Strange New Worlds Season 4 Clip Addresses Season 3 Backlash

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds released a first look season 4 clip that tacitly addresses the fallout from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Premiering in 2026, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is the last consisting of 10 episodes, as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 5 is only 6 episodes.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 wasn’t as warmly received as the first two seasons were. A giddy exploration of several TV genres, many Star Trek fans were not enthused by Strange New Worlds season 3’s cheerful abundance of comedy, dancing, and irreverence, despite the valiant efforts of the show’s talented cast.

New York Comic Con was Star Trek on Paramount+’s last major platform in 2025 to build hype for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4, and their choice of a first look clip was a smart move and a reaction to some of the backlash from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4’s First Look Clip Was A Smart Choice

USS Enterprise in stellar storm in Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 4

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s first look clip was the first four-and-a-half minutes of an upcoming episode, and the footage is very unlike what detractors disliked about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Depicting the USS Enterprise lured into a stellar storm on a rescue mission and mysteriously emerging without power, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his crew take on this crisis to repair their ailing starship.

Strange New Worlds season 4’s first look clip was more traditional Star Trek.

With lots of bridge moments about the awe and wonder of the stellar storm, debating scientific solutions to their problem, and the launch of a mission to explore a new planet, Strange New Worlds season 4’s first look clip was more traditional Star Trek than season 3 was accused of being.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s first look clip was a 180 and a sharp contrast from the brief glimpse at San Diego Comic-Con, which revealed a puppet episode in season 4. NYCC’s clip offered the opposite of Strange New Worlds’ “big swings.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Will Still Be Similar To Season 3

Uhura at Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 4

New York Comic Con’s first look clip of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 was an olive branch and reassurance to disgruntled audience members that Captain Pike’s prequel is still very much Star Trek, as it’s always been.

However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 likely won’t be markedly different from season 3. All episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 wrapped filming in July before a backlash to season 3 began with a mixed reaction to Strange New Worlds season 3’s holodeck murder mystery directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Beyond editing, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s episodes can’t be substantially changed or reshot based on backlash to season 3. Yes, there will be a puppet episode, and other “big swings” to push Strange New Worlds into directions Star Trek hasn’t gone before.

Before Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s premiere, Paramount+ announced the show was renewed for a six-episode fifth and final season.

However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers hail season 4 as their best, and they said they produced the season as if it was the show’s last. A go-for-broke season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds certainly sounds intriguing.