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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Genre
Created by
Based onStar Trek
by Gene Roddenberry
Starring
Theme music composerJeff Russo
ComposerNami Melumad
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producers
ProducerAndrea Raffaghello
Production locationsMississauga, Ontario
Running time46–54 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkParamount+
ReleaseMay 5, 2022 (2022-05-05) –
present (present)
Related

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an American television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet for the streaming service Paramount+. It is the eleventh Star Trek series, and was launched in 2022 as part of Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. A spin-off from Star Trek: Discovery, it follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy during the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn respectively star as Pike, Spock, and Number One, all characters from The Original Series. These actors were cast in the roles in 2019 for the second season of Discovery, and, after a positive fan response, Kurtzman expressed interest in bringing them back for a spin-off series. Development began by March 2020, and it was officially ordered in May. The lead cast, title, and creative team were confirmed, with Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers as showrunners. Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, and Bruce Horak also star. The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, H M R X Productions, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with filming taking place at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario. The showrunners chose to return to traditional, episodic storytelling that was closer to the style of The Original Series than the more modern, serialized storytelling used for Discovery.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered on Paramount+ on May 5, 2022, and its first 10-episode season is running through July 7. It has received positive reviews from critics for its episodic storytelling approach and cast. A second season is in production and is expected to premiere in 2023.

Premise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.[1][2] It has a contemporary take on that series' episodic storytelling and 1960s designs,[3] and features the following narration from Mount during each episode's opening credits (similar to the opening narrations in The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation):[4]

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Anson Mount as Christopher Pike: captain of the USS Enterprise.[1] The writers took Mount's own leadership style as inspiration for the character. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman explained that Mount liked to find consensus within a group, and so a table was added to Pike's quarters where he could convene the crew and cook for them.[5]
  • Ethan Peck as Spock: science officer aboard the Enterprise[1]
  • Jess Bush as Christine Chapel: a civilian nurse on the Enterprise.[6] Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers felt the character's portrayal in The Original Series came from a "very different conception of women and of marriage and what people would do in their jobs" that present-day audiences would not expect, and sought to tell new stories with a character inspired by Bush's strengths.[7]
  • Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh: the Enterprise's newly assigned chief of security and a descendant of Ricardo Montalbán's Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh[6][8]
  • Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura: a cadet on the Enterprise specializing in linguistics.[6] Despite the character's important role throughout the Star Trek franchise, the writers felt that there was a lot still unknown about her that could be explored.[7]
  • Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas: the Enterprise's helmsman. Her surname is a reference to the original Star Trek pitch which included a navigator named Jose Ortegas.[6][9][10]
  • Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga: the Enterprise's chief medical officer[6]
  • Bruce Horak as Hemmer: the Enterprise's chief engineer. Hemmer is an Aenar, which are an albino subspecies of Andorians that are generally depicted as blind; Horak is blind in one eye with limited sight in the other.[6]
  • Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley/Number One: first officer of the Enterprise and second-in-command to Pike[1][6]

Recurring

  • Adrian Holmes as Robert April: a Starfleet admiral and the Enterprise's first captain who is a mentor to Pike[11][12]
  • Dan Jeannotte as George Samuel "Sam" Kirk: a life sciences officer aboard the Enterprise and elder brother to future captain James T. Kirk. Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers said Sam and James were very different and the series would explore their complex relationship.[12]
  • Gia Sandhu as T'Pring: Spock's fiancée, with whom he has been bonded since childhood.[13] Myers said the character was "fun, and thoughtful, and interesting", and allowed Spock to be explored in new ways.[3]

Additionally, Paul Wesley has been cast as James T. Kirk for the second season.[14]

