Paramount Plus released a new teaser trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 today, raising at least one big mystery right off the bat: Hey, wait a second, how did Pike’s Enterprise get their hands on a holodeck?
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Invented by the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the holodeck is a piece of Federation technology that did not appear in Strange New Worlds’ century-earlier time period. But with SNW being something like a greatest hits cover band of all of Trek, I can imagine that being unable to plumb the deep well of holodeck tropes that proliferated throughout Trek’s 1990s shows has been a real writers’ room handicap. I don’t blame them for what is — I presume — a one-episode treat.
Besides a holodeck murder mystery, the new teaser also shows off stories involving telephones on the Enterprise, a thrilling conclusion to last season’s Gorn-based cliffhanger, and some kind of Star Trek-aping retro futuristic aesthetic episode? And that’s not to mention a whole slew of new guest stars, including Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death), Patton Oswalt (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), and Uzo Aduba (The Residence).
The teaser remains frustratingly mum on the subject of exactly when we’ll get to see these new episodes, with no release date in sight. Still, the season is expected to premiere on Paramount Plus in 2025, and run for ten episodes. Strange New Worlds has already been greenlit for a fourth season as well.
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