Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ brief fifth and ultimate season comes with an encouraging silver lining. Paramount+ introduced that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5 could be the top of the sequence and can include solely six episodes earlier than the premiere of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3.
Moreover, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 4, which was filming in early 2025, wrapped in July earlier than the premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 4, “A House Journey Hour.” Season 4 would be the final season of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds to clock in with 10 episodes.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3 premiered after a two-year wait, the results of a 7-month delay brought on by 2023’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Response to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was colder than the enthusiastic response for the primary two seasons.
Some Star Trek followers took problem with Strange New Worlds season 3’s giddy exploration of assorted TV genres, comedy, dancing, and general risk-taking. Moreover, Unusual New Worlds season 3 made longtime Trekkers miss traditional Star Trek‘s 22-26 episode seasons, which made unpopular episodes simpler to swallow.
Nonetheless, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5 solely consisting of six episodes might be a bonus for the ultimate voyages of Captain Christopher Pike’s (Anson Mount) USS Enterprise.
The Silver Lining Of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 5 Solely Being 6 Episodes
The excellent news about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 5 solely operating for six episodes means the ultimate season shall be extra streamlined and targeted. Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds govt producer Akiva Goldsman alluded to this when chatting with ScreenRant at New York Comedian Con:
Akiva Goldsman: We’re making season 5 now, we’re trending in direction of that, which might be the middle line of Star Trek, proper? We’re trending now, and starting with season 4 and thru season 5, to a way more singular sci-fi, action-adventure, emotional storytelling. And you already know, the outliers are getting much less and fewer as we sort of give attention to saying goodbye to one another and the followers.
Solely having six episodes to play with forces Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds to bear all the way down to brass tacks and ship the “singular sci-fi, action-adventure, emotional storytelling” that Akiva Goldsman described.
Akiva Goldsman additionally famous that “the outliers are getting much less and fewer,” that means that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5 will not be as targeted on “massive swings” and experimental episodes as Unusual New Worlds seasons 3 and 4 are, with 10 episodes of actual property.
Whereas there should still be a excessive idea or style episode or two, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will, by necessity, zero in on the endgame of its five-year mission and convey Captain Pike’s Enterprise to the cusp of Star Trek: The Unique Collection‘ starting, with all of the transition that can entail.
Why Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Is Ending With A 6 Episode Ultimate Season
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ destiny was within the steadiness in 2023 and 2024 as Paramount International ready for its sale to Skydance Media, which was finalized in August 2025.
Paramount+ canceled Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Decrease Decks after Star Trek: Picard ended with season 3. In the meantime, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds was the most well-liked Paramount+ Star Trek sequence with mainstream audiences.
When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 was greenlit, govt producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers went into manufacturing anticipating that the fourth season could be their final.
Nonetheless, Paramount+ offered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds a two-hour movie to shut out the sequence. But Paramount+ additionally agreed with Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds primarily promised audiences that the prequel would lead into Star Trek: The Unique Collection.
The compromise reached was a six-episode Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5, which Goldsman and Myers really feel is sufficient actual property to deliver Captain Pike’s five-year mission to an in depth and arrange the takeover of the Starship Enterprise by Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley).
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds is now filming season 5, which is able to wrap in December 2025. Finally, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will include 46 episodes whole in its 5 seasons on Paramount+.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Might Nonetheless Get A Captain Kirk Spinoff
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ five-year mission is coming to an finish, however Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and audiences are hoping for extra. Particularly, Goldsman and Myers dream of a USS Enterprise spinoff led by Paul Wesley as Captain Kirk.
Myers and Goldsman envision a Unusual New Worlds spinoff dubbed Star Trek: Yr One. It will depict the primary 12 months of Captain Kirk in control of the Starship Enterprise earlier than the occasions of Star Trek: The Unique Collection‘ second pilot, “The place No Man Has Gone Earlier than.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s best episode, the Valerie Weiss-directed fan favourite, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” tacitly arrange Star Trek: Yr One by giving Paul Wesley’s Lt. Commander Kirk his first mission as captain of a starship. Kirk led the USS Farragut on a profitable rescue of the Enterprise.
It was by design that Jim Kirk’s first time as a Captain noticed him surrounded by his future USS Enterprise crewmates, Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), Scotty (Martin Quinn), Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush).
The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” received over doubters that Paul Wesley may lead his personal spinoff sequence as Captain Kirk.
Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers spoke about their Star Trek: Yr One concept all through Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3’s publicity, however “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” received over doubters that Paul Wesley may lead his personal spinoff sequence as Captain Kirk.
Star Trek: Yr One will presumably be pitched by Goldman and Myers to Paramount Skydance’s new management, which is seeking to assert new Star Trek theatrical films and streaming TV reveals as a precedence for the studio.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds seasons 4 and 5 might have to be a slam dunk with critics and audiences to make Star Trek: Yr One viable, however season 5 may probably be one of the best six-hour Star Trek film ever made.
- Launch Date
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Could 5, 2022
- Community
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
- Writers
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Onitra Johnson
