Overview

• Paramount+ confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con that Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrapped filming and is slated to premiere in 2026.
• An all-puppet installment directed by Jordan Canning will transform the Enterprise crew with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop bringing the characters to life.
• The series has been renewed for a six-episode fifth season designed to fulfill the narrative promise of transitioning command from Captain Pike to Captain Kirk.
• Showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers call a spin-off chronicling Paul Wesley’s Kirk in his first year their “100 percent” dream, though no formal talks have begun.
• Strange New Worlds remains Paramount+’s only live-action Trek in production and leverages Comic-Con for early screenings and fan engagement.