how Chapel looks and Uhura too… but this does have to be a one-off episode in the season. For the rest of the episodes, I want smart, thought-provoking, inspiring stories… like, you know, Star Trek.
These creatives actually hate Trek. This is what they choose to showcase? It’s downright awful. They have no idea what Star Trek is. They have no desire to make a Star Trek show. They just want to use it to satisfy their needs to play with genre. It’s maddening and sad to watch this.
Wagon Train to the Stars is by definition a play on genre. How many times has Trek raided the studio’s costume shop and set warehouse because the only ideas the writers had were genre mashups? It’s been constant.
You missed my point. They’re not integrating genre into Trek. They’re forcing Trek into whatever genre they want to do to satisfy their desires. That’s the problem. Trek comes last in their equation of show construction.
Yeah, no. I get it. I have just always felt that every period piece and trope-laden episode has begun with the genre idea, the broad strokes, justified later by techno-babble and/or psycho-babble. In all of these, whether it’s Mark-Twainery, or Freaky-Friday stuff, I can see the writers working, and the actors grappling with their assignments. Not saying it’s good, but it’s nothing new.
I’m not trying to say Star Trek has always gotten it right, but this is 2024. They spend longer on these stories and tell less of them per season. They have bigger relative budgets than ever.. and this is what we get? I don’t subscribe to the idea that they can’t do better, and that the past missteps can be justification for present or future bad decisions. We live in a time where fantastical stories have come increasingly closer to realism, and Trek is going teh opposite direction. They can do better, they just choose not to.
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They need to do a puppy bowl version of trek, Waggin’ Train to the Stars.
Paw Wraith
Wolf 359
You could have a whole line of doggo merch.
I don’t think they hate it since they are making money from it. But Star Trek does seem to be a big joke for them. That’s the vibe I have been getting with this strange focus on campy comedy all of the upcoming projects seem to be indulging in.
Why did they become “logical” with that serum? Vulcans spend years and even decades working on their logic. It’s not genetic.
I agree, that is silly.
Fascinating.
For having only 10 episodes a season why waste one of them on this. How about an Andorian episode or something. The actor for Korby looks like a good match though.
I hope they make it to at least one strange new world this season.
That is a proper burn.
points awarded.
What is even the Strangest, Newest World they’ve been to? The sentient comet?
They did a sentient comet? Maybe I didn’t make it all the way through that episode, whichever one it is.
Still not as cool-sounding as the sentient black hole I pitched in 91 (and the corollary that all stars are alive, but only achieve sentience if after nova they go full collapsar.)
As I understand it, I beat Greg Benford with this idea by a couple of years (though John Varley did a comedy version of this before I came up with my story.)
Yeah, the debrief at the end of S1Ep2, suggested it understood its surroundings and also possessed prescience.
I pitched and actual Klingon Opera in ’95 and got the ol’ cease-and-desist.
Shoulda made it anyway.
So, I did find Chapel enjoyable as a Vulcan and I cracked a smile. But this still comes off as Sitcom in the Star Trek universe. Is that the tone they were aiming for because it is almost a comedy.
Yes, I think this part was definitely meant as a comedy.
Kind of a nod to TOS episode Enterprise Incident, where Kirk disguised himself as a Romulan.
Actually quite a few of those now:
Sisko and the gang dressed up as Klingons.
Data and Picard dressed up as Romulans.
Janeway and crew pretended to be Borg.
Mariner dressed up as an Orion.
Dax dressed up as a Bajoran.
Burnham and crew pretended to be the Breen.
Archer dressed up as a Vulcan.
It’s become a Starfleet time honored tradition lol.
Its weird, it seems to me like the producers of SNW only watched the third season of TOS and want to continue from there rather than taking a page from the first two seasons. Don’t get me wrong, I love the cheesiness of the third season of TOS, and Spock’s Brain is one of my favorite episodes but you shouldn’t really be doing that for a whole season. All of this is my pointed way of saying that maybe the producers of SNW are going a bit overboard with their comedic episodes or situations.
Ah, Ortegas misses out again.
Do we really need sequel to last season’s Spock becomes human episode? This show appears to be dead set on becoming more and more generic as it progresses.
That said, I’m still willing to give it a chance. It’s hard to judge a full episode based off one short teaser. But still, it doesn’t look promising.
I loved Charades and Time Amok but it seems odd that SNW is leaning so heavily into comedy territory all the time. What is the reason for that? I have no idea. Some weird decisions over at nutrek headquarters.
The pendulum has swung because of whining about Picard and Disco being insufficiently fun. It’s reactionary. One problem is that comedic timing and tone are harder to pull off than seriousness, especially if your team is not a comedic team. This is related to why some action franchises have been very successful casting comedians as leads, whereas serious actors trying comedic scenes seldom land well.
