‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season

[Noname Given]

Surprised they publicly announced it would be ending so soon.

Why? They're filming the 4th season now - so IMO better to just okay the 5th so the Writers room (which they feel has been good for the run of the series) stays together and they get full use out of the Canadian studio before maybe the shit hits the fan WRT the merger.

It also preps the hard core fans and maybe even makes them be sure to tune into all the 26 remaining episodes.

TLDR: There's really zero downside and if PICARD and Discovery are any indication, a marketing upside.

 

[UssGlenn]

We still don't know what Skydance is going to do, assuming the merger happens. With this much run-up time anything could happen. they could even uncancel it. Stranger things have happened.

 

[fireproof78]

Why? They're filming the 4th season now - so IMO better to just okay the 5th so the Writers room (which they feel has been good for the run of the series) stays together and they get full use out of the Canadian studio before maybe the shit hits the fan WRT the merger.

It also preps the hard core fans and maybe even makes them be sure to tune into all the 26 remaining episodes.

TLDR: There's really zero downside and if PICARD and Discovery are any indication, a marketing upside.

Given the intensely negative response to any cancellation notices for shows I don't blame them. They're try to avoid any backlash further than what will occur

 

[Tuskin38]

Pike's accident isn't the reason Kirk takes command, the accident doesn't happen until around 2 years later, if we go by Memory-Alpha's dating.

It happens either around 2267 based off Spock's dialogue in The Menagerie, or in 2266 if we go off Spock's dialogue in SNW Season 1 finale.

Or 2269 if we go by Pike's dialogue in an earlier episode of season 1, but we can just pretend he was rounding up for some reason.

My theory is that was the writer accidentally counted from the Discovery Season 2 episode where Pike finds out, which took place in 2257.

 

[The Wormhole]

Surprised they publicly announced it would be ending so soon.

It was probably going to leak imminently so they decided to get ahead of the leak by making an official announcement of it.

 

[Quinton]

It was probably going to leak imminently so they decided to get ahead of the leak by making an official announcement of it.

This could indeed be it; I mean, the WGA season five listing literally popped up a couple of days ahead of the announcement.