Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has gone the place nobody has gone earlier than all through its ongoing run on Paramount+. Season 2 introduced a musical episode, titled “Subspace Rhapsody,” in addition to a crossover with the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks.
As Season 3 progresses, it stays to be seen what new adventures Captain Pike and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise could face. Nevertheless, a recently-revealed teaser for Season 4 of Unusual New Worlds reveals what often is the most “insane” episode of the collection but. In a clip released at San Diego Comic-Con in July, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is seen on the bridge commanding the Enterprise, however is depicted as a puppet.
Ethan Peck, who performs the half-Vulcan Lieutenant Spock in Unusual New Worlds, lately spoke with TV Insider in regards to the upcoming Season 4 “puppet episode.” The fourth season of Strange New Worlds just wrapped production in July.
“I can’t say something,” concerning Puppet Spock, Peck advised the outlet. However, he mentioned, when he heard the information that there was going to be such an episode, he had fairly a response. “What? Are you critical? That sounds completely insane,” Peck mentioned when he heard the information {that a} puppet episode was going to occur.
Peck continued, “Are we really going to try this? And that was the identical feeling I had when we did the musical episode. I don’t see quite a lot of reveals that take swings fairly like that, massive style swings like that.”
The actor mentioned that when he heard mutterings of a puppet episode, he thought they had been simply discuss. “So, when it first began occurring, it appeared like it will simply be a rumor; it will by no means come to fruition. And after we heard about this, we had been like, ‘No, come on. Actually? That’s simply loopy.’ After which it occurred, and it’s going to be, I feel, a very particular episode. I hope will probably be,” Peck mentioned.
Followers Questioned Peck and Mount A few Puppet Episode at a 2024 Star Trek Conference
In November 2024, throughout a panel at Creation’s Star Trek: Trek to New Jersey conference, which featured Peck and Mount, a fan inquired in regards to the rumors surrounding a attainable puppet episode, per a Reddit thread. At the moment, Mount replied, “I’ve gotten this query twice now, the place is that this?…Um, I…Initially, you’re working on the concept that we’re advised something. I’d have an interest to be a fly on the wall in that pitch assembly to see the right way to get that previous the community. However positive, perhaps. Something’s attainable in science fiction.” Filming on Season 4 of Strange New Worlds didn’t begin till the spring of 2025.
At San Diego Comedian-Con, through Leisure Weekly, Unusual New Worlds co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers said there was “easily more than six months of work on it” when requested in regards to the puppet episode. “In manufacturing, we’d have lengthy conversations with our director in thoughts, particularly about the right way to deal with puppets…We needed to have quite a lot of conversations about making puppets. We needed to have quite a lot of conversations about the right way to deal with our crew, as a result of we even have a complete crew of puppeteers. It’s identical to doing a really completely different sort of episode, and it requires quite a lot of time and care to do it,” Myers mentioned.
To this point, there’s been no announcement as to when Season 4 of Unusual New Worlds, together with the puppet episode, will premiere. Season 3 is at the moment dropping new episodes on Paramount+ each Thursday by means of Sept. 11.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- 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
- Administrators
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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
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Anson Mount
Captain Christopher Pike
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