Nice idea for an episode, I think. That music, though. 🙄 Has Hollywood become an idiocracy?
Yeah it was f’d.
I too find this dollarstore-Sabotage jarring and meaningless.
But I don’t know the full context.
Maybe the whole episode is really about the epidemic of slow-mo-walking.
It is a pox on storytelling.
Yes of course it has.
C’mon people, the majority of episodes each season are serious science fiction. The producers are choosing to highlight this one particular season 3 episode to create a little buzz and controversy, the same way they kept teasing the crossover and musical episodes last year. But recall, most season 2 episodes were neither musicals nor animation crossovers, so stop freakin’ out, people!
Our mission: to create a little buzz and controversy
Even when the show aims to be serious science fiction it comes off as a gigantic ball of silliness with drama that’s at best melodrama. The science fiction isn’t really science-y, it’s cartoon-y and the tone of the show overall is camp. The show seems a lot more confident and comfortable playing in the “we’re not serious people, Star Trek is supposed to be silly” space.
I don’t know, the Gorn cliffhanger at the end of season 2 didn’t seem silly to me. The season 3 opener will probably be in the same vein. I would note that even going back to TOS, dramatic episodes would have their lighter moments. And even then you’d have outright comedic episodes (Piece of the Action, I Mudd). But I admit it’s a different situation when you have 26 episodes per season to play around with vs. ten.
I do think all the Gorn episodes have felt serious. But nearly everything else minus 1-2 episodes have felt much more on the lighter side to me as well. But I don’t see it as a negative as others but would like something with a bit more depth and that doesn’t require lizards showing up to eat you.
So – people can just become other species now?
Wonder why Spock remains half human when there’s a serum to just go full Vulcan.
Especially given that the serum changes hairstyles, makeup, and imbues the recipient with full, total logical control of their emotions.
Yeah, it does jump the shark a bit. Comedic license, I guess…
I wonder how Una feels about her crewmates disregarding genetic manipulation protocols?
Because… it’s not permanent? It takes a good while to fast though, if the fast reversal serum doesn’t work. SNW has shown the same technology before at the start of the first season when they seek to find Number One and her missing crew, and they “blend in”.
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And it’s probably incidences like the coming episode in season 3 as to why it falls out of favor…
This feels like they stole the idea from a bad fanfic.
I have to be honest, I love humor in Star Trek and when they really play with that. That being said, this clip feels a bit too silly. And I don’t know why, but Anson is always really believeable as Pike, but whenever he plays another version of himself, I don’t believe him. It suddenly feels like Anson Mount playing a role, in stead of seeing the character. I had the same when he played the camp what’s-his-name in season 1. And I feel like that about all actors in this clip. I’m losing the ‘real’ characters, and start seeing actors doing a stint.
All I can say is…
Cringeworthy just isn’t strong enough.
Vulcans’ control of their emotions is CULTURAL, not biological! I really, really, REALLY hope they have some sort of explanation of why changing their bodies into Vulcans also gave them Vulcans’ cultural behaviors.
All these people know Spock and should not be putting him down for being half Vulcan. I’ll need to see the full episode to make a real judgment, but so far, I hate the way this is written.
Gorgeous costumes, though.
Why is Anson doing Beldar Conehead?
His hair made me think of Haneek from the DS9 episode “Sanctuary”.
I have ALWAYS said Vulcans are nothing but racist A-holes and now this show has confirmed it’s literally genetic. 😅😉🙄
All I get from this clip is an indication that the people writing have no understanding of Vulcans and that they don’t care as long as they get a cheap laugh.
Vulcans suppress their emotions through discipline and control, it’s certainly not genetic. Also this clip further showcases how much disdain they have for Spock because they are saying they are better Vulcans than Spock.
I want to love this show but they do things like this.
Agreed. TOS never suggested that Spock was actually inferior somehow because of his human mother.
Spock has been neutered on this show. M’benga has to be the one to give Spock his lute and seeming to forgo Spock was well versed in music on TOS, remember him playing the Brahms piece by Flint.
Ortegas saying Spock still has a lot to learn was patronising.
Spock is one of my favourite characters and Leonard Nimoy made him so. Spock on TOS had a very dry humour. On SNW he comes across as an idiot.
So there’s fun and then there’s dumb.
Does Uhura’s hair magically braid once she’s had the Vulcan injection (or is it just straight – I can’t tell on my phone).
All their hairstyles change
More boldly going where no-one particularly wants “Star Trek” to go.
This is a dumbed down comedic re-imagining of Star Trek The Original Series
Not the respect TOS deserves after almost 60 years
sigh