Strange New Worlds Season 4 Debut Date, Teaser Trailer

Over the weekend, the CCXP (Comic Con Experience) was held in Mexico City, Mexico. As part of that Paramount+ revealed that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will premiere on July 23. The 10 episode season will then have new episodes weekly to September 24. As part of that Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, Celia Rose Gooding and Paul Wesley were on hand to introduce the teaser trailer for the season. From the press release:

In season four of the Paramount+ original series, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise — led by Captain Christopher Pike — embark on a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they will battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens. Through it all, they strive to embrace a bright, hopeful future.

The show has already filmed its fifth and final season of six episodes that all signs indicate will likely conclude this era of Star Trek for the foreseeable future in 2027 as Paramount and WB spend years dealing with their mega-merger and the fall out from that.

Paramount Reiterates Star Trek Movie Plans for Umpteenth Time

This is really a nothing burger of news considering its a repeat of ten years of the same news but its making the media news rounds so covering it. Thursday at CinemaCon, a convention for theater owners, Paramount held its presentation. As part of the that, the new owner of Paramount and soon WB David Ellison made a promise of 30 movies, 45-day window before selling digitally and SVOD (aka streaming to Paramount+) release at 90 days. Along with that he mentioned of vague future plans from Paramount including “World War Z,” “Top Gun,” “G.I. Joe”, "Star Trek", and “Transformers” sequels. None of which have scripts or anywone attached to them to direct. Literally that is the sum total of news. No one is clear how a studio can release 30 films to theaters without competing with its own movies.

New Star Trek: Discovery Auction Announced from PropStore

PropStore has announced an auction for Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Short Treks props as Paramount begins to empty their storage spaces of all things Star Trek as they but the TV side to rest for unknown period of time. Unlike a previous auction that was location specific and did not ship anything to buyers, this one is online only so anyone can participate if they have the money. Bidding has already begun on the 340 lots that include customues, props and more. More details here.

Official Star Trek Auction Marks Unofficial End to Current Trek Era (Updated)

While not yet official, the announcement of 60th Anniversary Star Trek Universe Auction indicates the end has come for the current era of Star Trek which once that last seasons air will be from 2017 to 2027. The auction is an interesting one as its for charity, likely not include the most valuable items and requires winners to be a local Ontario, Canada resident. You can find the details here or here.

The Future of Star Trek Analysis

Usually the decision to cancel a show on streaming is rarely done in less than two weeks after its season has aired. Yet Paramount+ did that with Starfleet Academy. When its fast be it in streaming or regular TV it almost always indicates a show wildly underperformed and that seems likely here. 

Possibly could blame the merger with Warner Bros. and Paramount but with second season yet to air and likely time on actor contracts, there was no reason to make a decision this early and quickly except to clear the decks.

Strange New Worlds will likely have both seasons release this year and wouldn't be remotely surprised if its the entire seasons at once to save money on advertising. Same with season two of Academy once its completed post-production either late this year or early 2027.

I will be blunt - Star Trek television is dead for the foreseeable future. The movies remain a possibility but suspect the plan is a complete reboot of the franchise.