It’s the Enterprise vs. the Gorn in Strange New Worlds clip

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Also: a new clip for Lower Decks and premiere date for Section 31 with Michelle Yeoh.

Sneak peek at S3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

 

The Star Trek franchise made its presence known with a special panel during New York City Comic-Con this past weekend. Among the highlights: Paramount unveiled a three-minute preview clip from the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and a clip from the upcoming final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

 

In other news, while the first season of new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is still in production, Paramount has already renewed it for a second season and revealed that Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany will be a recurring guest on the series. Tig Notaro, Oded Fehr, and Mary Wiseman will reprise their Discovery roles as Jett Reno, Admiral Vance, and Sylvia Tilly, respectively. And Robert Picardo of Star Trek: Voyager will be back as The Doctor—in a show set 900 years after the hologram physician first appeared.

 

The studio also announced an official premiere date and poster art for the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff film Section 31 starring Michelle Yeoh: January 24, 2025. Miku Martineau plays a young Phillipa Georgiou in the film, which will give us the backstory for Georgiou's evil Mirror Universe counterpart, where she was a despotic emperor who murdered millions of her own people. Meanwhile, Yeoh's older Georgiou is tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets as part of a black ops group called Section 31 while dealing with all the blood she's spilled in her past.

 

(Some spoilers for Strange New Worlds S2 below.)

Strange New Worlds

We haven't seen much yet  from the forthcoming season of Strange New Worlds, beyond an exclusive clip during San Diego Comic Con this summer. As previously reported, that clip was a callback to the S2 episode "Charades," in which a higher-dimensional race, the Kerkohvians, accidentally reconfigured Spock's half-human, half-Vulcan physiology to that of a full-blooded human—just before Spock was supposed to meet his Vulcan fiancee's parents. The S3 clip had the situation reversed: The human crew had to make themselves Vulcan to succeed on a new mission. They succeeded in record time but weren't able to change back.

 

We also learned that Cillian O'Sullivan will join the recurring cast as Dr. Roger Korby. ToS fans will recognize that name; it's a legacy character (originally played by Michael Strong). Korby was a renowned archaeologist in the field of medical archaeology, introduced in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?' as Nurse Chapel's long-missing fiancé. That's bound to cause problems for SNW's Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), who is currently romantically involved with Spock.

 

The S2 finale found the Enterprise under vicious attack by the Gorn, who were in the midst of invading one of the Federation's colony worlds. The new footage shown at NYCC picked up where the finale left off, giving us the kind of harrowing high-stakes pitched space battle against a ferocious enemy that has long been a hallmark of the franchise. With the ship's shields down to 50 percent, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and his team brainstorm possible counter-strategies to ward off the Gorn and find a way to rendezvous with the rest of Starfleet. They decide to try to jam the Gorns' communications so they can't coordinate their attacks, which involves modulating the electromagnetic spectrum since the Gorn use light for ship-to-ship communications.

 

They also need to figure out how to beam crew members trapped on a Gorn ship back onto the Enterprise—except the Gorn ships are transporter-resistant. The best of all the bad options is a retreat and rescue, tracking the Gorn ship across light-years of space using "wolkite, a rare element that contains subspace gauge bosons," per Spock (Ethan Peck). Finally, the crew decides to just ram the Gorn Destroyer, and the footage ends with a head-to-head collision, firing torpedoes, and the Enterprise on the brink of warping itself out of there, no doubt in the nick of time.

 

Oh, and apparently Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death) will guest star in an as-yet-undisclosed role, which should be fun. Strange New Worlds S3 will premiere sometime in 2025, and the series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

Lower Decks

The final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks premieres this week.

 

Ars staffers are big fans of Lower Decks, so we were saddened when we learned that the animated series would be ending with its fifth season. Paramount gave us a teaser in July during San Diego Comic-Con, in which we learned that their plucky crew's S5 mission involves a "quantum fissure" that is causing "space potholes" to pop up all over the Alpha Quadrant ("boo interdimensional portals!"), and the Cerritos crew must close them—while navigating angry Klingons and an Orion war.

 

The new clip opens with Mariner walking in and asking "What's the mish?" only to discover it's another quantum fissure. When the fissure loses integrity, the Cerritos gets caught in the gravitational wake, and when it emerges, seemingly unscathed, the ship is hailed—by the Cerritos from an alternate dimension, captained by none other than Mariner, going by Captain Becky Freeman. ("Stupid dimensional rifts!") It's safe to assume that wacky hijinks ensue.

 

The final season of Lower Decks premieres on Paramount+ on October 24, 2024, and will run through December 19.

 

Credit: Paramount+

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