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The third season of the American television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds and carry out missions throughout the galaxy during the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series . The season is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, H M R X Productions, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serving as showrunners.

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Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn respectively star as Pike, Spock, and Number One, along with Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Babs Olusanmokun. Planning for a third season of Strange New Worlds began by June 2022, and it was officially announced in March 2023 ahead of an intended filming start that May. Production was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes and instead started in December 2023. Filming took place at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, until May 2024. The showrunners continued the series' episodic storytelling approach, giving each episode a different genre and tone. Many of the regular actors and several guest stars portray younger versions of characters from The Original Series in the season.

The season is expected to premiere on the streaming service Paramount+ in 2025, and run for 10 episodes. A fourth season was ordered in April 2024. [1]

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
211TBA Chris Fisher [2] TBD2025 (2025) [3]

Jordan Canning directed the second and eighth episodes, [4] [5] Sharon Lewis directed the seventh, [6] Andrew Coutts directed the ninth, and Maja Vrvilo directed the tenth. [5] Other directors for the season include Jonathan Frakes, Valerie Weiss, and Dan Liu. [7] [8]

Cast and characters

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Production

Development

In June 2022, during the airing of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 's first season and the filming of its second season, co-star Melissa Navia said discussions about a third season had begun. [11] Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers confirmed this a month later, explaining that the third season had not been officially ordered yet but the crew had begun planning for it due to the amount of time needed to complete scripts and prepare the series' sets and virtual production technology. He added that the third season was "definitely the next thing in line". [12] In August, CBS Entertainment CEO George Cheeks highlighted the critical and viewership success of the first season and said they were "just getting started" with the series, suggesting that it would continue beyond the second season. [13] Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman revealed in March 2023 that filming for the third season was about to begin, [14] and Paramount+ officially announced the 10-episode season order a week later. [15] However, filming was delayed indefinitely due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike which started on May 2. [16]

During the Writers Guild strike and concurrent 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, producing director Chris Fisher and the series' Toronto-based producers developed a rolling plan that would allow production on the season to begin within a few weeks of both strikes ending. [17] Pre-production on the season resumed on November 13 after the Writers Guild strike ended in September and the SAG-AFTRA strike ended in early November. [2] [18]

Writing

Goldsman said the series would continue to "genre hop" with each episode in the third season, [19] and the writers had settled on the 10 episode ideas for the season before the Writers Guild strike began in May 2023. The season includes several ideas that could not be used in the second season due to the 10 episodes-per-season limit. [20] Myers said the delay caused by the strikes could lead to some changes being made to their plans, including for how they intended to resolve the second season's cliffhanger ending. [21] The season includes a murder mystery episode. [3]

Casting

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn star in the series as Captain Christopher Pike, science officer Spock, and first officer Una Chin-Riley / Number One, respectively. Also starring are Jess Bush as nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as chief security officer La'an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Ensign Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as helmsman Erica Ortegas, and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. Joseph M'Benga. [2] [ better source needed ]

Following the second-season finale, the showrunners said Martin Quinn would return as Montgomery Scott—the future chief engineer of the Enterprise as portrayed by James Doohan in Star Trek: The Original Series —after being introduced in that episode. [22] Quinn, who is Scottish, said he would have a recurring role in the third season, and he was working with the writers to suggest changes for the character to make him more authentically Scottish following Canadian actor Doohan's controversial Scottish accent in The Original Series. [10] In February 2024, Paul Wesley, who replaced The Original Series star William Shatner as James T. Kirk for the series, said he would again have a recurring role in the third season. [9]

Design

Pre-production work designing for the series' virtual technology, which is used to display digital backgrounds on an LED video wall during filming, had been completed for the first seven episodes when production was delayed by the Writers Guild strike. Fisher said the crew had become confident with using the technology during the second season and would use it for every episode of the third. [17] A new science lab set was built for the season that has a transparent floor, revealing a pool of swirling water under the central workbench. [3]

Filming

Before the Writers Guild strike began, [16] filming was expected to take place from May 2 to September 28, 2023, at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, under the working title Lily and Isaac. [23] [24] Fisher had storyboarded the first episode and the cast was one day away from flying to Canada for filming when production was delayed. [17] Cast and crew began moving to Toronto when pre-production restarted in November 2023. [2]

Filming began on December 11, 2023, with Fisher directing the first episode. [2] [25] Following a break for the Christmas and New Years holidays, filming resumed in the second week of January. Filming for the second episode, directed by Jordan Canning, ended on January 24. [4] Frequent Star Trek director Jonathan Frakes helmed the murder mystery episode, [3] and was filming it in early February. [26] [27] Dan Liu also directed an episode. [8] Valerie Weiss started directing an episode on March 7, [8] and Sharon Lewis directed the seventh episode which was filmed from March 20 to April 10. [6] [28] Canning returned to direct the eighth episode, which completed filming by April 25. Andrew Coutts, an editor on the series, made his directorial debut with the ninth episode which had begun filming by then, while Maja Vrvilo was preparing to direct the season finale. [5] Filming for the finale episode was completed in May along with additional filming for earlier episodes. [29] Frakes returned for additional filming on his episode in the week of May 13. [26] Mount announced that filming for the season wrapped on May 24. [29]

Release

The season is expected to premiere in 2025 [3] on the streaming service Paramount+ in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Australia, South Korea, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. It will run for 10 episodes. [15] [30] The series is released in New Zealand on TVNZ, in India on Voot, [31] and in other European countries on SkyShowtime (a combination of Paramount+ and the streaming service Peacock). [32]

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