Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3 nonetheless doesn’t have a premiere date set on the 2025 TV schedule, however followers with a Paramount+ subscription can take consolation figuring out there can be extra to comply with this subsequent batch of episodes. Strange New Worlds Season 4 was greenlit in April 2024, and filming lastly commenced earlier this month. For sure it’ll be a very long time till we see what Season 4 has to supply, however new info has come to gentle that has now has me questioning if a type of issues can be a horror episode.
This thought got here to thoughts after seeing director Axelle Carolyn share on Instagram that she’s in Toronto, Canada to helm a “very particular episode” of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. She thanked present creators Akira Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers for “trusting” her with Season 4’s fourth episode, so clearly one thing fascinating is being cooked up. Carolyn additionally talked about that she’s been a fan of this franchise ever since a pal of her launched her to First Contact, one of many higher-ranking Star Trek movies, “some 25 years in the past.”
So why do I believe Carolyn coming aboard Unusual New Worlds Season 4? Nicely, simply take a look at her physique of labor. Among the many TV exhibits she’s directed episodes for embody The Haunting of Bly Manor, Creepshow, American Horror Story, The Midnight Membership, Mayfair Witches and Them. With a resume like that, it’s arduous to think about that Carolun’s Unusual New Worlds episode received’t have a minimum of some horrifying parts.
To make certain, this wouldn’t be the primary time that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds has performed round with the horror style, with earlier examples together with Season 1’s “All These Who Wander” (which ended with the death of Hemmer) and Season 2’s “Misplaced in Translation” (the place Uhura noticed visions of a zombie-like Hemmer). Nonetheless, whereas I’m not at all a horror fan, I wouldn’t thoughts Unusual New Worlds going full-on scary for an episode, albeit with out getting too deep into R-rated territory. Axelle Carolyn actually has the {qualifications} to make this occur.
However once more, we’ve got a protracted methods to go earlier than studying what the fourth episode of Unusual New Worlds Season 4 can be about. Carolyn is the second director who’s been introduced for that season, following Jonathan Frakes, who’s also working on Starfleet Academy. Forged-wise, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babe Olusanmokun and Rebecca Romijn will stay hooked up as sequence regulars, and Paul Wesley will continue recurring as James T. Kirk.
As for what’s coming in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3, Martin Quinn will reprise Montgomery Scott as a major solid member, Carol Kane and Melanie Scrofano will respectively return as Pelia and Marie Batel, and among the new faces set to look embody Cillian O’Sullivan as Roger Korby and Rhys Darby in an undisclosed role. We’ll preserve passing alongside extra notable information gadgets on this prequel to The Unique Collection as a part of our persevering with protection of upcoming Star Trek shows.
