Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)


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Cool. I wasn’t aware of that. I shall remain hopefully that the studio agrees!
Problem is Paramount has just been bought by Skydance, so there's a lot up in the air right now. But it has come up in pretty much every interview any of the cast or producers have done for the last year or so. They all want to do it, and they're keenly aware that much of the fanbase really wants them to, also.

I personally would like them to keep calling it Strange New Worlds, and simply... not stop. Just treat it as one show and gradually switch over to the TOS crew. Which they are kind of doing, as they plan to take the show in s5 right up to the point where Kirk takes command of the Enterprise, but I'd prefer them not to then make a new show, just keep making the same one.
 

In other news, this interview is interesting. I've pasted it below as the original is nearly impossible to read.


Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Would’ve Ended The Show, Says Showrunner

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's executive producer and co-showrunner confirms that season 3's finale, "New Life and New Civilizations," could have been the end of the series.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds just ended its divisive third season on Paramount+, with all episodes of season 4 already filmed, and the fifth and final season currently in production.

TrekMovie interviewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers about season 3's finale.

Noting that they didn't end Strange New Worlds season 3's finale with a cliffhanger like season 2, Myers confirmed that "New Life and New Civilizations" could have doubled as the series finale. Read Henry's quote below:

No cliffhanger this time. When you wrote it, did you think this might have been a series finale?

Henry Alonso Myers: Yeah.


Akiva Goldsman also confirmed that when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its final two seasons, the show is "done" with the Gorn, who have been villains since season 1, and the Vezda, the menaces introduced in season 3. Read Akiva's quote below:

So you are not done with the Vezda…

Goldsman: [laughs] We’re done with the Vezda, like we are with the Gorn…


Why Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Almost Ended With Season 3

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was delayed for two years. 2023's combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes delayed filming of season 3 for 7 months. Meanwhile, Paramount Global was in the midst of being acquired by Skydance Media, which was completed in August 2025.

Paramount's sale to Skydance and continuing changes in the industry's streaming business model led to Paramount+ ending Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'producers braced themselves to be next, and season 3's finale was looked at as possibly being the end.

However, Paramount+ renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for season 4 in April 2024, during filming of season 3. This was looked at as the end of the show, with Paramount+ offering Strange New Worlds a two-hour movie to wrap up the series. Instead, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Meyers negotiated a 6-episode fifth and final season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to fulfill their promise to the audience to end the USS Enterprise's "five-year mission" and link up the ending to the start of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Our Take On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Almost Ending The Show

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's finale wrapped up many of the season's major storylines, established the friendship between Lt. Commander James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), and set up a new five-year mission for the Starship Enterprise.

With the emotional catharsis of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) saying goodbye to his love, Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano), it's easy to see how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's finale could be looked at as the end of the series. Thankfully, there are still 16 episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to come. Although a segment of Star Trek fans took issue with season 3's genre-focused direction, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers told ScreenRant that they think season 4 is their strongest season.
 

Cool. I wasn’t aware of that. I shall remain hopefully that the studio agrees!
Here’s a quote:

Akiva Goldsman: "So it is a dream, and it's a real dream. We would be thrilled to do it, but it's not up to us, right? We're renting. I mean, this isn't our house, and so, it's delightful to have the chance to live here and to redecorate, but the house has new owners. So what we're doing is, if the show is a dream, season five is the promise we made, which we're finishing. We're ending Strange New Worlds in a way that is emotional and important and fulfills the promise that we made to the audience and ourselves, and is complete. And then, if somebody comes back and says, hey, yeah, we'd love to [make Star Trek: Year One], no one will be quicker there to the room than Henry and I. But in advance of that, what we're doing is finishing [Strange New Worlds]."
 

Yeah, just continuing SNW into the TOS era would be the simplest thing, but it doesn't sound like that's what the showrunners want to do. Let's hope they do get to continue, even if it's under a different show name.
 

Yeah, just continuing SNW into the TOS era would be the simplest thing, but it doesn't sound like that's what the showrunners want to do. Let's hope they do get to continue, even if it's under a different show name.
Honestly, if they transition to the full-on original series crew they'd be mad not to publicise that under a new show name.
 


I liked that La’an’s heritage turned her into a Romulan instead of a Vulcan.

I am slowly working through SNW with Dad and I thought this was about the only genuinely good idea out of the entire episode. Batel's outburst and the fallout from it being the other I suppose. Most of this episode felt like a bad caricature of Vulcans.

It did, however, make me think one other thing: Vulcans kind of stand apart from most other species, Most other species relate to humans far more easily than Vulcans do, and while all hybrids have their struggles it seems like Spock's were at an extreme end where they must constantly be commented upon.
 

I am slowly working through SNW with Dad and I thought this was about the only genuinely good idea out of the entire episode. Batel's outburst and the fallout from it being the other I suppose. Most of this episode felt like a bad caricature of Vulcans.

It did, however, make me think one other thing: Vulcans kind of stand apart from most other species, Most other species relate to humans far more easily than Vulcans do, and while all hybrids have their struggles it seems like Spock's were at an extreme end where they must constantly be commented upon.
Remember that Spock was the basis for the serum, so it may have incorporated his own views on Vulcans. He does remark that it feels like he's back in school or something. It could be that they're behaving like bad caricatures because of Spock's own biases.
 

Remember that Spock was the basis for the serum, so it may have incorporated his own views on Vulcans. He does remark that it feels like he's back in school or something. It could be that they're behaving like bad caricatures because of Spock's own biases.
How exactly can a serum incorporate someone's personal opinions?
 

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