Episodes

No.Title [15]Directed byWritten by [16]Original release date [17]
1"Strange New Worlds"Akiva GoldsmanTeleplay by : Akiva Goldsman
Story by : Akiva Goldsman & Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet		May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
In the 23rd century, Starfleet Admiral Robert April recalls Captain Christopher Pike of the starship USS Enterprise from shore leave after Pike's first officer, Una Chin-Riley (referred to as "Number One"), goes missing during a first contact mission. Pike is reluctant to return to space, and confides in Vulcan science officer Spock—who has just become engaged to T'Pring—that he saw a vision of his own death during their mission with the USS Discovery.[N 1] They travel to the planet Kiley 279, which is in a similar state to 21st century Earth and on the brink of civil war. They have reverse-engineered a weapon from starship warp drives after witnessing the Discovery mission in nearby space. Pike and his crew rescue Number One from captivity, and break Starfleet's General Order 1 by interfering in the society to convince them not to use the weapon. They avoid repercussions because of the top secret nature of the Discovery mission, but Starfleet doubles-down on the rule by renaming it the Prime Directive. Pike recommits to his role, and captains the Enterprise on a new five-year mission of exploration.
2"Children of the Comet"Maja VrviloHenry Alonso Myers & Sarah TarkoffMay 12, 2022 (2022-05-12)
Cadet Nyota Uhura is invited to a meal with other crewmembers in Pike's quarters, where she reveals that she is unsure about her future in Starfleet because she only joined as a way to escape from the pain of her parents' deaths. The Enterprise crew attempt to alter the course of a comet that is set to kill all of the inhabitants of a desolate planet, but it has a force field that prevents this. Uhura joins a team that transports to the comet's surface and discovers that it responds to music. A starship of "shepherds" who are escorting the comet position themselves between it and the Enterprise; they believe it is a being called M'hanit who is an ancient arbiter of life. Enterprise distracts them to allow Spock to alter the comet's course, and as it passes by the planet it releases water vapor into the atmosphere that will improve the conditions for life. Uhura decodes music from the comet which indicates that it had expected this interference, and Pike ponders the origins of the comet and whether this was more than coincidence. He also considers the lives of the cadets that he is destined to save when sacrificing himself.
3"Ghosts of Illyria"Leslie HopeAkela Cooper & Bill WolkoffMay 19, 2022 (2022-05-19)
The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of a colony of Illyrians, a species that are banned by the Federation due to their genetic engineering. As an ion storm approaches, members of the away team beam back to the ship after contracting a virus that causes them to be addicted to light. Number One has to reveal that she is an Illyrian to explain why she is immune, and a cure is synthesized from her blood. Trapped in the storm, Pike and Spock determine that the colonists were attempting to reverse their genetic modifications so they could join the Federation when they may have created the virus and transformed into plasma-like beings who protect the pair from the storm. Once everyone is cured, Pike and Spock return to the Enterprise where Number One attempts to resign. Pike refuses, and Number One later wonders whether he would have shown more prejudice if she had not helped save the crew. She learns that the virus got through the ship's automatic filter because chief medical officer Dr. M'Benga is using an outdated transporter to hold his sick daughter in stasis until he can cure her from cytokinesia.
4"Memento Mori"Dan LiuDavy Perez & Beau DeMayoMay 26, 2022 (2022-05-26)
The Enterprise crew attempt to deliver a nuclear-powered AP350 air filter to a Federation colony, but find many of the colonists dead. Security chief La'an Noonien-Singh helps evacuate the survivors and recognizes that this is a Gorn trap; she is the only survivor of a Gorn attack in her childhood. A Gorn ship attacks, doing significant damage to Enterprise, with M'Benga and Chapel resorting to 21st-century medicine to treat the wounded, including Number One, when their equipment goes offline. They lure the Gorn ship into the atmosphere of a brown dwarf near a black hole, where both ships' sensors and shields are useless. Spock is able to track the Gorn ship and they destroy it, but three more Gorn ships arrive. One is crushed by the pressure of the brown dwarf's atmosphere. Spock mind melds with Noonien-Singh to learn about the Gorn's communication system, and they use this to trick one ship to fire on the other. Enterprise then warps around the black hole, temporarily disappearing from view, and ejects the destabilizing AP350 which explodes and convinces the remaining Gorn ship that Enterprise is destroyed.
