Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
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The third season of the American television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds and carry out missions during the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series (1966–1969). The season was produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, H M R X Productions, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers as showrunners. Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn respectively star as Pike, Spock, and Number One, along with Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, and Martin Quinn. Many of the regular actors and several guest stars portray younger versions of characters from The Original Series. Planning for a third season of Strange New Worlds began by June 2022, and it was officially announced in March 2023 ahead of an intended filming start that May. Production was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes and instead started in December 2023. Filming took place at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, until May 2024. The showrunners continued the series' episodic storytelling approach, giving each episode a different genre and tone. The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on July 17, 2025, with its first two episodes. The rest of the 10-episode run was released weekly until September 11. A fourth season was ordered in April 2024.
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| No.overall | No. inseason | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
| 21 | 1 | "Hegemony, Part II" | Chris Fisher | Teleplay by : Davy PerezStory by : Henry Alonso Myers & Davy Perez | July 17, 2025 (2025-07-17) | |
| Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise plant a tracker on a Gorn ship that captured security chief La'An Noonien-Singh, Dr. Joseph M'Benga, pilot Erica Ortegas, xenoanthropologist Sam Kirk, and many human colonists. Despite orders from Starfleet to stay in Federation space, Admiral Robert April allows the Enterprise to follow the tracker. Using engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott's Gorn transponder device to go undetected, they find an uncharted binary star system which hides the Gorn homeworld and a large invasion force. Using the Gorn's sensitivity to stellar activity, they trigger a long hibernation cycle by creating an artificial coronal mass ejection. La'An, M'Benga, Ortegas, and Sam escape with transporter codes for the colonists, enabling the Enterprise to rescue them. Ortegas is wounded during the escape, and the Enterprise suffers extensive damage. Meanwhile, Vulcan science officer Spock and nurse Christine Chapel neutralize the Gorn eggs inside Pike's girlfriend, Captain Marie Batel, with the help of first officer Una Chin-Riley / Number One's augmented Illyrian blood. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "Wedding Bell Blues" | Jordan Canning | Kirsten Beyer & David Reed | July 17, 2025 (2025-07-17) | |
| Three months after the Gorn conflict, the Enterprise has been repaired at Starbase One and the crew prepare to celebrate the Federation's 100th anniversary. Following her research fellowship with archaeologist Dr. Roger Korby, Chapel rejoins the crew and brings Korby as her new romantic partner, disappointing Spock who hoped to rekindle his relationship with her. Spock is given a drink by an unfamiliar Vulcan bartender, and the next day he wakes up in a different reality where the crew are preparing to celebrate his and Chapel's wedding. The same unfamiliar being now appears as an Andorian wedding planner. Korby is aware of the change and confronts Spock, who regains his memories after punching Korby. At the wedding ceremony, Chapel regains her memories after Spock recites a poem that Korby once read to her. They confront the wedding planner, who is revealed to be a child-like extradimensional being and is reprimanded by his father. The beings leave and reality returns to normal. The crew celebrate except for Ortegas, who is emotionally scarred from her experience with the Gorn. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "Shuttle to Kenfori" | Dan Liu | Onitra Johnson & Bill Wolkoff | July 24, 2025 (2025-07-24) | |
