'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 Finally Sets Release Date

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is finally on its way to our system. The much-anticipated third season of the sci-fi series will premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday, July 17. The premiere will finally resolve a cliffhanger ending which has been hanging since the summer of 2023. The season will kick off with not one, but two episodes; subsequent episodes will follow weekly, with the season finale debuting on September 11.

The USS Enterprise crew from the first two seasons is back, including Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Una Chin-Riley, alias Number One), Ethan Peck (Spock), Jess Bush (Nurse Christine Chapel), Christina Chong (La'An Noonien-Singh), Celia Rose Gooding (Nyota Uhura), Melissa Navia (Erica Ortegas), and Babs Olusanmokun (Dr. Joseph M'Benga), plus a new addition: Martin Quinn, who guest-starred in the season two finale, will join the cast as classic Trek character Montgomery "Scotty" Scott. The new season will also include guest spots from returning actors Melanie Scrofano (as Pike's colleague and love interest Captain Marie Batel), Carol Kane (as long-lived engineer Pelia), and Paul Wesley (as Captain James T. Kirk), as well as newcomers Rhys Darby, Patton Oswalt, and Cillian O’Sullivan. Darby and Oswalt's roles are being kept under wraps, although they both pop up in the season three teaser, but O'Sullivan will play Roger Korby, a brilliant scientist who romances Christine Chapel.

What Happened in the Last Season of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'?

Last season, the Enterprise got a new chief engineer in the form of the offbeat Pelia to replace the late Hemmer (Bruce Horak). Over the course of the season, Pike defended Number One at a Starfleet tribunal, La'An went back in time to modern-day Toronto, and Spock got in touch with his human side. The Enterprise also had some guests from the future, as Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) of Star Trek: Lower Decks ended up in the past and in live-action for a comedy-packed episode. The show also went where no Star Trek series has gone before with a musical episode. The season ended with the Enterprise and her crew in dire straits; Captain Batel was infected with a reptilian Gorn embryo, which will kill her once it hatches, while the ship came under attack from an armada of adult Gorn who aren't any more friendly than their offspring.

No matter what happens this season, the Enterprise will be back, and not just because the show is a prequel to The Original Series. Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season, and production has already begun on the Star Trek Stage in Toronto.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' third season will kick off with a two-episode premiere on July 17. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.