5"Spock Amok"Rachel LeitermanHenry Alonso Myers & Robin WassermanJune 2, 2022 (2022-06-02)
As the Enterprise undergoes repairs at Starbase 1, the crew go on shore leave. Number One and Noonien-Singh apprehend two ensigns conducting an unauthorized spacewalk, as part of a game popular among lower-ranked crew called "Enterprise Bingo", and discover their own reputations as fun-killers. They try the game out themselves and succeed. Spock finds himself frustrated in furthering his relationship with T'Pring. They undertake a special mind meld ceremony, but accidentally swap each other's katras. Spock attempts to carry out T'Pring's job convincing lapsed Vulcans to return to logic, only to resort to subduing one of them. Admiral April calls Pike and T'Pring (in Spock's body) to negotiate a treaty with the R'ongovians, a race known for their radical empathy, who are considering allying with the Federation, but also with either the Klingons or Romulans. Pike figures out the R'ongovians' motives and bluntly explains them, convincing the R'ongovians to sign the treaty. M'Benga and Chapel use medical technology to help Spock and T'Pring return each other's katras to their proper bodies. The two Vulcans consummate their relationship.
6"Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"Andi ArmaganianRobin Wasserman & Bill WolkoffJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
The Enterprise receives a distress call from a shuttlecraft under attack from a warship while returning to the planet Majalis. Uhura uses Enterprise's phasers to destroy the warship. The shuttlecraft personnel are beamed aboard: a boy designated the "First Servant", his father and physician Gamal, and Alora, president of Majalis, who is an old flame of Pike's. Alora enlists Pike to help return them to Majalis. Uhura and Noonien-Singh investigate the shipwreck and discover its origins in a rebellious colony of Majalis, and Gamal's involvement in a rebel plot. Gamal attempts to fake his son's death to save him, but the Servant decides to beam down to Majalis. Alora invites Pike to a ceremony; Pike sees a previous Servant's corpse, but a guard subdues him when he tries to stop the Servant from being connected to a machine. When Pike awakens, Alora reveals why she betrayed him: the rebels were opposed to Majalis' tradition of sacrificing children to preserve the planet's core systems. Pike warns Alora he plans to report this to Starfleet and escapes back to his ship. Gamal advises M'Benga on his daughter's condition and leaves Enterprise for the colony, hoping to save future Servants.
7"The Serene Squall"Sydney FreelandBeau DeMayo & Sarah TarkoffJune 16, 2022 (2022-06-16)
The Enterprise travels to a far-flung colony under attack from space pirates, and per Counselor Aspen's advice, rendezvouses with their ship Serene Squall, which Pike suspects is trafficking the colonists. Pike and a landing party beam over to the ship, only for its crew to board Enterprise, take the Starfleet officers hostage, and send the Serene Squall away. Number One and Ortegas stall the pirates while Spock and Aspen escape the bridge, but Aspen reveals themself to be the Serene Squall's captain, Angel, and forces T'Pring to warp over for their ultimatum: T'Pring releases Angel's husband, a prisoner she is attempting to rehabilitate, or she lets Angel kill Spock. T'Pring chooses the latter, but Spock pretends to break their engagement and kisses Chapel. Angel tries to fire on T'Pring's ship, but Pike warps in aboard the Serene Squall, having used his culinary skills and the threat of dealing with the Klingons to encourage a mutiny, and Number One locks Enterprise's controls. Angel flees; the other pirates surrender. Spock reassures T'Pring of his love for her and tells Chapel their friendship is strictly platonic, disclosing that he thinks Angel's husband is his half-brother Sybok.
8"The Elysian Kingdom"Amanda Row[18]Akela Cooper & Onitra JohnsonJune 23, 2022 (2022-06-23)
9"All Those Who Wander"UnknownDavy PerezJune 30, 2022 (2022-06-30)
10TBAChris Fisher[19]Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva GoldsmanJuly 7, 2022 (2022-07-07)