| The Gorn DNA in Batel's body reactivates and her only chance of survival is a rare Chimera flower on the planet Kenfori, which is contested by the Federation and Klingons. Pike and M'Benga take a shuttle to the planet while the Enterprise hides nearby. They find the flower, which has transformed a group of scientists into zombies. When a Klingon ship arrives, Number One decides to approach the planet slowly to avoid detection. Ortegas disobeys orders, alerting the Klingons to their presence and forcing a riskier approach. Pike and M'Benga are tracked by Bytha, the daughter of Klingon ambassador Dak'Rah, who seeks to kill M'Benga to restore her family's honor. M'Benga confesses to murdering Dak'Rah and defeats Bytha in a duel, but spares her life. She sacrifices herself to allow M'Benga and Pike to escape from the zombies. Later, Number One reprimands Ortegas for her insubordination and relieves her of duty for two weeks. Pike is horrified to learn that Batel and M'Benga plan to use the flower to turn Batel into a human-Gorn hybrid, which he reluctantly accepts is her decision. | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | "A Space Adventure Hour" | Jonathan Frakes | Dana Horgan & Kathryn Lyn | July 31, 2025 (2025-07-31) | |
| La'An is tasked with testing the "holodeck", a new holographic simulator, and asks the computer to create a murder mystery for her to solve. It generates a scenario featuring the cast and crew of a 1960s science fiction series called The Last Frontier, using the likenesses of people who have boarded the Enterprise. As the story gets more involved, La'An asks for Spock's help. Scotty attempts to singlehandedly balance the large amount of power required to run the holodeck with the ship's other needs, barely allowing it to escape damage from a collapsing neutron star. When La'An is trapped and the holodeck's safety protocols fail, Scotty sends a message explaining that she must solve the mystery to end the simulation. La'An, who has grown close to Spock during dance lessons over recent months, realizes that the Spock she is with is a hologram and the murderer. The simulation ends, and La'An recommends holodecks not be approved for general use until the technology is improved. Number One encourages Scotty to ask for help in the future. During another dance lesson, La'An and the real Spock kiss. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "Through the Lens of Time" | Andi Armaganian | Onitra Johnson & Davy Perez | August 7, 2025 (2025-08-07) | |
| Junior medical officer Dana Gamble and Ortegas's documentarian brother Beto join an archaeological expedition led by Chapel and Korby, exploring an ancient building that Korby believes may hold the secret to immortality. When Gamble picks up a glowing orb, it explodes and destroys his eyes. He is transported back to the Enterprise while the rest of the away team, joined by Spock and La'An, are trapped in the building. M'Benga fails to restore Gamble's eyes, and scans indicate that Gamble is brain-dead, despite appearing to be conscious. The away team discovers that the building is a prison for extradimensional parasitic beings called the Vezda. They navigate the building's unusual metaphysical properties to escape. Batel, seemingly triggered by her Gorn DNA, recognizes Gamble as being possessed by a Vezda and attacks him. Gamble is apprehended by security and placed in the brig. He kills his guard, escapes, and takes Scotty, Sam Kirk, and chief engineer Pelia hostage to try take control of the ship and free the other Vezda. Pelia kills him and Scotty traps the Vezda spirit in the transporter pattern buffer. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" | Valerie Weiss | David Reed & Bill Wolkoff | August 14, 2025 (2025-08-14) | |
| The USS Farragut is attacked by a large scavenger ship and much of the crew is injured, including Captain V'Rel. The Enterprise arrives to help, with Spock, Chapel, Scotty, and communications officer Nyota Uhura joining acting captain James T. Kirk as his temporary command crew. The Enterprise is captured by the scavengers and the Farragut pursues them. The scavenger ship begins draining the Enterprise's power and cuts off communications; the crew use wired phones from the 20th century and manual controls to get around this, while Pike and La'An disconnect them from the scavenger ship and kill some of the scavengers. Kirk struggles with the pressure of command, but with support from the others he devises a plan to trick the scavengers into temporarily disabling their own ship. As the Enterprise escapes, the Farragut fires into the scavenger ship and destroys it. Both crews are shocked to discover that the scavengers are humans, the descendants of 21st-century scientists who left Earth in the aftermath of World War III. Kirk is haunted by his command decisions and receives advice from Pike. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "What Is Starfleet?" | Sharon Lewis | Kathryn Lyn & Alan B. McElroy | August 21, 2025 (2025-08-21) | |
