Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3’s dazzling teaser trailer gives a glimpse of how much cool stuff the next10 episodes ofStrange New Worldshas in store. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise haven’t warped across audiences' screens on Paramount+ since August 22. Finally,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 is set to premiere in summer 2025 on Paramount+.
“10 new adventures,” “Romance,” “Mystery,“and"A touch of analog"are promised byStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3’s 1-minute teaser.Strange New Worlds' co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers brought back the entire cast plus some surprising new faces. Meanwhile, most ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 2’s directors returned for season 3.
Expect the unexpected fromStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3, and here are 15 cool things we spotted in the new footage of the next 10 voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
15Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Leans Into Genre-Bending & Meta Commentary
Strange New Worlds Doubles Down On Season 2’s Success
Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3’s trailer opens with Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) saying,“We want to give audiences a reflection of their own world through the lens of fantasy. You know, science fiction.“Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) asks,“All of that with weekly space adventures?“Later, Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) adds,“Do you realize how rare a show like this is?”
Pike’s Strange New Worlds Girlfriend Was A Star Trek Captain Before He Got Enterprise
Captain Pike commands the USS Enterprise, but his girlfriend, Captain Marie Batel, beat him to her own starship in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
While the USS Enterprise’s crew are speaking about what’s happening in specific episodes, the meta-commentary ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 is hard to miss.Strange New Worldsseason 2 won acclaim and mainstream attention for its genre-bending episodes likeStar Trek’s first-ever musical.Strange New Worldsseason 3 doubles downwith a murder mystery, a 1950s sci-fi spoof, and even a rom-com episode.
14Strange New Worlds Has Access To A Holodeck 100 Years Before Star Trek: TNG
Those Black Walls And Yellow Grids Look Familiar
Leading intoStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3’s murder mystery episode, Lt. Spock and a cosplaying La’an are inside what appears to be aholodeck fromStar Trek: The Next Generation. The familiar black walls with a yellow grid is identical to the virtual rec room of the USS Enterprise-D. Where this technology comes from and how it exists inStar Trek’s 23rd century remains to be seen, butperhapsStrange New Worldswill deliver the origin of the holodeck.
13Jonathan Frakes’ Film Noir Episode Is A Strange New Worlds Murder Mystery
It Looks Like 1970s Hollywood Noir
Star Trek: The Next Generationicon Jonathan Frakes is no stranger toStar Trekholodeck episodes, and perhaps this is whyStar Trek: Strange New Worldsselected Frakes to direct its Hollywood noir murder mystery episode. Apparently a live-action version of the board game Clue,Strange New Worlds' murder mystery is also set in the 1970s, judging from the hairstyles and costumes of La’an, Lt. James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley), Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), and the rest of the cosplaying USS Enterprise crew.
12Chapel & Spock Are Back Together - But Christine Is Engaged!
Who Put A Ring On Chapel’s Finger?
In aStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 shocker,Spock and Nurse Christine Chapel are sleeping together. Spock and Chapel’s relationship ended and remained undefined at the end ofStrange New Worldsseason 2, but their romantic chemistry is back on. Yetthere’s an engagement ring on Christine’s finger. Did she get that from Spock or from Chapel’s canonicalStar Trek: The Original Seriesfiancé, Dr. Roger Korby (Cillian O’Sullivan)?
11Strange New Worlds Does Star Trek: Voyager’s Captain Proton
1950s Sci-Fi Cheese Is Back
Another visually eyepopping and charmingly retroStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 episode is a 1950s sci-fi spoof. Lieutenant Kirk plays Captain of some kind of spaceship crewed by Lt. Erica Ortegas at the helm and Nurse Chapel. This appears to beStrange New Worlds' version ofStar Trek: Voyager’s campy cheesefest Captain Proton. It also confirms that Kirk and Chapel, future USS Enterprise crew mates, meet inStrange New Worldsseason 3.
10Rhys Darby Is Not Playing Dr. Bones McCoy
Who Is Our Flag Means Death’s Star Playing?
Our Flag Means Death’sRhys Darby was announced as a guest star inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3, and fans speculated Darby could be playing Dr. Leonard McCoy or Dr. Mark Piper. Rhys doesn’t appear to be playing any Enterprise doctor. Instead,Darby looks like he’s a salesman of some sort,like Cyrano Jones (Stanley Adams) inStar Trek: The Original Series.But by the way Darby is ready to snap his fingers, could Rhys instead be playing a powerful alien likeTrelane (William Campbell)?
9Patton Oswalt Is A Vulcan
It’s A Logical Character For Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt guest starring inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 is a welcome surprise - as a Vulcan, no less! Oswalt’s unnamed Vulcan could be part of the previously-glimpsedStrange New Worldsseason 3 comedy episode whereCaptain Pike, Uhura, La’an, and Nurse Chapel are turned into Vulcans. With Patton Oswalt and Rhys Darby,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 continues to lean into the show’s deft capacity for comedy.
8Uhura Gets A Romance - With Scotty?
Love Could Be In The Air For Ensign Uhura
Could love be in the air for Ensign Nyota Uhura inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3? Nichelle Nichols' Uhura didn’t get a romantic foil inStar Trek: The Original Series,butthe long-suffering Ensign Uhura could get a romance. Uhura is seen flirting with an unknown black-haired character inStrange New Worldsseason 3’s trailer, but she also appears next toScotty (Martin Quinn). Scotty and Uhura have a bit of a flame in theStar Trekmovies. Could it start to ignite inStrange New Worldsseason 3?
7United Federation Of Planets Is Celebrating Its Centennial
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Enters 2261
Behind Nurse Chapel and a multi-armed alien bartender (possibly an Edosian as spotted byStar Trek: Picardseason 3 researcher Jorg Hillebrand), is a sign that reads"United Federation of Planets Centennial.“The Federation was founded in 2161, which meansStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 enters 2261. It looks like the USS Enterprise’s crew will celebrate one hundred years of the Federation.
6The Starship Enterprise Goes Analog
Telephones Replace Communicators
Long-lived Lanthanite Commander Pelia(Carol Kane) announcing that"we’re going to wire the Enterprise!“is another eyebrow-raising predicament inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3. Whatever causes the need to take the Starship Enterprise analog, it means installing landlines and old timey telephones in lieu of communicators. Does anyone in the 23rd century know how to use a telephone?
