Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
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Captain Pike (Anson Mount) faced an impossible choice in the Season 2 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Could he leave members of his kidnapped crew behind with the Gorn? Could the Enterprise repel the overwhelming Gorn attack? And what about Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) of the late starship Cayuga, who was impregnated with Gorn eggs? While previews have teased what happens after this cliffhanger, fans still have a lot of questions about the upcoming season.
Here’s what we know so far about Strange New Worlds Season 3, including its possible release date, its new cast members, what trailers have dropped, and what plot twists and turns to anticipate.
What Is The Strange New Worlds Season 3 Release Date?
Rong Fu as Mitchell, Anson Mount as Pike, and Rebecca Romijn as Una in the first episode of Strange New Worlds Season 3.
The release date for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 is July 17, 2025. The season will debut with two episodes for a total of ten episodes. As with previous seasons, the show will stream on Paramount+.
That said, Strange New Worlds Season 3 is set to have its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 14, 2025. So, there could be early reviews for Season 3 a month ahead of time.
Is There A Strange New Worlds Season 3 Trailer?
On April 2, 2025, Paramount+ dropped the first full-length trailer for Strange New Worlds Season 3. It introduced a ton of new concepts, including a murder mystery episode (seemingly set on the holodeck), a meta-fictional version of Star Trek, some magical over-the-top moments, the Gorn, and the return of the Klingons.
Prior to that trailer, there was the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con “First Look” clip, which revealed Pike, Chapel (Jess Bush), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and La’an (Christina Chong) undergoing a brief transformation to become full-on Vulcans for a mission. This goofy clip suggests that, just like in Seasons 1 and 2, SNW Season 3 will have a “Vulcan hijinks” episode.
Finally, back at New York Comic-Con 2024, Paramount+ dropped the first few minutes of the Season 3 premiere, which shows what happens to the Enterprise right after the Season 2 cliffhanger. Check it out below if you don’t mind getting a little spoiled.
Who Is In The Strange New Worlds Season 3 Cast?
Ethan Peck as Spock, Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga and Carol Kane as Pelia in Strange New Worlds Season 3.
The entire main cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for Season 3, but there are also some notable guest stars and one major addition. Martin Quinn played Scotty in a surprise Season 2 finale guest spot, but is now listed as part of the regular cast. SNW has also confirmed the following returning guests:
- Melanie Scrofano as Captain Batel
- Paul Wesley as Lt. James T. Kirk
- Rong Fu as Mitchell, a bridge operations officer
- Carol Kane as Pelia, the Enterprise’s current chief engineer
There will also be some new guest stars, including:
- Cillian O’Sullivan as Roger Korby, a legacy character from the TOS episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” He’s the future estranged fiancé of Nurse Chapel.
- Rhys Darby as an unknown character. Fans have speculated that he could play some version of Cyrano Jones from The Original Series episode “The Trouble With Tribbles,” or Spock’s emotional half-brother, the renegade Sybok, who first appeared in the 1989 film The Final Frontier and was teased to return in Season 1. The third season trailer also suggested that maybe Darby could be playing a version of Trelane or perhaps even a member of the Q.
What Is The Plot Of Strange New Worlds Season 3?
Jonathan Frakes and Ethan Peck discuss Strange New Worlds.
Like the two previous seasons, the 10 episodes of Strange New Worlds Season 3 will largely be stand-alone adventures with some light serialization. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman has teased that one episode will be a “Hollywood murder mystery,” according to TrekMovie. Another episode will feature a “unique version” of Paul Wesley’s Kirk, and Goldsman has promised that the SNW version of Roger Korby “is not quite what you would expect.”
In the big picture, we know Season 3 will have to deal with the Gorn fallout from Season 2. The show is also inching closer to the timeline of The Original Series. In an interview with Collider, Goldsman did say the storylines of Strange New Worlds could continue into that crucial era of Trek canon. “Left to our own devices, which really means if Paramount will, we’ll keep going into the TOS era,” he told Inverse last year.
Additionally, when the release date for SNW Season 3 was confirmed, Paramount+ also released this synopsis:
In season three, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of season two’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit and resolve. An exciting twist on classic Star Trek, season three takes characters both new and beloved to new heights, and dives into thrilling adventures of faith, duty, romance, comedy, and mystery, with varying genres never before seen on any other Star Trek.
On June 5, 2025, Paramount+ released the episode titles for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3. Here are all those titles:
- Episode 1: “Hegemony Part II.”
- Episode 2: “Wedding Bell Blues”
- Episode 3: “Shuttle to Kenfori.”
- Episode 4: “A Space Adventure Hour”
- Episode 5: “Through the Lens of Time”
- Episode 6: “The Sehlat That Ate Its Own Tail”
- Episode 7: “What Is Starfleet?”
- Episode 8: “Four-And-A-Half Vulcans”
- Episode 9: “Terrarium”
- Episode 10: “New Life and New Civilizations”
These episode titles contain plently of Easter eggs, perhaps the most notable of which is the reference to a “Sehlat,” which is the species of large teddy bear like creatures from the planet Vulcan. Spock famously had a pet Sehlat named I-Chaya, alluded to in the classic episode “Journey to Babel,” and finally seen in the fur in at 1973 episode of The Animated Series, “Yesteryear.”
Will There Be A Strange New Worlds Season 4?
Yes! While Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be the franchise’s next big live-action show, Season 4 of Strange New Worlds has already begun filming. Whether we get more episodes beyond that remains to be seen.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams on Paramount+.
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