How Each Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Will Feel Different
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunner Henry Alonso Myers explains how the Paramount+ series will make each episode feel different. Premiering in May, Strange New Worlds will be a direct spinoff from Star Trek: Discovery and will take place around ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series in the franchise's canon. Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn will reprise their roles after appearing in Discovery season 2.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will follow Captain Pike (Mount) of the USS Enterprise as he explores the galaxy seeking out new worlds and civilizations alongside his first officer Una Chin-Riley, aka Number One (Romijn), and science officer Spock (Peck). The premise and characters are identical to Gene Roddenberry's unaired pilot for the original Star Trek, «The Cage», which was rejected by NBC in 1965 for being too cerebral. Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis theorized to be set at least five years after the events of «The Cage.»
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During a recent appearance at Star Trek: Mission Chicago (via TrekMovie), Myers talked about how each episode of Strange New Worlds will feel different, conveying unique stories with varying tones and genres. He went on to discuss how classic Star Trek did the same thing, moving between drama, comedy, horror, and the philosophical. He did add, however, that the character arcs will remain more serialized so that the Enterprise crew members have the opportunity to be shaped by the events of individual episodes. Read his quote below:
The show is episodic. Every episode is a new adventure, it’s a new planet, it’s a new genre. One of the wonderful things about Trek is that
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