Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 & 5 Tease 'Final Boss Energy'

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actors tease the upcoming seasons 4 and 5 as the best of the series. Paramount+ officially confirmed that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 premieres Thursday, July 23. Season 4 will consist of 10 episodes, while Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 5 will be 6 episodes and is expected to premiere on Paramount+ in 2027.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's teaser trailer promises a return to intergalactic exploration, with visits to a prehistoric planet of dinosaurs and even a chance for Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) to cowboy up. However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will continue season 3's genre-bending "big swings," including a puppet episode.

TrekMovie and their partner TrekBrasilis spoke to Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Paul Wesley about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 at CCXP Mexico. Gooding teased the "final boss energy" of Strange New Worlds' final two seasons, among other fascinating hints. Read their quotes below:

TrekMovie: Some of you have said season 4 is the best, so what is the big difference with the new season?

Rebecca Romijn: I think season 4 and 5 are two best… I think we’re all so comfortable in our characters at this point and our relationships with each other.

Paul Wesley: I also think the writing has always been spectacular, but there’s something about how the episodes roll into one another in seasons 4 and 5 that is just really compelling.

Celia Rose Gooding: Yeah, I think it has a bit of kind of final boss energy. We’re going to the farthest extreme of the strangeness and the newness. And I think that’s what makes those two seasons so impactful and dynamic.

TrekMovie: Season 4 has the full 10 episodes, but season 5 is shorter with 6 episodes. How was the process different with the shorter season for you and your characters?

Celia Rose Gooding: If Season 4 was senior year, Season 5 was like summer camp. All of season 5 felt very celebratory and referential, it felt very good to do. It didn’t feel as sad as I thought it was going to be, I thought it was cool.

Rebecca Romijn: I felt very lucky that we had a season 5 and that we were able to wrap up all of our characters’ stories in a really nice way. Obviously we know the next chapter, so it’s not the end of the story. I felt very grateful and lucky that we got to have a season 5.

Paul Wesley: I’m excited about the series finale.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have also hailed season 4 as their best season. The cast and producers agree that season 4 contains their strongest work, after the lukewarm fan reception to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Perhaps even more compelling is Celia Rose Gooding calling Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 5 "celebratory and referential." It's no secret that the final season of Strange New Worlds is meant to transition to Star Trek: The Original Series, with Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) taking command of the USS Enterprise, hence Wesley being excited about the series finale.

The remaining 2 seasons and 16 episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds not only plan to tell bold new stories that, as Gooding says, go to "the farthest extreme of the strangeness and the newness," but they will also wrap up the stories of the USS Enterprise's crew, positioning everyone towards their destinies.

Arguably the most popular Star Trek series on Paramount+, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, along with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's second and final season, also bears the added responsibility and pressure of likely closing out Alex Kurtzman's 10-year era of Star Trek on Paramount+ in 2027. But if anyone can do it, it's the crew of the Starship Enterprise.