Christopher J. Byrne also directs for the season.[20]

Production

Background

When Alex Kurtzman, the co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Discovery, asked Akiva Goldsman to join that series as a supporting producer, Goldsman believed—based on internet rumors—that it was a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series that would follow the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. He was disappointed to find that this was not the case,[21] and with his encouragement the Enterprise was introduced in the first-season finale.[22] Then co-showrunner Aaron Harberts wanted to explore Pike, feeling that he had not been seen much in Star Trek, but was less interested in exploring Enterprise crew member Spock due to his many appearances throughout the franchise.[23] He was also reluctant to have an actor other than Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto portray the character.[24] However, Spock was confirmed to be included in the second season in April 2018.[25] Anson Mount was cast as Pike,[26] and he revealed in July that Rebecca Romijn would portray Original Series character Number One.[27] Mount and Romijn signed one-year deals for the series as part of the producers' attempt to align Discovery more closely with the wider Star Trek continuity than it was in the first season.[28] In August, Ethan Peck was revealed to have been cast as Spock.[29]

Development

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, reprising their roles from Star Trek: Discovery. Their characters first appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series.

In June 2018, after becoming sole showrunner of Discovery, Kurtzman signed a five-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios to expand the Star Trek franchise beyond Discovery to several new series, miniseries, and animated series.[30] Mount left Discovery following the second-season finale, and fans began calling for him to reprise his role in a spin-off series set on the Enterprise, alongside Romijn and Peck. Mount and Peck both responded positively to the idea.[31][32] Mount stated that filming Discovery was difficult and his return would involve "a lot of creative conversations",[33] but he later added that he had never had such a positive response to his work as he did for his role as Pike, which "changed [his] life".[34] Kurtzman also expressed interest in the idea, saying, "The fans have been heard. Anything is possible in the world of Trek."[35]

At the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, Kurtzman announced that the second season of companion series Star Trek: Short Treks would include three shorts starring the Enterprise actors. He said this was a way to bring those characters and actors back, but would not prevent them moving forward with a full spin-off series.[36] In January 2020, Kurtzman said active discussions regarding such a spin-off series had begun and he had been "tossing ideas back and forth" with Goldsman, who had moved from producing Discovery to co-showrunning Star Trek: Picard. Kurtzman said he would prefer for the potential spin-off to be an ongoing series rather than a miniseries, and said it could explore the seven years between Discovery's second season and the accident that seriously injures Pike in The Original Series.[37] Kurtzman soon stated that two unannounced Star Trek series were in development for CBS All Access,[38] and the spin-off was reported to be one of them in March.[39][40]

CBS All Access officially ordered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to series in May 2020, with Mount, Romijn, and Peck confirmed to be reprising their roles.[1] Kurtzman and Goldsman were confirmed to be executive producing alongside their fellow Star Trek producer Jenny Lumet, Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin and Aaron Baiers of Kurtzman's production company Secret Hideout, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, and Rod Roddenberry (the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry) and Trevor Roth of Roddenberry Entertainment. Akela Cooper and Davy Perez were set as co-executive producers.[1][2] Goldsman wrote the script for the series' first episode based on a story he wrote with Kurtzman and Lumet, and was set as showrunner alongside Myers. Goldsman would also remain an executive producer and co-showrunner on Picard.[1] Myers joked that "The Cage" (1965), the first pilot episode of The Original Series which stars the same main characters as Strange New Worlds, could be considered the pilot for the new series as well, making it "the longest pilot-to-series pickup in the history of television".[41]

In September 2020, ViacomCBS announced that CBS All Access would be expanded and rebranded as Paramount+ in March 2021.[42] A second season of Strange New Worlds was reported to be in development in November 2021,[43] which frequent Star Trek director Jonathan Frakes confirmed a month later.[44] Paramount+ officially announced the second-season order in January 2022.[45]

Writing

Goldsman had written the first episode by the time of the series' official announcement in May 2020,[1] and a writers room for the series was underway by July. Stories for the first 10 episodes were broken by the end of that month.[46] In August, Kurtzman said they had been able to get "quite ahead in scripts" for the series due to the COVID-19 pandemic postponing the start of production.[47] He felt that what audiences responded to when watching Pike, Spock, and Number One on Discovery was their "relentless optimism", and said Strange New Worlds would explore how Pike remains an optimistic leader despite learning about his tragic future during the second season of Discovery.[48] Myers wanted to take advantage of his own experience in comedy as well as the comedic talents of the series' cast to make the series lighter than the more dramatic Discovery and Picard,[12] feeling that the "purpose" of the series was to carry on the optimistic messages of The Original Series. It was important to him to explore contemporary social and political issues in the series, like all previous Star Trek projects had,[3] and to ignore elements of characterization from The Original Series that were no longer appropriate, such as its portrayal of female characters, in favor of a more modern approach with a "richer perspective".[7]

"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."

