While we wait for news on when we will see season 3, Paramount is already moving ahead on the fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series set on Captain Pike’s USS Enterprise began production on its fourth season on Monday.
Hit it on s4
News on a new season was announced officially via Star Trek social media and the official site. This was accompanied by a photo from the set on the CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario. Anson Mount (Pike) holds a clapboard while standing next to Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura) and Ethan Peck (Spock). The post announced that: “Production on season four of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is officially underway!” The production start comes about 9 months after filming for season 3 wrapped last year. At the time star Anson Mount stated they would be back for filming season 4 in the spring of 2025, but later other members of the cast revealed the plan had moved up.
Dream pitch and more canon characters?
As the third season is still to come, there is very little known about plans for the series in the fourth season. Work had already started last summer with co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman revealing during Comic-Con press coverage they had the 10-episode season planned out with the writers room already breaking stories. At that time co-showunner Henry Alonso Myers revealed they will be doing a “dream pitch” of his for season 4, saying “What I really want to do I can’t talk about right now, but it will come in season 4.” Goldsman hinted that one of the things Myers is particularly interested in is including Spock’s half-brother Sybok (who was teased in season 1), but neither confirmed he is part of season 4.
It’s also a good bet season 4 will include more canon characters from Star Trek: The Original Series. We saw Scotty arrive at the end of season 2, with Scottish actor Martin Quinn confirmed as a series regular in season 3. The upcoming season will also include Irish actor Cillian O’Sullivan in a recurring role as Dr. Roger Korby (portrayed in Star Trek: The Original Series by Michael Strong). Both showrunners have indicated more canon characters are to come with Goldsman telling Variety, “We will continue on for as long as Paramount lets us. We will drive right into The Original Series.”
Paramount has not set a release date for season 4, but we expect the now filming season to be released around the same time in 2026.
Season 3 coming this year
For now we continue to wait for word on season 3, with no exact release date has been given by Paramount besides confirming season 3 will be released sometime this year. But we did get a look at the opening minutes of the season in a clip released at NYCC 2024 showing how the show will pick up right after the season 2 finale cliffhanger, right into a conflict with the Gorn. Watch that below.
And at Comic-Con over the summer of 2024 Paramount revealed a lighter moment from season 3 with a clip featuring some members of the crew being turned into Vulcans…
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You’d think they’d release season 3 before filming season 4, but I digress…
not with paramount changing hands… makes sense let the newbies start fresh and figure stuff out
I see a lot of people saying this but you’re forgetting something kind of important: filming of season 3 was heavily delayed by work stoppages.
Season 4 is filming now because they’re trying to get back on a regular shooting schedule, but im guessing SFX aren’t fully done for S3 yet.
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they are doing FX for paramount….
I just did a book review from an author who was at Technicolor for the first two decades of this century (he handled PR at Digital Domain in previous years.) ALCHEMY IN TECHNICOLOR is what his book is called, and it is a marvelous history of both the company and the titular process which fell almost fully into disuse just after Harry Salzman ran the company into the ground in the mid-70s. It’s funny how he came out with this book almost exactly as the company augered in, but so it goes.
Seriously! I really think Paramount was expecting Section 31 to do a lot better, and that would satiate people for a while. However, since it (unsurprisingly) was met with a combination of disdain and a shrug, you’d think Paramount would have quickly pivoted and announced a release for SNW asap.
Why can’t this bunch ever wait for audience reaction? Trek by the Bell is going forward with season two too.
Given how long it takes to make these shows there would be two years or more between seasons if they waited for audience reactions before starting the next one.
true!
Strange how going digital was going to save so much time on postproduction. TOS would need up to sixteen weeks to get their opticals done, while TNG was sometimes shooting elements the same week an episode went up for airing. Really not understanding WHY it takes so long to make these shows, especially given they’re not even doing a large quantity for each ‘season.’
Glad to see Season 4 is going into production.
So it looks like the bridge LCARS is getting more colorful….. More visual signs were getting closer to the Kirk 5-year mission…. Love it
And…. (in Mariner voice) Spock smiles now ?
Oh good catch! I didn’t notice the graphics at top of the picture until you pointed it out! I hope we get a teaser trailer for season 3 soon.
