Promising new adventures and new romances, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 continues the episodic, genre-bending format that has proved to be a hit with critics and audiences, as well as hardcore Trekkers and mainstream viewers. Strange New Worlds has established that it can balance comedy, action, sci-fi, and horror, and take bold risks never seen in Star Trek before.
Here are 10 reasons why Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will deliver a banger season 3 for the crew of the USS Enterprise.
10Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2’s Gorn Cliffhanger Will Be Resolved After 2 Years
Maybe The Gorn Will Be In The Starship Enterprise's Rearview Mirror
It's incredible that the last new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered in August 2023. For two years, fans have waited to see the resolution of the USS Enterprise's crisis with the Gorn Hegemony, and how Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) will rescue his crew members kidnapped by the Gorn.
9New Christina Chong Music Accompanies Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
Christina Is Dropping All-New Tracks With Her Strange New Worlds Cast
A new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also means new music from Christina Chong. One of the standouts of Star Trek's first-ever musical episode, Christina released an EP titled "Twin Flames" in 2023, timed with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2. Chong followed it up at the end of the year with a naughty single, "Fck U 4 Xmas."
Accompanying Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's premiere, Christina Chong is back with new music. Her first new single, "Baby Blue Day," features vocals by Ethan Peck, and Christina's upcoming tracks will also include other Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members. Rumor has it that even Anson Mount may sing in one of Chong's new songs.
8Patton Oswalt Will Guest Star In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
He Plays A Vulcan Named Doug
Possible options for Patton Oswalt's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 episode are episode 6, "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" and episode 8, "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans."
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's trailer ends with a tag of Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) mocking Doug for being "too slow" with his high-fives. Patton Oswalt is nerd royalty, of course, and Patton playing a Vulcan in Star Trek promises to be fascinating.
7Dr. Roger Korby Joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Another Rooster In Nurse Chapel's Henhouse
The first guest star announced for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, and one of the most anticipated, is Cillian O'Sullivan as Dr. Roger Korby. Star Trek: The Original Series fans know Korby (Michael Strong) as the former fiancé of Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry). Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 depicts how Korby and Nurse Chapel's (Jess Bush) romance began.
6Rhys Darby Will Guest Star In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Is He Playing Who We Think He's Playing?
Another exciting and unpredictable Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 guest star is Rhys Darby, the New Zealand comic actor best known for playing Captain Stede Bonnet in HBO's Our Flag Means Death. Darby is playing an unknown character, yet one who seems very familiar to Star Trek: The Original Series' fans.
Given Rhys Darby's costume and appearance in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, fans speculate that he is playing Trelane, who was originally played by William Campbell in Star Trek: The Original Series' "The Squire of Gothos." If so, how this will affect or alter Star Trek canon remains to be seen, but Darby's comic energy should be electric on Strange New Worlds.
5Captain Batel Survives The Gorn In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
What Does It Mean To Survive A Gorn Infection?
Captain Batel only becomes more compelling because she lives.
Captain Batel's story isn't necessarily over when it comes to the Gorn, as she is poised to be the first human known to survive a Gorn infection. What this could mean for Batel and her relationship with Captain Christopher Pike remains to be seen. However, Captain Batel only becomes more compelling because she lives in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.
4Uhura Finally Gets A Star Trek Love Interest
With Ortegas' Baby Brother
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has made great strides in giving Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) a backstory and agency that Star Trek: The Original Series failed to offer Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Strange New Worlds season 3 looks to correct another decades-old error by giving Uhura her first romance.
It looks like Ensign Uhura may find love with Beto Ortegas (Mynor Luken), the younger brother of Lieutenant Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia). Nyota and Beto is bound to irritate his big sister, who is also Uhura's best friend. Sparks should fly on the Starshop Enterprise, and it's long overdue for Uhura.
3More Lt. Erica Ortegas In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
We Asked For #Mortegas
Lt. Erica Ortegas is one of the most popular characters in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and fans have long asked for more of Erica in the spotlight. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds looks to deliver on hashtag #Mortegas by giving the USS Enterprise's snarky pilot a greater emphasis. There will evidently be a lot more Erica in season 3, and that's a good thing.
Lieutenant Ortegas is all over Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's trailer, from battling her way out of the Gorn mothership, to donning 1960s sci-fi cosplay and 1970s wardrobe in a Hollywood murder mystery, to being front and center using a rotary telephone when the Starship Enterprise goes analog.
2Scotty Joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds As A Series Regular
Mr. Scott & Commander Pelia Become An Engineering Dream Team
Lieutenant Montgomery Scott's (Martin Quinn) arrival at the end of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 was a pleasant surprise. Even better, Martin Quinn's Scotty is staying in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 as a series regular. This means Scotty joins Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) in Engineering, which leads to astounding comic possibilities.
Scotty's potential in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is limitless as he takes the crucial steps to becoming the future Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise. Scotty interacting with Spock, Uhura, and even Lieutenant James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) sets the stage for the Starship Enterprise's future crew in Star Trek: The Original Series.
1Jonathan Frakes’ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode
Can Frakes Top His Lower Decks Crossover?
Along with Jonathan Frakes, Chris Fisher, Dan Liu, Valerie Weiss, Jordan Canning, Andrew Coutts, Sharon Lewis, Andi Armaganian, and Maja Vrvilo are Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's directors.
As an icon of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan Frakes knows Star Trek holodeck episodes better than anyone. Frakes also knows how to blend sci-fi and comedy with unforgettable results. "Those Old Scientists" is a high bar, but Jonathan calls his murder mystery episode "the best hour" of television he's ever directed, so don't bet against another Star Trek: Strange New Worlds instant classic from Frakes.
