We’ve not even seen the FIRST SEASON of the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series,
but now we find ourselves asking, has Strange New Worlds already been renewed for a second season?
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The spin-off of Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is set to follow the Adventures of Pike, Spock and Number One on the USS Enterprise before Kirk’s captaincy is set to be released sometime next year.
However it looks like the show has already been renewed for a second season so let's break this news down and talk about what this might mean for the show going forward.
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For those who might not know Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will follow the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike, the captain of the USS Enterprise before James Tiberius Kirk became captain.
Pike is joined by his analytical first officer commander Una Chin-Riley aka Number One and his senior science officer Mr Spock.
These characters appeared in Star Trek: Discovery season 2 but used that season as a springboard for their own show which is coming later next year.
Before the show was announced many fans were asking for such a show to be made having seen how great Anson Mount pike was during the second season of Star Trek Discovery.
It doesn't seem to have just been fans though as co-showrunner for Strange New Worlds,
Akiva goldsman originally thought Discovery was going to be about pike and he was disappointed when it wasn't about pike at all, but he decided to use this opportunity to push for a Pike series, and lo and behold it happened!
We don't know much about the first season of Strange New World’s, let alone what a second season would hold for both us as the viewer and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
Though it does look like the show has been renewed for a second season, with news about this coming from multiple different sources.
SpoilerTV first pointed out that Strange New Worlds had been renewed for it’s second season, followed by a sighting in Production Weekly. Since then, most online publications have jumped on to talk more about a possible Season Two of the upcoming series.
For now, ViacomCBS have not announced anything, and likely won’t until the first season airs.
A similar thing happened with Star Trek: Picard. We heard reports about it being renewed ahead of time, but it was not until the premiere of Season One, that CBS finally confirmed Season 2 was in production, so it is something we expect by now.
The first season of Strange New World’s only recently finished filming, with it currently being in post-production.
So when the actors might return to filming or at least we might hear some more casting news, will be sometime next year.
So let's go over what we currently know about the first season of Strange New Worlds.
First off we will talk about the premise of the show.
Obviously it's about Pike as we've said multiple times in this video, but strange new worlds seeks to return to the episodic storytelling style of the original series and other Legacy Star Trek shows.
However, even though we will be getting the situation of the week and how the crew of the USS Enterprise will be solving these issues, emotional beats and character development will continue past the episode.
So if a character goes through something traumatic they won't simply forget it by the next episode, such as all the traumatic things chief O'Brien goes through , yet is perfectly fine and the next episode. Seriously, that guy needs to break.
So as we return to more episodic storytelling, who will be the characters that we follow week to week?
Well recently at Star Trek Day in September we got character reveals for the crew of the USS Enterprise.
From those we know such as Pike, number one and Spock. To old faces like Dr M’Benga, nurse Christine Chapel and famously a Cadet Nyota Uhura from the original series who also served on the USS Enterprise under Captain Kirk.
Joining these Legacy characters are new characters from the aenar hemmer, a subspecies of andorian we see in Star Trek Enterprise, La’an noonien Singh who shares a name with a notable Trek villain of Khan noonien Singh and a lieutenant Erica ortega's.
We have done character breakdowns on some of these newer characters and what they might mean going forward so check them out if you want to know more!
So now that we know some of the characters that will be joining us in season 1 of Star Trek strange new worlds, what about season 2? Let's look at each character and what might happen.
Nurse Christine Chapel is still aboard the USS Enterprise under Kirk's era so I don't expect a lot from her.
The only thing we know about her from before that time is that she gave up a career in bio-research to look for her fiance Dr Roger Korby, Who they find in the tos episode “what are little girls made of?”.
So we might get some more information on that relationship, possibly with Dr. Korby only disappeared recently, with Cristine dealing with that.
We know that the last message Nurse Chapel received from Korby was around 5 years before they find him, so 2261, so we may see said message in season 2 or 3 of the show.
Dr M’Benga is a very interesting character because he serves as chief medical officer on the USS Enterprise under Kirk when McCoy is not around.
However it seems that he is the chief medical officer aboard the USS Enterprise under Pike.
So we could see M’Benga leave the ship and return at a later date having found that his role as chief medical officer has already been taken by Doctor McCoy.
The characters which are the most unknown are Hemmer, La’an Noonien Singh and Erica Ortegas, since these are new characters.
So these characters have the most that can be done with them as they are a blank slate so they could be killed in action or simply move on to another ship or retire from Starfleet
there are many options available and it will be interesting to see what happens though I do hope we do stick with this crew with maybe the odd introduction or reduction to give it that TOS feel of a singular crew on a five-year journey.
With the time period before that of TOS, we could see some TOS one shot characters
and expand them more, such as how Discovery expanded upon Harcourt Fenton Mudd in Season 1 of its show.
From starfleet characters such as Commodore Decker to Garth of Izar.
The only thing the show has to do is take care with Spock and Uhura as TOS characters, to not have them meet characters or interact with characters which they meet for the first time in TOS.
Apart from all that, we have no idea of what Season 2 of Strange New Worlds might have in store for us, but we are massively looking forward to this show and to see more adventures of the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike!
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season one, is set to air sometime in 2022.
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