Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ Season 3 premiere will honor a tradition popularized by Star Trek: The Next Generation. Strange New Worlds Season 3 is expected to premiere in 2025 on Paramount+, Nearly two years later Strange New Worlds Ended with an epic cliffhanger in August 2023. Thankfully, Paramount+ has also renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for season 4, which begins filming early in 2025 for an expected release in 2026.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 ended with Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) caught in a difficult no-win scenario. After a major attack on Parnassus Beta, members of the USS Enterprise’s crew were kidnapped by the alien reptilians. Meanwhile, Captain Marie Battle (Melanie Scrofano), Pike’s paramour, has been infected by Gorn eggs and is on death’s door. However, Starfleet Command orders Pike to retreat, so the captain of the Enterprise must choose between not engaging the Gorn and saving his crew. Strange New Worlds Season 2’s final image was A desperate Captain Pike and the words, “To continue…”
The Season 2 cliffhanger of Strange New Worlds will be concluded in the Season 3 premiere
“And now, the conclusion…”
At San Diego Comic-Con, Variety Interviewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Executive producers and co-showrunners Akiba Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, along with cast members Rebecca Romjin and Ethan Peck. When asked whether Strange New Worlds The season 2 cliffhanger will continue into multiple season 3 episodes, Alonso Myers has answered that, as have others Star Trek Two-parter that Strange New Worlds homies, The season 3 premiere will be the conclusion. Read Henry’s quote below:
I was just going to say that we were trying to do something that was classic to Trek. And when you come back to the second part of a second, it always says ‘the conclusion of’. So come season 3, I promise you you will see the conclusion of.
Star Trek: Strange New WorldThe seasons consist of 10 episodes, so it’s understandable that with limited real estate, the prequel wouldn’t push Strange New Worlds No cliffhanger beyond a two-part tale. Strange New Worlds is episodelike Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and other classics Star Trek Series, and Strange New Worlds Season 3 has other “big swings” in store, like a Hollywood murder mystery directed by Jonathan Frakes. But Strange New Worlds is doing its first two-parter with the season 2 finale and the season 3 premiere, which is an ode to one of star treks most beloved traditions.
TNG made 2-part cliffhangers a Star Trek tradition
DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and even lower decks have cliffhangers
Star Trek: The Original Series Only one other did, “the management”. A two-part episode allowed for the repurposing of Star Treks original, rejected pilot, “The Cage,” so that its footage was watched in-universe by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) during a space-marshal of Spock (Leonard Nimoy). But, it was Star Trek: The Next Generation That really popularized the Star Trek Two-part. Perhaps the greatest Star Trek Season finale/season premiere combination ever is Star Trek: The Next GenerationBorg’s epic, “The Best of Both Worlds,” which is one of the classics Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is born to.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation And Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Each has 7 seasons, which was Enough time to deliver several two-part episodes. Star Trek: VoyagerThe 7 seasons boasted several two-parters, which the series treated as mini-movies. Maybe Star Trek: EnterpriseThe best two-parter was his Mirror Universe saga, “In a Mirror, Darkly.” Star Trek: Lower Decksput in thongs 24th century era, had its own two-part homage with the season 2 finale seeing the arrest of Captain Carol Freeman (Dawn Lewis). Meanwhile, Star Trek: ProdigyThe two seasons consist of 20 episodes each, with several two-part episodes throughout, further honoring star treks tradition.
Why Star Trek: Discovery and Picard don’t do cliffhangers
Each season was one big story
Star Trek Two-parters are not significant events in Star Trek: Discovery Or Star Trek: Picard Because Both series are serialized. Star Trek Two-parters are meaningful in the episodic format since they expand a story beyond the usual one episode needed. however, Star Trek: Discovery And Star Trek: Picard are designed so that each season tells a continuous epic, with multiple episodes essentially serving as cliffhangers to lead viewers directly into the next episode. But despite being serialized, Discovery And Picard are still formatted like proper TV shows with each episode being a complete story as part of a larger saga.
Star Trek: Strange New WorldsSeason 3 premiere is highly anticipated, partly because fans are desperate to see how Season 2’s cliffhanger is resolved, and also because of the Long wait between Strange New Worlds Seasons 2 and 3. Although Strange New Worlds has already released a clip from a season 3 episode where Captain Pike and his crew are transformed into Vulcans, which reveals that everyone kidnapped by the Gorn is rescued and returned safely to the starship Enterprise, it does not change the desire to see how Strange New Worlds Season 3 will continue the cliffhanger from season 2. Watch and listen“And now, the conclusion…” when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 begins will be an extra treat.
Source: Variety