Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the tenth overall Star Trek spin-off series, and the first direct spin-off of  that was announced on . It was produced by CBS Studios and stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley.

Premise 
The official announcement stated that "the series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the , as they explore new worlds around the galaxy." 

Executive Producer and Co-creator Akiva Goldsman told Variety, "We're going to try to harken back to some classical 'Trek' values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic. Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you've seen in either Discovery or Picard. ... I imagine it to be closer to The Original Series than even DS9. We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece." 

When talking to Deadline on 16 August 2020 Co-executive Producer Alex Kurtzman elaborated, "I think Strange New Worlds, under the guidance of [showrunners] Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, it's going to be a return in a way to TOS []. 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. With these characters pre-Kirk's Enterprise... I think what people responded so much to in all three characters is this kind of relentless optimism that they have. And that they are at the young phase of their careers."

Cast

Starring 
 Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike
 Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock
 Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel
 Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh
 Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura
 Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas
 Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. Joseph M'Benga
 Bruce Horak as Hemmer (Season 1)
And
 Rebecca Romijn as Number One

Recurring roles 
 Shawn Ahmed as Shankar
 Rong Fu as Jenna Mitchell
 Adrian Holmes as Robert April
 Jennifer Hui as 
 Dan Jeannotte as George Samuel Kirk
 André Dae Kim as Kyle
 Gia Sandhu as T'Pring
 Melanie Scrofano as Batel

Episode list

Season 1
SNW Season 1, 10 episodes:

Season 2
SNW Season 2, 10 episodes:

Production history 
When the news of showrunner Alex Kurtzman's five-year Star Trek development deal with CBS All Access was announced on 19 June 2018, a show dealing with Christopher Pike, Spock, and the  was not considered for inclusion in any Star Trek line-up.  

 characters, Christopher Pike, Number One, and Spock, were introduced for season two of Discovery and were signed only for that season.   It prompted Anson Mount to quip with a "#WillActForFood" hashtag on his Twitter account, making it known that he and Spock performer Ethan Peck were on the job market again shortly after live-action production on season two had wrapped.  Following the positive reception to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, fans circulated a petition in support more appearances of Mount as Captain Pike and Peck as Spock, including the idea of a full new series.  Mount expressed support for the fan petition, stating he felt "humbled and deeply touched by this amount of love" in an 14 April 2019 Facebook entry.    Peck also expressed interest in returning to the role of Spock. 

Mount, Romijn, and Peck reprised their roles in three late 2019 season two episodes of .

Inception 
In January 2020, Kurtzman confirmed he and Akiva Goldsman were having "active conversations" about a new series involving the crew of the Enterprise. 

On 15 May 2020, CBS announced a new series "based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the USS Enterprise."  The announcement included that Strange New Worlds would feature Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Ethan Peck as Mr. Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, all reprising their roles from the second season of .

Development 
 See: Season 1 background information

 presented  as the pilot to this series, as opposed to .

Prior to its premiere, Paramount+  that viewers could prepare for the launch of the new series by specifically checking out the DIS Season 2 episodes:

 Episode 1 - 
 Episode 8 - 
 Episode 12 - 
 Episode 14 - 

StarTrek.com presented its own list of  before the premiere. In addition to the aforementioned Discovery episode "Through the Valley of Shadows", this list of original series episodes served more as a primer for familiarizing or refamiliarizing viewers with the series' cast: 

 +

Promotion
Season 1

Products
In , Eaglemoss/Hero Collector's Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection premiered at retail. A new starship miniatures partwork and product line, it would have featured Strange New Worlds starships, combined with ships from  (after the release of issue 33 of the DIS partwork) and . The line's manager indicated that CGI assets of SNW's starships had not yet been received from the show's producers, as of February 2021, which was not that surprising as actual production on the new series had yet to start at that point in time.  

Eaglemoss' bankruptcy on 5 August 2022 thwarted all intents to release Strange New Worlds starships and none were, save one. Replicas of Pike's USS Enterprise though, had previously been produced by the company as part of the Discovery partwork collection, as it had already debuted in that series.

Related topics 
 SNW directors
 SNW performers
 SNW writers
 SNW studio models

Media 
 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novels

External links 
 
 

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