| Beto films a documentary about Starfleet while the Enterprise aids the non-Federation planet Lutani VII in its war with neighboring planet Kasar. The Enterprise is ordered to transport a Jikaru, a creature that was altered by the Lutani into a weapon, to the war zone. Beto is aggressive in his questioning of the crew, aiming to portray Starfleet in a negative light. The mission is complicated when a ship of Lutani scientists, who regret the creature's alterations, attack the Jikaru and allow it to escape from the Enterprise. Spock is left in a coma after attempting to communicate with the Jikaru telepathically. Uhura connects with the creature, learning that it is suffering and wishes to be euthanized. Honoring the Jikaru's request, the Enterprise leads it into a star and the Federation offers to protect the Jikaru homeworld so its children will not be similarly altered by the Lutani. Uhura suggests to Beto that he blames Starfleet for his estranged relationship with Ortegas and the injuries she suffered fighting the Gorn. With a new perspective, Beto's documentary ultimately praises Starfleet and its personnel. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" | Jordan Canning | Dana Horgan & Henry Alonso Myers | August 28, 2025 (2025-08-28) | |
| Pike, Chapel, Uhura, and La'An are transformed into Vulcans for a mission, after which they decide to remain Vulcan. Pike becomes obsessed with efficiency and neatness; Uhura manipulates Beto into accepting a mind meld to improve their compatibility for a potential relationship; Chapel ends all of her friendships and her relationship with Korby to focus on work; and La'An develops Romulan tendencies, becoming a sinister warmonger. At a meeting regarding Batel's request to return from medical leave to her job with the Starfleet Judicial Department, Pike tells Vice Admiral Pasalk that her return would be illogical, and Batel loses her temper with both. Scotty and James Kirk, on leave from the Farragut, become friends while working together to stop La'An. With the help of Number One's Vulcan ex-boyfriend Doug, Spock connects with the four crewmembers' katras (spiritual essence) and persuades them to change back. They make amends for their actions. To Batel's surprise, Pasalk offers her a promotion to head of the Judicial Department following his impending retirement, having been impressed by her outburst. | ||||||
| 29 | 9 | "Terrarium" | Andrew Coutts | Alan B. McElroy | September 4, 2025 (2025-09-04) | |
| While flying a shuttle for a mission, Ortegas is pulled through a wormhole and crashes on a barren moon orbiting a gas giant. She is protected from the moon's dangers by a stranded Gorn pilot and, despite Ortegas's initial mistrust, the pair become friends as they survive together and bond over their similarities. The Enterprise has an urgent assignment to deliver vaccines to a colony, limiting the time they can spend searching for Ortegas. Uhura proposes they take the Enterprise partially into the wormhole to find her, and exaggerates the mission's probability of success to convince Pike. Ortegas and the Gorn ignite the moon's atmosphere to signal the Enterprise. Upon transporting down to rescue Ortegas, La'An mistakes the Gorn for an enemy and kills her. An enigmatic being called a Metron appears to Ortegas and explains that they brought her and the Gorn together to see if peace between humans and Gorn is possible. Because of La'An's violent reaction, they believe further study is required. The Metron erases Ortegas's memories of their conversation, but she remembers and mourns for her new friend. | ||||||
| 30 | 10 | "New Life and New Civilizations" | Maja Vrvilo | Dana Horgan & Davy Perez | September 11, 2025 (2025-09-11) | |
| As Batel prepares to leave the Enterprise to take up her new role, the crew discover that the Vezda has escaped from the transporter pattern buffer in a reconstruction of Gamble's body. Korby finds Gamble at a doorway to the Vezda prison and the Enterprise goes to rescue him. This is a trap to lure out M'Benga, as he and Gamble need to be together to open the doorway. The crew learn that the unique combination of DNA inside Batel matches the biology of the Beholder statue that guards the prison. To open the doorway without M'Benga and Gamble, the crew devise a plan to simultaneously fire on it from the Enterprise and the Farragut; Spock performs a mind meld with James Kirk so the two can perfectly sync their actions. Pike and Batel enter the prison and confront Gamble, who destroys the Beholder and frees the other Vezda. Using her emerging power, Batel creates an illusion in which she and Pike live a full and happy life together. She then traps all the Vezda in the prison and becomes the Beholder. Pike struggles to move on without Batel as the Enterprise sets out to explore uncharted planets. | ||||||
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