—Executive producer Alex Kurtzman on the series' old-fashioned storytelling[48]

Goldsman said the series was more episodic than Discovery and Picard, a style closer to The Original Series, though it does take advantage of serialized storytelling to develop character arcs.[49] Myers elaborated that the writers wanted to bring a "modern character sensibility" to "Star Trek in the way Star Trek stories were always told. It's a ship and it's traveling to strange new worlds and we are going to tell big ideas science fiction adventures in an episodic mode. So we have room to meet new aliens, see new ships, visit new cultures."[50] Since the series has just 10 episodes a season, unlike the 22 episodes that past episodic Star Trek seasons had, the producers felt Strange New Worlds was not able to "just [try] different things" and instead wanted to show its full potential by giving each episode a "dramatically" different genre and tone.[12]

Casting

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn star in the series, reprising their respective roles of Christopher Pike, Spock, and Una Chin-Riley / Number One from Star Trek: Discovery.[1] Their characters were first introduced in "The Cage", which starred Jeffrey Hunter as Pike, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, and Majel Barrett as Number One.[26][49] Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, and Melissa Navia were announced as additional series regulars with the start of filming.[2] Their roles were revealed in September 2021, with Bush cast in Barrett's other original series role of Nurse Christine Chapel, Gooding taking over the role of Nyota Uhura from Nichelle Nichols, and Olusanmokun replacing Booker Bradshaw as Dr. M'Benga. Chong and Navia were cast as new characters La'an Noonien-Singh and Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak was cast as Hemmer.[6][51]

The series premiere introduces two characters from The Original Series who have recurring roles in the first season: Gia Sandhu plays Spock's fiancée T'Pring, replacing Arlene Martel who portrayed the character in the Original Series episode "Amok Time";[13] and Dan Jeannotte plays George Samuel "Sam" Kirk—the brother to future Enterprise captain James T. Kirk—who was briefly portrayed by James T. Kirk actor William Shatner in the Original Series episode "Operation -- Annihilate!".[12] Myers acknowledged that they were interpreting some of "Amok Time" differently than fans had previously done in order to expand on T'Pring's role in Spock's life, but he felt this was necessary to be able to explore Spock in this stage of his life, and also allowed for T'Pring to be expanded on in interesting ways.[3] Another recurring guest introduced in the premiere is Adrian Holmes as Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise. The character first appeared in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter-Clock Incident", which depicted him as an older white man voiced by white actor James Doohan (who also played Montgomery Scott in The Original Series and The Animated Series). Additionally, the likeness of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, also white, was used by Michael Okuda to create a photograph of April in The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1994).[11] Explaining why Holmes, a black man, was cast in the role for Strange New Worlds, Myers stated that he and the other producers liked his performance and felt he had the gravitas to fill the character's "mythic" role in the series.[12] He also did not think that casting a black man would be a controversial change or take away from the character's appearance in The Animated Series, and felt that Roddenberry may have himself gone with more progressive casting if he was making the original series in the 21st century rather than the 1960s.[52] Okuda and "The Counter-Clock Incident" writer Fred Bronson both praised the casting of Holmes.[11]

In March 2022, Paul Wesley was revealed to have been cast in the role of James T. Kirk for the season, taking over the part from The Original Series star William Shatner.[14] Wesley's casting was announced before the premiere of the first season after he was spotted filming on location in Toronto. Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers cautioned fans about making assumptions regarding Kirk's involvement in the series, stating that the character was a guest who would not yet replace Pike as captain of the Enterprise and who could potentially be introduced in many different ways due to Strange New Worlds being a science fiction series. He added that they did not want to "leave a story on the table" and decided to explore a young Kirk in this time period after already exploring characters such as Spock, Uhura, and Chapel who appear alongside Kirk in The Original Series.[53]