Considering that “Pike” is holding a clapboard, I feel safe saying that’s Ethan Peck, not Spock. :-)
Am I looking at different picture than you? From start of SNW and on this picture it is same layout and color scheme. More so, actors are on greenscreen and pasted onto bridge background.
Streaming is such a strange animal at times. Season 2 came out over a year and a half ago. Season 3 was shot nearly a year ago and still no idea when its coming but they are now onto season 4. I remember some people were suggesting that could come out by 2024. Yeah not quite.
I was thinking about this the other day, but if this was the olden times of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, we would already be over two-thirds of the way through season 4 by now and they would be prepping season 5 by this summer to air in September.
And we’re talking 26 eposodes a season. That means there would’ve been nearly around 100 episodes already shown by this point from when the first season aired back in 2022. And if you lived in America at least, all for free as well. It’s crazy how different things are today.
Hopefully all the waiting will be worth it.
TNG, DS9, Voy and Ent could do that thanks to syndication and later UPN.
it all cost more to make and you get less with streaming content
I know. Just saying.
To add to that, they wrapped on filming season 2 before the season 1 finale had streamed.
That, in particular, was a bit mind blowing to me. It gave production absolutely no recourse other than costly re-shoots to “fix” anything had the audience reaction been completely disastrous. Of course that assumes they would have cared about re-shoots and not just quietly dumped season 2 as-is and called it a day.
Looks like Uhura is still an ensign, not sure. Love her new hair, though! Pike’s hair looks better than 3rd season, interesting that they are letting more gray show. SNW is so hit and miss with me. Here’s hoping for more hits and less misses this time!
Always hoping for good Trek!
Love the hair too.
I think she only became an ensign in the middle (or was it at the beginning?) of Season 2, so two years or so means she’s still on track.
TOS *did* have Lt. JG rank, but it was forgotten by all.
More, more, more. Whether people want it or not.
But I guess everything will be rebooted once Paramount is under new ownership anyway so enjoy while it lasts.
Except that SNW is popular, most fans love it, including myself. It’s one of P+’s most watched originals, and reviews have always been through the roof.
So yeah, why WOULDNT they do a fourth season? If you don’t like it, just don’t watch it.
They are obviously just speaking for the people who aren’t big fans of the show.
But I agree it’s a very popular show…for Star Trek. I make that distinction only because the live action shows gets about half the views as the Taylor Sheridan shows do. The season 2 premiere of 1923 for instance is now the highest viewed TV premiere on that site. Why it’s not a shock why we are getting more of his shows and less Trek shows today. I wish one of the Trek shows generated headlines like that.
But SNW is very popular in the fanbsse for sure, both in terms of views and certainly fan reception that we know Picard (sans season 3) and Discovery had problems with the latter. But SNW was a huge hit out of the box and I suspect it will get a fifth season too.
“More, more, more. Whether people want it or not.”
Considering how popular and well-received SNW is, I’m not sure what that means. Many people DO want it.
This is nice to hear, but what is going on with S3? Is it still in post or is it done and Paramount just trying to build up as much tension as possible? I would think that, even the…poor reception…Section 31 got, that they’d want people to focus on a series that has been reasonably well received.
The speculation is that since it is the only remaining new Trek for the year that they are going to hold it until summer or fall.
Insane they don’t charge money for set tours off-season.
Very few shows or movies do. However Universal Studios Hollywood will have the Enterprise D bridge from Picard season 3 on display for a fan event next month. That should be very popular.
Yeah they’re not going to do tours of sets that are in use. Even between seasons. Can’t risk having to do constant repairs from thousands of fans traipsing through daily.
I’ve been on tours of Paramount and Warner studios and they do actually take you through sets of active shows, but it is all dependent on what is in production on any given day and what sets are being used.
Yeah but that’s still very limited end of the day. I’ve done the WB tour and it’s great but its mostly of old sets like the Friends Cafe, Gilmore Girls or Harry Potter props, etc and very rarely current shows or films. I remember we got to see the set of Abbott Elementary which I never watched and it was literally just ten minutes and one set.
And what the poster was suggesting is more ambitious and a dedicated tour of the Star Trek sets specifically for fans to pay for probably the same way they do the TOS sets in the New York exhibit. And that’s never been done for any of the shows or films, even in the off seasons when the shows weren’t filming.
