Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Abbr.:	SNW
Studio:	CBS Studios
Original network:	Paramount+
Production dates:	March 2021 –
Original run:	2022
Seasons:	1
Episodes:	20
Timespan:	2250s

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an upcoming Star Trek series that was announced on 15 May 2020. It is being produced by CBS Studios and stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley.

Premise

The official announcement stated that "the series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the USS Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy." Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at StarTrek.com

Executive Producer and Co-creator Akiva Goldsman told Variety, "We’re going to try to harken back to some classical ‘Trek’ values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic. Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you’ve seen in either Discovery or Picard. … I imagine it to be closer to The Original Series than even DS9. We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece." [1]

When talking to Deadline on 16 August 2020 Co-executive Producer Alex Kurtzman elaborated, "I think Strange New Worlds, under the guidance of [showrunners] Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, it's going to be a return in a way to TOS [Star Trek: The Original Series]. We are going to do stand-alone episodes. There will be emotional serialization. There will be two-parters. There will be larger plot arcs. But it really is back to the model of alien-of-the-week, planet-of-the-week, challenge-on-the-ship-of-the-week. With these characters pre-Kirk’s Enterprise... I think what people responded so much to in all three characters is this kind of relentless optimism that they have. And that they are at the young phase of their careers." [2]

Main cast

• Anson Mount as Christopher Pike
• Ethan Peck as Spock
• Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at StarTrek.com
• Jess Bush [3] as Nurse Christine Chapel [4]
• Christina Chong [5] as La'an Noonien-Singh [6]
• Celia Rose Gooding [7] as Cadet Nyota Uhura [8]
• Melissa Navia [9] as Lt. Erica Ortegas [10]
• Babs Olusanmokun [11] as Dr. M'Benga [12]
• Adrian Holmes [13]
• Bruce Horak as Hemmer [14]

Episode list

Season 1

SNW Season 1

Production history

When the news of showrunner Alex Kurtzman's five-year Star Trek development deal with CBS All Access was announced on 19 June 2018, a show dealing with Christopher Pike, Spock, and the USS Enterprise was not considered for inclusion in any Star Trek line-up. [15]

Star Trek: The Original Series characters, Christopher Pike, Number One, and Spock, were introduced for season two of Discovery and were signed only for that season. [16] [17] It prompted Anson Mount to quip with a "#WillActForFood" hashtag on his Twitter account, making it known that he and Spock performer Ethan Peck were on the job market again shortly after live-action production on season two had wrapped. [18] Following the positive reception to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, fans circulated a petition in support more appearances of Mount as Captain Pike and Peck as Spock, including the idea of a full new series. [19] Mount expressed support for the fan petition, stating he felt "humbled and deeply touched by this amount of love" in an 14 April 2019 Facebook entry. [20] [21] Peck also expressed interest in returning to the role of Spock. [22]

Mount, Romijn, and Peck reprised their roles in three late 2019 season two episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks.

Inception

In January 2020, Kurtzman confirmed he and Akiva Goldsman were having "active conversations" about a new series involving the crew of the Enterprise. [23]

On 15 May 2020, CBS announced a new series "based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the USS Enterprise." [24] The announcement included that Strange New Worlds would feature Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Ethan Peck as Mr. Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, all reprising their roles from the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.

Development

See: Season 1 background information

Promotion

Products

In March 2021, Eaglemoss/Hero Collector's Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection premiered at retail. A new starship miniatures partwork and product line, it features Strange New Worlds starships, combined with ships from Star Trek: Discovery (after the release of issue 33 of the DIS partwork) and Star Trek: Picard. The line's manager indicated that CGI assets of SNW's starships had not yet been received from the show's producers, as of February 2021, which was not that surprising as actual production on the new series had yet to start at that point in time. [25] Replicas of Pike's USS Enterprise (as seen in DIS) have previously been produced by the company.

Related topics

• SNW directors
• SNW performers
• SNW writers

External links

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at Wikipedia
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at the Internet Movie Database