Design

Designing for the series began by August 2020,[50] with Jonathan Lee serving as production designer.[5] Myers said they approached the look of the series as if Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was making The Original Series with modern technology and effects, keeping elements of the 1960s designs that still worked for a contemporary project and more sophisticated audience while avoiding the parts that looked "cheap". He compared this to the first Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), which also used its budget and resources to expand on the original designs.[3] Mount said the sets had a "mid-century modern look from the 1960s. There are some pieces that you might find in a super upscale version of Macy's in 1967. It retains that cool '60s vibe, but in an updated way".[34] The Enterprise sets for Strange New Worlds were updated from the Discovery ones,[54] with the bridge set being more compact and closer to the size of the Original Series set. The sets were designed to function like a practical starship, with moving components and pre-programmed monitor graphics that reacted to the actors.[5]

Gersha Phillips returned as costume designer from Discovery and was joined by Bernadette Cross.[55] The Starfleet uniforms were updated from the ones seen in Discovery,[54] with Mount calling them "a world of difference from the Discovery uniforms. They're a lot more forgiving, they fall more naturally, and there are fewer zippers involved. They are more of a throwback."[34] The uniforms retain the primary colors from The Original Series costumes, with yellow for command and control officers, blue for science officers, and red for communications, engineering, security, and tactical. Each division has an insignia that appears on their Starfleet badge, and for this series these were added as a pattern on the shoulders and arms of each tunic.[55] Female officers have the option to wear the standard tunic or a longer jacket with a similar look to the miniskirt-style uniforms that actresses wore on The Original Series. Dr. M'Benga's tunic is light blue and has a flap in the front to approximate the look of modern scrubs, while Nurse Chapel wears a white jumpsuit that is similar to the medical uniforms worn in Discovery.[56] The boots that the officers wear were created by shoe designer John Fluevog to be a more futuristic version of the "Cuban-style boots" from The Original Series. The leather boots have a metal Starfleet delta insignia on the ankle.[57]

Legacy Effects provided alien prosthetics for the series, with new alien species introduced in almost every episode.[58] Props were also redesigned: phasers, tricorders, and communicators all feature "retro" designs closer to those from The Original Series than Discovery.[59] The series' opening titles begin with a "start-up sequence" of the Enterprise with Mount giving the "Space: the final frontier..." monologue that was also used for Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is then followed by visuals of the Enterprise flying through various interstellar locations, similar to the "exploratory-style title sequence" from Star Trek: Voyager.[60]

Filming

With the series' announcement in May 2020, Goldsman said he was unsure when production would begin due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[49] but Kurtzman stated on August 12 that filming would take place in 2021.[47] Pre-production began on August 24,[61][62] with Kurtzman saying in October that filming would be a "systematised, militarised operation" due to the pandemic. The crew experienced this approach to filming first working on Discovery. He elaborated that filming would function in "pods" to minimize the potential spread of the virus, and added that, due to the pandemic delays, the series would begin filming with more completed scripts than is usual for Star Trek.[63]

Filming began on February 18, 2021,[64][65] at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, under the working title Lily and Isaac.[64] Despite feeling that he was not a "visual director", Goldsman wanted to establish the tone of the series by directing the first episode because he had been thinking about it since he started working on Discovery. Goldsman worked with cinematographer Glen Keenan,[66] who was the lead director of photography for the series after serving the same role on the second and third seasons of Discovery.[67] Magdalena Górka also served as a cinematographer for the first season.[68] Keenan brought back Cooke Optics' Anamorphic/i Special Flare lenses from Discovery, and also used the Anamorphic/i Full Frame Plus SF lenses. Coincidentally, cinematographer Philip Lanyon chose to use the full frame format lenses as well on the fourth season of Discovery around the same time that Keenan selected them for this series.[67]