But again that’s never been done for any franchise that I’m aware of. The closest to that idea is the Harry Potter Tour in the UK that is actually produced by Warner Brothers and uses all the films original sets, props and costumes. But that was built years after the movies were finished obviously.
Why is it insane? That’s not something that typically happens in Hollywood. Plus, there would be way too much liability involved, because visitors could damage or steal things.
Surely that risk could be mitigated. By that logic, no one ought to be allowed into the Louvre.
The Lourve is a museum and specifically designed for large groups of visitors to view artwork with a lot of security protocols and everything is protected but open to view everything, hence why it’s a museum.
TV and film sets are not museums. They are working areas and the only people who are usually on them are the people being paid and insured to be on them. It’s apples and oranges.
When I worked as a contractor at Warner Brothers my credentials allowed me to walk anywhere on the lot except the place I would have most cared to go: the soundstages. Even hanging around an open entrance hoping to catch something interesting earned me some glares that said in no uncertain terms: move on.
Uhura look more recognisable now with her longer hair. I’m probably most interested now how the production crew start to look to the begging of TOS. Ethan Peck looks a little more buff. Who knows we might get some eye blue eyeshadow. You might as well go all on at this point.
spock was never ‘buff’ in the OS so there was no need for ethan to do so here.
hope we also get at least one or two more seasons. really enjoying this show. have been rewatching s1 these days and there were some really great scripts, dare i say ‘instant classics’?
Please be good.
…hoping for the plots have a little more gravitas and less campiness, with no episodes where someone suddenly breaks into song and dance. Less soap opera and more actual sci-fi. S1 and 2 have had literally no replay value for me.
I think the most memorable and rewatchable episodes are the campy ones. I’ve seen Subspace Rhapsody and Those Old Scientists a hundred times, but I haven’t seen Under the Cloak of War since it was released. Then again, I also love Spock’s Brain.
Why? This is in the TOS/TAS era, and TOS/TAS were the campiest of all Star Treks. The camp absolutely matches that era.
Actually not true. I think people get the idea TOS was camp because of the dated sets, fx and costumes, hairstyles etc. But, outside of maybe three comedy episodes, it was always intended as serious sci-fi; it wasn’t intended to be zany and wacky. The writers and producers took it really seriously. That’s part of the reason it endured whereas a show like Lost in Space kind of didn’t.
Yes Muse, exactly my feelings on it.
+1.
Yes also agree. It really didn’t get that lable until years after the show was over. But when it was airing, it was viewed as a serious sci fi show and like all the Star Trek shows that followed it.
Also feels the same way Danpaine…and definitely no more musicals lol.
The show needs more gravitas with bigger allegory and sci fi themes; less jokes and Pike cooking scenes.
None of the writers are science-fiction novelists, scientists or military veterans. These writers only know how to write melodrama.
Let’s remember that today, President Trump’s fabulously stupid tax war with Canada starts. This could affect all American filming in Canada, so perhaps this is part of why they are filming as quickly as possible?
Possible, but I doubt it. The tax breaks for filming in Canada are a done deal for Season 4, and I don’t see how Trump’s idiotic trade war would otherwise affect production (if I’m wrong please let me know).
Here’s hoping Ontario really does stop supplying power to us in response, hit us where ŵe live, in our conveniences. Maybe then tptb will act on the knowledge that we’re being smothered by illegal and unethical acts that are putting us in the toilet with respect to the free world.
Yeah, put me down for Team Canada.
The Vulcan clip was absolutely dreadful, and I’m going to refrain from rewatching it. But I’ve liked the show in its better moments, and will continue to hope for the best.
I hope they get the ranks correct this season.
Unsolicited gripe #172: all the little rectangles of lights above the display don’t make a lot of sense. I know, I know: they’re an homage to the original series displays, which were not mounted close to the ceiling..
Why not? The 4400 had a fourth season, too.
i miss the days when star trek had 22 episodes a year, every year. i don’t care if the effects aren’t as good, i’m watching for the characters. gives people a chance to really get into the characters and feel for them. i hope there’s a chance that can be the norm again, but i doubt it.