‘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.

 

[Tuskin38]

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

It did leak via the WGA site a few days before the announcement.

 

[Elaise]

Star Trek is in some deep shit again.

It left?

 

[Paul Weaver]

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.

I suspect the exact letter of the Menagerie won't be held to, certainly not the implication (it was implied that Kirk met Pike when Kirk took command, and that was it - we've seen a far closer relationship so far). I wouldn't worry about the integrity of the record tapes on the Enterprise for example.

 

[Tuskin38]

(it was implied that Kirk met Pike when Kirk took command, and that was it - we've seen a far closer relationship so far).

When Kirk first sees Pike in TOS, he calls him Chris and talks very informally to him, that implies they knew each other more than just a command hand over.

 

[HotRod]

When Kirk first sees Pike in TOS, he calls him Chris and talks very informally to him, that implies they knew each other more than just a command hand over.

This.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

When Kirk first sees Pike in TOS, he calls him Chris and talks very informally to him, that implies they knew each other more than just a command hand over.

I think the line was something like "I met him when he was promoted to fleet captain". There was an ep in SNW where they temporarily promoted Pike to fleet captain and then he met Kirk.....

 

[TheFlutteringHorde]

Even if it were the case that they didn't know one another, I'd be fine with retconning that. It's more interesting than Kirk just being some rando who takes command.

 

[DaveyNY]

I find it rather hard to believe that someone like Kirk, who was obviously on the path to commanding his own starship someday, would not know Captain Pike when Pike seems to be the 'Favored Child' of Starfleet Command.
(Admiral April's insistence that Pike return to duty in the first episode is a good example of that)

One would think that all the junior officers out of the Academy being groomed for command, would at some point, be rotated to Captain Pike's ship just for the experience.
Pike is the type of Commander that would probably remember them all.

 

[fireproof78]

I suspect the exact letter of the Menagerie won't be held to, certainly not the implication (it was implied that Kirk met Pike when Kirk took command, and that was it - we've seen a far closer relationship so far). I wouldn't worry about the integrity of the record tapes on the Enterprise for example.

It was implied he met him, not that that was the only meeting. Kirk proceeds to address Pike informally, rather than as a superior officer he only met once.

I wouldn't worry about the integrity of the record tapes regardless. TOS are not the record tapes.

 

[MarcKle1964]

I wouldn't worry about the integrity of the record tapes regardless. TOS are not the record tapes.

They're not?? Oh no

https://www.retromoviebuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Galaxy-Quest_Thermians.jpeg

 

[fireproof78]

They're not??

https://www.retromoviebuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Galaxy-Quest_Thermians.jpeg

Well, I can't say for 100% certainty. I haven't been to the 23rd or 28th century to see if Captain Kirk is around.

 

[oktay]

4. Strange New Worlds - “Canceled”, but given a fifth season to wrap; another case of a fairly robust five seasons, and hard to really say whether it’s ending prematurely save for the fact that the final season will have its length clipped

SNW has not been cancelled. It is one thing to cancel a season after it has been filmed or aired. It is another thing to approve a final season before filming has even started.

 

[Quinton]

SNW has not been cancelled. It is one thing to cancel a season after it has been filmed or aired. It is another thing to approve a final season before filming has even started.

I know! That’s why I put it in quotation marks. Production has been “canceled”, but in the best possible sense.

 

[oktay]

I don't know if it's in this title or the other one, but someone said that the ending of Discovery was open-ended. I don't agree with that, they shot the best ending with the means they had and it was closed. The ending of LD and Prodigy was 'it would be okay if it continued, but it would be okay if it didn't.'

Also, I think a series that is going to be on streaming services today should last at least 3 seasons and at most 5 seasons. And I don't think they should go any further than that. 5 seasons is good for such expensive Star Trek series, the biggest problem here is that the last seasons of Discovery and Lower Decks were not made with the intention of being their final seasons in the first place.