Due to pandemic restrictions, scenes on the bridge were the only time that the whole main cast could film together. Mount played music on set those days to help them bond.[5] Paramount+ constructed a video wall to allow for virtual production on the series as well as the fourth season of Discovery, based on the StageCraft technology that was developed for the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.[69][70] The new virtual set was built in Toronto by visual effects company Pixomondo, and features a 270-degree, 70 feet (21 m) by 30 feet (9.1 m) horseshoe-shaped LED volume with additional LED panels in the ceiling to aid with lighting. The technology uses the game engine software Unreal Engine to display computer-generated backgrounds on the LED screens in real-time during filming, which visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman noted was especially useful for creating the planets that are visited in the series;[70] additional filming for the series to support these visual effects took place in New Mexico.[71] Zimmerman oversaw the installation and use of the volume remotely from Los Angeles.[70] It took at least four months to create each background that is displayed on the video wall, including the Enterprise's engineering set which Myers said was unlike any engineering set created for Star Trek thanks to the new technology.[58]

Goldsman finished filming the first episode by early April 2021, except for scenes requiring large groups of extras that could not be filmed due to limits on the number of people allowed on set during the pandemic. He hoped to finish those scenes soon after.[54] The showrunners encouraged the other directors to bring a unique look and tone to highlight the series' episodic approach, with Meyers saying "sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's horrific, sometimes it's dramatic, and sometimes it's sad".[58] Later in April, a guest actor for the series flew from Vancouver to Toronto before testing positive for COVID-19. They had been in contact with a few crewmembers during a costume fitting before the positive test was returned, and those people were quarantined per the studio's protocols. Filming for the series was not impacted by the incident,[72] with frequent Star Trek director Maja Vrvilo beginning production on the second episode by April 26.[73] Filming for the seventh episode took place in the week of May 31 with Sydney Freeland directing, followed by Amanda Row directing the eighth episode in the week of May 7.[18] Filming for the season finale began on July 7,[74] with Chris Fisher directing.[19] Principal production concluded on July 24,[75] with additional photography for the season taking place later and wrapping on October 11.[76]

Filming for the second season began on February 1, 2022,[77][78] again under the working title Lily and Isaac.[79] By March 14, Row had begun directing the third episode of the season.[80] Jonathan Frakes travelled to Toronto during the week of April 4 to direct an episode for the season, after he was prevented from working on the first season by changes to his directing schedule on Picard caused by the pandemic.[81] Filming for the sixth episode had begun by the week of April 11.[58] Production for the second season is expected to last until June 29.[78]

Music

By December 2020, Discovery and Picard composer Jeff Russo had discussed Strange New Worlds with Kurtzman, including how it "should be treated musically", but whether Russo would be involved in the spin-off's score had yet to be determined at that point.[82] In February 2022, Russo was revealed to have written the main titles music for the series, with Nami Melumad composing the rest of the score. By the time of the announcement, Melumad—who previously composed the music for Star Trek: Prodigy and an episode of Short Treks—had been recording her music for several months at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios in California.[83][84] A smaller orchestra was used for the first season than Russo used for Discovery and Picard. The orchestra was recorded together while still accommodating COVID-19 safety protocols. Melumad approached each episode of the series as if it was a feature film, was able to develop some recurring motifs, and included some references to past Star Trek music.[84] Russo's main theme is a modern adaptation of Alexander Courage's original Star Trek theme.[60]

Marketing

Kurtzman promoted the series during a virtual "Star Trek Universe" panel for the Comic-Con@Home convention in July 2020,[46] where Mount, Romijn, and Peck participated in a table read of Discovery's second-season finale and teased details about Strange New Worlds.[85][46] On September 8, 2020, CBS All Access streamed a free 24-hour event to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Original Series's premiere. It included a marathon of episodes from across the Star Trek franchise, with a break during the day for panels about different Star Trek series. These included the first official Strange New Worlds panel, with Mount, Romijn, Peck, Goldsman, Myers, Cooper, and Perez discussing the new series and their approach to developing it.[86][50] In February 2021, Mount and Peck appeared in a marketing campaign for Super Bowl LV, advertising the rebranded streaming service Paramount+.[87] A video introducing each of the series' main cast members and their characters was released during the Star Trek Day 2021 virtual event, celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Original Series.[6]

