The show’s fifth and final season is currently in the works
New York Comic Con offered Star Trek fans a first look at season 4 of Strange New Worlds, with a four-minute clip showing the U.S.S. Enterprise getting into some serious trouble. Thankfully, Paramount Plus quickly beamed the footage on to YouTube.
The new video shows the bridge crew observing some sort of cosmic storm from a safe distance. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), first officer Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), chief of security La’An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), and communications specialist Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) all discuss how much they love seeing the phenomenon, while a new Vulcan character helpfully points out that the digital data is more important than what the crew is observing.
Things get messy when the Enterprise detects a distress buoy inside the storm. Helmsman Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) moves them in closer, ignoring a message from engineering that she’s exceeding the ship’s normal parameters. The whole bridge is shown flipping repeatedly as the ship moves through the storm, which expands around them too fast for them to escape. The Enterprise winds up pulled into a warp field and stuck there without power. They have to send a shuttle to a nearby M-class planet to look for iridium to restart their warp drive.
Given that this is Star Trek, they could find a planet covered with monsters, people who will only give them resources if they participate in some sort of questionable ritual, or that they’re stuck in a time loop and were the ones who originally dropped the distress buoy.
No date has been shared for the Strange New Worlds season 4 premiere, but filming wrapped earlier this summer so it shouldn’t be too long of a wait. Meanwhile, production is already underway for the show’s fifth and final season.