Strange New Worlds Teaser: Pike & Co. Get Crafty During Gorn Attack — Plus, Who’s Rhys Darby Playing in Season 3?
Captain Pike and his enterprising crew get very crafty during a relentless attack by the Gorn, as seen in a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 teaser that debuted Saturday at New York Comic Con.
It was also announced during the afternoon New York Comic Con panel that Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death, Flight of the Conchords) will guest-star during the upcoming season, though no character details were shared.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 remains on track for a “2025” premiere on Paramount+, and as announced back in April, it is already renewed for Season 4.
A previous sneak peek revealed that at some point in Season 3, Captain Pike (played by Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an (Christina Chong) and Pelia (Carol Kane) are injected with a serum that transforms them into Vulcans — perhaps for longer than they planned!
Based on the years that Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Strange New Worlds follows the ship’s captain plus Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and the rest of the Enterprise crew in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the starship, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
The cast also includes Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun and Martin Quinn, along with special guest stars Paul Wesley.
Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Jenny Lumet, Henry Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Davy Perez, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth alls serve as executive producers.
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I thought Kirk and Spock weren’t aware of the Gorn before they encountered them in the first-season episode “Arena.”
From “Arena”: “Weaponless, I face the creature the Metrons called a Gorn. Large, reptilian.”
And that is after starship combat. So the crew is unfamiliar with the tactics and ship. And it looks like Kirk himself was unfamiliar with the species name and what they are. It’s all explainable if Kirk is elsewhere, doing something else during all this. And presumably after this, there being no full blown war between the Hegemony and the Federation.
Rhys Darby .. aka Q?
Trelane?
Can’t be Q. Then you’d have to explain his absence during Star Trek TOS.
I love Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. What I don’t understand is that we had about 20 episodes a year for DS9 and Voyager. But we get only 10 episodes of Strange New Worlds?
It’s a much more expensive show to make, and there’s more of a demand for “all killer, no filler” storytelling styles now. Do you remember how many absolutely awful episodes seasons/we got of those shows? How rarely they set foot on a fresh set or location? SNW may have its issues as well (it’s gotten SO goofy and relies on gimmicks) but no-one would tolerate the ’90s bloat anymore. People complain about 13 ep seasons “dragging in the middle” nowadays. Every episode now needs to be an event. (Tho of course all the filler back in the day did allow minor characters to get the spotlight, whereas on SNW characters who should arguably much more centered get almost nothing. It’s a tradeoff.)
“People complain about 13 ep seasons “dragging in the middle” nowadays.”
Only when shows try to contain a pointless rubber-arc which SNW does not. Fresh locations and fresh plots every week. I would like to have more of those (old style) shows!
But I understand the cost issues.
Can you imagine if they tried to do the same kind of seasons now? Filler episodes, shoddy effects, campy tone… people would be complaining right away. Expectations are higher than they were in the 90s or early 2000s.
I could really show my age and say I remember when a season was 36 episodes. Not old enough to say 39, as it was in the beginning.
Cannot wait for Rhys Darby. Honestly wasn’t super excited for this season before this announcement — I think I just need to accept this is a zany gimmick fun show, no hint of seriousness anymore.
I wonder if they’ll ever remember the “Spock’s brother” plot again, LOL
The teaser looks pretty serious to me.
Fantastic series… can’t wait!