Cast and crew promoted the series at the Television Critics Association February 2022 event, where the first poster was revealed.[77] Later that month, as fan anticipation was "building towards the release of the official trailer", a teaser was revealed during a Paramount investors call. The company did not want footage from the call to be made widely available, and had several social media posts and fan accounts taken down for circulating screenshots of the footage.[88] In March, the first teaser was officially released online, with Amanda Kooser of c|net saying it was "pretty different" from the one that was shown during the investor call, with the official teaser taking a more "atmospheric approach". She compared its footage of Pike riding a horse in snow to the series Yellowstone.[89] Other commentators also noted the focus on atmosphere, especially highlighting Romijn's narration.[90][91][92][93] James Whitbrook of Gizmodo speculated about the status of Pike at the beginning in the series and the impact that the second season of Discovery has had on him,[90] while Witney Seibold of /Film opined that, despite the series' title, the teaser indicated it was "not about being strange and new. It is about being traditional and comforting. After some of the more recent Star Trek shows... perhaps this retreat to the familiar is a wise move."[91]

Character promos for the main cast were released during the week of March 28, with teasers focusing on Uhura and La'an released on March 29, Ortegas and Hemmer on March 30, M'Benga and Chapel on March 31, Spock and Number One on April 1, and Pike on April 2.[94] These led to the release of the official trailer and key art for the series on April 3, with a version of the trailer also being shown during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on that day. The release of the trailer began a week of celebrations for "First Contact Day", marking the fictional holiday of April 5 when first contact between humans and aliens was made in the Star Trek universe.[95] Ryan Parker of The Hollywood Reporter said the trailer had "eye-popping sci-fi action and dashes of nostalgia",[96] while Maggie Lovitt of Collider said it had "the best of both worlds, combining beloved characters from The Original Series with the awe-inspiring and engaging stories that has made Star Trek: Discovery a fan favorite".[97] Writing for Inverse, Ryan Britt felt the series was being presented as the most "mainstream" franchise iteration since the 2009 reboot film with a "zippy, old-school, swashbuckling space adventure" tone that matched The Original Series combined with a modern approach to sets and effects similar to the reboot films. Britt felt some "hardcore fans" would take issue with this due to wanting the series to "actually look like it was filmed in the 1960s. But, the overall goal of Strange New Worlds feels too populist to care. Like the reboots, this series is going for a big audience."[98]

Later in April, a panel for the series was held at the Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention where the cast and crew discussed the first season and revealed a full clip from the first episode that had been seen in part during the character promos.[58] Fans at the convention were able to pre-order their own Starfleet boots—in gray (for medical) or standard black—from shoe designer John Fluevog, with the boots becoming available for purchase at Fluevog outlets later in 2022.[57] Mission Chicago also had an exhibit of costumes and props from the series which was then moved to the Paley Center for Media in New York City for a larger exhibit called "The Visionary Universe of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", running from April 27 to May 29. The first public screening of the series' first two episodes took place at the Paley Center on May 1,[99] following a gold carpet premiere event on April 30.[7]

Release

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ in the United States, Latin America, Australia, and the Nordics on May 5, 2022.[95] The first 10-episode season is being released weekly until July 7, and the second season is expected to premiere in 2023.[17] The series is released in Canada by Bell Media (broadcast on CTV Sci-Fi Channel before streaming on Crave),[100] in New Zealand on TVNZ, and in India on Voot. It will be released in other countries and territories as Paramount+ becomes available there.[101]

Reception

According to Whip Media, who track viewership data for the 19 million worldwide users of their TV Time app, Strange New Worlds was the second-most anticipated new series of May 2022 behind Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi.[102] Variety also named it one of the 40 most anticipated series of 2022.[103]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 98% approval score with an average rating of 8.4/10 based on 46 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Strange New Worlds treks across familiar territory to refreshing effect, its episodic structure and soulful cast recapturing the sense of boundless discovery that defined the franchise's roots."[104] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 77 out of 100 based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[105]

Tie-in media

The first tie-in novel for the series was announced in April 2022 as The High Country, from author John Jackson Miller. It was set to be published by Gallery Books on February 21, 2023, and tell an original story about Pike and the crew having to abandon ship during a mission. Miller, the author of many Star Trek tie-in novels, previously wrote The Enterprise War that explored Pike and the Enterprise before the second season of Discovery.[106]

Notes

  1. ^ As depicted in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery

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